Local Rating (originating from ​Nationaal Georegister)

Date	2009/09/03
Contact(s)	​Heikki Doeleman
Last edited	Timestamp
Status	Proposed for vote
Assigned to release	2.5
Resources	The work may be done in the NGR project

Overview

In GeoNetwork, users can rate metadata. The user's rating is broadcast to all GeoNetwork nodes known to the one where the rating happens, and the results are thus shared between nodes. In NGR this does not happen and the rating is simply kept and calculated on only the user ratings on the GN node itself. This proposal wants to make this "local" rating behaviour an option to standard GeoNetwork, configurable through the Admin interface.

Proposal Type

• Type: GUI change, Core change
• App: GeoNetwork
• Module: admin interface, core rating code

Links

• Email discussions: on geonetwork-devel: ​Proposals to include NGR functionality to GeoNetwork trunk
• IRC discussions: ​September 1st, 2009 on GeoNetwork's IRC channel

Voting History

• Vote proposed September 14th 2009
• Votes:
  • Patrizia Monteduro +1
  • Simon Pigot +1
  • François Prunayre +1
  • Jeroen Ticheler +1

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Motivations

The motivations for these changes are :

1. Local user feedback

Proposal

In GeoNetwork, users can rate metadata. The user's rating is broadcast to all GeoNetwork nodes known to the one where the rating happens, and the results are thus shared between nodes. In NGR this does not happen and the rating is simply kept and calculated on only the user ratings on the GN node itself. This proposal wants to make this "local" rating behaviour an option to standard GeoNetwork, configurable through the Admin interface.

Backwards Compatibility Issues

none

Risks

Participants

• As above