Logging Schema

This schema for logging documents specifies the information returned by DataONE when requests for logs have been made from either Coordinating Nodes or Member Nodes. The log information is maintained dynamically by both the Coordinating Nodes and Member Nodes whenever a significant event occurs for a tracked object in the system. Tracked objects include all data objects and science metadata objects in the system. Events of significance include the insertion, update, deletion, or reading of these objects.

Log data are considered operational information needed to run DataONE, and can be read by all Coordinating Nodes in the course of service provision. In order to reduce issues with third-party tracking of data status information, users can read log information for an object if they have the access rights to read the corresponding object on which the event was logged.

The following list of fields represents the set of information returned upon a request for logging.

Table 1. Quick reference to the Logging fields described in more detail below.

Group

Field

Type

Cardinality

Log

entryId

Types.IdentifierType

1

identifier

Types.IdentifierType

1

ipAddress

String

1

userAgent

String

1

principal

Types.PrincipalType

1

event

Types.EventType

1

logDate

Types.DateTime

1

memberNode

Types.NodeReferenceType

1

Logging fields

LoggingSchema.entryId

The identifier of a particular log record, used to differentiate it from other log records on the same objects.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Types.IdentifierType

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.identifier

The identifier of the object on which a logged event occurred.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Types.IdentifierType

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.logDate

Date and time (UTC) that the event was logged in the DataONE system.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Types.DateTime, an ISO 8601 Date-time value in UTC

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.ipAddress

The InternetProtocol address from which an originating event request originated.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

String Internet IP address in either IP4 or IP6 syntax

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.userAgent

A string indicating the type of client software agent that was used by the user to connect to the service and originate the logged event.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Any string value signifying a user software agent and its version.

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.event

The type of event that was logged, such as an object insertion or deletion.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Types.EventType

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.principal

Principal who generated the event through a request to the node. If the event was recorded without identifying the principal, then the principal will be recorded as ‘public’.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Types.PrincipalType

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3

LoggingSchema.memberNode

The Member Node Identifier of the node on which this logged event occurred. This field is used to distinguish log records that occur at the same time on different Member Nodes, such as simultaneous downloads.

Cardinality

1

ValueSpace

Types.NodeReferenceType

Generated By

Node

Required Version

0.3