02/26/2013

12:48 PM Task #574 (New): mechanism to manually override the CSV dialect, encoding, etc.

Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

12:37 PM Task #573 (New): automap the analytical DB columns

* This will ensure the analytical DB schema stays up to date with VegCore
h3. Method
In @schemas/vegbien.sql@:
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02/14/2013

11:04 AM Task #566 (New): automatically adjust staging tables for easier mapping

* remove empty columns
* mark columns with data in every row as NOT NULL Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

07:20 AM Task #386 (Resolved): load Canadensys data

Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

07:19 AM Task #470 (Resolved): source terms from old versions of DwC to the DwC history page

Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

07:18 AM Task #472 (Rejected): replace accessioncodes with datasource_id+sourceaccessioncode

Accessioncode fields have been removed instead. Globally unique ID fields (#561) will eventually serve the purpose th... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

07:06 AM Task #565 (Resolved): partition the TaxonDetermination table by row into the different types of determinations

* this makes it easy to horizontally join the different types of determinations for a row
** it avoids the need for ... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

06:37 AM Task #564 (New): make all VegBIEN column names globally unique

* this enables creating a table to contain the results of a join, without needing to resolve column name collisions
... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

06:33 AM Task #563 (New): refactor VegBIEN to use VegCore terms

* add key VegCore tables such as Occurrence and Record
* note that many VegCore tables have an inheritance relations... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

05:17 AM Task #562 (New): flatten the mappings

* put the destination table at the beginning of the mapping, rather than nesting it within a hierarchy of tables it h... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

04:47 AM Task #561 (New): make VegBIEN ID fields plain-text instead of numeric

h3. Rationale
* this makes it possible to append data from multiple sources without having pkey collisions
h3. ... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza

04:12 AM Task #560 (New): move VegCore data dictionary to a phpPgAdmin-accessible database

* term details go in column comments, with Redmine formatting translated to HTML
* each synonym becomes a parameter ... Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza