CDM Platform Roadmap Archive¶
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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.
CDM Platform 4.6 (released on March 13th, 2017)¶
What's new?
General / Model
- Full migration to Java 8
- Improved import functionality for IPNI Names (not yet available in TaxEditor)
- Improved handling for intext references (references within a text) including support for deduplication (intext references are not yet editable in TaxEditor or visible in DataPortal)
- Bugfix in permission handling for rights and roles
- Prepare for simplifying names module
- Formatting
CDM Server
- Improved caching for multiple instances
- Improved authentication / security
DataPortal
- Authentication for triggering freetext index creation
- Bugs:
- Wildcard search in advanced search #6354
- Missing data of marked descriptions
- "Usage" data not shown anymore
- Remove "sensu" from misapplication footnotes
- Formatting:
- Improved formatting for media data
TaxEditor
- Main menu
- Move user and user groups to Admin menu
- Move Specimen hierarchy editor to (bulk) editor menu
- Selection dialogs
- Restrict selections of in-references to the respective reference type
- Referencing objects view
- Improved performance and loading in background
- Fixed some bugs throwing exceptions
- Taxon navigator
- Set secundum for subtree (including synonyms)
- Specimen editor:
- Improved performance for counting results
- Improved labeling if some data is missing
- Rights (e.g. copyright) implemented as reusable record
- Improved Internationalization
- More terms/sentences translated to German
- Preparation for Spanish translation
- Improved handling for protected caches
- Parser improvements
- Bugs
- Exceptions after changing password
- Field unit title cache not filled correctly #4390
- Exceptions when deleting misapplications
- Exceptions when entering dates and altitudes
- Exceptions when deleting empty name in name editor
- Exceptions when adding types to a taxon name
- Exceptions when deleting persons/teams
- Exceptions in datasource view
- Exceptions when deleting recently created media
- Exceptions when editing rights for a user group
- Avoid creation of dummy terms
- #6408 NPE in AbcdParseUtility
- Main menu
Web Editor
- New architecture for future developments
- New architecture for future developments
CDM Platform 4.5 (released on January 19th, 2017)¶
What's new?
General / Model
- Possibility to set secundum reference for subtrees (implementation in TaxEditor still missing)
DataPortal
- Search
- Advanced search for taxa allows wildcards and some further bugs fixed
- Remove duplicates for common name search #6296
- Allow hiding classification information
- Improved display of media in image galleries and media pages
- Display of descriptions
- Display of rights (e.g. copyright)
- Display of sources
- Fix media representations (e.g. thumbnails) display on media page
- Taxon page
- Labels of tabs customizable
- Bugfixes for exceptions
- Search
TaxEditor
- Repair method for corrupted CDM instances
- Polytomous Keys
- Allow inserting nodes at the beginning or in between
- other bugfixes
- Media
- Allow configurable delete in MediaView and bulk editor
- Fix save for reused Media
- Zoological nomenclatural status not shown anymore for botanical names (not yet the other way round)
- Order in supplemental data view changed (types that are used more often were moved up)
- Improve order of type selection for sources/references
- Disallow self-referencing name relations
- Make details view empty if no selection exists
- Term editor menu structured
- Further Bugfixes
- selectable terms for stage and preservation method fixed
- delete for references fixed
- delete of unsaved taxon descriptions fixed
- selecting taxon node with '?' fixed
- missing ampersand in some labels fixed
- exception during creation of new taxon fixed
CDM Platform 4.4 (released on December 5th, 2016)¶
What's new?
- General / Model
- Distribution status terms of several CDM instance have been unified and some new status were added to the CDM distribution status base vocabulary; default symbols used in condensed distribution strings were updated
- Simplification: Synonyms belong to max. 1 accepted taxon now (before they could belong to multiple taxa, this was used for pro parte synonyms, which will be handled as taxon concept relationships in future, but with special user interface functionality similar to misapplied names)
- Support for locally overriding database specific preferences (currently only implemented for preference "nomenclautral code", will be more in next version)
- Symbol for congruence concept relationships changed
- Unplaced and excluded attribute moved from taxon to taxon within classification ("taxon node"), including multi-lingual note field to document why a taxon is excluded
- Improved support for Java 8
- DataPortal
- Security
- Allow dataportal to show content only to logged in users (further improvements have bee investigated and will be implemented soon)
- Maps
- Allow distribution (area based) and occurrence (point based) data to show up on the same taxon page (better support for tabless taxon pages)
- Improved support for Google Maps
- Support for distribution maps if no distribution data is available (Fauna Europaea request)
- Performance
- Improved performance for synonymies
- Formatting:
- Improved formatting for specimen title
- Improved display for specimen altitude
- Display of "extensions" added to specimen and others
- Display of "additional areas" (sub-country level) added to specimen
- Bugfix for lectotype references
- Bugfix for feature "Citation" showing up as footnote only
- Suppress display of protologues if URL is missing
- General Improvements
- Improved breadcrumb navigation for desktop and mobile devices
- Flexible handling and placing of "back to search button"
- Persistent stable Identifier ("CETAF" identifier) clickable now in default specimen view
- Bugfixes:
- Area selection widget fixed in advanced search
- Fix for missing sensu on misapplications with sensu reference missing an author
- Security
- TaxEditor
- Allow editing of default color for distribution status in term editor (Presence-Absence-Term) -> the color is used e.g. for maps in the dataportal
- New Admin menu for general admins and project admins, currently used only for setting the database preferences
- Improved support for deleting names, taxa, persons/teams, factual data and terms in bulk editor, name editor, factual data view and term editor, including bugfixes
- Remember filter on selection dialog for named areas more individually (named areas are used at different places - distribution, specimen country, common name language area, geoscopes, ...)
- Prevent users from unwanted updates on shared data: a red warning is shown in dialogs now if a shared resource is edited (currently implemented only for reference editing)
- Preference to choose available fields for taxon details view (most fields can be selected individually now; in next version this may become a database specific preference)
- Flags for unplaced and excluded moved from taxon details view to taxon node assistant (right click in taxon navigator -> open in -> taxon node assistant)
- Excluded note (s.a.) available in taxon node assistant
- Improved handling of orphaned taxa and synonyms
- Nomenclatural status selection box shows abbreviated labels now
- User interface for import configurations improved
- Bugfixes:
- Critical fix for a bug that prevented to correctly install the TaxEditor on computer for the first time
- Exception when editing empty term / vocabulary labels
- New references could not be found in selection dialog
- Exception when editing taxon interactions (e.g. parasites) in factual data view
- Some minor issues
Browser Editor (Vaadin)
- Simple and easy to use distribution editor is now functional (was prototype only before)
- Architectural improvements
Webservices (machine readable services)
- Add full entity to findByMarker and findByIdentifier webservice result (fix for non functional "includeEntitiy" parameter)
- OAuth2 authorization available
- Securing critical web services with authentication. The '/manage/' web services now require authentication.
- Some improvements for project specific webservices
- Sorting by length on name search
- Return pure names for taxonomic group search
- Grouping by taxonomic groups
- Add taxon parent to taxonInContext webservice result
- bugfix for name catalogue taxon search
- New services returning pure titleCaches and uuids with titleCache
CDM Platform 4.3 (released on September 26th, 2016)¶
What's new?
General
- Improved handling of notho ranks
- Some new/fixed machine readable web-services
DataPortal
- Advanced Search: Distributions marked as absent are no longer displayed in search result
- Advanced search: Area filter is now sorted
- Breadcrumb navigation fixed for Internet Explorer / MS Edge
- Fix some links to images
TaxEditor
- Bugfix for user defined order in taxon navigator
- ABCD import improved
- Name Parser improved
- Checklist/Distribution Editor:
- Renamed to Distribution Editor
- Fixe some bugs (but it still has status experimental; opening is now available via standard open in menu)
- Referencing objects view:
- available for relationships (name relationship, concept relationship, etc.)
- minor bugfix
- Name author search works on nomenclatural title and standard title
- Nomenclatural reference search works on abbreviated title and standard title
- Expansion state of the details view and the supplemental data view is now remembered (e.g. if you close all sections in the name details view except for the name relationships the next time when you enter the name details view it will remember this state and only the name relationship section will be open)
- Filtering for area selection fixed (also last filter is remembered now)
- The preferred nomenclatural code can now be stored as a database wide variable instead of a local variable. This way projects can define there own settings. This implementation is a first implementation and prototype for the general availability of project settings.
- Underlying link for the automated update has been fixed
- Infraspecific epithet editing now available for species (all codes) and infraspecific ranks (zoology)
- Reusing of names and taxa fixed
- Bulk editor
- auto-focus on search
- new search allows not to save now
- Concept relationship editor view now available also from taxon bulk editor
- Search
- Search results allow opening in different target views (e.g. name editor, bulk editor) via right click menu
- Correct handling of secundum reference for newly created taxa
- Delete for type designations fixed
- Term editor
- Language dependent representations for terms are now deletable if more than 1 representation exists
- Non English default representation shows up correctly
- #6101
- Details view
- Horizontal scrolling removed where possible
- Some bugfixes
- "multipe representations" exception
- focus issue for protected title caches
CDM Platform 4.2 (released on July 6th, 2016)¶
What's new?
General
- Some new terms: feature "Notes", nomenclatural status "ined." and taxon relationships "unclear" and "not yet worked on"
- Improved aggregation for distribution data (transmission engine)
- Improved multi-language support
- Some new machine readable web-services
DataPortal
- Improved usability of breadcrumb navigation
- minor formatting issues
- geo filtered search fixed
- support for taxon secundum micro reference
- Display of children on "General" tab (first version, block needs to be switched on)
- Spanish translation for Dataportal module
TaxEditor
- Improved performance for selection boxes
- Fix bugs in feature tree editing
- Support for species with infrageneric epithet
- Multi-language editing for terms
- "Open in ... bulk editor" for taxon navigator and referencing objects view
- Support for "additional identifiers" in supplemental data view
- Improved taxon name and reference parsing
- Nomenclatural reference parser uses abbrev title
- Improved "Changed Password" functionality
- Improved session handling for bulk editor searches (fixing unexpected results and memory effects)
- Ordering in specimen derivative editor
- Improved labels in referencing objects view for specimen determinations and taxa in classifications (taxon nodes)
- bug fixes
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 4.1 (released on June 1st, 2016)¶
What's new?
General
- Support for persistent stable identifiers (e.g. "CETAF Identifiers")
- Support for secundum micro reference
DataPortal
- Breadcrumb navigation shows child taxa
- Changing to breadcrumb navigation and removing tree navigation improves performance of data portals significantly
TaxEditor
- "Standalone" functionality removed
- Connection to datasources is now only possible via remoting" functionality introduced in "v3.12
- Datasource was adapted to only support editing user defined datasources (connect to "localhost mgd." server) and to create a new database schema in such datasources if they are still empty
- Search for nomenclatural authors works on abbrev. title now
- Labels for referencing objects improved
- Some major bugs fixed that lead to error messages when saving taxa
- Bugfix for "unavailable" authors after creation of new authors
- Symbols for distribution strings and concept relationships editable
- Error handling for connection process
- Performance for save improved
- Couple of minor bug fixes
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 4.0 (released on May 3rd, 2016)¶
What's new?
Upgrades to all underlying software libraries
- Full Java 8 support (Downloading TaxEditor JRE version not necessary anymore)
- Improved freetext indexing (faster and more stable) and search support
- Improved webservice documentation
DataPortal
- Breadcrumb menu for higher taxonomy
- Clickable list of all parent taxa of a given taxon shown in 1 line
- Needs to be switched on by dataportal admin
- Improved multi-language support
- Improved support for taxon concepts, misapplied names and doubtful taxa formatting
- Maps
- Animated "Hourglass" while loading maps
- Improved stability for distribution and occurrence maps
- Improved display of textual distributions for hierarchically ordered distributions
- Faster loading of the most important base layers through the new EDIT MapProxy
- Condensed distribution string configurable and improved
- Support for hierarchical feature trees for factual data
- Improved display of reference pages (e.g. )
- Specimen linking to associated taxa
- Improved error and warning messages
- Bugfixes
- Fix display of taxon interactions
- Fix name page display
Examples for many of the new features (like breadcrumb menu, multi-language support and condensed distribution strings) can be found at (e.g. http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora-cuba/ )
TaxEditor
- Improvements to the name and coordinate parsers
- Ordering of sources (according to rules described in #3185)
- Editing supplemental data for type designations and name relationships
- New generic "Open in ..." right mouse click menu
- Available servers configurable
- Renaming Descriptions to Factual data finalized
- Many bugfixes to stabilize existing functionality
- PolytomousKey editing and deleting
- Creation of new terms
- ...
Data Model (CDM)
- Preferred persistent identifiers for specimen
- Symbols for condensed distribution strings and concept relationships
- Secundum micro reference for taxa
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 3.12 - Hotfixes (released on February 15th, 2016)¶
This is a pure bugfix release for Release 3.12 with no new functionality. It handles 1 issues.
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 3.12 (released on December 21st, 2015)¶
Note: Version 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11 were minor releases mostly for development reasons and were not published
Version 3.12 handles 8 issues.
What's new?
DataPortal
- Taxon experts can now be displayed in a new tab of the taxon pages.
- Maps adapted to different screen size. Openlayers try to adapt to the screen size and the map aspect ratio can be set instead of fixed width and height (#5385)
- MapProxy established (#5023): Background layers for the maps can now be retrieved via the Cybertaxonomy MapProxy The layers served through the map proxy are delivered much faster and availability problems of some map server are circumvented this way. It is therefore highly recommended to use the map proxy versions of the base layers instead of the original ones so far a map proxy version is available. You may want to adapt the Geo & Map settings in your dataportal accordingly.
Taxonomic Editor
- Support for remote access without using ulteo (or any other virtual desktop)
- most important new feature,
- to be accessed via 'Connect' in the editors 'File' menu
- old access via 'Datasource View' still possible if direct database access exists, but deprecated and will be removed in a future version
- Remote Editor How To
- Derivative (specimen tree) view improved
- unified search and editing view
- a couple of new features
- some bugfixes
- now considered as stable
- Java JRE bundled with Editor (2 versions are now available for each platform, 1 without java bundled, 1 with java(jre) bundled)
- ABCD Import improved
- LSIDs for scientific names editable
- Ordering of terms
- Deleting concept relationships
- Scopes for polytomous keys
- Deletes in bulk editor configurable
- Common name and scientific name search made consistent
- Feedback for impossible deletes improved
- Image shown also in simple media view
- Bugfixes
- switch synonym to misapplied name
- deleting terms
- moving descriptions
- deleting taxa being used in multiple classifications
- incorrect behavior when pressing cancel in popups
- delete specimen media
- merging 2 persons
- convert person to team
- many minor bugfixes
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 3.8 (released on September 10th, 2015)¶
What's new?
DataPortal
- Simple search runs by default on the selected single classification, *IMPORTANT! * If your portal has multiple classifications, You may check the according settings option in the cdm_dataportal/settings/layout/search admin page.
- Distribiution maps show circles as symbols for areas which are too tiny to see the colored area.
- Option to display the so called sec reference for the taxa in all parts of the DataPortal. This can be configured via the name render template settings in
admin/config/cdm_dataportal/settings/layout
Editor
- LibrAlign editor is now available for single read alignment (experimental feature)
- Media can be opened in external browser by button click.
- Allow searching for uuid in bulk editors
- Taxon can now be edited and deleted when a PolytomousKeyNode is not a leaf
- Improved error handling
- Layout improved for error messages
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 3.7 (released on July 19th, 2015)¶
What's new?
Editor-Features:
- Team convertable to persons and vice versa (Bulkeditor)
- Name parser allows comma separated authors and improved handling for et al. authors
- Datasource view is loading faster in datasource view (not after selecting a datasource)
- ABCD import: import for DNA (ABCD-DNA) and associated units
- Usergroups deletable (Rights&Roles)
- Vocabularies can be ordered
- Improved error handling for media URIs including bugfixes
- Resizing of user dialogs improved if content changes (e.g. reference type changes)
- Text cells selectable in referencing objects view
- Media attached to description elements allow simple / advanced view switch
Editor-Bugs:
- Fix duplicated team members when editing a team
- Fix ignored title cache protectedion for taxa
- Fix show abbreviated author in taxon name author fields
- Other (minor) bugfixes
DataPortal
- Optional switch on/off taxon profile picture placeholder
- New API hook in the Drupal module cdm_dataportal allow developers to flexibly modify the content of feature blocks shown on the taxon general page.
- Distribution areas show distributions status on mouse over (not yet working in hierarchic distribution display)
- Condensed distribution string in Euro+Med style available
- Multiple bug fixes regarding distribution filtering
- Display later homonym information for accepted names
Milestones and tickets
CDM Platform 3.6 (released on June 4th, 2015)¶
What's new?
Editor:
- improved handling for persons and teams (deduplication, conversion, et al., create, imroved parsing for teams (still open issues), ...)
- improved handling for categorical and quantitative data (allow features to define supported vocabularies)
- add id to search results (optional feature)
- improved dialog for data delete
- entering new taxa improved (prefill fields, focus on OK, etc.)
- menus cleaned up
- show hybrid formula flag
- improve bulk editor search behavior
- improve behavior for protected fields
- Improved ABCD import
CDM Server and Dataportal
- a couple of performance improvements
- display of scaled images fixed in the zen base theme
- CDM model:
- allow Subtree(TaxonNode) - Agent relationships
- add cutting of edges in SingleReadAlignment
- added "et al." attribute to teams
- cardinality improved for categorical data and statistical data and for supported vocabulary relation of features
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.5.1 (released on May 4th, 2015)¶
What's new?
Web editor
- Browser based editing for distribution data
- Browser based editing for concept relationships / experimental
Taxonomic Editor
- Bundled deploy of Editor with java
- Searching for common names and pure name in Editor
- Metadata editing for classifications
- Automated creation of missing taxa (e.g. genuses) in hierarchy
- Improved reusability of taxon names and media
- Support for hybrid formula parsing
DataPortal
- Improved area filter for advanced search in dataportals
- Quantitative data display in dataportal (e.g. altitudes)
- improvement in dataportal base layout for smartphones and other small displays
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.5.0 (released on Mar. 24th, 2015)¶
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.4.0 (released on Dec. 16th, 2014)¶
What's new?
DataPortal
- A new and much more beautiful icon set for icons which are used for example at the protologue links.
- Better support for media on mobile devices
- Improved handling for footnotes, annotations and bibliogaphie
Taxonomic Editor
- NEW Checklist perspective
- NEW Checklist Editor - simple edit distribution status in a excel like table view
- fixed display issues for default languages
- DetailsView
- support for editing molecular data (tissue sample, dna sample, sequence, single read, amplification)
- in DerivateEditor
- SampleDesignation for tissue and dna samples
- publish bit for specimens
- show taxon associations (individuals associations and type designations) for specimen (customizable in preferences)
- show collecting areas below country (customizable in preferences)
- taxon filter for derivate search view
- split amplification in amplification (more general) and amplification results (more specific)
- enhanced usability of Derivate Editor
- multiple FieldUnits can be opened in one editor
- option to create FieldUnits
- option to delete specimens
- filter for IndividualsAssociations in Factual Data View
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.7 (released on Sept. 4th, 2014)¶
What's new?
EDIT DataPortal
- references are no longer mixed up with annotation footnotes, they are now shown per default in a separate bibliography block on the general page
- custom presence and absence term colors can be configured for distribution maps
Taxonomic Editor:
- several important bug fixes
- new simple media interface allowing to add media only by specifying the media URI
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.6 (released on Jul. 8th, 2014)¶
What's new?
- ...
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.5 (released on May. 30th, 2014)¶
What's new?
Occurrence search web service
Specimen features for Editor
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.4 (released on May. 13th, 2014)¶
What's new?
Urgent fixes for data portal .
Country list updates.
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.3 (released on Apr. 16th, 2014)¶
What's new?
- Urgent Bug Fixes for the CDM Library and Data Portal
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.2 (released on Apr. 10th, 2014)¶
What's new?
- ...
Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.3.1 (released on Mar. 28th, 2014)¶
What's new?
several bug fixes and performance improvements
Data Portal
- It is possible to exclude classification from the classification switch in the taxon tree browser
- The Maps have a more modern an pleasant user interface
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.3.1|cdm-server RELEASE 3.3.1|cdmlib RELEASE 3.3.1|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.3.1,group=milestone)]]]
No TaxEditor 3.3.1 release
CDM Platform 3.3.0 (released on January 15, 2014)¶
What's new?
Major improvements to the cdm data model:
- Improved handling of terms
- Improved and extended model for molecular data
- Improved handling of SpecimenOrObservation types including new types like Media Specimen
- Unified handling of min, max and freetext for altitude and distance to ground
- Abbreviated titles for references
- DOIs for references (not yet implemented in Dataportal and Taxonomic Editor)
- Better handling of long title caches (up to 800 characters now) and long URIs
- Ordering of taxa in classifications (not yet implemented in Dataportal and Taxonomic Editor)
- Treeindex implemantation for improved search performance in trees (classifications, feature trees, identification trees)
- publish flags on taxa and specimen
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Milestones and tickets
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CDM Platform 3.2.3 (released on August. 26th, 2013)¶
What's new?
More taxon profile image settings, e.g. max entend, user defined placeholder (no image available) image
Improvements to the new DataPortal base theme.
The web service debug box has completely been replaced by the CDM web service debug block. It is usually only visible for administrative roles like administrator and CDM admin
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Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.2.3|cdm-server RELEASE 3.2.3|cdmlib RELEASE 3.2.3|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.2.3,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.2.2 (released on July. 1st, 2013)¶
What's new?
Improved Accepted Taxon to Synonym (and vice-versa) functionality in the Editor .
Implemented Hibernate 4 compatibility (including fixes for long-running sessions) for the Editor.
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Milestones and tickets
RELEASE 3.2.2,group=milestone)]
CDM Platform 3.2.1 (released on June. 6th, 2013)¶
What's new?
The new DataPortal base theme supports legacy browsers as IE8, IE7 and IE6
Bugs in the taxon tree browser widget have been fixed
Improved installation profile
The sdm server allows stopping and restarting of cdm instances. This reduces maintenance downtimes.
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.2.1|cdm-server RELEASE 3.2.1|cdmlib RELEASE 3.2.1,group=milestone)]]]
No TaxEditor 3.2.1 release
CDM Platform 3.2 (released on for May. 2nd, 2013)¶
What's new?
Hibernate migrated to version 4
Distribution transmission engine now allows aggregation of distribution information by rank and by area see #2625
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.2|cdm-server RELEASE 3.2|cdmlib RELEASE 3.2|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.2,group=milestone)]]]
No TaxEditor 3.2.0 release
CDM Platform 3.1.4 (released on March 18th, 2013)¶
What's new?
The simple search, which can be executed via the search block, will by default search on all classifications. Remove the tick from the according check-box in the settings (CDM DataPortal -> Settings -> Layout -> Search) if you want your portal to still search on the classification selected in the classification browser selector.
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No TaxEditor 3.1.4 release
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.1.4|cdm-server RELEASE 3.1.4|cdmlib RELEASE 3.1.4,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.1.3 (released on 14th, 2013)¶
What's new?
ABCD import improved and bugs fixed
A lot of improvements in the display of specimens and observations:
- Chain of derivatives is now shown
- Display of associated data like specimen descriptions
- (for more in depth information please refer to the below listed tickets)
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.1.3|cdm-server RELEASE 3.1.3|cdmlib RELEASE 3.1.3|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.1.3,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.1.2 (released on Dez. 3rd, 2012)¶
What's new?
A new base theme for the Drupal 7 DataPortals:
- adaptive and thus suitable for desktop computers, smart phones and tablets
- banner and background images configurable
- colors configurable
- faster page loading
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.1.2|cdm-server RELEASE 3.1.2|cdmlib RELEASE 3.1.2|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.1.2,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.1.1 (released on Nov. 21th, 2012)¶
What's new?
- EDIT DataPortal now upgraded to Drupal 7
No TaxEditor 3.1.1 release
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.1.1|cdm_dataportal - upgrade to Drupal 7|cdm-server RELEASE 3.1.1|cdmlib RELEASE 3.1.1,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.1 (released on 06.11.2012)¶
What's new?
Security, roles and users are implemented in to the cdmlib and into the Taxonomic Editor. It is now possible to define roles for users and to restrict write and delete permissions to Taxa, Descriptions in general or specifically. Most importantly this is also possible for sub trees of the classification. So the permission to edit a taxonomic subgroup of a whole classification can be restricted to a defined group of users.
Prototype of the polytomous key editor (use with caution)
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.1|cdm-server RELEASE 3.1|cdmlib RELEASE 3.1|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.1,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.0.13 (released on 17.10.2012)¶
What's new?
Full text search on taxon descriptions (available in the DataPortal under Advanced search), on taxa and names and on both simultaneously (not yet in the DataPortal).
Despite of the above this release is mainly a bug fix release
Polytomous Key functionality added to the Taxonomic Editor
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.13|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.13|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.13,group=milestone)]]]
!TaxEditor 3.0.13 (released on 25.10.2012):
RELEASE 3.0.13,group=milestone)]
CDM Platform 3.0.12 (released on June 19th, 2012)¶
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.12|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.12|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.12|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.0.12,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.0.11 (released on June 27th, 2012)¶
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.11|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.11|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.11|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.0.11,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.0.10 (released on Mai 8th, 2012)¶
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.10|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.10|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.10,group=milestone)]]]
TaxEditor 3.0.10 (released on May 25th, 2012):
RELEASE 3.0.10,group=milestone)]
CDM Platform 3.0.9 (released on Feb. 7th, 2012)¶
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.9|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.9|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.9|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.0.9,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.0.8 (released on Sept. 19th, 2011)¶
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.8|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.8|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.8|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.0.8,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.0.7 (planned for Aug. 15th, 2011)¶
Milestones and tickets
[[[TicketQuery(milestone=cdm_dataportal|RELEASE 3.0.7|cdm-server RELEASE 3.0.7|cdmlib RELEASE 3.0.7|TaxEditor RELEASE 3.0.7,group=milestone)]]]
CDM Platform 3.0.6 (July 2011)¶
Milestones and tickets
Earlier versions¶
- For earlier changes see CDM Model Release Notes for v1.0-v3.4
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