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      <td class="tablehead" colspan="2"><p class="label">Packages and Relationships</p></td>
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  <p>Metacat allows a user to create a virtual link between XML documents within
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  the system.  These links are called <i>Relationships</i> and are defined by triples
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  in <i>eml-dataset</i>, <i>eml-literature</i> or <i>eml-software</i> files.  A relationship can be defined between two
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  XML or <a href="./datafiles.html">non-XML</a> files. 
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  The following is an example of an eml-dataset-2.0 file holding triples at the end:</p>
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&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
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&lt;!DOCTYPE dataset PUBLIC "-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN" "eml-dataset-2.0.dtd"&gt;
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&lt;dataset&gt;
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  &lt;identifier system="null"&gt;berkley.5.3&lt;/identifier&gt;
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  &lt;shortName&gt;allsp&lt;/shortName&gt;
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  &lt;title&gt;MARINE sampling data collected between spring 1992 and fall 1996&lt;/title&gt;
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  &lt;originator&gt;
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    &lt;individualName&gt;
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      &lt;salutation&gt;Dr.&lt;/salutation&gt;
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      &lt;givenName&gt;Peter&lt;/givenName&gt;
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      &lt;surName&gt;Raimondi&lt;/surName&gt;
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    &lt;/individualName&gt;
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    &lt;organizationName&gt;UCSC&lt;/organizationName&gt;
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    &lt;positionName&gt; &lt;/positionName&gt;
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    &lt;address&gt;
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      &lt;deliveryPoint&gt;Biology Dept.&lt;/deliveryPoint&gt;
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      &lt;deliveryPoint&gt;A309 Earth and Marine Science Building&lt;/deliveryPoint&gt;
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      &lt;city&gt;Santa Cruz&lt;/city&gt;
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      &lt;administrativeArea&gt;CA&lt;/administrativeArea&gt;
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      &lt;postalCode&gt;95060&lt;/postalCode&gt;
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      &lt;country&gt;USA&lt;/country&gt;
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    &lt;/address&gt;
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    &lt;phone phonetype="voice"&gt;831-459-1234 x5674&lt;/phone&gt;
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    &lt;electronicMailAddress&gt;raimondi@biology.ucsc.edu&lt;/electronicMailAddress&gt;
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    &lt;onlineLink&gt; &lt;/onlineLink&gt;
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    &lt;role&gt;Originator&lt;/role&gt;
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  &lt;/originator&gt;
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  &lt;pubdate&gt; &lt;/pubdate&gt;
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  &lt;pubplace&gt; &lt;/pubplace&gt;
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  &lt;series&gt; &lt;/series&gt;
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  &lt;abstract&gt;
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    &lt;paragraph&gt; &lt;/paragraph&gt;
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  &lt;/abstract&gt;
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  &lt;keywordSet&gt;
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    &lt;keyword keywordType="null"&gt;intertidal&lt;/keyword&gt;
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    &lt;keyword keywordType="null"&gt;santa barbara&lt;/keyword&gt;
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    &lt;keyword keywordType="null"&gt;photoplot&lt;/keyword&gt;
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    &lt;keyword keywordType="null"&gt;quadrat&lt;/keyword&gt;
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    &lt;keywordThesaurus&gt; &lt;/keywordThesaurus&gt;
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  &lt;/keywordSet&gt;
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  &lt;additionalInfo&gt;
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    &lt;paragraph&gt; &lt;/paragraph&gt;
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  &lt;/additionalInfo&gt; <font color="red">
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  &lt;triple&gt;
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    &lt;subject&gt;berkley.6.1&lt;/subject&gt;
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    &lt;relationship&gt;isRelatedTo&lt;/relationship&gt;
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    &lt;object&gt;berkley.5.3&lt;/object&gt;
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  &lt;/triple&gt;
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  &lt;triple&gt;
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    &lt;subject&gt;berkley.7.1&lt;/subject&gt;
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    &lt;relationship&gt;isRelatedTo&lt;/relationship&gt;
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    &lt;object&gt;berkley.6.1&lt;/object&gt;
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  &lt;/triple&gt;
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  &lt;triple&gt;
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    &lt;subject&gt;berkley.8.1&lt;/subject&gt;
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    &lt;relationship&gt;isRelatedTo&lt;/relationship&gt;
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    &lt;object&gt;berkley.5.3&lt;/object&gt;
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  &lt;/triple&gt;
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  &lt;triple&gt;
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    &lt;subject&gt;berkley.8.1&lt;/subject&gt;
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    &lt;relationship&gt;isRelatedTo&lt;/relationship&gt;
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    &lt;object&gt;berkley.6.1&lt;/object&gt;
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  &lt;/triple&gt;
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  &lt;triple&gt;
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    &lt;subject&gt;berkley.8.1&lt;/subject&gt;
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    &lt;relationship&gt;isRelatedTo&lt;/relationship&gt;
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    &lt;object&gt;berkley.7.1&lt;/object&gt;
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  &lt;/triple&gt;
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  &lt;triple&gt;
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    &lt;subject&gt;berkley.14.1&lt;/subject&gt;
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    &lt;relationship&gt;isRelatedTo&lt;/relationship&gt;
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    &lt;object&gt;berkley.6.1&lt;/object&gt;
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  &lt;/triple&gt; </font>
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  &lt;temporalCoverage&gt; 1992 to 1996&lt;/temporalCoverage&gt;
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  &lt;geographicCoverage&gt; &lt;/geographicCoverage&gt;
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  &lt;taxonomicCoverage&gt; &lt;/taxonomicCoverage&gt;
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&lt;/dataset&gt;
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  <b>Description of the Package File</b>
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  <p>Note that the doctype of this document is an unregistered NCEAS specific
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  DTD (-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN).  The package doctype is an application 
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  property of Metacat.  Setting this property (and others) is described in 
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  <a href="./properties.html">Setting Metacat Properties</a>.  The package file
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  contains <i>n</i> triples.  Each triple has a subject, relationship,
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  and an object.  This grouping can be read as follows:  &lt;subject&gt; has
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  &lt;relationship&gt; to &lt;object&gt;.  Each triple is a logical link
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  between the subject and object with the relationship being a description of that
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  link.</p>
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  <b>The Utility of Relations</b>
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  <p>Relations become useful because many XML data schemas are broken up into 
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  multiple DTDs.  Thus, there may be many different XML files that are all 
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  related to each other yet are stored seperately within the system.  Also, 
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  since we, here at NCEAS, are developing Metacat for use as a metadata 
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  repository for ecological data, we need some way of linking our metadata 
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  to the datafiles that they describe.  Packages are the way we do this.</p>
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  <b>Post Processed Relations</b>
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  <p>The package file is inserted into Metacat as any other file is.  Its doctype
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  is checked against the packagedoctype property in the <a href="properties.html">
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  Metacat.properties file</a>.  If it is of that type, the file is sent
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  to a postprocessor to be analyzed and inserted into the xml_relation table.  
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  The table looks like the following:</p>
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      <td>subject</td><td>subjectdoctype</td>
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      <td>relationship</td><td>object</td><td>objectdoctype</td>
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      <td>1</td>
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      <td>berkley.5</td>
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      <td>-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN</td>
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      <td>berkley.6.1</td>
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      <td>null</td>
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      <td>isRelatedTo</td>
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      <td>berkley.5.3</td>
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      <td>2</td>
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      <td>berkley.5</td>
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      <td>-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN</td>
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      <td>null</td>
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      <td>isRelatedTo</td>
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      <td>berkley.6.1</td>
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      <td>3</td>
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      <td>berkley.5</td>
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      <td>-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN</td>
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      <td>null</td>
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      <td>isRelatedTo</td>
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      <td>berkley.5.3</td>
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      <td>berkley.5</td>
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      <td>-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN</td>
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  <p>Once, the system has processed the package file and inserted the relations
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  into the xml_relation table, the files relations are always returned to with it
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  in the <a href="./metacatquery.html">resultset</a> of a query.</p>
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  <b>Package Views (formerly known as 'backtracking')</b>
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  <p>Package View is a feature that was intentionally left out of the 
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  <a href="./Metacatquery.html">Queries and Results</a> section.  Package views 
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  involves sending a doctype (called a returndoctype) along with a query request.  
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  When there is a hit from that query, the system will check the doctype of the 
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  hit document against the returndoctype.  If the doctypes do not match, 
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  the system checks the xml_relation table to see if that document has been packed
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  by document of that doctype. If such package document exists, it
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  is returned instead of the one which was originally hit.  If no such
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  package document exists, then the document which was originally hit is returned.  
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  This allows a display system (such as a web browser) to try to display a 
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  certain type of document.</p>
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  "intertidal" which returns the document berkley.6 of type -//NCEAS//eml-entity-2.0//EN.
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  When berkley.6 is hit, the system will check its package documents to see if 
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  it is of type -//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN.  Since it is, 
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  (relationid 1, 2 and 4) document berkley.5 is returned instead of berkley.6.
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  <p>From a client the returndoctype is a servlet parameter.
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  A URL with a returndoctype would look something like: </p>
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  <pre>http://server.domain.com/Metacat?action=query&amp;anyfield=%&amp;qformat=html&amp;returndoctype=-//NCEAS//eml-dataset-2.0//EN</pre>
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  document as illustrated in <a href="./metacatquery.html">Queries and Results</a>.
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