OPeNDAP/DODS Status Report - April 2008

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

• Opendap.org is now providing user support directly, and Unidata has transferred support activities to them
  • We have transfered the email lists, the user support, and the ftp download to the OPeNDAP web site, and the support role of Unidata in the OPeNDAP project has been terminated.
  • We have finished the documentation project. In this project, we translated all latex based documents to the MediaWiki documents using a python script Latex2Wiki.py. This script needed to be updated for our particular use of latex (which involves the hyperlatex package). All these translated dcouments have been manually edited and loaded on the OPeNDAP MediaWiki site.
• Unidata continues to collaborate with Opendap.org on the DAP protocol and other mutual interests.