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Revision 2321

Added by Matt Jones over 19 years ago

Fixed some typos in the README, and rearranged a little.

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Metacat currently uses an LDAP database for authenticating users, but was
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written to accomodate other authentication services as well.
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Installation


  		




  
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See the file "docs/user/metacatinstall.html" for detailed instructions.


  		




  
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Release Notes for 1.4.0:


  		




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* Added new 'skins' capability to allow the GUI for the metacat web interface


  		




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  to be more easily customized to fit into site needs.  The skin is based on


  		




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  a flexible mix of XSLT, CSS, and Javascript.


  		




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* Added a web-based metadata entry form for submitting EML limited EML documents


  		




  
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* Added a web-based metadata entry form for submitting limited EML documents


  		




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  as part of a data registry.  The GUI for the registry is customizable and 


  		




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  is integrated with the 'skins' system for the main metacat interface.  The


  		




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  registry subsystem is written in Perl, and can simultaneously be used to 


  		




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* The configuration file for metacat (metacat.properties) has been moved out


  		




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* Results in default web interface are sorted by title in the XSLT (configurable)


  		




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* Several significant and insignificant bugs were fixed.


  		




  
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* Many bugs were fixed.


  		




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Details of all changes can be found in the bug database here:


  		




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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/buglist.cgi?product=Metacat&target_milestone=1.4


  		




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  4) Decrease the time to create access rules during insert or update 


  		




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Documentation


  		




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See the docs directory for detailed documentation and installation


  		












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