This sounds really exciting!
James
On Jun 30, 2005, at 2:06 PM, John Caron wrote:
We expect to release an enhanced version of the THREDDS Data Server
later this month (July 2005). Besides providing the usual THREDDS
catalog services, it will now have a built-in OPeNDAP/NetCDF server,
as well as an experimental WCS server. The NetCDF server uses the
NetCDF-Java-2.2 library which can read a number of file formats
besides NetCDF, such as GRIB, NEXRAD level 2 and 3, GINI, etc. The
gridded datasets are viewable through the IDV.
All of it is 100% Java, running within a Tomcat web server, and so is
intended to be easy to install and configure. You no longer need to
install a separate OPeNDAP server. The catalogs can be generated "on
the fly" by naming the top data directories in the catalog. The
intention is to enhance these catalogs with enough metadata to be able
to (at long last) write DIF and ADN digital library records and import
those into GCMD and DLESE discovery centers.
We will concentrate at first on making the THREDDS Data Server work
with the IDD data. We are looking for a few IDD sites to test this
server and provide redundant access to the IDD data. Please contact
support@unidata if you are interested.
After that phase, we would like to start working with all of our
THREDDS partners to install this server at your sites, and configure
and enhance your catalogs. We expect that there will be a number of
new features we will need to add as we encounter new datasets.
Other features we are planning or considering:
* The OPeNDAP/NetCDF server will be enhanced to replace the DODS
Aggregation Server functionality. This should allow aggregation to be
done efficiently on files other than NetCDF.
* add a built-in FTP and/or GridFTP server.
* read NetCDF-4 and HDF5 files.
* create aggregation services for point/station observation datasets.
* make all datasets viewable through the IDV
We would like to know what features are a priority for you over the
next year. Please send your thoughts to thredds@unidata.
Thank you for your continuing patience in this long development
process.
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James Gallagher jgallagher at opendap.org
OPeNDAP, Inc 406.723.8663
