34 | | '''Discovery Database''':: |
35 | | 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. |
| 34 | '''Discovery Database / Ingest''':: |
| 35 | 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). |