IBM Open Data Governance Consortium for Apache Atlas

For those who are unfamiliar, Atlas is the Apache Foundation’s data governance framework for Hadoop; an open source frameworks for distributed data processing and storage. The project is currently in Apache’s “incubator” phase of development.

I can observe that, one of the goals of the consortium is to collaborate to quickly advance it to “Top Level Project” status, at which point the technology will be available for open development contributions, download and distribution, and making robust governance capabilities open and free to the public.