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-====== WDB ======
+====== WDB - Weather and Water Database ======
-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.
+Welcome to the **WDB** project's home page.
+**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.
+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.
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 ===== Get WDB =====
-The latest release of WDB is version 0.7.8. WDB has been in limited usage as a forecast archive since version 0.6.0 released in March 2008.
+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.
-^  WDB  ^
+You can access the WDB source code on [[http://github.com/wdb|github]].
-| [[http://wdb.met.no/download/wdb-0.7.8.tar.gz|Source Code (tar.gz)]]  |
 To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wdb|WDB]].
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 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)
-  * 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
-  * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system
 ~~NOTOC~~