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# OUTDATED

Please see http://cybertaxonomy.eu/cdm-server for documentation or [[CdmServerDev]] for development resources.

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# CDM Community Server

A Central datastore for a community of users (taxonomically, geographically or otherwise defined). The community store server is used to centrally host versionable [[CommonDataModel]] data.

The store makes use of the [[CdmLibrary]] and exposes [[CdmAPI#RemoteAPI|webservices]] based on the [[CdmLibrary]] service layer.

The CDM Community Server is a central piece of the platform and applications that are able to interface with this server are considered part of the platform.

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## Download

|Version | download |

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| Current stable release | http://cybertaxonomy.eu/download/cdmserver/stable/ |

| All versions | http://cybertaxonomy.eu/download/cdmserver/  |

For installation instructions please refer to the [CDM Standard Setups](http://cybertaxonomy.eu/cdm-setups/?q=Group/cdmserver_installation/)

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## Webservices

Srvices/APIs exposed by the community store are:

### XML/JSON REST

Mainly read operations exposing [[CdmDataTransferObjects]] for the [[CdmDataportal]]. The services are URL encoded REST services and the http content-type of a request specifies whether XML (default) or JSON will be returned. For further details please refer to [[CdmRestServices|CDM REST Services]].

The detailed list of implemented and planned operations can be found at wiki:CdmAPI#RemoteAPI

### RSS Search feeds

Additionally to the search services provided by the REST API above, the same search methods will also be exposed as RSS feeds. This allows RSS clients, or wikipedia:Aggregator, to "subscribe" to specific searches as RSS feeds are natively ordered chronologically and new search entries therefore can easily be identified. It is planned that all [[PrimaryCdmObjects]] will be exposed for searches.

### OAI-PMH

In order to allow central aggregators harvesting the CDM Community Stores the  [OAI-PMH protocol](http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html)  with selective date based harvesting has been implemented in to the CDM Community Stores. [BHL":http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/, "GBIF":http://www.gbif.net, "EOL](http://www.eol.org/) or any other data aggregator thus are able to easily pool CDM data selectively and keep their copy up to date by accessing incremental changes only.

For more information please refer to [[CommunityServerOaiPmh|CDM Community Server - OAI-PMH]] 

### LSID

The CDM Store will include an LSID resolver exposing [[PrimaryCdmObjects]] objects in RDF as TDWG LSID voc

### Linkback Annotations

All pages should expose a linkback mechanism that allows to be aware of external comments done on popular blogging software. See Wikipedia:Linkback

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## File Server

### Images

Please see [[ImageServer]]

### Documents/PDF

We will use Drupal as a start