DESCRIPTION Apache OODT is a software framework as well as an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems. It provides components for data capture, curation, metadata extraction, workflow management, resource management, and data processing.
RELEASES/DEVELOPMENT For our Christmas-day gift of 2012, we released version 0.5 of OODT [1], which closed out 61 issues in JIRA [2] and provided improvements to: * OODT File Manager, and Lucene- and Solr-based catalog indexing * Curator JAX-RS web application * PushPull remote file retrieval * WEngine workflow system Future work in the next quarter will focus on cross-fertilization projects with Apache Airavata and Apache Tika, as well as fleshing out our Python APIs. OODT Jenkins jobs are now prominently featured from our project home page [3]. Our development mailing lists remain quite popular, while the user list shows less activity. The table below lists the number of postings by list, by month, in 2013: List Jan Feb Mar ---- --- --- --- dev 57 75 12 user 12 16 0 COMMUNITY The North American ApacheCon 2013 conspicuously featured Apache OODT. Seven speakers gave eight presentations about OODT in the "Apache in Science" track at the conference [4]. We established a third social media base at Google Plus [5], complementing our existing Facebook [6] and Twitter [7] presence. We also created a read-only mirror of OODT at Github [8], enabling a wider base of code contributions and future participants. BRANDING There are no outstanding branding issues since our last report. All's good. PRESS Apache OODT received noteworthy attention in two articles penned by our eminent member Chris A. Mattmann: * Nature published "Computing: A Vision for Data Science" [9] in volume 493 (p. 474) featuring Apache OODT, Hadoop, and Tika in the face of "big data". * Software Development Times published "Apache Does Science" [10], discussing OODT's and Apache Airavata's places in scientific endeavors. ISSUES There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. [1] http://s.apache.org/gm [2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OODT [3] http://oodt.apache.org/ [4] http://s.apache.org/c8C [5] http://s.apache.org/8vM [6] http://s.apache.org/M5x [7] http://s.apache.org/PYt [8] http://s.apache.org/cNy [9] http://s.apache.org/eS [10] http://s.apache.org/Yeg
