The iRODS Roadmap
4.2 and Beyond
November 7, 2016
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Québec, Montréal, Canada
Terrell Russell, Ph.D.
@terrellrussell
Chief Technologist, iRODS Consortium
iRODS 4.2 Progress
iRODS 4.2 Progress
iRODS 4.2 Progress
Not Quite Released
iRODS 4.2 Major Features
iRODS 4.2 Architectural Changes
iRODS 4.2
Questions?
The Future - iRODS 4.3
Nothing scary will happen
Developed In Parallel as Plugins
Multipart Data Objects
Data Objects fractured into parts - still proper data objects
The Big Picture of the Future
4.2 was about sending things out
4.3 (and friends) will be about bringing them back
GenQuery vs GenQuery version 2
iRODS 4.2 - The Scatter
iRODS 4.3 with GQv2 - Gather
Provide a unified query interface for all services leveraged by iRODS
Federation and Delegated Services
Access to virtualized metadata via Federation
- exactly like virtualized storage, but with ontologies
Questions?
The iRODS Consortium - The Mission
To sustain the iRODS Ecosystem by:
Staffing
Development Team:
Terrell, Antoine, Zoey, Ben, Rick
User Interface / Application Engineer:
Cesar, Justin, New Hire
Management / Support:
Bonnie, Dawn, Stephanie, Jason
Currently 15 Members
Growing The Community
Last 12 months:
In The Next Year
Continue the mission:
Consortium Membership - Touch Benefits
Public Support of iRODS
Co-Marketing/Co-Sales Opportunities
Consortium Membership - The User Group Meeting
Consortium Membership - Technical Assistance
Direct access to senior data management researchers and highly skilled engineers
Joint Technology Development
Technical Assistance
Tier 3 Support Agreements
Consortium Membership - Committees
Technology Working Group
Planning Committee
Executive Board
Other Committees formed ad hoc to address specific technology or governance issues
Consortium Membership - Tiers