GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.3
GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.3.
To migrate from GeoNetwork Enterprise 2022 or earlier, see the Upgrade guide.
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 2023.3 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.
GeoNetwork Enterprise Plugin repository
GeoNetwork Enterprise is provided as a base package which can be extended with plugins. Plugins have an independent lifecycle. Each plugin advertises its compatibility with relevant GeoNetwork versions.
Plugins are available via the plugin repository.
Documentation on how to install the plugin is available in the plugin.
GeoNetwork Enterprise Documentation
Documentation is now available at https://www.geocat.net/docs/geonetwork-enterprise/2023
GeoNetwork Technology
GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.3 is based on GeoNetwork opensource 4.2.11 release. This version of GeoNetwork has switched the search engine to use ElasticSearch instead of Lucene, as in previous versions.
See how to Install and Configure Elasticsearch.
This section describes the main changes in this new version.
User interface
- Add layer from metadata / Remove the dialog to zoom to the layer when switching from the map viewer to another page.
- Add the image name in the
altattribute in the thumbnail on the metadata page. - Fixed a problem with reCAPTCHA widget not shown sometimes when it takes longer time to load.
- Fixed infinite "Please wait" message if an error happens while using delete, validate or other option of the editor dashboard metadata actions menu.
- Improve tooltips for search filter items:
- For keyword items, display the definition if available.
- For other items, display the translation instead of the key.
- Metadata delete / Fix message when an error occurs.
- Metadata page / Display WMS resources button label to open the link when the map viewer is not enabled.
- Metadata page / Don't display the add to map button for WFS resources when the map viewer is disabled.
- Metadata page / Hide the history types selector in the metadata history widget when tasks (DOI) and workflow are disabled.
- Search results / Don't capitalize the labels for the filter values.
Minimal UI view
- Home page / Fix topic categories display when using the fluid layout. The fix displays an ellipsis if the text doesn't fit.
- Login page / Position the login buttonbar at the top of the page.
- Map viewer / Open the dropdown menu in the
Add Layerpanel to the left. - Search map / Fix to refresh the map content when loading the page.
- Search page / Add more space between edit button in the footer of each result in the list items layout.
- Use the new
GeoCat Findlogo.
Dutch UI view
- Added missing translations in the advanced search dialog for date filter.
- Hide the search suggestions when hitting the ENTER key in the search field without selecting a suggested value.
- Metadata editor styling improvements for color and indenting.
- Metadata page / Display the lineage texts on more lines whenever a linebreak is detected.
- Search page / Fixed the
All values exceptpopover overlap in the search filter list on small screens.
Map viewer
- Fix the width of the projection switcher.
Metadata
- Dublin core / Metadata editor / Fix the order of the metadata geographical extent coordinates.
- Indexing / Add support for multilingual thesaurus titles.
- ISO19115-3 / Ignore linkage element for the metadata overview in ISO19139 conversion.
- ISO19115-3 / Remove duplicated fields for metadata identifier and uuid in CSV export.
- ISO19139 / Added missing French translation for
gmd:DQ_EvaluationMethodTypeCodeelement. - ISO19139 / Metadata editor / Fixed the removal of online source when multiple transfer options block are used.
- ISO19139 / Update thumbnail add/update and remove processes to use the thumbnail element position.
- Metadata import / Ignore the spaces in the application setting with the list of metadata schemas allowed for import.
- Metadata workflow / Updated batch PDF export to skip working copies.
- Metadata workflow / Updated notification level based on user profile when cancelling a submission.
- Metadata editor / Expand the keyword selector to show all suggested values when a value is selected.
- Metadata editor / Add required field indicator support to the keyword selector and fix its display for the field duration widget.
- Metadata indexing / ISO19139 / ISO19115-3.2018 / Escape graphic overview file name for JSON.
- ISO19115-3 / Only search for associated record with UUID.
- Formatter / Datacite / Use a default value for the resource type, if none is defined.
Metadata HNAP schema
- Fixed CSV export to use codelist translation files.
- Indexing / Add support for multilingual thesaurus titles.
- Indexing / Use
GC_Org_Names.rdfthesaurus instead ofGC_Government_Names.rdfso that the Government Names thesaurus uses the same thesaurus as in the metadata validation. - Metadata editor / Fixed online resource update/delete to support multiple transfer options blocks.
- Metadata validation / Use the Government Names thesaurus values for the validation error message instead of hardcoded values.
- Update import process from FGP to fix invalid ref system code format.
- Update in the licenses thesaurus the value Open Government Licence - Canada to use https.
- Update rol tooltip to remove confusing 'Data Steward' reference.
- Use in CSV export the translations for security and legal constraints instead of the code values.
Metadata Dutch dataset 2.1.0
- Metadata editor / Fixed the retrieval of quality reports.
Metadata Dutch service 2.1.0
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Metadata editor / Add support for additional OGC API protocols:
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OGC API Features
- OGC API Tiles (Vector tiles)
- OGC API Styles (Vector tiles)
- OGC API Coverages
- OGC API 3D geo volumes
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OGC API Maps
-
Metadata editor / Fixed the retrieval of quality reports.
Metadata Dutch dataset 1.3.1
- Metadata editor / Fixed the retrieval of quality reports.
Metadata Dutch service 1.2.1
- Metadata editor / Fixed the retrieval of quality reports.
Administration
- Added support for multilingual email notifications.
- Application settings / Allow configuring allowed email domains for user registration.
- INSPIRE remote Atom harvester / process only public datasets by resource identifier.
- Portal management / Improve change detection in forms to enable the ‘Save’ button.
- WebDav harvester / Add support for XSLT filter process.
API and Automation
- CSW Harvester / Avoid increment 2 metrics for a single metadata in certain conditions.
- CSW Harvester / Changed the loglevel to info level when found invalid metadata to report the metadata uuid.
- CSW server / Fix parsing date values for filters.
- Fixed harvester execution logs added to previous logs.
- Fixed the service to retrieve metadata extents for a metadata with a working copy.
- Harvesters / Better support missing metadata date info for ISO19115-3 metadata.
- Improve parameter checks for XSL conversion.
- Improve the transaction logs when merging a metadata working copy to make them more traceable.
- Metadata workflow / Improve transaction management when merging a working copy record into a published version, to avoid losing the metadata resource files if the transaction fails.
- Updated the metadata workflow API security exceptions to use multilingual messages.
- Updated the DOI API publication errors exceptions to use multilingual messages.
Other
- Documentation improvements for harvesters and UI configuration.
- Fixed handling of special characters in cookies, which caused 400 wrong request errors in Spring Security.
- Register user / Allow to select the group where the user wants to register.
Security
jQueryupgrade to version 3.7.1.Spring Frameworkupgrade to version 5.3.37.Spring Securityupgrade to version 5.7.12.
