It's metadata for middleware (and vice versa):
But it's not just for science! It's also a software architecture:
Apache™ OODT is a Top Level Project at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) after completing incubation in late 2010. This software originally came from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is the first NASA project to live at Apache™. OODT has been released under the Apache License v2.0.
Apache™ OODT is component based software, the parts of which you can mix 'n match:
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