schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: individual_observation.specimenholder_institutions: documented that instead, the taxon_occurrence for the individual_observation should have an autogenerated current_observation that merges together all the individual_observations for these institutions' specimens. in this case, each institution's specimen will still have its own individual_observation containing what it believes to be the specimenholder institutions.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: individual_observation.specimenholder_institutions: documented that when provided, the source (i.e. traceable.source) should be set to the value of this field, because these institutions together provided the data for this entity
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: party_list: inherit from source so that a party_list can be used as the source for a row (e.g. a list of institutions that together provided the data for an individual_observation that has specimens at multiple institutions)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: reobservable_presence: merged into taxon_determination, so that voucher is directly available to taxon_determination to autopopulate fields when a redetermination is made on the voucher
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: fixed lines
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: aggregate_observation.sampling_event: merged with inherited sampling_event field
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxon_observation.parent: require that this is an fkey to another taxon_observation, since this stores the taxon_observation of the same taxon_occurrence in the parent sampling_event
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: subplot.parent_plot: renamed to parent so it will merge with the inherited parent field. this is the parent plot.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: individual_count.taxon_presence: renamed to parent so it will merge with the inherited parent field. this is the taxon_presence for the taxon as a whole (not subdivided by size_class, etc.).
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxa_sampling_event.method: renamed to subsetting_method for clarity
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: stratum_event.parent_event: renamed to parent so it will merge with the inherited parent field
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: traceable: added alternate pkey id_by_source, which allows referencing a traceable by its source information even when the subclass chose a different value for the pkey
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxon_observation.observation_in_parent_place: merged with inherited parent field, documenting that for this table, this contains the observation of the same taxon_occurrence in the parent sampling_event
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: individual_observation.place_observed_at: merged with inherited place field, documenting that for this table, this contains the place the individual was observed at
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: event: reordered date_range, participants, place in the order of how likely they are to be provided. (place was considered more optional than the other two because a project does not usually have a place.)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxon_observation.sampling_event: made it required so that there is always a sampling_event to scope the primary_collector/collector_number when provided. (for specimens, this will have the same event information (date_range, participants, place) as the taxon_observation.)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxon_observation: added unique constraint on sampling_event, primary_collector, collector_number. reordered these columns in constraint order (path order).
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxon_observation: added primary_collector, to scope the collector_number. collectors: renamed to all_collectors for clarity, now that there is a primary_collector field.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: specimen.current_collection, owner_collection: moved to specimen_observation because these may differ each time the specimen is reobserved
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: specimen.code_in_individual: renamed to id_within_individual to match the id_within_* naming convention using elsewhere
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: individual_observation: removed code because this duplicates taxon_observation.collector_number and record.id_within_dataset
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: specimen.specimenholder_institutions: moved to individual_observation because the list of institutions which store a specimen from the plant actually relates to the plant, not a particular specimen (this list should be the same for all specimens taken from the plant)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: specimen: removed collection_event because this is the same as individual_observation
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: specimen: removed separate fkey to individual because this is linked to from individual_observation
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: place_observation: link to project. taxa_sampling_event: removed link to project since this now happens via place_observation.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxa_sampling_event: merged required within_place into place_observation, which already contains a required fkey to place
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxa_sampling_event: added place_observation fkey for the concurrent place_observation, which contains all the info about the place (communities, soil data, etc.). this allows a taxon_observation to be traced to its associated location measurements.
bugfix: mappings/VegCore-VegBIEN.csv: nest all taxonoccurrences inside a stratum event, so that the parent locationevent is always fully populated before child locationevents point to it. (previously, a stub parent event was created when the child event was imported first, which blocked the fully-populated parent event from being inserted later on.) this uses auto-folding (for VegBank/CVS) and auto-forwarding (for other datasources) to prune empty stratum events for taxonoccurrences that don't have strata. (see wiki.vegpath.org/Auto-folding, wiki.vegpath.org/Auto-forwarding for more info about these normalization techniques.) note that the inserted row counts stay exactly the same for all datasources except VegBank (which was being fixed), indicating that this signficant change to the mappings did not change the semantics of the import of taxonoccurrences.
inputs/VegBank/observationcontributor_/test.xml.ref: updated inserted row count
bugfix: mappings/VegCore-VegBIEN.csv: stratum's locationevent: link this to the parent locationevent, so that the parent locationevent's information (such as locationeventcontributors) is accessible to the stratum's locationevent
bugfix: inputs/VegBank/taxon_observation.**/postprocess.sql: inlined _join() so that taxon_observation.** wouldn't get cascadingly deleted whenever the util schema (where this normally resides) gets reinstalled
bugfix: schemas/vegbien.sql: locationeventcontributor: added missing unique constraint (locationeventcontributor_unique)
bugfix: schemas/vegbien.sql: locationeventcontributor.role: made it optional because some locationeventcontributors may not have an associated role
schemas/vegbien.sql: analytical_stem_view, analytical_plot: added plot__collectors, which uses locationevent__contributors__array()
schemas/vegbien.sql: locationevent__contributors(): split into set-returning and array-returning functions. sort results by fullname so there is a predictable ordering (VegBank does not include a sort_order in the observationContributor table).
schemas/vegbien.sql: added locationevent__contributors() aggregating function for use in analytical_stem_view
added inputs/VegBank/observationcontributor_/
mappings/VegCore-VegBIEN.csv: mapped event__participant
mappings/VegCore.htm: regenerated from wiki. added EventParticipant table containing event__participant.
bugfix: inputs/VegBank/: taxonOccurrenceID: include the aggregateOrganismObservationID in this so that there is one taxonoccurrence for each stratum's taxonImportance. this allows the different strata to have separate taxonoccurrences that are associated with the stratum-specific locationevents, rather than all being lumped into one taxonoccurrence, with only one locationevent.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: taxon_observation.observation_in_parent_place: renamed to observation_in_parent_event because the taxon_observation might be connected to a stratum_event which is nested within another sampling_event before it's connected to any sampling_event for a parent plot. this is the case for VegBank data with associated strata.
bugfix: schemas/vegbien.sql: locationevent: locationevent_unique_within_creator unique index on sourceaccessioncode: need to add stratum_id, because the addition of stratum_id to this table instead of a separate stratum_event table (which would have required more schema changes) means we need to use the awkward construction of appending stratum_id to every unique constraint, including ones that ordinarily would just pass through the datasource's pkey
web/links/index.htm: updated to Firefox bookmarks. added Java client- and server-side links. web: split into client- and server-side folders.
planning/timeline/timeline.2013.xls: updated for progress
/README.TXT: Datasource setup: added link to Example steps for a datasource (wiki.vegpath.org/Import_process_for_Madidi)
/README.TXT: Full database import: To remake analytical DB: added runtime (13 h)
bugfix: schemas/postgresql.Mac.conf: allow external client logins like for vegbiendev, by listening on all addresses rather than just localhost
schemas/vegbien.ERD.mwb: fixed lines
schemas/vegbien.sql: analytical_plot: added stratum__name
schemas/vegbien.ERD.mwb: updated to PostgreSQL schema
schemas/vegbien.sql: analytical_stem_view: added stratum table (stratum__name)
mappings/VegCore-VegBIEN.csv: mapped stratum__name
schemas/vegbien.sql: added source_id to allow different datasources to have their own strata
schemas/vegbien.sql: stratum: added unique constraint on source_id/stratumname, and require stratumname, so that strata are identified by name within their datasource
schemas/vegbien.ERD.mwb: regenerated exports
schemas/vegbien.sql: locationevent: added stratum_id to unique constraints, so that there can be multiple locationevents for the same underlying event but with different strata
schemas/vegbien.sql: link locationevent to stratum instead of the other way around (similar to how it's represented in normalized VegCore as stratum_event->stratum, rather than stratum->taxa_sampling_event). this works around column-based import's lack of support for linking two tables together via two separate routes (in this case locationevent->taxonoccurrence->stratum and locationevent->stratum).
web/links/index.htm: updated to Firefox bookmarks. added PostgreSQL links.
schemas/vegbien.sql: stratum: added stratumname
mappings/VegCore.htm: regenerated from wiki. added Stratum table.
schemas/VegCore/VegCore.ERD.mwb: model options: template for new fkey names: use the PostgreSQL naming convention so that new fkeys will sync properly with equivalent fkeys in the Postgres schema that have had their names reset
schemas/VegCore/VegCore.ERD.mwb: regenerated exports and udpated image map
schemas/VegCore/VegCore.ERD.mwb: source: made name optional because some sources (e.g. records) don't have a name, and are instead identified differently. instead require name in applicable subclasses. source subclasses: added unique constraints on parent/name since the name is presumed to be identifying within the parent entity.
schemas/VegCore/VegCore.ERD.mwb: party: added separate person subclass, which has the organization pointer. organization instead has a recursive parent pointer, to avoid mutual recursion between party and organization.
schemas/VegCore/VegCore.ERD.mwb: dataset.parent: updated comment to refer to data_source, not traceable.source (which is now used for a different purpose)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: removed unnecessary hstore extenders that duplicate an extender of the same name in a superclass
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: dataset: replaced metadata_source with data_source, since the source field inherited from traceable is actually for where the information in the dataset record itself came from
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: dataset.parent: documented that this provides a containment relationship, which differs from the attribution relationship provided by source (inherited from traceable). e.g. the GBIF.ARIZ dataset is contained within the GBIF dataset (the parent), but was obtained from ARIZ (the source).
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: source: moved parent pointer to dataset, since the containment relationship is intended for datasets (there may be other types of sources for which this makes sense, but not ones that are used in our data)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: traceable.table_fragment: renamed to id_within_source, since this can also identify e.g. a dataset within the source that it came from
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: dataset: added metadata_source, which stores where the information about the dataset came from (as opposed to where the dataset came from)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: party: inherit from source because a person (or organization) can directly be a source of data. it should not be necessary to link them to a dataset in order to attribute rows to them.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: traceable.table_fragment: made this optional, since some traceables may have a source but are not uniquely identifiable within that source. the ID would in this case need to be populated by a subclass table, since traceable can't generate a unique ID without the fragment.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: record: clarified that "an actual data record" means "a row in a table". dataset: made definition more specific ("a collection of records from the same place, with the same attribution requirements").
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: record: added definition (a collection of data relating to the same entity). note that this doesn't have to be an actual data record, it can also be a paragraph of text relating to the same thing (e.g. a method description in a PDF).
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: method: added optional name field
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: stratum: added definition (a non-horizontal way of subdividing a plot)
schemas/VegCore/ERD/: svn:ignore *.bak
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: stratum, stratum_event: added VegX synonyms
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: synonyms with other exchange schemas: put the exchange schema name first, so that the first word in the URL is the source of that synonym (which is most important), while the schema-specific synonym name (which is less important) comes after it. this matches the VegCore data dictionary convention where the text of the URL (i.e. the most important part) is the exchange schema name.
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.mwb: individual_count.taxon: renamed to taxon_presence to clarify that this is an fkey to taxon_presence
schemas/VegCore/: moved ERD-related files to ERD/ subdir
added schemas/VegCore/ERD/SQL symlink to the dir with the VegCore SQL schemas
bugfix: schemas/VegCore/ERD/.htaccess: mod_autoindex: clear the IndexHeadInsert message "some listed files are not web-accessible" so that it is not displayed above the ERD image, which looks strange because the files are below it (this message can be removed for this dir because all files in it are web-accessible)
web/.htaccess: mod_autoindex: IndexHeadInsert: use IndexStyleSheet for stylesheet link instead
schemas/VegCore/ERD/VegCore.ERD.png.map.htm: VegCore logo: hyperlink this to VegCore.vegpath.org as well, instead of to the data dictionary
schemas/VegCore/VegCore.ERD.mwb: moved VegCore.vegpath.org link next to logo so it can be found more easily
