OPeNDAP/DODS Status Report - September 2004
Yuan Ho
Ethan Davis
OPeNDAP/DODS and Unidata
Unidata's involvement in the OPeNDAP/DODS project lies mainly in
user support, developer support, and release engineering. As a
project that focuses on protocols and software for accessing
distributed data, OPeNDAP/DODS project fits into endeavor 5
("Distributed, organized collections of digital material") and
endeavor 6 ("Improved data access infrastructure") of the
Unidata 2008 proposal.
Unidata's support role to the OPeNDAP/DODS community falls into
Unidata 2008 endeavor 2 (Comprehensive Support Services, [Data
services, systems, and tools]"). Endeavor 1 ("Responding to a
broader and more diverse community" ) is also relavent due to
the OPeNDAP/DODS communities extent beyond Unidata's traditional
community.
Status
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OPeNDAP/DODS Unidata Support Usage statistics
- DODS C++ 3.4.4 formal releases, including source code releases and binary releases of
RedHat linux, Solari Sparc, Dec Alpha and Sgi platforms.
- DODS Java 1.1.7 release. This is a supplemental release of 1.1 and two major issues addressed by this release. First, the DRDS now properly closes the database connection. Second, The code now builds using Ant.
- DAP 2 specification submitted to NASA's Earth Science Data Systems Standards Process Group. The document has advanced to the 'Draft Commuinity Standard' level.
- OPeNDAP web site moved to "www.opendap.org" .
Yuan Ho
Last modified: Fri May 14 12:30:19 MDT 2004
