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Cdm Platform Roadmap¶
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- Table of contents
- Cdm Platform Roadmap
- CDM Platform 4.7 (scheduled for April 24th, 2017)
- CDM Platform 4.6 (scheduled for 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)
- Previous Releases Archive
CDM Platform 4.7 (scheduled for April 24th, 2017)¶
What will be new?
CDM Platform 4.6 (scheduled for 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
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
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
Previous Releases Archive¶
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