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Helping Projects

The OGSA-DAI team welcomes communications about your requirements for what the OGSA-DAI product should do. These can be either functional or non-functional. For example:

  • Extending the range of supported data resources in OGSA-DAI e.g. Microsoft Access, Fedora, Excel spreadsheets, custom file formats,...
  • Extending the range of activities e.g.
    • Additional activities for XMLDB resource and collection management or running XUpdate statements.
    • Additional activities for file system resource managemenet e.g. create, delete, and modify files.
    • Additional activities for data transformation and integration to realise data integration scenarios.
  • Extending support for security infrastructures e.g. use of OMII-UK WS-Security. -Extending the types of data handled by OGSA-DAI e.g. support for XML streaming via use of XML events.
  • Extending the range of clients e.g. GUI-based workflow editor and submission client, a GUI for interacting with relational and XML data resources.
  • Extending support for Web services standards.

If you are planning to or are using OGSA-DAI then we would love to know about it. Please e-mail with the name of your project and a brief description of what the aims are, how OGSA-DAI fits into these and how OGSA-DAI might be extended or modified to support these aims.

Depending upon our current commitments we may be able to work closely with your developers in addressing these requirements. As an example, OGSA-DAI 3.0 extension pack one, released on November 12th 2007, contains activities and clients developed to address requirements of the VOTES, GeoGrid and OGSA-WebDB projects.