The GCMD staff is pleased to announce the release of GCMD/IDN Version 9.9.0. With this software release, the GCMD's "Next Generation" portal will now serve as the default GCMD web site (http://gcmd.nasa.gov). The new web site offers an advanced search refinement capability. This option permits users to navigate the comprehensive GCMD keyword taxonomy through a "tree" structure and perform freetext, spatial, and temporal searches within the same query. In response to each refinement the interface displays the keywords in a dynamically updating window, where keyword are displayed as broader terms at the top with each subsequent level revealing a narrower term. As the user further refines the query, terms unrelated to the search drop out while the number of records matching the query (displayed to the right of each keyword) inform the user exactly how many records match that term. The user can browse the data set and data services titles that match the query in the right hand window and view the detailed metadata.

The "Legacy" GCMD web site will continue to run as a portal and will be phased out in the Fall of 2013. Customized GCMD Portals will use the "Classic" GCMD format for this release.

Major Features Integrated with Release:

• New GCMD Web site
  
  
• Component URL
  • http://gcmd.nasa.gov
• New Features
  • New Design and Structure.
    
  • "Tree" structured normalized keyword navigation.
  • Filter option to rapidly identify keywords that match the filter criteria and eliminate unrelated keywords in the keyword "tree".
  • Keyword suggestions in the freetext refinement.
  • Dynamically generated "hit counts" in response to each search refinement.
  • Functionality to withdraw individual refinements from a query in order to broaden search.
  • Integration of GCMD Metadata Web Service (MWS) and KeywordManagement Service (KMS) RESTful web services with all search interfaces and docBUILDER.
  • Ancillary metadata descriptions of Platforms, Instruments, Data Centers, and Projects are searchable.
  • Users may view more than one metadata record at the same time in inline popup windows.
  • Enhanced Map/Date search interface.
  • Improvements to the user interface based on feedback from NASA EOSDIS usability study and user input.
  • Modifications to ensure compliance with U.S. Federal Government electronic and information technology accessibility laws.
    
• Online Tutorial
  • http://gcmd.nasa.gov/learn/faqs/search_explanation.html
• Contact
  • Please contact gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov with questions or feedback.



• Broken URL Notification Service
  • Description
    
    • Metadata authors subscribe to receive notification via email when URLs are broken.
  • Features
    • Leverages the GCMD "Link Checking" Software.
    • Provides metadata authors with a list of records, potential broken URLs, and a direct link to the docBUILDER tool to fix the links.
    • E-mail sent on the 1st day of each month.
  • Contact
    • Please contact gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov with questions or feedback.



• New Metadata Queue Notification Web Service
  • Metadata providers may query the GCMD metadata queue and obtain status updates of submitted metadata.
  • Contact
    • Please contact gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov with questions or feedback.
    
    
    
• Improvements to the Extended Metadata feature.


• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Please contact gsfc-gcmduso@mail.nasa.gov with questions or feedback.