December 14, 2022

New

• The portal now has a user login and profile page. SPARC users can log in with an ORCID ID
• Users can now request to access embargoed datasets through the SPARC Portal
• Dataset owners will now receive emails with metrics on their datasets and the ability to unsubscribe
• The SPARC Portal presents five new help articles:
  • SPARC Portal Login
  • SPARC Changes to Published Datasets Policy
  • Embargoed Datasets
  • NIH SPARC Embargoed Data Use Agreement
  • List of SPARC Datasets Removed from the SPARC Portal

Improved

• Our homepage has a new look! The new design highlights
  • What users can do with SPARC
  • Featured Projects and Datasets
  • Latest news and events
  • Office open hours
  • Link to sign up for SPARC newsletter
• The tombstone details page for unpublished dataset has been updated
• The flatmap search widget has been updated to suggest when using freeform text
• The portal now has a female human map and automatically pull maps based on SCKAN connectivity