OPeNDAP/DODS Status Report - April 2005
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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Usage Statistics for Unidata's OPeNDAP/DODS Support
- Release of DODS 3.4.4 Native Win32 port, which contains the DAP library, the netCDF client library, the Matlab command-line client, the IDL command-line client and the FreeForm server.
- Two OPeNDAP-enabled analysis applications were contributed by other groups, one is the OPeNDAP/Access tool that allows users to import virtually any DAP-enable dataset into a Microsoft Access database, and the other is MexCDF that provides mexcdf interfaces built with DAP support.
- OPeNDAP developers are working on a new OPeNDAP architecture that
will replace the CGI scripts with Java servlets.
- The new architecture will be more efficient ,scalable, and portable .
- It will also automatically generate THREDDS catalogs for the data being served integrating the functionalities of accessing scientific data with discovery mechanisms .
Yuan Ho
Last modified: Fri May 14 12:30:19 MDT 2004
