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Metacat: XML Metadata Database
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Version: 1.0.0beta3 Release
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Version: 1.0.0 Release
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Feedback and bugs to: knb-software@nceas.ucsb.edu
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Send feedback and bugs to: knb-software@nceas.ucsb.edu
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Contributors: Matt Jones (jones@nceas.ucsb.edu)
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Chad Berkley (berkley@nceas.ucsb.edu)
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Jivka Bojilova (bojilova@nceas.ucsb.edu)
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Dan Higgins (higgins@nceas.ucsb.edu)
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This is Metacat, a flexible database storage system for XML formatted
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This is Metacat, a flexible database storage system for XML formatted
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documents. Metacat models the structure of the XML document, therefore
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allowing storage of XML documents with arbitrary schemas. The current
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implementation stores data in a backend Oracle RDBMS, but was designed
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to support other RDBMS systems as well. The server supports XML document
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storage, retrievel, query, validation, and transformation (using the XSLT
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stylesheet language). In addition, there is a mechanism for replicating
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the database to other metacat instances for backup and load balancing
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the database to other metacat instances for backup and load balancing
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purposes. Metacat currently uses an LDAP database for authenticating
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users, but was written to accomodate other authentication services as well.
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Documentation
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See the docs directory for detailed documentation and installation
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instructions.
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Major Known Bugs or Feature Requests (see http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org)
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258 upgrade to xerces 1.4.4 and test metacat
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There are no known bugs in the current release (yet). If you discover one
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please report it, either by email (above) or by using our bug tracking
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system (http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org). There is a list of currently
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unimplemented features in Bugzilla that we are working on for the next
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release (no, we don't have a date yet!).
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Legalese
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README and build changes in preparation for the 1.0.0 release of Metacat.
The files contributing to this release are being tagged in CVS as
"METACAT_1_0_0".