What's New with BC Data Catalogue

July 20, 2022

• Enhancement:
  • Added Metadata Published and Modified system dates as footer to records and resources.
  • Added a field to be used for request system links to contact.
  • Moved Lifecycle Event above Resource Status to separate system and user entered dates.
  • Created an administrative panel for member granting for organizations and groups.

May 12, 2022

• Enhancement:
  • State improvements for both view and edit mode
    • Is now showcased as a tag beside the title.
    • In edit mode moved up under Published by for ease of use.
  • Hover text over Contacts, Related Links and Lifecycle Events  removed as was unnecessary.
  • Email notifications updated to direct to the DataBC Service Request system.
• Fixes:
  • Data Collection Period now visible when populated
  • Related Links and JSON Schema now hidden when blank

April 19, 2022

• Fixes:
  • Ability to delete Data Collection Period values
  • Removed instantiation on Data Collection Period and Geographic Extent as introduced [object Object] issue.
• Enhancements:
  • Added a character counter to dataset Title field
  • Updated Call To Action button with + icon for adding contacts, dates, etc.
  • Update form fields to have white backgrounds
  • Improved row spacing on Keywords and State
• New values:
  • Projection: added ESPG-3153(CSRS) - Albers
• Field visibility:
  • Blank fields are now hidden
  • BCGW related fields hidden unless Resource Storage Location set to BCGW:
    • Object Short Name,
    • Object Table Comments and
    • Details
  • Object Name now accessible to all resource types (previously only Geographic)
  • Projection now available on Webservice type resources
  • Resource Data Last Updated (last_modified) added to UI, which represents currently BCGW and BCDC dataset sources
• Label renaming and help text updates:
  • Frequency of Resource Update (was Resource Update Cycle)
  • Data Collection Period (was Temporal Extent)
  • Related Links (was More Info)
    • Title of Web Asset (was Description)

March 17, 2022

• Fixed record history lifestyle and contacts fields to allow editors to delete entries.

March 10, 2022

• Search sort order has been enhanced to use the dataset Publish Date instead of the dataset Create Date, thus
  • Draft and Pending Publish datasets will be listed at the end of all published datasets.
• Removed gravitars from the user account profile page.
• Record Lifecycle History dates were updated on the backend to reflect accurate date entries. 

February 14, 2022

• Added a configurable information banner
• Fixed groups page to load faster without the dataset count
• Updated the about page to direct users to the new Data Systems & Services request system for questions.

January 13, 2022

• Enhanced resource URL Regular Expression (RegEx) to allow exclamation marks and commas.

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November 30, 2021

• Improved performance and stability of organizations list
• Improved user profile page for new editors

November 5, 2021

• Stability improvements for logged in users
• Improvements to search relevance and availability of advanced search features
• Fixed bug where file sizes were represented incorrectly

October 27, 2021 (Version 2.0)

Major upgrade to the BC Data Catalogue. Watch a video showing the latest updates

• The Beta period has closed with the launch of the new catalogue
• New and improved user interface to make finding and accessing meta data and resources easier
• Focus on accessibility and modern web standards to ensure the catalogue is available to everyone
• Backend architecture updates that will allow us to more easily maintain and release catalogue updates
• Data schema changes at the dataset and resource level to better reflect how data is organized and consumed
• Detailed changes can be found in the changelog

• The data schema was adjusted which will impact some BC Data Catalogue API updates and responses
• A list of API schema changes can be found here
• The object_name has moved to the resource level. The API query is slightly different as object_name is in the resource extras table now. See Common Queries in the documentation for examples
• A full list of API and Catalogue changes are available here