Metacat 2.16.1 Released

[Jing Tao]

We are pleased to announce a new release of Metacat (2.16.1), a turnkey data repository software platform used across the earth science community.  Metacat (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat) provides a standardized but customizable platform for preserving data and metadata in many formats. It helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described. Metacat is compliant with the DataONE federation, making it easy for organizations to participate in the global DataONE data federation, and integrates with ORCiD and DOI identifier systems.  It also supports the customizable MetacatUI client-side application for searching and browsing data in the Metacat and DataONE systems, creating a simple-to-deploy system with advanced search and discovery features out of the box.

The open source Metacat system is maintained by NCEAS (https://nceas.ucsb.edu) and DataONE (https://dataone.org), and is used by data repositories worldwide to manage collections of data. We're an open community working towards sharing development of this common data platform to improve efficiency and sustainability across the open data world.  We welcome contributions of all sorts, from feedback on features and bugs, to documentation, code, and everything in between.  Please join us.

The new release of Metacat can be downloaded from: 
  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/ 
 

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

* Upgrade some library jar files to fix severe security vulnerabilities
* Metacat cannot create objects without DOI setting enabled

We hope that this software is useful to you. We welcome feedback and comments that will make the application more useful in the future. Please submit bugs and problems through our bug tracking system (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat/issues) and send general feedback to 'metac...@ecoinformatics.org'. 
 

The Metacat Development Team

[Jing Tao]

We are pleased to announce a new release of Metacat (2.16.2), a turnkey data repository software platform used across the earth science community.  Metacat (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat) provides a standardized but customizable platform for preserving data and metadata in many formats. It helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described. Metacat is compliant with the DataONE federation, making it easy for organizations to participate in the global DataONE data federation, and integrates with ORCiD and DOI identifier systems.  It also supports the customizable MetacatUI client-side application for searching and browsing data in the Metacat and DataONE systems, creating a simple-to-deploy system with advanced search and discovery features out of the box.

The open source Metacat system is maintained by NCEAS (https://nceas.ucsb.edu) and DataONE (https://dataone.org), and is used by data repositories worldwide to manage collections of data. We're an open community working towards sharing development of this common data platform to improve efficiency and sustainability across the open data world.  We welcome contributions of all sorts, from feedback on features and bugs, to documentation, code, and everything in between.  Please join us.

The new release of Metacat can be downloaded from: 
  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/ 
 

Bugs fixed in this release:

* Upgrade some library jar files to fix severe security vulnerabilities

[Jing Tao]

We are pleased to announce a new release of Metacat (2.17.0), a turnkey data repository software platform used across the earth science community.  Metacat (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat) provides a standardized but customizable platform for preserving data and metadata in many formats. It helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described. Metacat is compliant with the DataONE federation, making it easy for organizations to participate in the global DataONE data federation, and integrates with ORCiD and DOI identifier systems.  It also supports the customizable MetacatUI client-side application for searching and browsing data in the Metacat and DataONE systems, creating a simple-to-deploy system with advanced search and discovery features out of the box.

The open source Metacat system is maintained by NCEAS (https://nceas.ucsb.edu) and DataONE (https://dataone.org), and is used by data repositories worldwide to manage collections of data. We're an open community working towards sharing development of this common data platform to improve efficiency and sustainability across the open data world.  We welcome contributions of all sorts, from feedback on features and bugs, to documentation, code, and everything in between.  Please join us.

The new release of Metacat can be downloaded from: 
  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/ 
 

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

* Support the OSTI DOI service
* Support hierarchical packages in getPackage API
* Use the file protocol rather than the https/http protocols to access schema files during the xml validation process
* Metacat threw the error of the user not authorized during the publish process even though the EZID setting is correct
* Metacat did not check if the checksum algorithm was changed in the MN.updateSystemmetadata method
* EML to HTML .xslt skips methods section in attributes
* Upgrade xerces to 2.12.2
* Remove the GeoServer war file
* Remove the oa4mp-client-oauth1-3.3.war file   

[Jing Tao]

We are pleased to announce a new release of Metacat (2.18.0), a turnkey data repository software platform used across the earth science community.  Metacat (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat) provides a standardized but customizable platform for preserving data and metadata in many formats. It helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described. Metacat is compliant with the DataONE federation, making it easy for organizations to participate in the global DataONE data federation, and integrates with ORCiD and DOI identifier systems.  It also supports the customizable MetacatUI client-side application for searching and browsing data in the Metacat and DataONE systems, creating a simple-to-deploy system with advanced search and discovery features out of the box.

The open source Metacat system is maintained by NCEAS (https://nceas.ucsb.edu) and DataONE (https://dataone.org), and is used by data repositories worldwide to manage collections of data. We're an open community working towards sharing development of this common data platform to improve efficiency and sustainability across the open data world.  We welcome contributions of all sorts, from feedback on features and bugs, to documentation, code, and everything in between.  Please join us.

The new release of Metacat can be downloaded from: 
  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/ 
 

This release focuses on improving indexing performance.

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

* Use a multiple-tread process to index objects
* Eliminate unnecessary index tasks                                                                                                                                  
* Fix bugs in Bagit implementation

[Jing Tao]

We are pleased to announce a new release of Metacat (2.19.0), a turnkey data repository software platform used across the earth science community.  Metacat (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat) provides a standardized but customizable platform for preserving data and metadata in many formats. It helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described. Metacat is compliant with the DataONE federation, making it easy for organizations to participate in the global DataONE data federation, and integrates with ORCiD and DOI identifier systems.  It also supports the customizable MetacatUI client-side application for searching and browsing data in the Metacat and DataONE systems, creating a simple-to-deploy system with advanced search and discovery features out of the box.

The open source Metacat system is maintained by NCEAS (https://nceas.ucsb.edu) and DataONE (https://dataone.org), and is used by data repositories worldwide to manage collections of data. We're an open community working towards sharing development of this common data platform to improve efficiency and sustainability across the open data world.  We welcome contributions of all sorts, from feedback on features and bugs, to documentation, code, and everything in between.  Please join us.

The new release of Metacat can be downloaded from: 
  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/ 
 

New features and bugs fixed in this release:

• GetPackage implementation doesn't handle duplicate data object filenames
• PackageDownloaderV2 doesn't increment filenames for duplicate science metadata objects
• Deleting objects failed to remove solr docs
• Sampling citation not showing up in view service
• Mis-Formatting of Data Package Contents
• Unhelpful error message when trying to create as a denied submitter
• Data objects missing after a package was published
• Multiple updates on a single DOI happen when users use the metacat admin page to update DOIs
• Metacat updated the DOI metadata (datacite) when the system metadata of an obsoleted object was updated if the obsolescent chain has a DOI Sid
• GetPackage fails to include system metadata
• OSTI DOI Plugin Notifications need more information

[Jing Tao]

Note: This might be the last release of the Metacat 2 series. The next Metacat release (3.0.0) will not be backwards compatible, since legacy Metacat APIs will be removed.

We are pleased to announce a new release of Metacat (2.19.1), a turnkey data repository software platform used across the earth science community.  Metacat(https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat) provides a standardized but customizable platform for preserving data and metadata in many formats. It helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described. Metacat is compliant with the DataONE federation, making it easy for organizations to participate in the global DataONE data federation, and integrates with ORCiD and DOI identifier systems.  It also supports the customizable MetacatUI client-side application for searching and browsing data in the Metacat and DataONE systems, creating a simple-to-deploy system with advanced search and discovery features out of the box.

The open source Metacat system is maintained by NCEAS (https://nceas.ucsb.edu) and DataONE (https://dataone.org), and is used by data repositories worldwide to manage collections of data. We're an open community working towards sharing development of this common data platform to improve efficiency and sustainability across the open data world.  We welcome contributions of all sorts, from feedback on features and bugs, to documentation, code, and everything in between.  Please join us.

The new release of Metacat can be downloaded from: https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat/releases/tag/2.19.1

New features, and bugs fixed in this release:

• Handle additional OSTI DOIs
• Upgrade Libraries

We hope that this software is useful to you. We welcome feedback and comments that will make the application more useful in the future. Please submit bugs and problems through our bug tracking system (https://github.com/NCEAS/metacat/issues) and send general feedback to 'metacat-d...@ecoinformatics.org'. 
 

The Metacat Development Team