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-====== WDB ======
+====== WDB - Weather and Water Database ======
-WDB is a database system designed to store MHO (Meteorological, Hydrological and Oceanographic) 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 complete, flexible, and effective data storage solution for real-time and archive data.
+Welcome to the **WDB** project's home page.
-WDB is an [[http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php|open-source project]] licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPL2]].
+**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 the backbone of [[http://www.yr.no|yr.no]]; Scandinavia's largest weather site.
-===== Latest Release =====
+The WDB system consists of a database server system including a read/write interface to the database, a set of loading programs for inserting various types of MHO data into the system, and a http product generator.
-WDB 0.6rc1 is currently available ([[http://wdb.met.no/download/wdb-0.6rc1.tar.gz|download]]). Note that the WDB system is still under development; we do not recommend the use of 0.6rc1 for production.
 ===== WDB Features =====
-  * **Decode and store meteorological forecast fields**
+  * **Decode and store meteorological and oceanographic forecast fields**
-    * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, etc. stored in GRIB-fm5 format. Metadata is provided for HIRLAM 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
-  * **Decode and store oceanographic fields**
-    * WDB has loading programs to load wave and circulation models stored in GRIB-fm5 files. Metadata is provided for WAM fields
   * **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++
+    * 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).
-    * The interface should be usable in C, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran as well, but these interfaces are yet to be tested
+  * **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 1.0.1. 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. Currently, the [[http://www.yr.no|yr.no]] website is run on a backbone of WDB servers.
+You can access the WDB source code on [[http://github.com/wdb|github]].
+To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wdb|WDB]].
-=====  Future WDB Features =====
-  * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive)
+===== Help =====
-  * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system
-  * Improving the test framework and documentation
-  * Improving the performance of the overall system
-===== Resources =====
+The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB.
-[[https://svn.met.no/viewvc/wdbSystem/wdb/|WDB Subversion Repository]]
+[[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.
-[[https://wdb.bugs.met.no/|WDB Bugzilla]]
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/doxygen/html/|Code Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]
+===== Development =====
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/developer/html/wdb_developer-manual.html|Developer Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]
+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.
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/user/html/wci_user-manual.html|User Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]
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