May 23, 2022

  • A new help center has been added to the Portal.
  • A help icon and tooltip has been added on the map sidebar to explain filter behavior.

March 28, 2022

  • An auto-generated email will be sent to users on submission of Portal feedback via Contact Us.
  • The Community Spotlight landing page is now split into three sections to highlight Success Stories, along with Fireside Chats and Community Spotlights.

February 15, 2022

January 13, 2022

  • The dataset details page has been redesigned to provide a more user-friendly experience.
  • A new data category for Nerves and Ganglia has been added on the Portal homepage.

November 22, 2021

  • The Tools and Resources page has been updated to serve as a landing page to guide user exploration of tools and resources and their uses.
  • On the Maps page, the sample size of the study is included as part of the surfaced metadata.

October 11, 2021

August 31, 2021

  • In the Gallery tab of Dataset details page, a segmentation viewer is now available for viewing relevant segmentation data.
  • The SPARC Help Center presents a new help article about the SPARC Portal Data Repository Structure.

July 19, 2021

  • A Community Spotlight section has been added to the News and Events page, featuring a section that highlights SPARC science achievements and breakthroughs.
  • A new request form for Airtable and Slack accounts has been added to the help article User Accounts and Organizations to facilitate access to these accounts.

June 7, 2021

  • The scaffold viewer now supports permalinks, enabling users to easily share and save specific views on the SPARC Portal.
  • On the Tools and Resources section of the SPARC Portal, detail pages have been added; see an example here.
  • The SPARC Portal Help Center presents two new help articles:

April 27, 2021

  • Embargoed datasets are now displayed on the Portal, maintaining the privacy of relevant files and scientific metadata during the embargo period.
  • Primary publications are displayed under the About tab on the Dataset details page.
  • Users can now submit news and event items to be displayed on the Portal directly from the News and Events page.