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+**Please Note:**
+This wiki is no longer maintained. The updated project pages for WDB are [[http://wdb.sf.net/|located on Sourceforge]].
 ====== WDB ======
-WDB is a database system designed to store **W**eather and **W**ater data (also referred to as MHO - Meteorological, Hydrological, and Oceanographic data) in a PostgreSQL database management server. The overall purpose of the system is to improve the effectiveness and quality of IT systems for MHO production. The system is intended to provide a complete real-time and archive data storage solution.
+WDB is a database system designed to store meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic (MHO) data in a PostgreSQL database management server. The purpose of the WDB system is to improve the quality and effectiveness of IT systems for MHO production by providing a flexible and effective data storage solution for real-time and archive data.
-WDB is being developed to:
-  * Decode and store meteorological, hydrological, and oceanographic observations/point forecasts, including chemical or physical data but excluding biological and environmental data. Such data is assumed to be encoded in BUFR telegrams.
-  * Decode and store meteorological forecast fields (forecasts, analysis, etc.) as well as oceanographic fields (wave and circulation models). Such data is assumed to be encoded in GRIB-fm5 or GRIB2 files.
-  * Provide a flexible retrieval interface to the database for Java, Fortran, C++, Perl and Python.
-===== Current Status: =====
+===== WDB Features =====
-WDB is capable of decoding and storing meteorological and oceanographics forecast fields from GRIB files. It allows retrieval of time-series (points) and entire fields using an SQL-based function interface (tested with C++, but should be compatible with Java, Perl, Python and Fortran).
+  * **Decode and store meteorological and oceanographic forecast fields**
+    * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, wave and circulations models stored in GRIB1 and FELT format. Metadata is provided for HIRLAM fields
-=====  Roadmap =====
+  * **Flexible retrieval interface**
+    * The WDB Call Interface (WCI) allows the extraction of entire fields or points (time-series) from the database using an SQL-based function interface.
+    * WCI is compatible with C++; it should be usable in C, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran as well (however, these interfaces are not yet tested).
-Current development goals:
+  * **Open Source**
+    * WDB is licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPL2]] or (at your option) any later version.
+===== Get WDB =====
+The latest release of WDB is version 0.9.4. WDB has been in limited usage as a forecast archive since version 0.6.0 released in March 2008. WDB entered full production usage on [[http://www.yr.no|yr.no]] with version 0.7.8 at the end of February 2009.
+^ WDB Core  ^
+| [[http://wdb.met.no/download/wdb-0.9.4.tar.gz|Source Code (tar.gz)]]  |
+^ WDB Loaderbase  ^
+| [[http://wdb.met.no/download/wdbloaderbase-0.9.4.tar.gz|Source Code (tar.gz)]]  |
+^ WDB Gribload  ^
+| [[http://wdb.met.no/download/gribload-0.9.4.tar.gz|Source Code (tar.gz)]]  |
+Note: Version 0.8.0 introduced interface changes to WDB that are incompatible with 0.7.x. Further interface changes were introduced in WDB version 0.9.0 in order to replace the Postgres BLOB system. Further versions in the 0.9.x series will attempt to stabilize the user interface prior to the release of 1.0.0.
+To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wdb|WDB]].
+===== Help =====
+The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB.
+[[http://sourceforge.net/search/?group_id=214820&type_of_search=mlists|Search the mailing list archives]] to see if your problem has been answered before. If you are unable to find a response that helps you, post your questions to the appropriate mailing list (non-subscribers can post). For questions not concerning the development of WDB, use the [[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-users|WDB Users]] mailing list.
+===== Development =====
+WDB is an open-source project; we welcome contributions to the code and we will help you get more involved, if you want to be. Use the [[developers]] section on the left, and post your questions, ideas, and suggestions to the [[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-development|WDB Development]] mailing list.
+===== WDB Roadmap =====
+See the [[developers:roadmap]] for a detailed roadmap of WDB, broken down by release. On the executive level, the future development of WDB is targetted toward:
   * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive)
-  * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system
+  * Improving the performance of the overall system; but in particular the extraction of forecast points from fields in time series
   * Improving the test framework and documentation
-  * Improving the performance of the overall system
+  * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system
-===== Resources =====
-[[https://svn.met.no/viewvc/wdbSystem/wdb/|WDB Subversion Repository]]
-[[https://wdb.bugs.met.no/|WDB Bugzilla]]
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/doxygen/html/|Code Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/developer/html/wdb_developer-manual.html|Developer Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/user/html/wci_user-manual.html|User Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]
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