Author: kelly
Date: Mon Feb 9 17:07:21 2015
New Revision: 1658466
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1658466
Log:
Rewrite paragraphs; give more project emphasis
Modified:
oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md
Modified: oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md?rev=1658466&r1=1658465&r2=1658466&view=diff
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--- oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md (original)
+++ oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md Mon Feb 9 17:07:21 2015
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
<!-- HEADER
================================================== -->
<div class="row">
- <div class="four columns">
- <div class="logo">
- <a href="index.html">
- <img src="./oodt-images/oodt_asf_logo.png"
style="height:60px">
- </a>
- </div>
- </div>
- <div class="eight columns noleftmarg">
+ <div class="four columns">
+ <div class="logo">
+ <a href="index.html">
+ <img src="./oodt-images/oodt_asf_logo.png" style="height:60px">
+ </a>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="eight columns noleftmarg">
<nav id="nav-wrap">
<ul class="nav-bar sf-menu">
<li class="current">
@@ -28,19 +28,19 @@
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
- </div>
+ </div>
</div>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<!-- SUBHEADER
================================================== -->
<div id="subheader">
- <div class="row">
- <div class="twelve columns">
- <h4>About</h4>
- <h5>OODT (Object Oriented Data Technology)</h5>
- </div>
- </div>
+ <div class="row">
+ <div class="twelve columns">
+ <h4>About</h4>
+ <h5>OODT (Object Oriented Data Technology)</h5>
+ </div>
+ </div>
</div>
<div class="hr">
</div>
@@ -48,125 +48,129 @@
================================================== -->
<div class="row">
<!-- MAIN CONTENT-->
- <div class="eight columns">
- <h4>What is it?</h4>
- <p>
- Apache Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) is a
smart
- way to integrate and archive your processes, your data,
and its
- metadata. It facilitates the creation, acquisition, and
growth of
- data management and archiving systems. OODT spans
- disciplines and enables interoperability among data
agnostic
- systems in any field.
- </p>
- <h4>Why use it?</h4>
- <blockquote>
- <b>Award-winning software birthed at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, being used for:</b>
- <ul class="square">
- <li>DARPA XDATA</li>
- <li>National Cancer Institute's EDRN</li>
- <li>NASA Airborne Snow Observatory</li>
- <li>many more...</li>
- </ul>
- </blockquote>
- <p>
- Organizations currently have âheroesâ who create
processing
- pipelines by mashing together one-off custom scripts.
Those
- organizations that lack âheroesâ end up performing
a series of
- forgettable and barely repeatable manual steps.
Haphazard
- processing pipelines are not effective workflows. While
these
- scripts âget the job done,â they fail to capture
the intent or to
- evolve with an organization. OODT replaces this
haphazard and
- unstructured process. OODT allows older workflows to
co-exist
- with current workflows, and archived products to be
better
- understood, reproduced, and repurposed in the future.
OODT
- gives end users and developers the ability to
understand and
- evolve these workflows long after the initial developer
leaves.
- </p>
- <h4>How?</h4>
- <p>
-Haphazard processing pipelines are commonly made up of custom UNIX shell
scripts and/or fragile custom written glue code of Java, Python, and Perl. OODT
uses structured XML-based capturing of the processing pipeline that can be
understood and modified by non-programmers to create, edit, manage and
provision workflow and task execution.
- </p>
- <h5>Prerequisites</h6>
- <h6>Operating Systems</h6>
- <ul class="square">
- <li>UNIX (Linux, OS/X, Solaris, BSD, etc.)</li>
- <li>Windows with Cygwin</li>
- </ul>
- <h6>Software</h6>
- <ul class="square">
- <li>Java and/or Python</li>
- <li>Maven</li>
- </ul>
- <h6>Knowledge</h6>
- <ul class="square">
- <li>XML</li>
- <li>Java and/or Python (in order to customize and
extend)</li>
- </ul>
- </div><!-- end main content-->
+ <div class="eight columns">
+ <h4>What is it?</h4>
+ <p>
+ Award-winning software birthed at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, in operations cataloging
+ pictures of Mars and helping to detect cancer, Apache Object
Oriented Data Technology (OODT)
+ is smart, open source software for science, research, or otherwise.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Apache Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) is a smart way to
integrate and archive your
+ processes, your data, and its metadata. It spans scientific and
other disciplines and enable interoperability among data agnostic systems in
the varying fields. Using OODT's framework
+ of distributed objects and databases, the data collected by
scientists and engineers in
+ disparate disciplines can be jointly searched, stored, retrieved,
and analyzed. It facilitates
+ the creation, acquisition, and growth of data management and
archiving systems.
+ </p>
+ <h4>Why use it?</h4>
+ <blockquote>
+ <b>OODT is deployed operationally in:</b>
+ <ul class="square">
+ <li>National Cancer Institute's <a
href='http://edrn.nci.nih.gov/'>Early Detection Research Network</a></li>
+ <li>NASA's <a href='http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/'>Orbiting Carbon
Observatory</a></li>
+ <li><a href='http://www.haystack.mit.edu/'>MIT Haystack
Observatory</a></li>
+ <li><a href='http://www.chla.org/'>Children's Hospital of Los
Angeles</a>'s Virtual Pediatric Intensive
+ Care Unit</li>
+ <li>DARPA XDATA</li>
+ <li>NASA's <a href='http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/'>Soil Moisture
Active/Passive</a> mission</li>
+ <li>The <a href='http://www.ska.ac.za/'>Square Kilometre Array
South Africa</a> project</li>
+ <li>and many more...</li>
+ </ul>
+ </blockquote>
+ <p>
+ Processing pipelines are too often one-off custom solutions that
fail to scale and
+ evolve as systems evolve. Moreover, archived data undergoes a
kind of atrophy as the
+ tools used to analyze and process it are themselves one-off
solutions with no maintenance.
+ These haphazard approaches achieve only short term success, but
are not effective in data search,
+ discovery, analysis, cataloging, processing, or archiving. OODT
replaces these manual,
+ forgettable steps with reliable workflows through distributed data
grids. OODT ensures
+ the usability and value of data even after original developers
move on.
+ </p>
+ <h4>How?</h4>
+ <p>
+ Haphazard processing pipelines are commonly made up of custom UNIX
shell scripts and/or fragile custom written glue code of Java, Python, and
Perl. OODT uses structured XML-based capturing of the processing pipeline that
can be understood and modified by non-programmers to create, edit, manage and
provision workflow and task execution.
+ </p>
+ <h5>Prerequisites</h6>
+ <h6>Operating Systems</h6>
+ <ul class="square">
+ <li>UNIX (Linux, OS/X, Solaris, BSD, etc.)</li>
+ <li>Windows with Cygwin</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h6>Software</h6>
+ <ul class="square">
+ <li>Java and/or Python</li>
+ <li>Maven</li>
+ </ul>
+ <h6>Knowledge</h6>
+ <ul class="square">
+ <li>XML</li>
+ <li>Java and/or Python (in order to customize and extend)</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div><!-- end main content-->
<!-- SIDEBAR-->
<div class="four columns">
- <h4>The Team</h4>
- <p><a href="#">Learn how to join us!</a></p>
- <div class="team-profile">
- <img
src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cvSHJcCyDKE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAfU/GLg4DDe6IXk/photo.jpg"/>
- <span>
- <ul>
- <li>Sean Kelly, V.P.</li>
- <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
- <li><a href="mailto:sean DOT kelly AT jpl DOT
nasa DOT gov">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
- </ul>
- </span>
- </div>
- <div class="team-profile">
- <img
src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-yf964O2b_8mWyRKdMPpP9unYvfxlKpQTHfpkKTS8v_jwKZ0Wyf9kMhibvXwnKpWxqWoA/tom-barber.jpg"/>
- <span>
- <ul>
- <li>Tom Barber</li>
- <li>Meteorite Consulting</li>
- <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
- </ul>
- </span>
- </div>
- <div class="team-profile">
+ <h4>The Team</h4>
+ <p><a href="#">Learn how to join us!</a></p>
+ <div class="team-profile">
+ <img
src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cvSHJcCyDKE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAfU/GLg4DDe6IXk/photo.jpg"/>
+ <span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Sean Kelly, V.P.</li>
+ <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:sean DOT kelly AT jpl DOT nasa DOT
gov">E-mail</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nutjob4life";>Twitter</a>, <a
href="https://facebook.com/nutjob4life";>Facebook</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </span>
+ </div>
+ <div class="team-profile">
+ <img
src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-yf964O2b_8mWyRKdMPpP9unYvfxlKpQTHfpkKTS8v_jwKZ0Wyf9kMhibvXwnKpWxqWoA/tom-barber.jpg"/>
+ <span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Tom Barber</li>
+ <li>Meteorite Consulting</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a
href="#">Facebook</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </span>
+ </div>
+ <div class="team-profile">
<img
src="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/9a8e98c8dbbb59cff6ecbcc0146380ef"/>
- <span>
- <ul>
- <li>Chris Mattmann</li>
- <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
- <li><a
href="mailto:[email protected]";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="http://twitter.com/chrismattmann/";>Twitter</a>, <a
href="http://facebook.com/chris.mattmann";>Facebook</a></li>
- </ul>
- </span>
- </div>
- <div class="team-profile">
- <span>
- <ul>
- <li>Bruce Barkstrom</li>
- <li>Independent (Retired)</li>
- <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
- </ul>
- </span>
- </div>
- <div class="team-profile">
- <span>
- <ul>
- <li>Thomas Bennett</li>
- <li>Square Kilometer Array</li>
- <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
- </ul>
- </span>
- </div>
- ...<br/>
- ...<br/>
- ...<br/>
- <div class="team-profile">
- <img
src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1810031550/riverma_400x400.png"/>
- <span>
- <ul>
- <li>Rishi Verma</li>
- <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
- <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="https://twitter.com/reesh24";>Twitter</a></li>
- </ul>
- </span>
- </div>
- </div><!-- end sidebar -->
+ <span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Chris Mattmann</li>
+ <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="http://twitter.com/chrismattmann/";>Twitter</a>, <a
href="http://facebook.com/chris.mattmann";>Facebook</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </span>
+ </div>
+ <div class="team-profile">
+ <span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Bruce Barkstrom</li>
+ <li>Independent (Retired)</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a
href="#">Facebook</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </span>
+ </div>
+ <div class="team-profile">
+ <span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Thomas Bennett</li>
+ <li>Square Kilometer Array</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a
href="#">Facebook</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </span>
+ </div>
+ ...<br/>
+ ...<br/>
+ ...<br/>
+ <div class="team-profile">
+ <img
src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1810031550/riverma_400x400.png"/>
+ <span>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Rishi Verma</li>
+ <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
+ <li><a href="mailto:";>E-mail</a>, <a
href="https://twitter.com/reesh24";>Twitter</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </span>
+ </div>
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