Release Notes

The purpose of this section is to provide a description of a Harvest Tool release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. If viewing the web-based version of this document, a somewhat itemized list of changes for each release can be found on the Release Changes page.

Release 0.4.0

This release of the Harvest Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.2.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Added support for registering PDS3 products with proxy labels.
• Added the capability to perform file object registration enabling file-level tracking.
• Modified to represent LID-based references as slots instead of associations.
• Modified to register a package with each run enabling support for actions like approval and deletion to be applied to all members of a package in the Registry Service.
• Modified to keep pace with changes occurring in the PDS4 data model, the Registry Service interface and the Security Service.

Release 0.3.0

This release of the Harvest Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Added the capability to validate products prior to registration.
• Added the capability to execute the tool as a daemon.
• Modified and made more robust the handling of association registrations.
• Modified to keep pace with changes occurring in the PDS4 data model.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Needs to support registration of PDS3 products.

Release 0.2.0

This release of the Harvest Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.0.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Added support for namespaces within product labels.
• Added support to register Bundle products including the Collection products that they reference.
• Updated to support the latest changes to the PDS4 model.
• Updated to support table-formatted Collection products.
• Updated the log contents to include summary information and product GUIDs.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Needs to support validation of products prior to registration.
• Does not yet support recognition of products that have already been registered versus newly discovered products. This is required to function in a true crawler scenario.

Release 0.1.0

This release of the Harvest Tool is a component of the integrated release 0.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the demonstration at the Management Council Face-to-Face meeting in August 2010. This initial release of the tool provides the capability to crawl a data collection, discover data products and register them in a target Registry Service.