Infrastructure

Metacat now supports arbitrary identifiers, but only if called from the dataone service API, which allows the proper mapping of arbitrary identifiers to Metacat's own internal local identifier (docid) format. We need to modify all methods that can create or update documents so that the global identifiers are updated whenever a change to a document in metacat occurs.
Likewise, we need to modify all methods that can create or update documents to also update the system metadata. Specifically, data typing information needs to be parsed from the science metadata documents (EML, FGDC, etc.) such that calls to either the data one service interface or the metacat servlet interface return the correct object type.