The IT Working Group met today and discussed priority Portal enhancements as well as platforms for sharing technical resources and best practices. The User Feedback Surveys were used to develop our prioritized list. These recommendations will be used to make improvements to the Portal and make training materials available to the Network within the next couple months. You can read the full call notes here. Priority Portal Enhancements: Catalog Implementing link type filtering in UI Improving Portal display of ISO-2 records Improvements to the Categories hierarchy
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The IT Working Group met to discuss progress on addressing feedback and bugs in the Portal, recent work to include data visualization functions, efforts to expand Geoportal’s ability to recognize and display new link types, and issues around harvesting metadata from ArcServer. You can read the call notes here. Members of the IT Working Group continue to make progress on improvements to the ODP by making modifications to the Geoportal configurations or UI code. All the code and issues are tracked using our Github repository. Anyone can
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The IT Working Group met to discuss broad issues related to the Portal architecture and how components like the proposed member directory, blog, and calendar would integrate into the current structure. We determined that in terms of desired plugins (directory, calendar), ease of use, and ease of setup/maintenance, we would initially test WordPress. The preliminary site should be ready by mid march. You can read the meeting notes here: http://www.westcoastoceans.org/media/Data_Network_ACT/Meeting_Notes/WCODP_IT_WG_Call_Feb.pdf
