OPeNDAP/DODS Status Report - September 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 OPeNDAP C++ dap library 3.5.2. OPeNDAP libdap includes support for the AIS, a new factory-based class instantiation mechanism, the first of the DAP3 features (XML encoding for data previously held in the DAS and DDS) and a streamlined build process.
- Release of OPeNDAP netCDF client library 3.5.2. The libnc-dap is an alternative implementation of Unidata's netCDF 3.5 API. This version adds the capability to dereference OPeNDAP URLs..
- 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: Mon Sep 12 14:30:19 MDT 2005
