SHaRED 4.0 Release Notes

Goals of the Product

The goal of SHaRED is to author ISO 19115-3 compliant metadata and upload and/or link associated data.

Release Details

New Features

The new version of SHaRED improves user experience and complies with the latest version of the TERN ISO 19115-3 profile requirements.

Following are some of the new functionalities of the tool:

• Allow the use of an Organisation as an Author for data attribution

• Improvement of User Interface

  • Support for representing the parent-child relationship between metadata records

  • Tooltips for each metadata field to guide users on data submission

  • Grouping of all controlled vocabularies and keywords under descriptive keywords and redesign of the interface to represent all keywords

  • Redesign the interface to capture methods and descriptive information about data quality

  • Inclusion of new elements to capture data processing environmental description

  • Showcase citation statements and the ability to add an acknowledgement statement as part of the data citation

  • Provide options to add organisation as a responsible party for datasets

  • Provide options to add organisation as a publisher for dataset and metadata

  • Provide support to add different geodetic datums (GDA84, GDA2020, etc.)

  • The ability for users to input any vocabulary, not in the vocabulary list

    • Users should be able to input vocabulary terms that are not in the current list

    • User-specified vocabularies can be curated and added to TERN vocabularies

    • The entries made by users will be shown in a different colour

  • Provide a preview of all the entries for users before submitting

    • Add citation text in the preview

• Curation of user-defined vocabularies

  • DUMA (TERN vocabulary editorial tool) retrieves user-defined vocabularies from SHaRED for curation programmatically.

• System-level

  • Controlled vocabularies are indexed and accessible from Elastic search

  • SHaRED exports metadata records to GeoNetwork, removing the manual transfer

  • Limit email to TERN eSupport only from the record owner, not from admin modifying any records

  • Multiple users can edit records

  • Provide field for admin to add feedback for users during the review process

  • Use of party: organisation as an author in the DOI

Improvements

The user interface has been improved, and all relevant fields are now grouped for a better flow of information.