Consider making export time stamps more granular
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Description
In the current implementation a dataset entity has a single lastexporttime time stamp. Meaning, it's all-or-nothing, a dataset is considered either exported, or not. Seeing how we now support a dozen different metadata formats, this should probably be made more granular. It happens all the time that it's just one specific format that fails to export. So, for the purposes of, for example, serving OAI sets, it would make more sense to be able to select all the datasets for which the OAI_DC, OAI_DDI etc. formats have been successfully exported - but not necessarily ALL of them.
Similarly, under the current scheme whenever we make some change that affects just one metadata format, we tell the installations that a full reexport of all the formats is required. Which feels like quite a waste.
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Research direction
Start by tracing how the dataset entity uses the single lastexporttime value and how metadata exports record success. Compare the needs of OAI_DC, OAI_DDI, and other supported formats, then define how format-specific export status should support selection and avoid unnecessary full reexports.
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- java
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- backend
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- Feature
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- 5/5
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