OGSA-DAI Status Report and Future Directions
Mario Antonioletti, Malcolm Atkinson, Robert Baxter, Andrew Borley, Neil Chue Hong, Brian J. Collins, J. R. A. Davies, F.D. Fitzgerald, Neil Hardman, Alastair C. Hume, Michael S. Jackson, Amrey Krause, Simon Matthew Laws, Norman W. Paton, Tom Sugden, David Vyvyan, Paul Watson, Martin Westhead · 2004
The OGSA-DAI middleware has been publicly available for over two years. OGSA-DAI facilitates Data Access and Integration (DAI) of data resources, such as relational and XML databases, within a Grid context. Project members also participate in the development of DAI standards through the GGF DAIS WG. The standards that emerge through this effort will be adopted by OGSA-DAI once they have stabilised. The OGSA-DAI developers are also engaging with a growing user community to gather their data and functionality requirements. Several large projects are already using OGSADAI to provide their DAI capabilities. This paper presents a status report on OGSA-DAI activities since the last AHM and announces future directions. The OGSA-DAI software distribution and more information about the project is available from the project website at http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/.