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<h4>Introduction</h4>
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The Metacat Harvester (henceforth referred to as "Harvester") is a
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program that automates the retrieval of EML documents from one or more sites
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and their subsequent upload (insert or update) to Metacat. Harvester uses pull
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technology to retrieve and upload documents to Metacat on a regularly
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Although Harvester is included with a Metacat installation (beginning with
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Metacat version 1.4.0), it is an extention to Metacat's functionality
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<h4>Definitions</h4>
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The following table defines a number of terms that are useful in discussing
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Harvester and its features.
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<td>Harvester</td>
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<td>The Harvester program, a Java application that is bundled with the
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Metacat distribution. When a user installs Metacat on a system,
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<td>Harvester Administrator</td>
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<td>The individual who installs and manages Harvester. Typically, this
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would be the same individual who installs and manages Metacat at a
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<td>Harvest Site</td>
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<td>A location from which Harvester can retrieve EML documents. A given
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<td>Harvest</td>
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<td>The act (by Harvester) of visiting a Harvest Site, retrieving a
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<td><a name="HarvestList" >Harvest List</a></td>
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<td>An XML document that lists a set of EML documents to be harvested. The
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Harvest List must conform to an XML Schema,
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<td>The individual at a particular Harvest Site who registers with
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Harvester, composes a Harvest List, and periodically prepares
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the site's EML documents for retrieval and upload to Metacat.
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<td>Harvest List URL</td>
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<td>A URL to the Harvest List, as specified by the Site Contact.
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Each Harvest Site corresponds to a Harvest List URL. Harvester
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uses the URL to locate and read a site's Harvest List.
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<td>Document URL</td>
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<td>A URL to an EML document, as specified in the Harvest List.
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<td>Harvester Registration Page</td>
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<td>A web page that provides a means for a Site Contact
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to register with Harvester to schedule regular harvests from the
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site. Registration involves logging in and then specifying various
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settings for the Harvest Site, such as the Harvest List URL, the
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harvest frequency, and the email address of the Site Contact.
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Harvester is managed by the Harvester Administrator. Typically, the same
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individual who manages a Metacat server would also act as the Harvester
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Administrator. The responsibilities of the Harvester Administrator include:
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<li><a href="#Configuring Harvester">Configuring Harvester</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Running Harvester">Running Harvester</a></li>
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<li><a href="#Reviewing Harvester">Reviewing Harvester reports to
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the Harvester Administrator</a></li>
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<h5><a name="Configuring Harvester">Configuring Harvester</a></h5>
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<p>Harvester must be configured to interact with a working Metacat
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installation. Thus, a Metacat installation that has been properly
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configured and installed is a pre-requisite to running Harvester.
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Additionally, Harvester has a number of settable properties that
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control its behavior. All Harvester configuration information is managed
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in a single file,
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<a href=../../lib/metacat.properties>metacat.properties</a>,
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located at:
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<pre> METACAT_HOME/lib/metacat.properties</pre>
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where METACAT_HOME is the top-level directory that Metacat is
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installed in.
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<p>Harvester properties are grouped together in
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<pre><code> # Harvester properties</code></pre>
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setting appropriate values for the <code><b>harvesterAdministrator</b></code>
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property, the <code><b>smtpServer</b></code> property, and possibly other
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properties. The following table is a summary of each property and its function.
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<td><b>Property</b></td>
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<td><b>Description</b></td>
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<td><b>Possible or default value</b></td>
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<td>connectToMetacat</td>
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<td>This property determines whether Harvester should connect to
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Metacat to upload documents. It should be set to <code>true</code>
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under most circumstances. Setting this property to <code>false</code>
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can be useful for testing whether Harvester is able to retrieve
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documents from a site without actually connecting to Metacat to
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upload the documents.</td>
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<td>The number of hours that Harvester will wait before beginning its
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first harvest. For example, if Harvester is run at 1:00 p.m., and
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<td>The email address of the Harvester Administrator. Harvester will
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send email reports to this address after every harvest. You may
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a comma or semicolon, for example, "name1@abc.edu,name2@abc.edu".
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<td>logPeriod</td>
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<td>The number of days that Harvester should retain log entries of harvest
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operations in the database. Harvester log entries record information
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such as which documents were harvested, from which sites, and
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whether any errors were encountered during the harvest. Log entries
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older than <code>logPeriod</code> number of days are purged from the
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database at the end of each harvest.</td>
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<td>The maximum number of harvests that Harvester should execute before
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shutting down. When the Harvester program is executed, it will
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continue running until it has executed <code>maxHarvests</code>
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number of harvests and then the program will terminate. If
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number, it will be ignored and Harvester will execute indefinitely.
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<td>The number of hours between harvests. Harvester will run a new
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<code>maxHarvests</code> number of harvests have been run, or
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<td>The SMTP server that Harvester uses for sending email messages
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entries and email messages. Under most circumstances the values
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<a href="#Configuring Harvester">configured</a>,
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as a servlet. If you wish only to test that Harvester is functioning,
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or if you expect to use Harvester infrequently, it may desirable to run it from a
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command window. However, under most circumstances you will want Harvester to
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run continuously as a background servlet process. This eliminates the
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<li> (A) Running Harvester in a Command Window
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<pre>set METACAT_HOME=C:\somePath\metacat</pre></li>
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<pre>export METACAT_HOME=/home/somePath/metacat</pre></li>
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harvest after <code><b>delay</b></code> number of hours (as specified in the
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<code><b>period</b></code> number of hours until a <code><b>maxHarvests</b></code>
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number of harvests have been completed (if <code><b>maxHarvests</b></code> is set
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<li><a href=#Preparing>Preparing EML Documents for harvest</a></li>
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The Harvester Registration page is accessed from Metacat. For example, if
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<pre> http://somehost.somelocation.edu:8080/knb/index.jsp</pre>
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<pre> http://somehost.somelocation.edu:8080/knb/style/skins/knb/harvesterRegistrationLogin.html</pre>
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After bringing up this page in your browser, login to your Metacat account
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rather than his or her personal account. For example, a LTER Information
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Manager may need to login to a dedicated account, named with a three-letter
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acronym, that has been set up for the LTER site. The username
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"GCE" would be used by the LTER Information Mangager at the GCE (Georgia
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Coastal Ecosystems) site.
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to enter information about your site and how often you want to schedule
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harvests at your site. For example:
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<b>Metacat Harvester Registration </b>
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<font color="white" face=verdana size=2%>
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<b>Email address:</b>
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<font color="white" face=verdana size=2%>
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<b>Harvest List URL:</b>
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<b>Unit:</b>
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<input type="radio" name="o" value="days" >day(s)
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<input type="radio" name="o" value="weeks" checked>week(s)
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<input type="radio" name="o" value="months">month(s)
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After values have been entered for each of these fields, click the Register
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button to register your site with Harvester.
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<P>
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In the example shown above, Harvester will attempt to harvest documents from
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the site once every 2 weeks, it will access the site's Harvest List at URL
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"http://somehost.institution.edu/~myname/harvestList.xml", and it will send
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email reports to the Site Contact at email address "myname@institution.edu".
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<P>
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Note that you may enter multiple email addresses by separating each
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address with a comma or a semi-colon. For example,
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"myname@institution.edu,anothername@institution.edu".
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<li>Unregistering with Harvester
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At any time after you have registered with Harvester, you may discontinue
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harvests at your site by unregistering. Simply login as described above and
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then click the Unregister button. After doing so, Harvester will discontinue
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harvests at the site.
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<h5><a name="Composing">Composing a Harvest List</a></h5>
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<p>
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A Harvest List is an XML file that holds a list of EML documents to be
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harvested. For each EML document in the list, the following information
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must be specified:
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<li><code>docid</code>, which consists of the:
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<li><code>scope</code>, e.g. "demoDocument". The scope is an identifier
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that indicates which group of documents this document belongs to.
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</li>
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<li><code>identifier</code>, e.g. "1". The identifier is a number that
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uniquely identifies this document within the scope.
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|
</li>
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<li><code>revision</code>, e.g. "5". The revision is a number that
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indicates the current revision of this document.
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</li>
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</li>
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<li><code>documentType</code>, e.g. "eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0".
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The documentType identifies the document as an EML document.</li>
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<li><code>documentURL</code>, e.g. "http://www.lternet.edu/~dcosta/document1.xml".
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The documentURL specifies a place where Harvester can locate
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and retrieve the document via HTTP.</li>
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<p>
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The contents of a Harvest List XML file must conform to a particular
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XML Schema, as defined in file <a href="../../lib/harvester/harvestList.xsd">
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harvestList.xsd</a>. The contents of a valid Harvest List
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can best be illustrated by example. The sample Harvest List
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below contains two <<code>document</code>> elements that specify the
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information that Harvester needs to retrieve a pair of EML documents and
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upload them to Metacat:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<hrv:harvestList xmlns:hrv="eml://ecoinformatics.org/harvestList" >
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<document>
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<docid>
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<scope>demoDocument</scope>
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<identifier>1</identifier>
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<revision>5</revision>
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</docid>
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<documentType>eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0</documentType>
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<documentURL>http://www.lternet.edu/~dcosta/document1.xml</documentURL>
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</document>
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<document>
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<scope>demoDocument</scope>
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<identifier>2</identifier>
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<revision>1</revision>
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<documentType>eml://ecoinformatics.org/eml-2.0.0</documentType>
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<documentURL>http://www.lternet.edu/~dcosta/document2.xml</documentURL>
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</document>
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After editing the Harvest List, ensure that the Harvest List XML file resides
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at the appropriate location on disk as specified by the URL that was entered
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during the <a href=#Registering>registration</a> process.
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assists in composing and editing a Harvest List. (Click
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<a href=./harvestListEditor.html>here</a> for additional details.)
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<h5><a name="Preparing">Preparing EML Documents for harvest</a></h5>
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|
<p>
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|
To prepare a set of EML documents for harvest, ensure that the following is
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true for each document:
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<li>The document contains valid EML</li>
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|
<li>The document is specified in a <document> element in the
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site's Harvest List, as described above</li>
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<li>The file resides at the appropriate location on disk as specified
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by its URL in the Harvest List</li>
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</ul>
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|
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|
<h5><a name="Reviewing" >Reviewing Harvester Reports to the Site Contact</a></h5>
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|
<P>
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|
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|
After every scheduled harvest that takes place at a particular Harvest
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Site, Harvester will send an email report to the Site Contact detailing the
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operations that were performed during the harvest.
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The report will contain information about the operations that were
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performed by Harvester at that site, such as
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which EML documents were harvested and whether any errors were encountered.
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<P>
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The Site Contact should review the report, paying particularly
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close attention to any errors that are reported. Errors are indicated
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by operations that display a status value of 1, while operations that
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display a status value of 0 indicate that the operation completed
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successfully.
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<p>
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When errors are reported,
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the Site Contact should try to determine whether the source of the error
|
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is something that can be corrected at the site. Common causes of errors
|
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might be:
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<ul>
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<li>A document URL specified in the Harvest List does not match
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the location of the actual EML file on the disk</li>
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<li>The Harvest List does not contain valid XML as specified in
|
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the <a href=../../lib/harvester/harvestList.xsd>harvestList.xsd</a> schema</li>
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<li>The URL to the Harvest List that was specified during
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registration with Harvester does not match the actual location of
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the Harvest List on the disk</li>
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<li>An EML document that Harvester attempted to upload to Metacat does
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not contain valid EML</li>
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resolution, he or she should contact the Harvester Administrator for assistance.
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