UI Release 0.9.4

Goals of the Product

The aim of EcoPlots is to harmonise plot-based ecology data from different sources to enable integrated search and access to data based on different jurisdiction, data sources, feature types, parameters and temporal extent.

The EcoPlots is developed based on semantic data integration approach, each of the data sources are mapped to the TERN Plot ontology. Datasets are generally received from custodians in various forms including PostgreSQL database and CSV file format . In data ingestion process, each of the source datasets are mapped to a TERN Plot ontology including identifying and mapping domain feature types, parameters and categorical values to TERN controlled vocabularies, performing data validation routines and resolving taxonomic names. All data are organised in Resource Description Framework (RDF) and stored in a triple store.

Release Details

New Features

• New “Species name” facet, which allows to filter data by the species of the Feature of Interest.

• New “Filter by value” feature in Parameters facets, allowing users to filter by the result value of the observation.

• Filter sites in Map drawing polygons.

• Region layer added to Map from geoserver (WMS).

Fixes

• Dates shown in CreatePackage/MyDownloads had wrong format.

• Autologin (login redirection) when user access directly to the MyDownload page throught URL.

Improvements

• Explicit “Download” button for packages in MyDownload page.

• Allow multiple links in a coreAttribute of a modal, e.g. Show multiple creators in the Dataset Modal.

• Replaced localStorage with localForage (IndexedDB) for vocabs storage in browser.

Related Releases

• Ecoplots API 0.9.4