Release 2.2

What was planned

Timeline

• 2007-09-09: Release Candidate GN v2.2
• 2007-09-20: Final release GN 2.2. This is just before the FOSS4G and the Intergeo conferences taking place in the week of 23 September

Features

• GUI improvements based on the outcome of two usability assessments
• Simple LDAP authentication to allow authentication against corporate authentication system
• Plain text version (for low bandwidth searching)
• CSW harvesting
• Open Archive Initiative (OAI) server and client (harvesting) support + administration interface
• Notification system for system administrators in GeoNetwork software:
  • A client thread to send a keep alive message to the server;
  • Using the keep alive messages, the server provides a list of users/ hosts currently active. An administrator service will be added to show the list of connected users;
  • The new administrative page that displays the active users provides the administrator the option to send a message to all or single users;
  • The text message will be presented on the client browser;
  • A maintenance password will be used to avoid logins before a scheduled reboot, or while testing the system. This prevents users to connect to an unstable system.

InterMap improvements:

• Export/print functionality to InterMap to export maps in pdf or geotiff format
• Export in GEOTIFF (image with internal geo-reference)
• Export in PDF format. Add a dialogue to set the title, north arrow, scale, page orientation, visible layer legends, copyright info
• “Email this map to” support, using Web Map Context support already available in InterMap The HTML based mail will provide:
  • Thumbnail of the map
  • A hyperlink that will open the embedded WMC context in the original InterMap instance.
• Updated documentation
• An updated DVD will be produced with this version of the GeoNetwork software.

Under discussion but not confirmed InterMap improvements:

• Integration of the OpenLayers API in the client part
• InterMap server part to act as a WMS-T cascading server
• Support for KML export of a project, including adding comments with pins etc...

Also under discussion, as a result of usability assessment:

To improve searchability

• Ability to refine search by searching ‘within’ search results
• Results to be classified/sorted by:
  • Date of publication
  • Date map refers to
  • Rating
  • Number of views (popularity)
• Highlight searched keywords (context) in results
• By default, search should:
  • Spell check
  • A search for synonyms and equivalents and yield the relevant results
• Metadata to show version number, which is revised each time metadata is updated

To improve admin and publishing

• Automate the registration process, with an email sent to site administrator who then approves the account
• Creation of a lost-password retrieval system
• Data managers have customised user pages which contain all “their” files, and can view usage statistics
• Automated email to data manager asking them to check that their metadata/data is still valid on an annual basis from creation/update (to help improve "housekeeping")

What was delivered

Timeline

• 2008-01-26: RC1 released
• 2008-03-10: RC2 released
• 2008-04-03: 2.2.0 released

Features

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What was not delivered

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• Feature X. No longer required, because feature Z was implemented instead.
• Feature Y. Ran out of time. Should be a high priority for Release2.3.