API Updates and Changes

This page provides information about all versions of the Dataset API. It includes a log of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes that have been made to the API.

1.9.0

Released on 2023-11-28

New Features 🎉

• Adds @id (i.e. DOI) to search results

• Enables dataset search by keyword with new keyword parameter

• Enables search for older versions of dataset metadata by identifier (i.e. ess-dive-9727d2718c0d1d3-20230504T212419449020)

• Adds the identifier for the next version of metadata (i.e. next) and previous version (i.e. previous) to search results

Enhancements ✨

• Enhances keyword search to lookup exact matches

1.8.0

Released on 2022-11-28

New Features 🎉

• Adds file size in KB to distribution items

Enhancements ✨

• Updates technical Swagger documentation hosted by OpenAPI: https://api.ess-dive.lbl.gov/#/

1.7.0

Released on 2022-08-08

New Features 🎉

• Enable dataset submissions with project ID in provider field (new syntax example provided below)

"provider": {
   "identifier": {
      "@type": "PropertyValue",
      "propertyID": "ess-dive",
      "value": "<PROJECT ID>"
   }
}

1.6.0

Released on 2022-02-04

New Features 🎉

• Enable linking out to datasets stored at external repositories

• Enable capability for anyone to search for public datasets

New Code Examples ✨

• Provided a python code example for streaming data file uploads

  • update_stream_package.py now available via essdive-package-service-examples GitHub repository.

1.5.0

Released on 2021-09-20

New Features 🎉

Enables dataset sharing

• Enable the ability to share dataset

• Expanded swagger Docs for dataset sharing

Bug Fix 🛠️

• Corrected dataset sharing typos and added sharing schema example to technical documentation

1.4.0

Released on July 23rd, 2021

Enhancements ✨

You can now submit longer metadata descriptions

• Increase measurementTechnique description (i.e. Methods) character limit to <5000 characters

• Increase description (i.e. Abstract) character limit to <5000 characters

• Increase spatialCoverage description (i.e. Geographic Description) character limit to <5000 characters

Software Upgrades ⚙️

• Enable support for Metacat >= 2.13.0 and Solr8

1.3.4

Released on 2021-04-29

Software Upgrades ⚙️

• Main focus of this release is to support the EML 2.2.0 upgrade.

1.3.3

Released on 2021-04-20

Bug Fix 🛠️

• Bug fix release for json-ld 500 Errors.

1.3.2

Released on 2021-05-27

This release includes the addition of a Berkeley Source Distribution (BSD) license to the package service.

Bug Fix 🛠️

• Some bug fixes are included for accessing packages.

1.3.1

Released on 2019-12-17

Enhancements ✨

• This release enables up to 100GB data uploads. They are minor features and do not affect the API.

1.3.0

Released on 2019-10-21

Enhancements ✨

• This release enables up to 10GB data uploads.

1.2.0

Released on 2019-06-26

New Features 🎉

• Ability edit a data package

• Data files in query results

• Special characters should be removed from metadata filename

• JSON-LD returned for single data package requests

This API update is backwards compatible with v1.1.0.