rasdaman News

This is the archive of rasdaman news:

2014

• November 2014 — in the final review of EU project ​EarthServer (which has substantially supported rasdaman community development!) reviewers were impressed by all the achievements; among others, at the premises of the European Space Agency (ESA) a 170 Terabyte rasdaman space/time database was built.
• October 2014 — ​ohloh reports that the rasdaman codebase now is worth more than 7 million US$.
• September 2014 — rasdaman is ​winner of the Big Data Challenge of the international ​Copernicus Masters competition.
• June 2014 — ISO SC32 WG3 (the SQL maintenance group) has agreed to establish an array extension to SQL, called MDA ("Multi-Dimensional Arrays"), based on the practice proven concepts of rasdaman.
• March 2014 — version 9.0.1 has been released improving some issues observed during large-scale migration (release notes).
• February 23, 2014 — rasdaman 9.0 has been officially released, see full release notes.
• January 2014 — several more specifications crafted by the rasdaman team get adopted as official standards: WCS Scaling Extension, WCS Interpolation Extension, WCS Earth Observation Application Profile.
• December 16, 2013 — the WCS Range Subsetting Extension, crafted by the rasdaman team, gets adopted as official OGC standard.
• January 2014 — several more specifications crafted by the rasdaman team get adopted as official standards: WCS Scaling Extension, WCS Interpolation Extension, WCS Earth Observation Application Profile.
• December 16, 2013 — the WCS Range Subsetting Extension, crafted by the rasdaman team, gets adopted as official OGC standard.
• December 06, 2013 — rasdaman is OGC's official Reference Implementation for WCS Core:
  
  
  
  

2013

• April 11, 2013 — rasdaman PI Peter Baumann gives keynote lecture "Data, Metadata - Who Cares?" at ​EGU General Assembly, Vienna
• January 07, 2013 — rasdaman becomes ​GEOSS component

2012

• November 23, 2012 — rasdaman showcased at ​GEO IX Plenary
• October 18, 2012 — rasdaman listed on ​nosql-database.org
• October 09-11, 2012 — rasdaman part of OSGeo booth at ​INTERGEO
• September 10, 2012 — rasdaman presented at ​XLDB 2012, Stanford
• July 01, 2012 — rasdaman is ​listed on ohloh
• June, 2012 — rasdaman is candidate reference implementation for WCS Core, being the first implementation to pass all conformance tests
• April 15, 2012 — rasdaman 8.3.1 passes the ​Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) ​Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0 Core conformance test
• January 30, 2012 — rasdaman version 8.3.0 has been released, incorporating many fixes and enhancements
• November 22, 2011 — rasdaman has now been accepted into OSGeo Incubation; many thanks to our mentor, Bruce Bannermann (Australian Bureau of Meteorology), for his wise guidance and support!
• November 16, 2011 — rasdaman is presented to the GEOSS Community during the ​GEO VIII Annual Meeting in Istanbul.
• November, 2011 — Stephan Meissl, ​EOX GmbH Austria, is new committer. He has been contributing substantially in particular wrt. ​MapServer, ​GDAL, and rasdaman VM issues.
• September, 2011 — the ​EarthServer project has started where six 100+ TB earth science databases will be built by BGS, EOX, Jacobs University, NASA, PML, and MEEO using rasdaman, enabling distributed querying.
• July, 2011 — rasdaman version 8.2 has been released.
• April, 2011 — rasdaman has been incorporated in the ​OSGeo Live DVD.
• 2010-09-27..29 Rasdaman will be ​presented at the ​ICT 2010 Brussels Expo.
• 2010-09-06..09 Rasdaman will be presented at the ​Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSSGIS) 2010 in Barcelona.</dd>
• 2010-09-03 the GDAL driver code, allowing GDAL to use rasdaman as another storage format, has been approved by GDAL and is in ​their repository now.</dd>
• 2010-08-17 the GDAL driver code, allowing GDAL to use rasdaman as another storage format, has been submitted to GDAL and is under review there now.</dd>
• 2010-08-02 A first version of the GDAL driver for rasdaman has been completed and tested. Now we will proceed making it available.</dd>
• 2010-09-06 Rasdaman will be presented at the ​Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference (FOSSGIS) 2010 in Barcelona.
• 2010-08-02 A first version of the GDAL driver has been completed and tested. Now we will proceed making it available.
• 2010-jul-14 A hot summer indeed - we have launched a project to add NetCDF support to rasdaman.
• 2010-jul-05 A project has started to link rasdaman into GDAL. This coupling of two powerful tools will open up new vistas, among them pairing MapServer with rasdaman.
• 2010-jun-19 Petascope, the rasdaman OGC service frontend which has had its own domain, www.petascope.org, is now an integrated component of rasdaman (see petascope/ directory in the source tree and the redirection page).

2010-apr-05

• The rasdaman community project officially applies for ​OSGeo incubation.

2010-mar-28

• The rasdaman community project starts getting investigated by ​OSGeo for possible incubation.

2009-aug-13

• version 8.1.0 released, containing remedies for several hickups; use of version 8.0.0 is not encouraged.

2009-jul-26

• include directory is now generated by "make install", allowing simpler linking of applications

2009-jun-15

• as git on our vm continues to make trouble, we've uploaded an addendum library meantime

2009-may-12

• website completely opened, including code of rasdaman 8.0.0

2009-mar-26

• Wiki structure created