GeoNetwork Enterprise 2020.5.3

GeoCat is pleased to support our customers with a GeoNetwork Enterprise 2020.5.3 update.

Overview

GeoNetwork Enterprise is an outstanding catalog application providing record publishing and search capabilities to share information. Built to support international open standards GeoNetwork offers metadata editing and management with a focus on geospatial content.

GeoNetwork Enterprise 2020.5.3 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

Improvements are categorised by component.

GeoNetwork Technology

GeoNetwork Enterprise is proudly open source based on the latest GeoNetwork 3.10.6 technology.

Public user interface

• Bugfix: Avoid request check not modified as unsupported on chrome and edge, prevented full-view from displaying updated contents after an edit.
• Bugfix: Error in portal search service when metadata has no type information.
• Bugfix: Fix broken site logo image on fresh installation.
• Bugfix: Fix links to local service-dataset fall back to xml.
• Bugfix: Fix permission issue related to guest users. Guest users were not able to update their profile or change their password.
• Bugfix: Metadata CSV export - Remove non letter/number characters in thesaurus identifier processing.
• Bugfix: Links to /accessDenied.jsp can cause endless redirect.
• Bugfix: Workflow - Fix working copy resources display.
• Bugfix: Workflow - "open draft" from metadata view not operational after submit.
• Fix for WFS download dropdown in Record view (if format exists twice in getcapabilities).
• Fix mismatching logo in search page and record view.
• Fix placeholder in metadata user feedback form.
• Fix the 'empty' user icon on small screens.
• Improvement: Align icons and labels in metadata export menu.
• Improvement: Hide GeoNetwork name on smaller screens and show labels on other buttons.
• Improvement: Hide workflow option in versioning page and workflow messages when workflow is not enabled.
• Improvement: MiniMap, extra render options to prevent blank map on startup and enable/disable direct search with extent.
• Improvement: Security - Use generic messages for user reset password services to avoid revealing users registered.
• Improvement: UI accessibility - change language picker into dropdown.
• Improvement: UI accessibility - improvements for the footer.
• Improvement: Use the (multilingual) portal/source label as the name in the menu (previously used the monolingual catalog title from settings).

Editor user interface

• Bugfix: Display of mdq:DQ_QuantitativeResult on iso19115-3 editor.
• Bugfix: Don't remove geographic description for multilingual data since the widget does not support multilingual data.
• Bugfix: Fix null group bug if attempting to publish sample data.
• Bugfix: iso19115-3 validation for 'Associated resources' never validates.
• Bugfix: iso19115-3- gmx:MimeFileType should be gcx:MimeFileType.
• Bugfix: Metadata validation report - errors should be added to the error section and not the info section.
• Bugfix: Preseve locale codes in multilingual metadata.
• Bugfix: Workflow - approving a metadata already published with resources fails if resources exists in the published version.
• Bugfix: Workflow - bulk publish cancels working copy.
• Bugfix: Workflow - canceling working copy removes approved resource.
• Bugfix: Workflow - copy resources from the working copy on approval.
• Bugfix: Workflow - improved metadata validation status with workflow.
• Bugfix: Workflow - validation result is lost when approving record.
• Fix codelist rendering.
• Fix xsd validation report to display multilingual messages.
• Improvement: Dutch translations for iso19139 codelists.
• Improvement: Force use of gco:DateTime on elements which don't support gco:Date, when saving a date from editor.
• Improvement: Italian translations for iso19139 editor.
• Improvement: Update date format in title when creating a metadata to contain the time zone as GMT, to eliminate confusion as to when the template/metadata was created.

Admin user interface

• Bugfix: Allow to reset the XSLT value in the from folder harvester.
• Bugfix: If no metadata records, don't show the Lucene index health check as failed.
• Bugfix: Kibana / Only allow access to authenticated users in the catalog.
• UI improvement: CSW Harvester - Queryables overflow their panel in Chrome

Event mechanism

• Improvement: Trigger RecordUpdatedEvent and RecordDeletedEvent at relevant events.

INSPIRE Atom Download Service

• Bugfix: Retrieve INSPIRE Atom feed language from self link element instead of the feed language attribute that is optional.
• Improvement: Update Remote INSPIRE Atom feeds to process dataset feeds from links in service feeds (previous implementation was based on metadata linkage)

INSPIRE CSW Capabilities

• Bugfix: Fixes language codes used in INSPIRE elements and date values in CSW Capabilities.

Metadata push mechanism

• Allows to push metadata to an external GeoNetwork node, if the metadata has an open data license, when the the metadata is modified or removed. See documentation in :doc:/plugins/push-mechanism/index.

Dutch UI view plugin

• Bugfix: Disable fixed header option in the admin.
• Bugfix: Record view - Fix selection of tabs in metadata detail page when downloads tab is not displayed. Previously the Description tab was displayed always in this case.
• Improvement: Record view - restore feature attribute table for fc-records.
• Improvement: Record view - set srs to 3857 (default is 4326).

iso19139.ca.HNAP schema plugin

This release is primarily focused on improvements to quality, reducing duplication with iso19139, and fixing bugs.

Release notes 3.10.6-0:

• Distribution: End-user guide included for installation into doc folder for local access.
• Feature: Add /gmd:MD_Metadata/gmd:language and gmd:characterSet to the basic view in editor
• Feature: Add gmd:description to the basic view editor.
• Feature: Replace supported file format to the thesaurus by the FGP version.
• Feature: Add namespaces to exported ISO19139 metadata file.
• Bugfix: Fix multilingual thesaurus title grouping in keywords indexing
• Bugfix: For non-multilingual metadata, don't add multilingual thesaurus info when adding keywords
• Bugfix: Fixed security contstraint for usernote validations
• Bugfix: Correction to convert the Canada to Canada (le) when importing FGP
• Bugfix: Fix bug update-fixed-info.xsl where it was creating empty gmd:PT_FreeText
• Bugfix: Fix locale placement when saving data.
• Bugfix: Distribution gmd:name should not be multilingual
• Bugfix: Unable to link to OGC Web Services, add OGC:WMS / OGC:WFS protocols for online resources
• Bugfix: Fix issue vertical extents not being numeric values when editing.
• Improvement: Update update-fixed-info.xsl so that it adds the namespaces in the xml.
• Improvement: Update sample data to more recent versions with some corrections
• Improvement: Updated template name to include metadata language
• Improvement: Add translations to schematron rules
• Improvement: Changed some defaults in the DFO hnap level1 template
• Improvement: Updated hnap template to mean HNAP level 1 field requirements.
• Improvement: Add xsl for extracting titles - required for versioning
• See changelog

iso19139.nl.geografie.2.0.0 schema plugin

• Bugfix: Update fixed info - synch template for gmd:MD_Metadata with iso19139 template to handle gmd:fileIdentifier and other elements.
• Bugfix: Use empty fileidentifier on templates.
• Improvement: Dutch translations for codelists.

iso19139.nl.services.2.0.0 schema plugin

• Bugfix: Remove duplicated xml tag gmd:EX_GeographicBoundingBox in metadata editor config file.
• Bugfix: Use empty fileidentifier on templates.

iso19139.nl.geografie.1.3.1 schema plugin

• Bugfix: Use empty fileidentifier on templates.

iso19139.nl.services.1.2.1 schema plugin

• Bugfix: Use empty fileidentifier on templates.

iso19139.gdpr schema plugin

• Bugfix: Add missing translations for processor information.
• Bugfix: Use empty fileidentifier on templates.

iso19139.ca.HNAP schema plugin

• Bugfix: Add missing xsl for extracting titles - required for versioning.
• Bugfix: Add OGC:WMS / OGC:WFS protocols for online resources.
• Bugfix: Add user note validation rule.
• Bugfix: Cleanup unused elements and fixes in editor configuration.
• Bugfix: Distribution name (gmd:name) should not be multilingual.
• Bugfix: Fix bug in metadata update-fixed-info where it would create an empty gmd:PT_FreeText if there wasonly a gco:CharacterString on a multilingual element.
• Bugfix: Fix bug with vertical extents not being numeric values when editing.
• Bugfix: Fix element order in metadata update-fixed-info causing validation issues with gmd:hierarchyLevel.
• Bugfix: Fix display for invalid distribution format error in validation rules.
• Bugfix: Fix locale placement when saving data, preventing exported records from being imported.
• Bugfix: Fix multilingual thesaurus title grouping in keywords indexing.
• Bugfix: For non-multilingual metadata, don't add multilingual thesaurus info when adding keywords.
• Bugfix: Fix regression bug for language template that was applying the template to the iso19139 records when it should only apply the template to hnap records.
• Bugfix: Fix typo in french thesaurus check in validation rules.
• Bugfix: Full view formatter - adds reference to default iso19139 formatter, fixes layout, codelists rendering and schema.org annotations.
• Bugfix: Indexing - Remove lower case conversion for gmd:hierarchyLevel.
• Bugfix: Metadata with French as the main languages are not showing proper language in display.
• Bugfix: Search resource date range using hnap codeList values for revision, creation, publication.
• Bugfix: Update conversion to fix the namespaces during the import.
• Bugfix: Update hnap template to mean HNAP level 1 field requirements.
• Bugfix: Update sample data to more recent versions with some corrections.
• Bugfix: Update update-fixed-info.xsl to add the namespaces in the xml.
• Improvement: Add extent gmd:description to the basic view editor.
• Improvement: Add French translations to schematron rules.
• Improvement: Add /gmd:MD_Metadata/gmd:language and gmd:characterSet to the basic editor page as these fields are part of the HNAP.
• Improvement: Add more supported file format to the thesaurus.
• Improvement: Cleanup unused elements in labels.xml files.
• Improvement: Reorder fields so that it is easier to compare changes between languages and schematrons.
• Improvement: Updated template name to include metadata language.
• Improvement: User manual.