Release Notes

These release notes give you an idea of what's new in the PORTAL.

PORTAL 2.1.0 (2023-04-21)

DATA search results:
- Resources, links or downloads belonging to a dataset are listed in the drop-down menu of a search result.
- Icons in the search results provide information about the existence of a license, a PID and open access
- License, PID and access type werde added to facets. In addition, all facets can now be expanded at the same time
The pop-ups for the respective ships on the home page are described in more detail
Tutorial popups were redesigned and improved
The viewer was updated and includes more filters and methods for importing data

You can now view additional information and explore relationships in an interactive graph for data search results.
The viewer state is now kept in the background while navigating. When you return to the viewer, the state is restored.
You can now click on the tracklines on the home page map to open the ship specific popup.
We have added a color-coded bar that corresponds to the tracklines under the vessel icons on the home page.
The guided tours for specific pages can new be re-enabled by clicking the question mark button on the bottom right.
It is possible to select the number of visible search results for platforms and expeditions.
We are currently working on a login function, so many internal changes have been made. The "My Data" feature has been temporarily disabled and will return when we launch the login feature.

"Latest Publications" with an invalid release date are no longer displayed on the home page

Marine-Data Mobile Version
- You can now use our portal on mobile devices such as tablets or smartphones
- We optimized every single page to automatically adapt it's content to different screen sizes
- improved support for touch screens was added to the individual user interface elements (e.g. sliders)

"Seafloor Viewer" and "Ocean Observatory Viewer"
- Both new viewer instances enable you to browse a curated selection of marine research data
- the "Seafloor Viewer" focuses on visualizing bathymetric and sediment data
- the "ocean observations" viewer focuses on data from the body of water itself

We added new features to the viewer
- You are able to add additional services from a catalog
- Draw your own geometries on the map and add annotations
- View more Metadata in the popups when clicking on data in the map
- Select a different comparison operator in the time filter
We added the vessel Alkor to the startpage
Near Realtime Data for all vessels on the startpage is available now
Selected platforms have near realtime data on their individual pages
A tour guides you through the indiviual subpages of the portal
The map based filter on the data page now uses the visible area of the map for filtering.
You can now download the list of your favourite datasets on the mydata page

Fixed an issue with automatic feedback transmission.
Only "Latest Publications" with a valid publication date are displayed on the startpage

Version: 2.1.0 88599a9