OPeNDAP/DODS Status Report - September 2007
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
- Transfer of support activities from Unidata to Opendap.org
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We transfered the email lists, the user support, and the ftp download to the OPeNDAP.
- We started working on the documentation project. In this project, we will translate all latex based documents to the MediaWiki documents using a python script Latex2Wiki.py. This script will need to be updated for our particular use of latex (which involves the hyperlatex package).
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Usage Statistics for Unidata's OPeNDAP/DODS Support.
- Opendap.org software releases:
- Releases of CGI Server 3.8.1 and 3.8.2, that include the security patch posted on 27 April 2007, and the other fixes, and the Usage, ASCII and WWW form interface handlers have been updated for the latest version of libdap.
- Release of the libdap 3.7.8. This release introduces support for pkg-config and fixes of dynamic memory errors.
- Releases of Hyrax 1.2.1, OLFS 1.2.3, and bes 3.5.1. This release of the BES addresses some important security issues.
Yuan Ho
Last modified: Sep 20 15:30:19 MDT 2007
