1.51.1 - Release in Support of the Climate Science Special Report

Usability

• Small updates to the Dockerized GCIS
• Improvements to the API Key Page

Production Instance @ data.globalchange.gov

• Made the Climate Science Special Report the primary report
• Improved display of the Featured Reports
• Added the Climate Science Special Report to the Featured Reports
• Improved layout of the side menu
• Findings Statement field now supports embedded HTML

1.51.0

Usability

• GCIS has been dockerized.
  • Using Docker, a development GCIS can be spun up on any Docker-compatible system and populated with data.
  • Directions available here.
  • Handles #478 #555
  • Many thanks to @abuddenb for spearheading this feature.

Data Management

• Journal Resources field publisher has been deprecated.
  • The preference is to create an Organization Resource for the publisher, and relate the Organization and Journal. #553
• Titles properly handle redundant whitespace, no longer producing extraneous -s in the generated identifier. #547
• Logged in users on the Stage instance now get a populated Indicators page #552
• Better deletion handling for Alternate Organization Names #550

1.50.2

Data Management

• Contributor tab now allows multiple role section. Fixes #535, Enhances #528
• New "watcher" role allows viewing of the Audit logs in editing environments, but no edit functionality. Fixes #539

Other

• Updated incorrect license to match most permissive, correct license, CC0

1.50.1

Display

• Link to References on the Chapter listing page no longer 500s #325
• The ISBN field on Reference Attributes links to its WorldCat entry #527

Data Management

• Reference Attributes can now be deleted as intended #525
• When creating Contributors from Authors, multiple roles can be selected at once. #528

Core Code

• Removed obsolete merge functionality from Organization. #531
• Extended Person merge to Contributor and Organization. #531 #491
• Redirected old Organization merge /organization/{id}/merge to the new method. #531

Other

• Improved Test coverage of main controller #526
• Created a test set to exercise Organization #531

1.50.0

Display

• Authors without an organizational affiliation will no longer have empty bullets beneath them. #512
• The main page of a Report now displays the number of regions covered, if any. #507

Data Management

• Deleting a Publication Contributor Mapping now properly removes the connection between the Person and Organization, if it was the last publication linking those entities. #519
• Article Contributor addition now allows for the sort_key to be added in the initial creation. #518
• Reference Attributes are now allowed to be updated or added in the interface. #431
• Organization type 'public-private partnership' created. #505

Tuba API

• Regions associated with a given report can now be queried: /report/{report_id}/region. #507

General

• Recommended Perl version set to 5.20

1.49.1

Production Instance @ data.globalchange.gov

• Indicators now have their own listing page. #496
  • display options for each year's batch, current only, or all indicators.
• User Feedback Form created on the About page. #464
  • sends mail to the GCIS Feedback google group

Data Management

• Default Role Type set to Author for Contributor creation process. #515

General

• Search error fixed. #514

1.49.0

Production Instance @ data.globalchange.gov

• Indicators now have their own listing page. #496
  • display options for each year's batch, current only, or all indicators.
• User Feedback Form created on the About page. #464
  • sends mail to the GCIS Feedback google group

Data Management

• Default Role Type set to Author for Contributor creation process. #515

General

• Search error fixed. #514

1.48.1

API

• New API EndPoint for use by TSU :figure_path/original.json #498
  • Allows storing and retrieving of exact Figure Metadata, including related Datasets and Activities
  • Eventually will be transformed into the Activity Object at a later point

Production Instance @ https://data.globalchange.gov

• Tables are all now owned by the GCIS Ops user. #488

Core Code

• Organization Alternate Names now properly handle Organization identifier changes #510

Data Management

• Summary (non-comprehensive) of new data in the public content release:
  • Figure origination data on NOAA-led State Summaries 2017
  • Captions on the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017
  • 2016 Indicators
  • Updates to individual Person's names, in preparation for CSSR
  • Updated Web Site URLs

1.48.0

API

• New API EndPoint for use by TSU :figure_path/original.json #498
  • Allows storing and retrieving of exact Figure Metadata, including related Datasets and Activities
  • Eventually will be transformed into the Activity Object at a later point

Production Instance @ https://data.globalchange.gov

• Tables are all now owned by the GCIS Ops user. #488

1.47.0

API

• The ordinal values on Figure, Finding, & Table may now contain letters, dashes '-', underscores '_', and periods '.'. The value must still begin with a digit. #484

Core Code

• Organizations may now have associated alternate names. This can be used to store defunct names or names in other languages. This is only available through the HTML view for this release. #471

Data Management

• As of this release, a copy of the GCIS content will be attached to our GitHub Releases.
  • Will consist of the content as pushed in the content release following the code release.
  • The file will contain an empty schema and a restricted content set matching the following content push
    • The file will not contain any audit logs or report editing/viewing users.
    • This is in order to remove all PII from the content, all GCIS data is preserved.
  • All GCIS metadata & provenance content is present.
  • Instructions for importing the content can be found here.
  • This serves to open our data and to allow for functional implementation of any release, going forward.