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Enhancing Data Portal Accessibility & Functionality

This project involves ongoing improvements to the NIS Data Portal UI, meeting accessibility standards and industry guidelines. Further developments include integrating the DataONE Generic Member Node and implementing user registration/data policy compliance. Future plans include support for LTER groups/roles, enhancing data package browse functionality, and adding support for other identity providers. Work on replacing the current metadata search functionality and enhancing quality checks is also on the horizon. Stay tuned for upgrades in system performance and debugging.

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Enhancing Data Portal Accessibility & Functionality

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  1. PASTA Updates 2013-14

  2. Work in progress… • NIS Data Portal UI improvements • The website meets and or exceeds standards for accessibility by persons with disabilities: • Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 • W3C Web Accessibility Initiative; • The website meets general guidelines for industry acceptable functionality and aesthetics; and • The website provides specific functionality to meet the needs of data providers and data consumers

  3. More work in progress… • Integration of the DataONE Generic Member Node into PASTA • Development of the PASTA adapter for the GMN is basically complete, but deployment and policy/procedures are still being planned • User registration/data policy compliance • Add support for new user registration and compliance with the LTER Data Policy

  4. More work in progress… • Support for LTER groups/roles into PASTA system authentication and authorization • Integrate LTER Personnel Database groups/roles services into PASTA for associating individual users with LTER groups/roles as stored in the LTER Personnel Database

  5. More work in progress… • Improve data package browse functionality • Revise data package browse functionality to integrate controlled vocabulary so that categories are of finer granularity and cross-referenced through LTER's dynamic vocabulary tools

  6. Work to come soon… • Support of other identity providers • Add support for users to login using other authentication systems - federated authentication (e.g., InCommon Federation, OpenID/OAuth - Google, Yahoo!, Facebook).

  7. Work on the horizon… • Metacat replacement and related search capability • Replace current metadata search functionality with a new search functionality that improves the quality of search results and overall performance. Technology that will be investigated is Apache Solr/Lucene and native XML Databases (e.g., BaseX or eXist-db)

  8. Work when we can do it… • Quality check process and new quality checks • Continue to improve the number and fidelity of PASTA quality checks for metadata and data quality and metadata/data congruence • Overall system hardening, performance tuning, and debugging

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