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 1.0.0

This release of the Harvest Tool is a component of the integrated release 2.0.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This is an operational release of the system components to date. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Added support for providing access URLs for registered products.
• Modified to convert all cross references from PDS product labels into slots for a registered product instead of registering a separate association for each one.
• Fixed an issue where the directory path was not determined correctly for document products.

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.