Usability, Impact, and a New Horizon for DaFab and the Global Rucio Community

Over the past year, the DaFab project has become a catalyst for the evolution of the Rucio data management system. While initially designed to support the ATLAS experiment at Cern, today Rucio serves a far wider community of scientific collaborations with complex data needs. The DaFab initiative, centered on extracting value from massive Copernicus Earth Observation archives, has pushed Rucio into new territory, beyond file cataloguing and distributed data placement, and into the realm of rich semantic metadata and powerful filtering.