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- CDM Platform Roadmap Archive
- Current Roadmap
- CDM Platform 5.20 (released Feb 10th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.19 (released Jan 27th, 2021)
- CDM Platform 5.18 (released Dec 3rd, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.17 (released Aug 19th, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.16 (released June 30th, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.15 (released June 23rd, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.14 (released April 8th, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.13 (released March 23th, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.12 (released Jan 20th, 2020)
- CDM Platform 5.11 (released Nov 15th, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.10 (released Sep 23rd, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.9 (released Aug 29th, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.8 (released on Jul 19th, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.7 (released on May 6th, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.6 (released on Apr 12th, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.5 (released on Feb 14th, 2019)
- CDM Platform 5.4 (released on Oct 25th, 2018)
- CDM Platform 5.3 (released on Sep 17th, 2018)
- CDM Platform 5.2 (released on Aug 17th, 2018)
- CDM Platform 5.1 (released on Jun 27th, 2018)
- CDM Platform 5.0 (released on May 16th, 2018)
- CDM Platform 4.14 (released on Feb 15th, 2018)
- CDM Platform 4.13 (released on Feb 1st, 2018)
- CDM Platform 4.12 (released on Dec 5th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.11 (released on Nov 11th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.10 (released on Sept 15th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.9 (released on July 20th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.8 (released on July 6th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.7 (released on May 16th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.6 (released on March 13th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.5 (released on January 19th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.4 (released on December 5th, 2016)
- CDM Platform 4.3 (released on September 26th, 2016)
- CDM Platform 4.2 (released on July 6th, 2016)
- CDM Platform 4.1 (released on June 1st, 2016)
- CDM Platform 4.0 (released on May 3rd, 2016)
- CDM Platform 3.12 - Hotfixes (released on February 15th, 2016)
- CDM Platform 3.12 (released on December 21st, 2015)
- CDM Platform 3.8 (released on September 10th, 2015)
- CDM Platform 3.7 (released on July 19th, 2015)
- CDM Platform 3.6 (released on June 4th, 2015)
- CDM Platform 3.5.1 (released on May 4th, 2015)
- CDM Platform 3.5.0 (released on Mar. 24th, 2015)
- CDM Platform 3.4.0 (released on Dec. 16th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.7 (released on Sept. 4th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.6 (released on Jul. 8th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.5 (released on May. 30th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.4 (released on May. 13th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.3 (released on Apr. 16th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.2 (released on Apr. 10th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.1 (released on Mar. 28th, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.3.0 (released on January 15, 2014)
- CDM Platform 3.2.3 (released on August. 26th, 2013)
- CDM Platform 3.2.2 (released on July. 1st, 2013)
- CDM Platform 3.2.1 (released on June. 6th, 2013)
- CDM Platform 3.2 (released on for May. 2nd, 2013)
- CDM Platform 3.1.4 (released on March 18th, 2013)
- CDM Platform 3.1.3 (released on 14th, 2013)
- CDM Platform 3.1.2 (released on Dez. 3rd, 2012)
- CDM Platform 3.1.1 (released on Nov. 21th, 2012)
- CDM Platform 3.1 (released on 06.11.2012)
- CDM Platform 3.0.13 (released on 17.10.2012)
- CDM Platform 3.0.12 (released on June 19th, 2012)
- CDM Platform 3.0.11 (released on June 27th, 2012)
- CDM Platform 3.0.10 (released on Mai 8th, 2012)
- CDM Platform 3.0.9 (released on Feb. 7th, 2012)
- CDM Platform 3.0.8 (released on Sept. 19th, 2011)
- CDM Platform 3.0.7 (planned for Aug. 15th, 2011)
- CDM Platform 3.0.6 (July 2011)
- Earlier versions
Current Roadmap¶
CDM Platform 5.20 (released Feb 10th, 2021)¶
Issues: 17
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Library
- support for pollen, leafs, and trichomes as tissue samples
- fix formatting for taxa for taxa with secundum detail information
- formatting for DNA Sample
- bugfixes
- role to allow setting the publish flag added
- - Data Portal
- bugfix related to missing source references of distribution data if aggregated data is involved
- - TaxEditor
- if a new synonym is added the publish flag now gets the same value as the accepted taxon
- bugfix for the reference select dialog
- - Web editor
- Phycobank registration UI
- designation refences for name and specimen type can now be edited
- Distribution editor
- fix exception when using textual taxon filter
- Phycobank registration UI
CDM Platform 5.19 (released Jan 27th, 2021)¶
Issues: 41
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - CDM Library
- fix handling of 2 person teams in short citations (author + year)
- - Data Portal
- specimen lists further improved (work in progress)
- Specimens without assigned field unit are now visible in the tree and "compresses" table view
- remove disabled classifications from advanced search classification filter
- specimen lists further improved (work in progress)
- - TaxEditor
- show taxon name for references used as nomenclatural references in referencing objects view
- distribution editor
- improve sorting (now sorting is equal to sorting in taxon navigator)
- new taxon dialogue
- fix ignored publish flag
- fix handling of reuse taxon in New Taxon dialogue
- fix exception when reusing a name
- terms
- fix copy&paste in term tree editor
- dirty flag not set when moving a feature in feature tree editor
- add "open in " menu to context menu in term/term tree editor
- main menu for term vocabularies and trees refactored and unified
- details view
- improve and fix handling of fields covered by (un-)protected caches
- fix some inconsistencies
- use light color for indirect protection
- use various colors if >1 caches are using the field
- media
- changes not persisted in media bulk editor
- missing reference detail in media specimen details view
- update (unprotected) titlecache in media details view when underlying data is changing
- fixing multiple bugs in media view
- agents (person, team, instituion)
- improve converting person to team handling (especially handling of cache fields)
- fix duplicate entries in agent search dialogue
- descriptive data sets navigator ordered alphabetically
- further bug fixes:
- fix incorrect state of taxon navigator toggle button which indicates if the taxon navigator jumps to the taxon that has the focus
- remove area level from distribution label for distribution areas not having a level
- alphabetic ordering of reference types in dropdown lists
- exception when saving parsed hybrids in name editor
- exception when adding specimen to character matrix
CDM Platform 5.18 (released Dec 3rd, 2020)¶
Issues: 83
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - Data Model
- "single sources"
- some data that refer to a single source only are now handled as full sources (before it was only a reference and a reference detail), with possibility to add further information like name used in source and external links;
- protologues/original publications handled as external link for the nomenclatural source
- original spelling handlied as name used in source of nomenclatural source now (before it was a name relationship)
- added new nomenclatural status "comb. ined", protected, in sched., pro syn., orth. var. (as status)
- labels updated for "is blocking name for" and "is isonym of", is correct spelling for, is earlier isonym of, conservation designated ; abbreviations updated for op. utique oppr., orth. cons., orth. cons. prop.
- abbreviations added for "Flowering Period" (Fl.) and "Fruiting Period" (Fr.)
- add [m] as predefined default measurement unit for altitude
- improved handling of nomenclatural standing of a taxon name
- "single sources"
- - CDM Library
- improve formatting with citation detail
- improved type designation formatting
- cloning of taxonomic subtrees (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- more configurable
- cloning of subtrees, not only classifications, possible
- major upgrade of third party code
- - Data Portal
- specimen lists and pages fully refactored and improved (work in progress)
- map serives improved
- adapt sort order of taxon tree to sort order in TaxEditor
- display of name facts improved
- new base font size
- improved rendering of footnotes
- fix missing nomenclatural status on name pages and registration pages
- - Exports
- - TaxEditor
- "Single Sources"
- objects with single sources (like taxon name nomenclatural source or name relationship source, etc.) are handled as full sources now including "Name in source", "original Information", "external links" etc.
- protologues/original publications were moved to the new nomenclatural source section as external link for the nomenclatural source
- original spelling now available in nomenclatural source section
- term tree (hierarchy) editors and character editors fully refactored and many bugs fixed, also preferences for term tree display added
- reduce download size and preparation for further reducing download size
- remove incorrect "invalid designation" handling
- assist for secundum handling when making a synonym an accepted taxon
- add LSIDs to persons and references
- improve default reference type for in-reference creation dialogue (depending of the original reference type), e.g. journal for articles
- bug fixes:
- missing dropdown list if no rank was selected yet in name details view
- adding derived units to derived units (e.g. DNA sample to specimen) is possile again in specimen tree editor
- error in LSID handling
- "Single Sources"
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- annotations for names and field units visible
- #8859
CDM Platform 5.17 (released Aug 19th, 2020)¶
Issues: 42
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - Data Portal
- image viewer
- improved thumbnail handling
- automated creation of thumbnail URLs (avoids that always 2 or 3 versions of the image have to be stored in the database)
- improved image meta data handling
- possible default copyright statement below image viewer
- improve handling of annotations and other footnotes like sources
- some more annotations and sources are shown now
- improved map representation for TDWG area maps
- occurrence maps hidden if no data exists
- fix bug that misapplied name taxa are not shown and not found in search
- fix bug that placemark icons are not clickable in map
- improve test system
- image viewer
- - CDM Library
- fix https handling for images
- - Web Services
- fix bug in taxon service that misapplied name taxa return no result
- - TaxEditor
- reduce download size (by >100MB)
- make specimen media editable in specimen assistants and in specimen list editor details view (to improve workflow when editing e.g. type specimen)
- find doubtful taxa without having "?" at beginning of search string
- new layout for taxon node dialogue
- additional parameters editable for taxon node placement source
- move update site to https
- open in browser button for ORCIDS
- bugfixes
- when moving synonym into homotypical group of accepted taxon
- missing synchronization between taxon node dialogue and name editor
- problems with name fact preferences
- exception when editing data in bulk editor
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- Collection editor extended by name filed
- Improved authorship inferrence redarding ex-authorship
- NameTypePopupEditor: Genus can be selectable as the name type for higher ranks
- Registration items show type status in bold letters
CDM Platform 5.16 (released June 30th, 2020)¶
Issues: 14
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What is new?
- - Data Portal
- Fix for sortorder of taxon nodes in taxon tree
- Fix for incorrect link for geo-coordinates in point maps
- Fix for missing information on taxon pages (see #9095)
- - CDM Library
- Improved deduplication of references and authors during name parsing (the relatively empty parsed references and authors are now merged with richer references and authors, which include e.g. also URI, ISBN, lifespan, first name, etc. information)
- Improved caching mechanism (which hopefully leads to less multiple representation exceptions in TaxEditor)
- Improved formatting and parsing of dates and periods (now we generally use a format like "30 Jun 2020" which is more language independent)
- - TaxEditor
- Setting focus automatically to newly created facts in Fact View
- Improved reference and author deduplication during creation of new taxa and synonyms
- Improved handling of malformed URIs
- Fix bug which threw multiple representation exceptions when editing taxa with a taxon node source (which exists very often in some databases)
- Fix bug throwing an exception when deleting a classification
- Fix bug throwing an exception when deleting multiple records in bulk editor
CDM Platform 5.15 (released June 23rd, 2020)¶
Issues: 83
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What will be new?
- - Data Model
- TaxonNode has a "status" attribute now instead of flags "doubtful", "unplaced" and "excluded"
- Allows to use only max. 1 of the above status for the same node
- "Excluded Notes" changed to => "Status notes" and is valid for what ever status has been chosen
- Measurement values handled as "BigDecimal" to avoid rounding errors related to floating point algebra and to allow to handle exactness (e.g. 1.6 differs from 1.60)
- "Available for" attribute for features to distinguish if features are available for taxa, for names and/or for specimen
- Temporal fact datatype for e.g. flowering periods supporting time periods like (Apr-)May-July(-Aug)
- New feature "Flowering period"
- New feature "Altitude" added
- Rename "later homonym for" to "later homonym of"#
- "Links" added to main classes like taxa, names, references, authors, ... - these allow adding an unlimited number of URL-links to these objects together with a description what this link is for
- Key-Value structure for storing media metadata (not yet used)
- TaxonNode has a "status" attribute now instead of flags "doubtful", "unplaced" and "excluded"
- - Data Portal
- New implementation of the occurrence point display is maps which allows new important features:
- Field unit information can now be shown.
- Display of error radius
- NOTE: More exciting features will come with the following releases.
- The new image viewer which has been integrated into the dataportal with version 5.13 is now stable and available for all data portal installations. The new image viewer uses the iiif conform Universalviewer. The new viewer adapts to different screen sizes and supports mobile devices.
- The beautiful Noto font family is now the default for the data portal and brings improved readability and excellent unicode support.
- The status (unplaced, doubtful, excluded) of a taxon node is now shown on taxon pages and in the classification tree.
- New implementation of the occurrence point display is maps which allows new important features:
- - CDM Server
- Improved logging
- Debian installation package improved
- - CDM Library
- Improved permissions for users being allowed to edit all taxonomies
- - TaxEditor
- Improved deduplication, especially for taxa entered via taxon node editor
- Persons: allow editing lifespan
- Possibility to create or update database schema via connect dialog
- Improved layout of connect dialog
- Taxon nodes status with status notes (see Data Model), available in taxon node wizard and in CDM light export
- Factual Data:
- Possibility to enter temporal data (phenology)
- Factual dataset source is shown as (uneditable) source for each fact
- Facts view: remember expansion state after deleting
- Remove caching form facts view which (resulted in unexpected results)
- Descriptive dataset editor and matrix editor:
- Improve performance of matrix editor
- Add context menu to matrix editor (and remove preliminary buttons)
- Fix failing adding of specimen which are not attached to a field unit
- Remove taxon in descriptive dataset editor only available if taxon has focus
- Fix bug when selecting a character tree for a descriptive dataset
- Reference bulk editor table has new included columns: year, in-reference, uri
- Open link button for entering DOIs in reference details view
- Features:
- Possibility to define if a feature is available for taxa, specimen and/or taxon names
- Improved decimal/rounding handling of quantitative data (e.g. distinguish 9.1 form 9.10)
- Configurable if the old specimen list editor should be avialable via main menu
- Bug fixes:
- Broken media deatils view fixed for "MediaSpecimen"
- Exception when creating a new taxon
- Search does find orphaned synonyms now
- Term search fixed
- Exception in referencing objects view for TextualTypeDesignations
- Exception in name details view if name relations were incomplete (no type, no from-name or no to-name)
- Exception when deleting a descriptive dataset
- Incorrect context menu for synonyms after moving a synonym into or out of the homotypic group
- Opened selection dialogs lock editing in other windows
- Remember expansions state of sections in details view and supplemental data view (this feature was lost for some time)
- Recently used references list is not emptied anymore after using search dialog for nomenclatural reference
- Bulk editor: multiple deduplications without saving do now remember all deduplications
- Some widget is disposed exceptions fixed
- fix verbatime date not persisted for books
CDM Platform 5.14 (released April 8th, 2020)¶
Issues: 28
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What's new?
- - Data Portal
- Structured descriptive data is shown on specimen page as continous text
- Bugfix for the new universal media viewer
- Bugfix for some descriptive data pages for taxon descriptions
- - Import/Export
- Handling of descriptions improved for ABCD import
- Bug fix for CDM lite export of textual type designation missing a language
- - TaxEditor
- Set as basionym available also for accepted taxa
- Distribution details view: configurable to show also abbreviation for selected named areas
- Performance improved for preference dependend descriptive data matrix editing
- Cloned descriptions show according icon
- User/roles/rights: * ROLE_USER_MANAGER is allowed to change passwords * unnecessary "expired" flags removed from User UI * isAdmin valid for all users having ROLE_ADMIN
- DNA Sample view allows editing of determinations
- Export dialogue remembers last selected folder
- Bug fixes:
- Handling of preferences for term lists fixed
- ConcurrentModificationException occurring at different places fixed
- Incorrect handling of "show descriptions only for field units" fixed
- Missing "id in vocabulary" in term labels fixed
- Freetext filter for name relationship type selection in name relationship dialogue fixed
- Exception caused by missing "number of rows in status dropdown" fixed
- Exception when opening orphaned names in name bulk editor from search result fixed
CDM Platform 5.13 (released March 23th, 2020)¶
Issues: 47
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What's new?
- - Data Portal
- A new image viewer for the dataportal is now available. The new image viewer uses the iiif conform Universalviewer.
- Several bugfixes regarding security and display of structured descriptions etc...
- A new image viewer for the dataportal is now available. The new image viewer uses the iiif conform Universalviewer.
- - Import/Export
- DarwinCoreArchive: Categorical and quantitative data added to export
- - CDM Library
- Caching of in-references for nomenclatural references: only author's family name (without initials) is used now if available
- Some improvements to the rights&roles management for editing of references
- Bugfixes:
- Names without ranks not found in taxon searches
- Find best matching (in terms of size) image representation fixed/improved
- some further bugfixes
- - TaxEditor
- Fix for failing connections (this might be the reason for many unclear errors that occurred in the past)
- MacOS X version fixed (TaxEditor available for MacOS X again)
- Search in bulk editors now also works on abbreviated title(caches)
- Some improvements to the distribution editor
- Some improvements to preference pages
- Freetext search for all dropdown boxes available now
- Search result view moved to the bottom of taxon navigator view (as default)
- Taxon navigator allows open-in for multi-selection for name editor and distribution editor
- Suggested file name for DwC-A export improved
- Move-to functionality improved in term editor and term tree editor
- Bugfixes:
- Names without ranks not found in search
- NameInSource only added after moving factual data if requested by the user
- Measurment units added to quantitative data in descriptive data matrix editor
- Automatically refresh available-specimen list for descriptive data matrix if descriptive dataset changes
- Name features not visible in taxon factual data view anymore, but only in name factual data view
- Inheriting sec-reference for root taxa from classification reference works again
- Selection list for entering states for categorical data is sorted now
- Deleting specimen descriptions possible now
- Fix for deleting name types
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- Bug fix in reference editor
CDM Platform 5.12 (released Jan 20th, 2020)¶
Issues: 67
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What's new?
- - Data Model
- Added "per mm²" to measurement units
- Allow linking to CDM taxa as information source (currently only available for algorithms, not (yet) for editing in TaxEditor)
- - Data Portal
- Structured Descriptions
- Show structure descriptions in general page as pseudo feature block (position configurable)
- Implement explicit page for descriptions, using dataset character/feature tree (or general feature tree) for ordering
- Order states by frequency
- Improve display of average values (and other statistical vlaues) and single values
- Support for linking to other CDM records as information source (for aggregated desciptions)
- Show type designations for synonyms
- Improved handling for URLs linking to not existing/deleted records (e.g. deleted polytomous keys)
- User defined feature trees show the title, not only the uuid
- Structured Descriptions
- - Import/Export
- CDM light:
- Typification column added to name and homotypical group files
- Handling of name identifiers fixed
- CDM light:
- - CDM Library
- Algorithms for descriptive data aggregation (distributions/structured descriptive data) fixed/improved
- Polynomous key generation algorithm improved
- Fix bug for deleting a taxon used in 2 different classifications
- Fix repair term tree sortindex
- Allow distribution aggregation to run on taxonomic subtrees
- - Documentation
- New Documentation available at https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/redmine/projects/edit/wiki/PlatformDocumentation
- - TaxEditor
- Documentation: see above
- Editing of structured descriptive data now available as standard feature (was experimental before) * Character editor * Term search * Matrix editor * GFBio and ontology imports * Support for "allow duplicates" for term collections * Note: however there are still issues especially with the Character editor which hopefully will be fixed in the next version (we recommend to contact the EDIT team before using this feature)
- Distribution aggregation available in taxon navigator
- Added freetext filter to combo boxes
- Links to other CDM records as information sources visible (but not editable)
- "Move to ..." added to term editor
- Improved handling for different term tree types (ordered, flat, distinct, ...)
- Specimen import: list of existing BioCase endpoints available as dropdown
- Fix multiple bugs related to BioCase specimen import
- Fix collapsing tree bug when moving taxa in taxon navigator
- Fix bug that reference search dialog does not open under certain conditions
- For FeatureTree title should display representation of title not the titleCache
CDM Platform 5.11 (released Nov 15th, 2019)¶
Issues: 39
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
What's new?
- - Data Model
- Added count parameter for statics during data aggregation of categorical (structured descriptive) data
- Added ORCID identifier to persons
- Added CDM source links (sources may link to other information in the same CDM instance)
- - Data Portal
- Fixed polytomous key display for key parts linked from multiple places
- Fix label formatting for specimen with missing collection identifier in specimen tables
- Fixing problem with names having multiple nomenclatural status
- - Import/Export
- ABCD:
- Fix collector and field number handling for derived units missing this data (but available in field unit record)
- ABCD:
- - CDM Library
- Better parsing for infrageneric autonyms with authors
- Imporved distribution and descriptive data aggregation
- - CDM Server
- Fix memory leaks
- - TaxEditor
- Taxon search: new filter to search only for published taxa
- Terms:
- Tree editor for Named Areas, Ranks and Distribution Status available (to define user defined term collections and orders, including cross-vocabulary collections) - usage of such collections will be implemented in future releases
- Taxon/Name details view
- Nomenclatural code edition editable for rule considered (nomenclatural status and name relationships)
- Rule considered and nomenclatural code editon visibility configurable (serverside and local)
- Minor changes in ordering of misapplied name details view
- Person details view
- ORCID editable
- Taxon navigator:
- Taxon node doubtful flag editable via context menu
- Rename view to "Taxon Navigator" (regression in one of the last releases)
- Refresh problem after editing classfication label or adding child taxon to classification
- Rename open-in for Taxon Node (Wizard) to ... Dialogue
- Reorder and rename import menu (items)
- Import/Export:
- Multiple fixes for file based ABCD import
- Fix for DwC-A export
- Factual Data View
- Visibility of "modifier" and "modifying text" is configurable now
- Distribution Editor
- Default source also used when creating an additional source for an existing source
- User administration
- Better error handling for user and group names with not allowed characters
CDM Platform 5.10 (released Sep 23rd, 2019)¶
Issues: 30
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
What's new?
- - Data Portal
- Taxon section in name page can be suppressed via settings.
- Bug fix of a regression related to the display of DOIs and publication reference links.
- - Import/Export
- CDM light export:
- type designation export differs between textual and specimen type designation
- Biocase search:
- add possibility to search for Higher Taxon
- CDM light export:
- - CDM Library
- Bugfixes and code maintenance
- Providing the default user role USER_MANAGER to all databases.
- Bugfixes and code maintenance
- - TaxEditor
- Bugfix for swap taxon and synonym
- Further improvements to preference handling
- Search dialogue for distribution areas works with abbreviations
- Old taxeditor documentation made available.
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
CDM Platform 5.9 (released Aug 29th, 2019)¶
Issues: 52
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What's new?
- - Data Model
- Term structure improved to allow all types of relations between terms and to allow vocabulary independent term collections/graphs (partly implemented in TaxEditor)
- Add state vocabulary for presence/absence of a biological structure
- Improve structure for inapplicableIf handling in character trees used for descriptive data matrices/datasets and for indentification keys
- Improve authority handling in data model (preparation only)
- Allow certain patterns only as usernames (Latin letters, numbers, '_', '.' are allowed)
- Doubtful (placement) flag for taxon nodes
- List of nomenclatural code editions (e.g. Melbourne Code) additional to rule considered in nomenclatural status, name relationship and hybrid relationship
- Fields added to allow externally managed terms and vocabularies (not yet in TaxEditor)
- Fields for textual/verbatim type designation information
- Possibility to add fixed markers/types to a description (e.g. to mark a description as a computed/aggregated description which should not be editable)
- - Data Portal
- Adapted to term structure changes in the data model.
- Improved ordering of type designations in the name and taxon pages.
- Harmonization and improvement of the specimen display in various parts of the portal, including better intra portal linking.
- Performance improvement regarding to type designations.
- Auto-zooming of maps has been fixed for different map projections.
- Improved layout of the registration page to clearly show the nomenclatural act.
- Classification tree horizontally automatically scrolls to active entry.
- - Import/Export
- CDM light export:
- add textual/verbatim type designations
- some minor adaptations
- CDM light export:
- - CDM Library
- Fix and improve polytomous key generation (to be used from descriptive data set, experimental feature)
- Multiple improvements and bug fixes to web services
- - TaxEditor
- Add textual/verbatim type designations to details view
- Use feature states for applicability of term nodes
- Improvement and harmonization of serverside and local preferences
- Update name in source data when changing an accepted taxon into a synonym (configurable)
- Allow setPublish for subtree to include misapplied names, pro parte synonyms and exclude hybrids
- Seperate term tree editor for each term type available
- Warning if misapplied names or pro parte synonyms are used/linked from more then 1 other taxon.
- Bugs.
- fixed term order of term trees
CDM Platform 5.8 (released on Jul 19th, 2019)¶
Issues: 65
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
What's new?
- - Model
- cm added as measurment unit
- - Data Portal
- Improvements to the media page related to source references and the media title
- Name page shows more information: name relations, type designation with specimen map, related taxa, nomenclatural acts (registrations)
- The automatic redirect behavior to the taxon page is now configurable
- Registration search:
- Support for filtering by references
- Improved search by type designation status and name
- Registration page:
- Subheadline to show the type of the nomenclatural event
- General layout improvements
- Links to reference pages as unobtrusive icon link
- Maps:
- Support for OpenTopoMap
- User interface to search the Unified Taxonomic Information Service (UTIS)
- Bugfixes related to
- Name relations
- Nomenclatural status
- Type designations
- - CDM Server
- improved error detection when failing to start
- - TaxEditor
- improved deduplication for references in name editor (hotfix 5.7.3)
- handling of preferences improved
- consistent model to always allow default and specific values and to handle override more intuitive
- area specific status list preferences for distribution data
- status list serverside preferences for distribution data handled in details view
- ranks as serverside preferences
- nomenclatural status as serverside preferences
- visibility of fields Source.idInSource and Source.IdNamespace as preferences
- CDMlight export
- includes excluded flag and excluded notes
- sortindex for taxa added
- improvements in ABCD import
- Terms allow adding media in term editor
- Media:
- media loaded asynchronously to improve performance (has open issues)
- Bugs
- exception/freezing when opening name in source search dialogue (hotfix 5.7.3)
- recognize again the previous state (opened sections) of details view and supplemental data view (hotfix 5.7.3)
- refresh in name bulk editor after search (hotfix 5.7.3)
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- Registration list view with reference filter
- Curators and admins can edit arbitrary Annotations (Notes)
- Bugfixes related to
- user permissions
- ...
CDM Platform 5.7 (released on May 6th, 2019)¶
Issues: 21
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
What's new?
- - Data Portal
- Bugfix for setting the feature tree for the general page
- - TaxEditor
- some urgent bugfixes for character matrix editing
- possibility to define area specific distribution status for distribution editor (UI for setting this preference is still missing)
- some bugfixes
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- All comboboxes for references are making use of the ellypsed reference labels
- The TaxonNamePopeditor now supports editing the nomenclatural status
- Name type status filter in registration search simplified
- and some bugfixes
CDM Platform 5.6 (released on Apr 12th, 2019)¶
Issues: 67
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
What's new?
- Data Model
- feature trees have been refactored to typified Term trees which support any type of terms
- added term types to term vocabularies
- added structure, property and regional modifier as new term types
- - Data Portal
- added time period for description elements in data portals
- improve user profile settigs in cdm_dataportal
- harmonize registrationId links and make testing easier
- improve image gallery settings labeling
- - Import/Export
- name facts added to cdm light export
- - TaxEditor
- term editor
- add "plural" to representations
- new term editor for structures, properties, regional modifers
- feature/term tree editor
- feature trees became more generic and support all types of terms (not yet fully available in editor)
- restrict editor according to typified term trees
- name editor
- creating duplicates of specimen type designations
- update of open data after updating subtree operations (update publish flag and update sec reference)
- user selection dialogs for group members filter out already added users
- name facts now editable, when selecting name in details view and in name bulk editor
- sources can be added to type designations
- Bugs
- changing of title cache of a factual data set was not possible
- selection dialogs for teams or persons did not filter out institutes
- insufficient rights lead to missing focus in name editor
- fixed title cache issues for taxon descriptions
- term editor
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- User friendly message when accessing editors with unsufficient permissions (#8218)
- Registry curator can unlock a published registration for minor changes (#8192)
- Solving a major performance problem related to uninomial und specific epithet comboboxes (#8176)
- Better lables for popup editors breadcrumbs (#7962)
- ReferenceEditor: optional validation for completenes of Partial values in datePublished (#7968)
- Create blocking relations for un-registered names which are to be used in nomenclatural acts (#8050)
- TaxonNamePopEditor: name part field visibility not correct for all ranks (#7963)
- ReferenceEditor: filter inReferences ONLY by applicable reference type suppess Generic and NULL (#8149)
- ReferencePopupEditor: When coming from NameEdior editing of the inreference should not be blocked (#8191)
- Bugfixes:
- Fixing enabled state of edit buttons in combobox widgets (#8217)
- Solving multiple problems related to problems with hibernate session an transaction handling
- Problem with inserting a section - inReference is "lost" (#8097)
- Error saving name type designation editor due to problem in poupeditor context (#8099)
CDM Platform 5.5 (released on Feb 14th, 2019)¶
Issues: 123
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
What's new?
- - Data Model
- removed/added some attributes from certain attribute types (e.g. removed date published and authorship from journals and print series, added ISBN to Proceedings)
- - CDM Server
- Available as docker container
- - Import/Export
- taxon (tree)index added to CDMlight export
- - Dataportal
- improved registration page, now showing the complete nomenclatural act data and registration metadata
- human feedback to users in case a registration is not public or does not exist
- improved diplay of type designations
- improved display of registrations in lists like in search results and reference page
- reference page shows name relations
- details page for field units improved
- some bugs fixed
- improved registration page, now showing the complete nomenclatural act data and registration metadata
- - TaxEditor
- Distribution editor
- use new table frame work (so called NAT tables), offering improved usabilty and functionality like filtering, column freezing etc
- improved area selection dialog
- bug fixes
- Preferences
- new menu structure for local preferences (not fully completed yet)
- serverside preferences and local preferenced unsing same user interface pages
- translation to German completed
- improved handling of "(allow) override" functionality
- improved handling of default values
- (the last 2 will be further developed into 1 system with one of the next releases)
- References
- DOI available as attribute
- warning for multiple usage of references also in details view (not only in editing dialog)
- improved attribute selection for specific reference types (see data model section above)
- Rights&Roles
- Role "remoting" added, only users belonging to a group with role remoting are allowed to open data in TaxEditor
- Term editor
- performance improved
- 2nd symbol for terms available
- Bugs/exceptions when moving or adding terms fixed
- Feature tree editor
- drag&drop from (feature) term editor available
- Right click menu added (replacement for buttons)
- copy&paste added (for the rare case that a feature should be reused within the tree)
- Name editor
- invalid designations available similar to pro parte synonyms and misapplied names (formatting not yet correct)
- Description/Character Editor (experimental, multiple improvements)
- Taxon node wizard improved
- Automated deduplication of references and authors works also for new taxon dialog (before it worked only in name editor)
- Bugs
- Improved (title)cache updating
- Empty dialog for File -> New -> Reference -> Change reference type fixed
- Some exceptions thrown in term editor fixed
- sometimes invisible deduplication icons fixed in bulk editor
- handling of deleting new+unsaved records fixed in bulk editor
- Distribution editor
- - Web editor (Phycobank registration UI)
- Reference editor
- Reference editor: Label In proceedings in InProceedings missing
- ReferencePopupEditor: saving a newly created inreference is not refreshing the inrefernce field with the new entity
- ReferencePopupEditor: apply sensible reference type pre-set for in references
- ReferenceEditor: filter inReferences by applicable reference type
- ReferenceEditor misses institution, organization and school fields
- TaxonNameEditor:
- Entering data for name parts (genus, specific epithet) is now required
- Exclude current name from name relationship comboboxes
- orthographic name correction available
- Registration start view:
- Reference combobox to offer two search modes
- Exclude irrelevant reference types from list of existing publications
- Registration Workingset Editor
- A couple of severe bugs fixed
- realiably setting registration date when status is set to PUBLISHED
- Registration search
- Registration items in list view is using the wrong button icons for blocking regs and validation errors
- SpecimenTypeDesignationEditor
- Display of altitude fixed and also a related problem when saving
- GeoLocationField uses OpenTopoMap
- Collection date supports timespans
- Improved user feedback
- Geolocation
- Suopport for reference systems
- Map shows error radius
- cdmlib-vaadin UI widgets
- Reference combobox options with ellypsed reference titles
- ToOneRelatedEntityCombobox validation fixed, layout problems solved
- PopupEditors notify user on editor changes and allow the user choose from discard or save in a dialog
- PopupEditors show editor context information as 'breadcrumbs' in the header or toolbar.
- Label improvements
- Permission and security improvements
- Performance improvements
- Classification fragments are managed in a non cyclic directed graph, this mainly improves the search capabilities
- Automatic management of the graph during editing of RegistrationStatusFieldInstantiator
- Automatic management of the graph during editing of RegistrationStatusFieldInstantiator
- Bugs fixed:
- Massive memory consumption problem solved
- Multiple representations problems fixed
- LazyInitializationExceptions fixed
- Fixing problems with possibly corrupted hiberante sessions
- Complete removal of the rejected messaging prototype implementation
- Reference editor
CDM Platform 5.4 (released on Oct 25th, 2018)¶
Issues: 54
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
What's new?
Documentation
- online webservice documentation was broken since 5.3. Fixed.
Dataportal
- display of related taxa (misapplied names, pro parte synonyms, concept relations)
- sort order
- hyperlink to related taxa was missing
- further links (???)
- phycobank/name registration related
- display of related taxa (misapplied names, pro parte synonyms, concept relations)
TaxEditor
- restart menu available
- distribution editor
- further improvements, now it is not an experimental feature anymore (but still has some open issues, we recommend to contact us before using)
- improved area selection (still some issues)
- predefined source selection
- support supplemental data
- support various symbols/labels for areas and status
- performance
- faster loading of details view and other views (open issues exist)
- faster creation of factual data view right click menu
- bulk editor
- multiple columns available for display and sorting
- symbol indicating deduplication status
- navigator
- set excluded and unplaced via right click menu
- name relationships allow reverse direction
- hybrid flags enabled/disabled rank specific
- determination events can now have sources
- factual data
- improved labels for descriptions including sources
- available common name references can be explicitly marked
- reference search on alternative identifiers possible parallel to title (cache) search
- add sources to descriptions when creating them (explicit menu item)
- reorder menu ("new" on top, ...)
- available distribution area vocabularies and status and common name areas definable via DB preferences
- further database sided preferences implemented (there are still some bugs, we recommend contacting us before using DB sided preferences)
- exclude specimen, media, import/exports, multiple classification functionality
- further attributes for simplified name details view
- distribution area vocabulary selection
- distribution status selection
- checklist perspective as start perspective
- simplify sources view (hide IdInSource and IdNamespace)
- client side (local) preferences stored database specific
- if users use multiple databases client side preferences often need to be different depending on the database in use; now also client side preferences are stored for each database and not for the complete TaxEditor installation anymore (only valid for newly changed preferences)
- NOTE: preference handling (server and client side) still has some severe open issues, we will try to work on them for the next release, so we recommend to handle with care until then
- bugs:
- taxon node editor does not allow editing existing taxon data anymore, only taxon node data
- right click menu sometimes does not show up in name editor
- exceptions when editing terms in term editor
- freezing login dialog if no connection established
- exception after saving bulk editor
- exception during specimen search in bulk editor
- exception when canceling "move elements" in factual data view
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- performance
- big workingsets in the RegistrationWorkingSetEditor are loading much faster now. This improvement also has positive effects on other editors (#7785)
- usability
- multiple classifications and classification fragments can be merged into a common taxon graph structure. This graph first of all allows searching names by higher ranked names. Edits of names are automatically tracked in the graph. (#7834)
- New mode for the TaxonNameEditor:
VALIDATE_AGAINST_HIGHER_NAME_PART. This mode requires that a higher name must exising in the data base before it can be used as name part. (#7783, #7648, #7831, #7830, 7845) - improving some labels in the UI
- bugs
- performance
CDM Platform 5.3 (released on Sep 17th, 2018)¶
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
Issues: 51
What's new?
General
- Allow handling "continued" for reference date published for dates like 2017+
- Allow filtering some webservices on taxonomic subtrees
Dataportal
- Creation of data portals with a filter on taxonomic subtrees (e.g. families)
- Formatting of misapplied names and invalid designations refactored (and hopefully improved)
- Improved advanced search on taxa with geo-filter, * on start does work now, but still remaining issues for searches including * and whitespace
- Improved handling of specimen with protected cache
- Tree View for specimen data (still experimental)
- Bugs
- Fix for aggregated images not being shown anymore
- Fix empty bibliography sections
- Fix disabling of determination keys block in tab-less taxon pages
Export
- Improved handling for types in CDM light export
TaxEditor
- "Continued" for date published (see General section) available in TaxEditor
- External links for sources (not yet implemented in data portal)
- Label changes
- Consistent handling of Description and DescriptionElement sources
- Warning if Media are linked multiple times
- Improved synchronization between views when moving factual data
- Improved formatting of misapplied names and pro parte synonyms (synchronized with formatting in data portal)
- Ordering misapplications with defined alphabetic order
- Editing of supplemental data for descriptive data sets
- Specimen Tree Editor collapsable and expandable
- Bugs
- Protected cache handling in details view for References
- Exception when deleting a polytomous key
- Dialog to avoid creating users with duplicated usernames
- Exception when trying to create a new datasource
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Reference editor offers field for adding notes
- Multiple important bug fixes to increase the overall stability and reliance of the registration system
- Preventing from creation of empty registrations
- Problem with inserting several new authors into a new author team solved
- Memory leak eliminated
CDM Platform 5.2 (released on Aug 17th, 2018)¶
Downloads: Ask the edit team for backups of this version
Issues: 76
What's new?
General
- Some improvements for ABCD import
- Some minor improvements for CDM light export
- New webservice for formatted taxon relationships (misapplications, pro parte synonyms, concept relationships) - available in data portal in next version
Dataportal
- Reference page
- proper formatting of taxon names in registration summary
- proper handling of date published without end date
- Specimen tab
- remove "associated with" in compressed table
- correct handling of freetext in altitude, distance to gorund and watersurface in default specimen table
- correct handling of missing values for numeric values (do not show 0 anymore) in default specimen table
- Name Registration
- TBC
- Reference page
TaxEditor
- Bulk editor
- improve new implementation with so called NAT tables
- asynchronous loading of data for large datasets
- specimen
- remaining issues for determinations in details view
- Bugs
- Taxa, being misapplied names or pro parte synonyms elsewhere, always show misapplied name details view
- specimen server preferences are not saved
- exception handling for media with corrupted metadata
- exception out of bounds exception after deleting record in bulk editor
- problems with progress monitor for setting publish flag for subtree (maybe some issues open)
- dragging a misapplication on itself throws exception
- multiple representations exception when adding annotation in bulk editor
- experimental features
- data aggregation in character matrix
- improved workflow for editing descriptive data
- Bulk editor
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- TBC: name registration issues
CDM Platform 5.1 (released on Jun 27th, 2018)¶
Downloads: TaxEditor, CDM Server, Data Portal
Issues: 42
What's new?
General
- update script to model 5.0 fixed for PostGreSQL databases
- freetext search indexing fixed after change in misapplied names
- term related webservices include language information
Dataportal
- Withheld taxa with publish=false from dataportal results (not yet implemented for freetext search on factual data)
- External Links fixed
- Default visibility for pro parte and partial synonyms and misapplied names
- Find pro parte and partial synonyms in search
- Creation date for media visible
TaxEditor
- Recently used references list for reference search dialog (bibliographic references only)
- Find pro parte and partial synonyms in search
- Default value for taxon publish flag configurable (true, false, inherit)
- Allow multiple selections for moving taxa
- Progress monitoring for moving taxa
- Default nomenclatural status is nom. illeg.
- Further support for eclipse4
- Bulk editor
- change table type (using so called NAT tables now, which are more powerful)
- sorting for columns by clicking on column headers
- multi select for deduplication more user friendly
- Bugs
- fixed lazy loading exception for misapplied names with type specimen
- incorrect title cache creation for persons with protected title cache
- new team member added to the end of the list now
- some File->New dialogues fixed
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Improved consistency in taxon names by restricting the higher name parts like genus name or species epithet to names which are already known to the system. (#7364)
- Support for validations and replaced synonyms in the TaxonNameEditor
- Login dialog can be submitted by pressing the enter key
- Fields visibility in the ReferenceEditor adapts to the Reference type
- A Field for editorial notes is now available in TaxonName , NameType and SpecimenType editors
- Bugs
- Readonly state problems fixed
- Fixing incomplete terms
CDM Platform 5.0 (released on May 16th, 2018)¶
Issues: 123
What's new?
General
- Project Website (cybertaxonomy.org) migrated to Drupal 8
- Demo servers renamed to demo I and demo II
- Improved performance for saving
Model
- Micrometer added to measurement units
- Person last name and first name renamed to given name and family name
- Add second under definable symbol to defined terms (e.g. for better representations of distribution status)
- Change type of Media.mediaCreated from DateTime (single date) to TimePeriod (start and end time, freetext, ...)
- Allow time for TimePeriod (before only dates were handled) - not yet handled in TaxEditor
- Support for zoological in-Authors
- Add verbatim date to publication date of references
- Individual count for occurrence data changed from numbers to text
- Added external links to sources (not yet supported in TaxEditor)
- Rename "WorkingSet" to "DescriptiveDataSet" and make it a so called identifiable entity (=> some further attributes like sources, extensions, ...)
- Added nomen oblitum to zoological name status vocabulary
TaxEditor
- Further migration to Eclipse4 (e4) => migration finished now except for some open issues.
- Hardcoded update sites to avoid problems with automated TaxEditor update in future (and for development)
- Download site shows version number and release date
- Name editor
- Specimen Type Designation ordered by type
- Pro parte and partial synonyms handled similar to misapplied names (internally handled as concept relationships)
- Allow editing pro parte and partial misapplied names
- References
- Reference search via alternative identifiers available
- References have verbatim date
- Media representations have fixed order (by creation date in database)
- Allow opening gathering events from referencing objects view
- New Dialog for editing server based preferences, including some more preferences (but still incomplete)
- Deleting names and taxa for specimen determinations
- Usage view migrated to e4 and fully functional again
- Taxon navigator
- fully refactored underlying data model
- improve performance
- refresh mechanism improved for changes elsewhere
- Progress monitor and cancel for set secundum for subtree (not yet available for set publish for subtree)
- Feature tree editor
- Multi-language support for feature tree editor
- Details view and supplemental data view for feature tree/nodes
- Rights&Roles: drag&drop for rights on features in rights editor
- Facts
- Fact label in fact view truncated and line breaks removed
- Fact have a time scope now in facts details view
- Refresh:
- Taxon navigator after changes to taxa, names or sort order
- Name editors with specimen types after a specimen has been deleted
- Name editor after selecting a new taxon for a misapplied name
- Name relationships and similar data in details view after selecting a new name for a taxon
- Open taxa refreshed after setting secundum or publish flag for subtree
- Refresh reference title cache after changing in-reference title in edit dialog
- Renaming:
- Person: lastname => family name; firstname => other/given name
- Specimen Bulk Editor => Specimen Editor (List) and Derivative Editor => Sepcimen Editor (Tree)
- Working Set Editor => Descriptive Data Editor
- Distribution Editor
- Available areas as server based preferences
- Area selection dialog improved
- some further bug fixes (still some open)
- Bug fixes:
- Selection of nomenclatural code in "new taxon" dialog
- Accepted taxon and new synonym disappear after creating homotypic synonym
- Right click menus in name editor
- correct handling of doubtful in misapplied names
- Missing labels for gathering events in referencing objects view
- dirty flag after number recomputation in polytomous key
- saving of preferences only after pressing "Finish" button
- Exception after selecting a team after team has been merged in bulk editor
- Show only accepted taxa for concept relationship taxon selection and polytomous key taxon selection
- Exception when searching for "?" in Taxon search dialog
- Exception when creating the first node in polytomous key
- To many menu entries in a fresh name bulk editor
- Do not allow self-referencing name relationships
- Remove "open in ... referencing objects view" where not appropriate
- Refresh issues for details and supplemental data view
- Exception when deleting a type specimen
- Excluded and excluded note notupdated in taxon node wizard
- Removing country not possible in specimen editors
- Dirty flag handling when deleting a synonym in name editor
- Term could be opened multiple times for same term type, now they are singletons
- Remove old data when again parsing a time period
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Many improvements in name registration editor
- Help for distribution editor
- Sorting of areas in area selection dialog
CDM Platform 4.14 (released on Feb 15th, 2018)¶
Issues: 26
What's new?
General / Model
- Export:
- CSV_Print and CDM light: Progress monitor added (hopefully also fixes the problem of failing long running exports)
- Export:
TaxEditor
- Distribution Editor
- Bugfix: Status not deletable
- Natural sorting of areas
- Feature Tree editor: several bugfixes
- Rights Editor:
- Allow Drag&Drop
- Taxon Navigator:
- Handling of excluded and unplaced (move to the end and use icon)
- Bugs
- Protected Cache for person editing not working
- Opening a type specimen from referencing objects view throws an exception
- Distribution Editor
Dataportal
- Bugfix: Misapplied name search not working
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Registration UI completed
CDM Platform 4.13 (released on Feb 1st, 2018)¶
Issues: 61
What's new?
General / Model
- Export:
- DwC-A and CDM light: Add rank and area filter (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- Added pro parte misapplied name relationship (not yet fully supported by TaxEditor and Dataportal)
- Bugs:
- DwC-A Export did use incorrect file endings
- DwC-A Export include headers fixed
- Export:
TaxEditor
- Exports
- DwC-A and CDM light: allow filtering for published taxa/synonyms only
- DwC-A: filtering on single taxa
- Performance
- After selecting an area in area search dialog
- Security:
- Allow to fully forget "remembered" password
- Taxon Navigator:
- Consistent delete dialog for single nodes and nodes with children
- Set for Subtree functionality: change of data synchronized with open name editors (still some open issues)
- Search Dialogues:
- Taxon search: Allow sorting by rank, too
- Bugs
- Fix in Caching mechanism: hopefully fixes many of the "multiple representations" exceptions
- Bulk Editor
- Set focus to newly created record
- Exceptions when using wildcards for user and group search
- TaxonNavigator:
- ClassCast exceptions when synchronizing with NameEditor
- Failing behavior after an exception
- Default Classification for "Move factual data" dialogue
- Character data editing (experimental)
- New character matrix editor (only available as experimental feature)
- Exports
Dataportal
- FSI Viewer for media did not work for Chrome and other browsers anymore
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Many improvements in name registration editor (not yet publicly available)
CDM Platform 4.12 (released on Dec 5th, 2017)¶
Issues: 25
What's new?
General / Model
- Better support for SQL Server (not yet ready)
- Tropicos import (not yet available through TaxEditor)
TaxEditor
- Search Dialogs fully refactored
- improve performance
- improve usability (filter button, new record buttons)
- fix bugs (multiple representation exceptions)
- migration to eclipse4
- Specimen Editor
- edit & delete buttons added to specimen determinations
- Name Parser
- better recognition of reference duplicates
- remove empty spaces in nomenclatural author names
- bug fixes
- exception when reusing taxon names
- widget is disposed exceptions
- multiple representation exceptions in bulk editor and specimen tree editor
- refresh of taxon title after taxon/synonym swap
- ask for saving when closing workbench
- Search Dialogs fully refactored
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Distribution Editor
- Ordering of areas by vocabulary defined order
- German translation
- Distribution Editor
CDM Platform 4.11 (released on Nov 11th, 2017)¶
Issues: 40
What's new?
General / Model
- Some minor improvements in the rights&roles module
DataPortal
- Display name registration metadata in footnotes
TaxEditor
- Eclipse3->Eclipse4 migration
- migration
- Editors: name editor, bulk editors, group authority editor
- Views: search result, concept graph
- Modules: molecular module, polytomous key module
- Dialogues: preferences, import wizards and views,
- others: taxon navigator, main menu, theme
- bugfixes for bugs that came with the previous migration
- migration
- Distribution editor: add possibility to add references to distributions (first version)
- some improvements for the import/export wizard (e.g. order of configuration pages)
- Setting publish flag for a classification subtree
- Media View shows preview (first version, needs to be switched on in preferences)
- Performance improvements (details view rendering, combo boxes, name editor focus)
- Bugs
- rank selection did not work if ranks were sorted naturally
- drag&drop for classifications in navigator disabled
- exception when switching type of description element in details view
- size of search field to small
- multiple minor issues
- Eclipse3->Eclipse4 migration
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Distribution editor fixed and improved (ready for use in production)
- Name Registration
- Rights&Roles for Registrations
- RegistrationUI: Buttons only enabled if the user has according permissions
- phycobankID links only active when status is PUBLISHED
- minor bug fixes
CDM Platform 4.10 (released on Sept 15th, 2017)¶
Issues: 56
What's new?
General / Model
- Allow recursive setting of publish flag (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- Fix usage of country label in specimen title cache
Rights&Roles
- Role group "Admin" as standard group to all CDM instances
- Fix rights checking for editing of persons and teams
DataPortal
- Fix selection of best matching image representation for profile picture and overlay images
- Fix bug with links to synonyms in tabbed view with no explicit synonym tab
TaxEditor
- New download site available
- Eclipse3->Eclipse4 migration
- Views: Details, Conceptrelations, Referencing objects, datasource, factual data, supplemental data, media
- Editors: terms
- Misapplication editing improved, also reusability of misapplied name taxa
- Automated updating fixed
- Export:
- CDM light and DwC-A export for taxonomic subtrees (e.g. families, genus, ...)
- Progress monitor for DwC-A export
- DwC-A exports higher classification for each taxon
- Fix DwC-A export not stored in selected file
- Allow scientific name editing for bacterial, fungi, cultivar plants and undefined codes (non viral names)
- Add Person, team and specimen cache updating
- Specimen
- Add Life-form to field unit and kind-of-unit, lifestage and sex to derived units (specimen)
- Performance
- Improve performance when first loading selection dialog for named area (still needs further improvement)
- View refresh faster (still needs further improvement)
- Bugs
- Exception during drag&drop in taxon navigator
- Editing Rights&Roles throws exception
- Deleting media leads to inconsistent data
- Move description to other taxon command fails in factual data view
- Sorting of ranks not configurable anymore
- Duplicate menu in search result view
- Handling of with time zones for date time editing (image created, ...)
Documentation
- Fix OAIPMH swagger documentation
Vaadin
- Registration UI prototype
CDM Platform 4.9 (released on July 20th, 2017)¶
Issues: 21
What's new?
General / Model
- Framework for csv imports implemented
DataPortal
- In tabbed version it is now possible to show the synonymy on the general page
- Feature block items "glue" is now configurable
- Media:
- image viewer uses best quality media representation now
- "show captions under thumbnails" is now evaluated
- "back to image" improved
- Specimen table:
- uses country label instead of full description (not yet fixed for titlecache, will come in 4.10)
- collection date shows up now
- label for specimen in collection simplified
- preferred stable URI shows up as text, not only link
- Bugs:
- map did not show point data, when some specimen where not georeferenced
- bounding box for maps did not work correctly
TaxEditor
- Feature tree editor
- allows drag&drop from term editor
- uses context menu
- Restore
- restoring views after restart/reconnect works now on a per instance level when using multiple instances of the TaxEditor on the same computer, leading to less exceptions
- Taxon Navigator
- Linking taxa opened in NameEditor with taxa in navigator works now (was fixed in 4.8 but not mentioned there)
- Experimental
- Allow handling terms as "kind-of"
- Bugs
- details view for taxon relationships fixed
- Logging
- human readable labels for datasources when logging datasource issues
- Feature tree editor
Vaadin
- Generic MVP (Model View Presenter) framework with support for the CDM library
CDM Platform 4.8 (released on July 6th, 2017)¶
NOTES for TaxEditor users
- The automated update via Help->Search for Updates does not seem to work for this version. Please download the TaxEditor from https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/download/taxeditor/stable/ . Contact us if you encounter problems.
- It may happen that the right click menu in the Specimen Tree Editor does not appear. In this case please delete the following file: {user}.cdmLibrary.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.e4.workbench\workbench.xmi
What's new?
General / Model
- Classes for name and type registration added
- Unify taxon name class (will allow changing name types like changing a botanical name into a zoological name) and simplifies development
- Person: initials added
- Reference: type Website: accessed (date) field added
- References: attributes added to allow usage sharing references by multiple instances
- Remove unique index on rights (e.g. copyright) to make it reusable
- Added "Exact Value" to statistical measures for quantitative data
- Improved reporting for schema updates
DataPortal
- Position of protologue icon moved directly behind nomenclatural reference (was behind status before, misleading because status can have its own reference)
- Additional base maps for the map viewer: Stamen terrain, OpenTopoMap
- In cases where images are available in multiple qualities the DataPortal now chooses the quality which is most appropriate for the current display situation.
Imports / Exports
- DwC-A (Darwin Core Archive) export for taxa fixed, improved and available via webservices
- Improved reporting for imports and exports
Vaadin Based Applications
- MVP framework with popup editor support which integrates into the the spring framework
- Prototype implementation of the Phycobank (registry for algal nomenclatural acts)
TaxEditor
- Misapplications:
- err. sec. references editable
- improved formatting in name editor, especially for names having an author and a nom.ref., this allows better reusing of names
- Person "initials" editable and used for better reference formatting (initials behind family name)
- Feature Tree Editor: moved from preferences to main menu (together with term editor), and did some improvements
- Website "accessed" editable and integrated in formatting
- Media: "media created" editable
- Specimen Tree Editor migrated to only use Eclipse4 functionality now (all other editors still use a compatibility layer component)
- Markers set to true by default
- Parser
- Autonym hybirds parsable
- Bugs:
- Delete was not successful, but did not show an exception
- Some menu items were duplicated
- Incorrect user management when changing password
- Setting of kind-of-unit for specimen
- Restoring of views after restart or reconnect
- Misapplications:
CDM Platform 4.7 (released on May 16th, 2017)¶
What's new?
General / Model
- The main change in Version 4.7 is the upgrade of the TaxEditor from Eclipse 3.7 to Eclipse 4.6 (Neon). This upgrade will ease development in future. To make the TaxEditor running under e4.6 several adaptations had to be made.
- IMPORTANT: Due to the upgrade it might happen that during the first opening an error shows up. If this happens CLOSE and REOPEN the editor.
- IMPORTANT: Due to the upgrade the default update mechanism for the TaxEditor will not work. Instead you need to install it from scratch (download from https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/download/taxeditor/stable/ and unzip into any folder).
- A new import and export framework has been established. It is meant for more feedback and reporting during the imports. Currently it is used only experimentally for the new "Excel Distribution Update" import (experimental feature), and partly for the new "CDM light (csv)" export (also experimental in the current state).
- New identifier types for botanical names added: IPNI, Tropicos, WFO (World Flora Online)
- Improved handling of hybrids
- Automatic basionym recognition (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- The main change in Version 4.7 is the upgrade of the TaxEditor from Eclipse 3.7 to Eclipse 4.6 (Neon). This upgrade will ease development in future. To make the TaxEditor running under e4.6 several adaptations had to be made.
DataPortal
- Allow multiple layers in maps (option to define a wms overlay layer for the openlayers map viewer)
- Bugfix for fast moving maps while padding
Imports / Exports
- Improved Import- and Export framework for better report resulting (existing imports/exports still need to be adapted to the new framework)
- New: "CDM light (csv)" export - a CSV export that exports all CDM data for a single classification in csv format
- New: RIS Reference import - e.g. to import reference data from Endnote via RIS format (still experimental, some attributes are not yet handled)
- New: "Excel Distribution Update" added (still experimental, please contact us, if you want to use it)
- New: Multilingual Term Representation import (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- New: Identifier import (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- Updated: ABCD Import
- possibility to import all siblings of a specimen derived from a culture.
- better handling of media data, identifications, gathering events
TaxEditor
- Upgrade to Eclipse 4.6
- Improved Parser
- Parse "sp. nov." and similar names
- Improved handling for original spellings (further improvements needed)
- Prefill nomenclatural reference selection dialog if taxon name author is given
- Selected items removed from selection dialog
- Server-side preference for frequently used biocase providers added (ABCD import)
- Improved search behavior in Specimen Hierarchy Editor
- Some improvements for the Alignement Editor integration
- Rank list for create new name in bulk editor sorted
- Improvements for specimen search/import:
- better parsing of results to display scientific name, collection etc
- add possibility to configure the import in result view
- possibility to set the name of the import reference
- Bug fixes:
- Delete synonyms in Name Editor with supplemental data attached
- Delete synonyms in bulk editor
- Exception when switching to simple name details view
- Empty reference dialog after changing reference type
- Incorrect data when editing a new nomenclatural reference for a new name
- Exception ("multiple representations") when adding name relationships
Vaadin Applications
- Better integration of cdm-vaadin with the Spring Framework by making use of the Vaadin Spring API
- Spring enabled MVP UI framework with popup-editor support.