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svn commit: r1658466 - /oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md

Author: kelly
Date: Mon Feb  9 17:07:21 2015
New Revision: 1658466

URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1658466
Log:
Rewrite paragraphs; give more project emphasis

Modified:
    oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md

Modified: oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md?rev=1658466&r1=1658465&r2=1658466&view=diff
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--- oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md (original)
+++ oodt/cms_site/trunk/content/about.md Mon Feb  9 17:07:21 2015
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 <!-- HEADER
 ================================================== -->
 <div class="row">
-	<div class="four columns">
-		<div class="logo">
-			<a href="index.html">
-			<img src="./oodt-images/oodt_asf_logo.png" style="height:60px">
-			</a>
-		</div>
-	</div>
-	<div class="eight columns noleftmarg">
+    <div class="four columns">
+        <div class="logo">
+            <a href="index.html">
+            <img src="./oodt-images/oodt_asf_logo.png" style="height:60px">
+            </a>
+        </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="eight columns noleftmarg">
         <nav id="nav-wrap">
             <ul class="nav-bar sf-menu">
                 <li class="current">
@@ -28,19 +28,19 @@
                 </li>
             </ul>
         </nav>
-	</div>
+    </div>
 </div>
 <div class="clear">
 </div>
 <!-- SUBHEADER
 ================================================== -->
 <div id="subheader">
-	<div class="row">
-		<div class="twelve columns">
-			<h4>About</h4>
-			<h5>OODT (Object Oriented Data Technology)</h5>
-		</div>
-	</div>
+    <div class="row">
+        <div class="twelve columns">
+            <h4>About</h4>
+            <h5>OODT (Object Oriented Data Technology)</h5>
+        </div>
+    </div>
 </div>
 <div class="hr">
 </div>
@@ -48,125 +48,129 @@
 ================================================== -->
 <div class="row">
     <!-- MAIN CONTENT-->
-	<div class="eight columns">
-		<h4>What is it?</h4>
-		<p>
-			Apache Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) is a smart 
-			way to integrate and archive your processes, your data, and its 
-			metadata. It facilitates the creation, acquisition, and growth of
-			data management and archiving systems. OODT spans
-			disciplines and enables interoperability among data agnostic 
-			systems in any field.
-		</p>
-		<h4>Why use it?</h4>
-		<blockquote>
-		<b>Award-winning software birthed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, being used for:</b>
-		<ul class="square">
-			<li>DARPA XDATA</li>
-			<li>National Cancer Institute's EDRN</li>
-			<li>NASA Airborne Snow Observatory</li>
-			<li>many more...</li>
-		</ul>
-		</blockquote>
-		<p>
-			Organizations currently have “heroes” who create processing 
-			pipelines by mashing together one-off custom scripts. Those 
-			organizations that lack “heroes” end up performing a series of 
-			forgettable and barely repeatable manual steps. Haphazard 
-			processing pipelines are not effective workflows. While these 
-			scripts “get the job done,” they fail to capture the intent or to
-			evolve with an organization. OODT replaces this haphazard and 
-			unstructured process. OODT allows older workflows to co-exist 
-			with current workflows, and archived products to be better 
-			understood, reproduced, and repurposed in the future. OODT
-			gives end users and developers the ability to understand and 
-			evolve these workflows long after the initial developer leaves.
-		</p>
-		<h4>How?</h4>
-		<p>
-Haphazard processing pipelines are commonly made up of custom UNIX shell scripts and/or fragile custom written glue code of Java, Python, and Perl. OODT uses structured XML-based capturing of the processing pipeline that can be understood and modified by non-programmers to create, edit, manage and provision workflow and task execution.
-		</p>
-		<h5>Prerequisites</h6>
-		<h6>Operating Systems</h6>
-		<ul class="square">
-			<li>UNIX (Linux, OS/X, Solaris, BSD, etc.)</li>
-			<li>Windows with Cygwin</li>
-		</ul>
-		<h6>Software</h6>
-		<ul class="square">
-			<li>Java and/or Python</li>
-			<li>Maven</li>
-		</ul>
-		<h6>Knowledge</h6>
-		<ul class="square">
-			<li>XML</li>
-			<li>Java and/or Python (in order to customize and extend)</li>
-		</ul>
-	</div><!-- end main content-->
+    <div class="eight columns">
+        <h4>What is it?</h4>
+        <p>
+            Award-winning software birthed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in operations cataloging
+            pictures of Mars and helping to detect cancer, Apache Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT)
+            is smart, open source software for science, research, or otherwise.
+        </p>
+        <p>
+            Apache Object Oriented Data Technology (OODT) is a smart way to integrate and archive your
+            processes, your data, and its metadata.  It spans scientific and other disciplines and enable interoperability among data agnostic systems in the varying fields.  Using OODT's framework
+            of distributed objects and databases, the data collected by scientists and engineers in
+            disparate disciplines can be jointly searched, stored, retrieved, and analyzed. It facilitates 
+            the creation, acquisition, and growth of data management and archiving systems.
+        </p>
+        <h4>Why use it?</h4>
+        <blockquote>
+        <b>OODT is deployed operationally in:</b>
+        <ul class="square">
+            <li>National Cancer Institute's <a href='http://edrn.nci.nih.gov/'>Early Detection Research Network</a></li>
+            <li>NASA's <a href='http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/'>Orbiting Carbon Observatory</a></li>
+            <li><a href='http://www.haystack.mit.edu/'>MIT Haystack Observatory</a></li>
+            <li><a href='http://www.chla.org/'>Children's Hospital of Los Angeles</a>'s Virtual Pediatric Intensive
+                Care Unit</li>
+            <li>DARPA XDATA</li>
+            <li>NASA's <a href='http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/'>Soil Moisture Active/Passive</a> mission</li>
+            <li>The <a href='http://www.ska.ac.za/'>Square Kilometre Array South Africa</a> project</li>
+            <li>and many more...</li>
+        </ul>
+        </blockquote>
+        <p>
+            Processing pipelines are too often one-off custom solutions that fail to scale and
+            evolve as systems evolve.  Moreover, archived data undergoes a kind of atrophy as the
+            tools used to analyze and process it are themselves one-off solutions with no maintenance.
+            These haphazard approaches achieve only short term success, but are not effective in data search,
+            discovery, analysis, cataloging, processing, or archiving.  OODT replaces these manual,
+            forgettable steps with reliable workflows through distributed data grids.  OODT ensures
+            the usability and value of data even after original developers move on.
+        </p>
+        <h4>How?</h4>
+        <p>
+            Haphazard processing pipelines are commonly made up of custom UNIX shell scripts and/or fragile custom written glue code of Java, Python, and Perl. OODT uses structured XML-based capturing of the processing pipeline that can be understood and modified by non-programmers to create, edit, manage and provision workflow and task execution.
+        </p>
+        <h5>Prerequisites</h6>
+        <h6>Operating Systems</h6>
+        <ul class="square">
+            <li>UNIX (Linux, OS/X, Solaris, BSD, etc.)</li>
+            <li>Windows with Cygwin</li>
+        </ul>
+        <h6>Software</h6>
+        <ul class="square">
+            <li>Java and/or Python</li>
+            <li>Maven</li>
+        </ul>
+        <h6>Knowledge</h6>
+        <ul class="square">
+            <li>XML</li>
+            <li>Java and/or Python (in order to customize and extend)</li>
+        </ul>
+    </div><!-- end main content-->
 <!-- SIDEBAR-->
 <div class="four columns">
-	<h4>The Team</h4>
-	<p><a href="#">Learn how to join us!</a></p>
-	<div class="team-profile">
-		<img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cvSHJcCyDKE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAfU/GLg4DDe6IXk/photo.jpg"/>
-		<span>
-			<ul>
-				<li>Sean Kelly, V.P.</li>
-				<li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
-				<li><a href="mailto:sean DOT kelly AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
-			</ul>
-		</span>
-	</div>
-	<div class="team-profile">
-		<img src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-yf964O2b_8mWyRKdMPpP9unYvfxlKpQTHfpkKTS8v_jwKZ0Wyf9kMhibvXwnKpWxqWoA/tom-barber.jpg"/>
-		<span>
-			<ul>
-				<li>Tom Barber</li>
-				<li>Meteorite Consulting</li>
-				<li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
-			</ul>
-		</span>
-	</div>	
-	<div class="team-profile">
+    <h4>The Team</h4>
+    <p><a href="#">Learn how to join us!</a></p>
+    <div class="team-profile">
+        <img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-cvSHJcCyDKE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAfU/GLg4DDe6IXk/photo.jpg"/>
+        <span>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Sean Kelly, V.P.</li>
+                <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
+                <li><a href="mailto:sean DOT kelly AT jpl DOT nasa DOT gov">E-mail</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nutjob4life">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://facebook.com/nutjob4life">Facebook</a></li>
+            </ul>
+        </span>
+    </div>
+    <div class="team-profile">
+        <img src="http://m.c.lnkd.licdn.com/mpr/pub/image-yf964O2b_8mWyRKdMPpP9unYvfxlKpQTHfpkKTS8v_jwKZ0Wyf9kMhibvXwnKpWxqWoA/tom-barber.jpg"/>
+        <span>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Tom Barber</li>
+                <li>Meteorite Consulting</li>
+                <li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
+            </ul>
+        </span>
+    </div>  
+    <div class="team-profile">
                 <img src="http://2.gravatar.com/avatar/9a8e98c8dbbb59cff6ecbcc0146380ef"/>
-		<span>
-			<ul>
-				<li>Chris Mattmann</li>
-				<li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
-				<li><a href="mailto:mattmann@apache.org">E-mail</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/chrismattmann/">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/chris.mattmann">Facebook</a></li>
-			</ul>
-		</span>
-	</div>	
-	<div class="team-profile">
-		<span>
-			<ul>
-				<li>Bruce Barkstrom</li>
-				<li>Independent (Retired)</li>
-				<li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
-			</ul>
-		</span>
-	</div>		
-	<div class="team-profile">
-		<span>
-			<ul>
-				<li>Thomas Bennett</li>
-				<li>Square Kilometer Array</li>
-				<li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
-			</ul>
-		</span>
-	</div>	
-	...<br/>
-	...<br/>
-	...<br/>
-	<div class="team-profile">
-		<img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1810031550/riverma_400x400.png"/>
-		<span>
-			<ul>
-				<li>Rishi Verma</li>
-				<li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
-				<li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/reesh24">Twitter</a></li>
-			</ul>
-		</span>
-	</div>
-	</div><!-- end sidebar -->
+        <span>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Chris Mattmann</li>
+                <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
+                <li><a href="mailto:mattmann@apache.org">E-mail</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/chrismattmann/">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://facebook.com/chris.mattmann">Facebook</a></li>
+            </ul>
+        </span>
+    </div>  
+    <div class="team-profile">
+        <span>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Bruce Barkstrom</li>
+                <li>Independent (Retired)</li>
+                <li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
+            </ul>
+        </span>
+    </div>      
+    <div class="team-profile">
+        <span>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Thomas Bennett</li>
+                <li>Square Kilometer Array</li>
+                <li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="#">Twitter</a>, <a href="#">Facebook</a></li>
+            </ul>
+        </span>
+    </div>  
+    ...<br/>
+    ...<br/>
+    ...<br/>
+    <div class="team-profile">
+        <img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1810031550/riverma_400x400.png"/>
+        <span>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Rishi Verma</li>
+                <li>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory</li>
+                <li><a href="mailto:">E-mail</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/reesh24">Twitter</a></li>
+            </ul>
+        </span>
+    </div>
+    </div><!-- end sidebar -->
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