CDM Changes since version 1

A list of changes done to the CommonDataModel since the version1 freeze. Mainly from implementing the CdmLibrary and the CATE project.

Release 1.1

Source Code

• Correct misspelling of synonym (synoynm) in Cdm:taxon:SynonymRelationship and Cdm:taxon:Synonym methods: [1430]
• renamed Cdm:name:NonViralName.uninomial into Cdm:name:NonViralName.genusOrUninomial [1441]
• Cdm:common:OrderedTermBase: OrderedTermBase? got Attribute orderIndex
• Cdm:common:OrderedTermVocabulary: new Subclass of Cdm:common:TermVocabulary for Cdm:common:OrderedTermBase , taking over some of the methods from Cdm:common:TermVocabulary (Version 1.0)
• Cdm:common:TermVocabulary: deleted all methods/attributes that deal with ordered terms
• Cdm:description:CharacterTree (renamed into Cdm:description:FeatureTree) with hierarchical character nodes (Cdm:description:FeatureNode)
• Cdm:name:NonViralName with BasAuth? and (Bas)Year
• Cdm:common:Rights missing owner Agent
• Cdm:common:Annotation allow external annotation via blog backlinks. Store external comment URL.
• Cdm:name:TaxonNameBase split nameRelationships attribute into 2, relationsToThisName and relationsFromThisName

Release 1.2

• Cdm:common:MediaInstance remove suffix property. MIME type is enough
• Cdm:description:DescriptionBase remove label. covered already by IdentifiableEntity?.titleCache

Release 1.3

• Moved 10 classes from eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.common to eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.media
• Created Cdm:common:LanguageStringBase
• Changed name for abstract class DerivedUnit? to Cdm:occurrence:DerivedUnitBase
• Some new method for handling synonyms in class Cdm:taxon:Taxon

Release 1.4

• A number of changes has been made for release 1.4. Unfortunately, none of them are documented.

Release 2.0

agent

• Cdm:agent:Agent has been renamed to Cdm:agent:AgentBase.
• The field contact has been moved up in the inheritance tree from Cdm:agent:Person and Cdm:agent:Institution to Cdm:agent:AgentBase.
• Cdm:agent:Contact became @Embeddable and does not inherit from Cdm:common:VersionableEntity anymore.

common

• New classes: Cdm:common:Credit, Cdm:common:Group, Cdm:common:GrantedAuthorityImpl, Cdm:common:LSID, Cdm:common:LSIDAuthority, Cdm:common:PartialUserType, Cdm:common:PersistentMultiLanguageText, Cdm:common:PartialUserType, Cdm:common:PersistentMultiLanguageTextType, Cdm:common:User
• New interfaces: Cdm:common:IDefinedTerm, Cdm:common:IMultiLanguageText
• Interface IVocabularyStore removed.
• Field vocabularyStore removed from Cdm:common:DefinedTermBase.
• Cdm:common:TimePeriod has new attributes dayType, monthType, yearType.
• The attributes relatedFrom, relatedTo, and type have been moved down from Cdm:common:RelationshipBase to the derived classes Cdm:name:HybridRelationship, Cdm:name:NameRelationship, Cdm:taxon:SynonymRelationship, and Cdm:taxon:TaxonRelationship.
• Boolean flag doubtful has been added to Cdm:common:RelationshipBase.
• Type of field annotationType in Cdm:common:Annotation changed from MarkerType to AnnotationType.

description

• Cdm:description:DescriptionBase has a new field descriptiveSystem.
• Cdm:description:Feature has a new boolean field supportsCategoricalData.
• Cdm:description:IdentificationKey has new fields geoScopes and taxonomicScope.

name

• New defined term class added: Cdm:name:NameTypeDesignationStatus
• Cdm:name:TypeDesignationStatus is going to be renamed to SpecimenTypeDesignationStatus?

occurrence

• Field derivedFrom has been renamed to derivationEvent.

reference

• New class Cdm:reference:Publisher added which is referenced by Cdm:reference:PublicationBase.

taxon

• Field taxonStatusUnknown added to Cdm:taxon:Taxon.

General

• In boolean fields names the prefix "is" has been removed. For example, field isMonomHybrid has been renamed to monomHybrid.
• For programmatic reasons, fields of type MultilanguageText now have the type Map<Language, LanguageString>.

Release 2.2

Changes not yet recorded

Beta 2.4

ReferenceBase

• got two new attributes:
  • fullReference (the long form of a given abbreviated reference) and
  • abbreviatedReference (the abbreviated form of a full reference) (#1551)

RelationshipTermBase

• changed database attribute 'symmetric' in the DefinedTermBase table to 'symmetrical' to be compliant with !PostGreSQL (#1181)

CommonTaxonName

• added area (still under discussion if this should be a set) (#1303)

PresenceAbsenceTerms

• changed 'reported in error' presence status into a absence status (the terms got a new uuid) (#1293)
• added 'doubtfully present' as an presence status

A database update script for MySQL is available in cdmlib2.4/cdmlib-model/src/main/resources/update

Release 2.5

Changes not yet recorded

Release 3.0

• Added barcode attribute to DerivedUnitBase?
• Added exsiccatum attriubte to Specimen
• Added country attribute to GatheringEvent?
• Added primaryCollector attribute to FieldObservation?
• Added area attribute to CommonTaxonName?
• Added sortIndex on FeatureNode? childs to make it a real list
• Added unplaced and excluded flags to Taxon
• Added inReference to IGeneric and IWebPage
• Renamed ReferenceBase? to Reference
• Renamed TaxonomicTree? to Classification
• Renamed database columns to get consistent column names (see #1547)
• Renamed SpecimenOrObservationBase?.description to SpecimenOrObservationBase?.definition
• Renamed DerivedUnitBase?.derivationEvent to DerivedUnitBase?.derivedFrom
• Detached PolytomousKey? from FeatureTree?
  • PolytomousKey? inherits now from IdentifiableEntity?
  • Created classes PolytomousKeyNode? and KeyStatement?
  • Moved attributes taxon and dd from FeatureNode? to PolytomousKeyNode?
• Updated labels for languages. Use full text now instead of ISO Code
• Mapping for modifers in StatisticalMeasurementValue? is ManyToMany? now

• URI: all fields representing URIs where changed to type URI. This is MediaRepresentationPart?.uri and Reference.uri
• Terms:
  • Created new Vocabulary "Unknown Languages" and added "unknown Language" and "original language" as new terms
  • Added comb. illeg. to NomenclaturalStatusType?
  • Added Habitat, Habitat & Ecologyy and Chromosome Numbers to Feature
  • Added aff. and cf. to DeterminationModifier?
  • Added Hermaphrodite and Unknown Sex to Sex
  • Added Third parent, Fourth parent, Major parent and Minor parent to HybridRelationshiptypes?
  • Added doubtful present to PresenceTerm?

See also Milestone CDM 3.0

Release 3.1

• Bugfix for TaxonNameBase?.typeDesignations mapping

Not yet available.