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Added by ben leinfelder over 12 years ago

apply Gastil's edits. http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5516

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docs/user/metacat/source/intro.rst
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This Administrator's guide includes information for installing, configuring,
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managing and extending Metacat for both Linux, Mac OS, and Windows systems.
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Chapter Two contains instructions for downloading and installing Metacat and the
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Chapter Four contains instructions for downloading and installing Metacat and the
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applications required to run the software on Linux and Microsoft platforms.
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Chapter Three covers how to configure Metacat, both for new and upgraded
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installations. Chapter Four details the ways in which you can customize the
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Chapter Five covers how to configure Metacat, both for new and upgraded
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installations. Chapter Seven details the ways in which you can customize the
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Metacat interface so users can access and submit information easily: using
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Metacat's generic web-interface (the Registry), creating your own HTML forms,
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and creating your own desktop client (like Morpho). Chapter Five discusses how
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to work with Metacat's embedded Geoserver. Chapter Six describes how to set up the
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and creating your own desktop client (like Morpho). Chapter Eight discusses how
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to work with Metacat's embedded Geoserver. Chapter Nine describes how to set up the
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Metacat's replication service, which permits Metacat servers to share data with
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each other, effectively backing up metadata and data files. Chapter Seven looks
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each other, effectively backing up metadata and data files. Chapter Ten looks
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at the Metacat Harvester, a program that automates the retrieval of EML
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documents from one or more sites and their subsequent upload (insert or update)
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to Metacat. Chapter Eight discusses logging, Chapter Nine contains instructions
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to Metacat. Chapter Eight discusses logging, Chapter Twelve contains instructions
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for creating a site map, which makes individual metadata entries available via
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Web searches. Metacat's Java API is included as an appendix at the end of the
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guide.
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Web searches. Metacat's Java API is `available`_ for developers.
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Metacat Features


  		




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Metacat is a repository for data and metadata (documentation about data), that 


  		












  

    
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(if the installation is new, or if Metacat was unable to determine the location 


  		




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of an existing back-up directory). The authentication configuration is required 


  		




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authentication are included at the end of this section.


  		




  
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Back-up Configuration


  		




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default configuration.


  		




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If your Metacat has a customized skin, it will appear as a choice in the 


  		




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Skins Configuration settings (Figure 3.7). You can creat your own skins as 


  		




  
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Skins Configuration settings (see below screenshot). You can create your own skins as 


  		




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well. For more information about creating skins, please see the section called


  		




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Creating a Custom Skin.


  		




  
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`Creating a Custom Skin`_.


  		




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.. figure:: images/screenshots/image023.png


  		




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Database Configuration


  		




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Global Configuration section, the link to these settings does not become active 


  		




  
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Global Properties section, the link to these settings does not become active 


  		




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until after the global settings have been saved. Once the global settings have 


  		




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been saved, Metacat automatically detects the database schema version and 


  		




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upgrades it if necessary (and with your permission). 


  		












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