Changelog

v6.4.3 2021-04-01

Changes:
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.10.

v6.4.2 2020-12-17

Notice:
Changes:

v6.4.1 2020-08-20

Notice:
Changes:
  • Improvement: Add links to manual, icons, and help texts on dataset and resource form.
  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.8.
  • Remove: Google+ share button.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.4.0 2020-06-10

Notice:
Changes:
  • Improvement: Simplify metadata. Merge Descriptive Information into Basic Information, and add the Spatio-temporal Information section. Please refer to the following table for details. You can also find new metadata standard at the Metadata section.
Original Field Name Changes Remarks
Language Provide all ISO 639-3 languages. Accept multiple values.  
Keywords Rename as “Wikidata Keywords”  
Data Type

Adopt the PARSE.Insight Content-types used by Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data). Accept multiple values.

The comparison of the old and new options:

Statistics → Scientific and statistical data formats
Books → Standard office documents
Pictures (Non spatial) → Images
Pictures (Spatial) → Images
Vector → Scientific and statistical data formats
3D Model → Structured graphics
Multimedia → Audiovisual data
 
Time Period Shortcut Removed This field is just a tool for inputing for filling temporal information of the dataset and not part of metadata.
Temporal Resolution Remove the “Decade” and “Century” options. Rename “Year”, “Month”, and “Date” as “Yearly”, “Monthly”, and “Daily”, respectively. The definitions of decade and century are controversial and seldom used by datasets in depositar.
Start Time Does not restricted to the “Temporal Resolution” field anymore.  
End Time Does not restricted to the “Temporal Resolution” field anymore. Add a validator to check whether end time is greater than or equal to start time.
Prompted fields when “Books” is selected in the “Data Type” field

Remove the following fields:

ISBN-13
ISSN
Journal
Volume
Proceeding
Location
Publisher
Publication Year
Book Query
URL
Historical Material
Village of Research Area
Religion of Research Area
Family of Research Area
Reservoir of Research Area
Industry of Research Area
Notes
The values of removed fields are merged into the “Remarks” field.
Prompted fields when “Pictures” is selected in the “Data Type” field

Remove the following fields:

Original Source
Scan Size
Scanning Resolution
Scale Denominator

The following fields remain but are moved to another place:

Spatial Resolution
Preprocessing
The values of removed fields are merged into the “Remarks” field.
Spatial Resolution Moved to the Spatio-temporal Information section. Formerly used to describe “Pictures” type datasets.
Preprocessing Rename as “Process Step”. Moved to the Management Information section. Formerly used to describe “Pictures” type datasets.
Created Time   Support the YYYY and YYYY-MM format without converting missing month and day to “01.”
Maintainer Rename as “Contact Person” Renaming to meet the practical requirements of data management.
Maintainer Email Rename as “Contact Person Email” Renaming to meet the practical requirements of data management. Add an email validation.
Maintainer Phone Removed Removal due to privacy concerns.
Identifier Removed The value of this field is merged into the “Remarks” field.
Encoding Rename as “Character Encodings” This is a field in the resource level.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.3.6 2019-08-26

  • Add: Citation widget on dataset page.
  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.6.

v6.3.5 2019-03-29

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where newly created user cannot add datasets to existed topics (#6).
  • Other improvements.

v6.3.4 2018-12-18

  • Improvement: Fix the scrollable when showing facets on mobile devices.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.5.

v6.3.3 2018-12-07

  • Improvement: Fix an issue where search filters and pills in results cannot be displayed correctly.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.3.2 2018-10-25

  • Update: UI hotfix.

v6.3.1 2018-10-25

  • Update: Miscellaneous UI improvements.

v6.3.0 2018-10-23

  • Update: Revamped look.

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v6.2.1 2018-08-24

  • Update: Email confirmation required to create an account.
  • Update: Correct some errors in documentation.
  • Update: Update licenses to match https://licenses.opendefinition.org/. Add CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
  • Remove: News block in the home page.

v6.2.0 2018-07-20

  • Improvement: Add a “License Details” tool beside all Licenses filters.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.7.4.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.1.3 2018-07-06

  • Add: English documentation in footer.
  • Improvement: Move the language selector to the top-right corner.
  • Improvement: Fix an issue where the Preprocessing dataset level field cannot be displayed correctly (#2).
  • Improvement: Correct some errors in Chinese documentation.

v6.1.2 2018-05-10

  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.6.

v6.1.1 2018-04-23

  • Add: Documentation in footer (Chinese only at present).

v6.1.0 2018-03-23

  • Add: Site status in footer.
  • Improvement: Fix the wrong positive_float_validator validator.
  • Improvement: Apply the suitable validators to schema fields.
  • Improvement: Add LineString support to map for filling spatial extent.
  • Improvement: Add edit and delete tools to map for filling spatial extent.
  • Update: Leaflet.draw 0.4.1.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.5.
  • Move the Wikidata-powered keyword function to an extension: https://github.com/depositar-io/ckanext-wikidatakeyword.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v6.0 2017-11-03

  • Add: A Keywords field, which integrates wikidata entries, replaces the old theme and spatial keywords.
  • Add: System will generate a hash if the new dataset’s title can not be slugfied.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.4.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.

v5.0.x 2017-09-05

  • Improvement: Simplified metadata with three categories – basic information, descriptive Information, and management information. Add Remarks to replace Reference and Sub Project. Move Encoding to resource level. Remove some fields which are not often used.
  • Improvement: After a user fills in Spatial field using a map, system will generate geojson value and parcel corner and lock those fields.
  • Improvement: Maintainer and Maintainer Email can be filled in with logged-in account information.
  • Improvement: Add a checkbox to open a dataset for organization members only.
  • Improvement: Separate translations for our custom extension from CKAN core thanks to CKAN 2.5’s translation capabilities for extensions.
  • Update: ckanext-pages verison with zh_TW language.
  • Update: CKAN core version 2.6.3.
  • Other improvements and UI adjustments.