VINE vocabulary Integration Environment

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.4.0.20081115b

Notes:
NOTE: This is the release prepared for and used during the OOSSI Workshop in Boulder, CO. 
See http://marinemetadata.org/events/oossi


Main changes:
- New set of (SKOS) relations
- Inference of mappings disabled

- Several internal changes and adjustments (for example, related with new slash-based base URIs, instead of hash-based)
- Fixed 2144690: "warn if mapping file already exists"
- NewMappingWizard sequence: more explanation included.
- reimplementation of Open action: better progress feedback and error handling (as with the NewMappingAction)
- Preferences menu removed (2087236: Preferences?)
- Using "http://mmisw.org/ont/mmi/" as prefix for created mapping ontology.
- Metadata tab removed (Ontology Registry @ Repository supports metadata association.
- Upload action disabled (not fully implemented)
- Better tooltips for relation buttons
- List of available ontologies from the MMI registry shown in "unversioned" form; it also filters out mapping ontologies.


Changes:
2008-11-15:
	Some fixes related with new slash namespaces.
	The makn change in is VineManager.getSubModel(String baseURI):
	  remove any trailing fragments (/ and # to generalize) to make the comparison.

2008-11-14  1.4.0.20081114b
	- Successful creation of releases (export product) on an ubuntu box (I love linux!)
	
	
2008-11-13
	- Using org.mmisw.ont.mmiuri.jar (from the Ont project) to handle MMI Ontology
	  URIs in RegistryRestImpl.java
	  
	- RegistryRestImpl: getAllOntologies now returns the list of latest versions
	  in unversioned form.  
	  It also discards any mapping ontology:
	    a mapping ontology is recognized if its topic contains "_map$" or "_map_".
	    
	- UNFORTUNATELY: Eclipse (both 3.4.0 and 3.4.1) is now unable to create the
	  releases!!!!   Argh!!!
	
	
2008-11-11 (carueda -- Happy B-Day Ini!)

	- org.mmi.mappingPolicy2: setting conf/rules.txt to empty so the inference
	  is not applied (not inferred mapping will be generated). 
	  John and Luis agreed with my proposal today:
  		"You all know that we have some issues related with the inferred
		mappings in VINE (not always removed when their corresponding direct
		mappings are removed by the user; not clearly differentiated in the
		graphical interface; performance degradation as the number of mappings
		increases...). Luis, a couple of weeks ago you suggested that
		inference be disabled in VINE, simply because it makes more sense to
		have such a mechanism for queries than for the definition of the
		mappings themselves.  I kind of agree with that, espcially given the
		technical difficulties that I would have to sort out to make that work
		reasonably well in VINE.   Should we just disable it?"
	
	
2008-11-10 (carueda)

	- Setting up the new relationships:	
		- org.mmi.vine.extension: added a "tooltip" attribute in mappingPolicy.exsd.
		- Now using org.mmi.mappingPolicy2 with the new relations and icons.
		- MappingProperty, MapperPage: added a tooltip handling.
		- VineManager: setting prefix "skos" to "http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos#"
		   This skos prefix should be read from the mapping extension (mmi_properties.n3)
		   but, well, no time to change too many things, so I just changed the hard-coded
		   value.   (TODO Get skos prefix from the mapping extension).
		
		
	
2008-11-09 (carueda)
	
	- Metadata tab removed (actually, just disabled) see MultiPageEditor
	- Upload action removed (actually, just disabled) see VineActionBarAdvisor
	
	- VineManager.PREFIX_FOR_URI = "http://mmisw.org/ont/_tmp_/"
	

2008-10-10 (carueda)
	For preliminary testing of new "ont" service:
	- Using AQUAPORTAL registry
	- VineManager.PREFIX_FOR_URI = "http://mmisw.org/ont/mmi/"
	
2008-10-09 (carueda)
	- Preferences menu removed - 2087236: Preferences?
	
	
2008-10-07 (carueda)
	- OpenMappingAction - reimplementation of Open action: better progress feedback and
	  error handling (as with the NewMappingAction).
	   
	- "Ontology metadata" handling now with reading in the existing
	  DC attributes in Open action.
	  
	- NewMappingWizard: show "specify mapping file" first.
	
	
2008-10-06 (carueda)
	- initial version of putMapping in the aquaportal implementation of IMmiRegistry
	- adding "Ontology metadata" handling (initially based on DC)
	- NewMappingWizard sequence: more explanation included. 
	- Fixed 2144690: "warn if mapping file already exists"
	
2008-10-02 (carueda)
	- defined org.mmi.mappingPolicy2 plugin (adapted from org.mmi.mappingPolicy)
	  to do preliminary adjustments to include new set of relations in Vine.
	  (org.mmi.mappingPolicy2 to be checked in eventually.)
	  
	  Note: Files that need to be updated:
	  	- MANIFEST.MF
	  	- plugin.xml
	  	- org.mmi.vine.product
	  	
	TODOs in org.mmi.mappingPolicy2:
		- adjust mmi_properties.n3, rules.txt 
		- complete list of relations
		- unify icons
		- update tooltips including definition of the relation
		
	For future version:
		- use the preferences page to let the user specify the mapping policy
		- dynamically load the mapping policy (a .zip or .jar)