Author: buildbot
Date: Mon Feb 9 17:07:26 2015
New Revision: 939583
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websites/staging/oodt/trunk/content/about.html
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<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.
+ 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>Award-winning software birthed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
being used for:</b>
+ <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>National Cancer Institute's EDRN</li>
- <li>NASA Airborne Snow Observatory</li>
- <li>many more...</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>
- 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.
+ 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.
+ 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>
@@ -167,7 +171,7 @@ Haphazard processing pipelines are commo
<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>
+ <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>
