Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of DiscoveryComponents

Timestamp:

29/04/10 12:22:15 (9 years ago)

Author:

mpritcha

Comment:

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DiscoveryComponents

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    A process by which metadata records are collected (via OAI-PMH : Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) centrally from all participating data providers.
 
- '''Discovery Database'''::
-   Harvested metadata records are processed centrally and added to the discovery index database, which stores the documents in their entirety (to enable full-text searching), but also pulls out pre-defined fields within them to enable specific types of searhes (e.g. spatial extent, time periods). The database is held as a set of relational database tables within a database server.
+ '''Discovery Database / Ingest'''::
+   Harvested metadata records are processed centrally and ingested (inserted) into the discovery index database, which stores the documents in their entirety (to enable full-text searching), but also pulls out pre-defined fields within them to enable specific types of searhes (e.g. spatial extent, time periods). The database is held as a set of relational database tables within a database server, but with original documents preserved in their native format (XML).
 
  '''Discovery Web service'''::