July 19, 2021

about 2 years ago by Yomi Dare

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

about 2 years ago by Yomi Dare

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:
- The SPARC Data and Resource Center
- Overview of Scaffold Viewer

about 2 years ago by Yomi Dare

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.

about 2 years ago by Yomi Dare

On the Dataset details page, users can now find all versions of datasets and studies.
The SPARC Portal Help Center presents a new document about the Gallery Viewer.
A "Policies" section has been added to the SPARC Portal footer, so users can easily find them all in one place.
On the Home page, a "view more" button is now featured under 'Find Data by Category' to navigate to datasets by organ easily.
Maps now support permalinks enabling users to easily share and save specific views on the SPARC Portal's flatmap section.
The following file formats now launch viewers in the file action menu on the dataset details page: PDF, TXT, JPG, PNG, SVG, and MP4.

about 2 years ago by Yomi Dare

Under the About tab on the Dataset details page, the user can now find associated publications below references.
The SPARC Portal Help Center presents a new article on SPARC Data and Usage Statistics.
Each News and Events now have a landing page that can display more information.

over 4 years ago by Joost Wagenaar

The SPARC Portal Help Center presents a new article on K-Core under the Data & Resource Center section.
The SPARC About Page now exhibits an additional article on the future plans of the SPARC Portal.
The SPARC Portal Help Center presents a separate article regarding the other platforms associated with the SPARC Portal.

over 4 years ago by Joost Wagenaar

The SPARC Portal and its pipeline now recognizes these additional file formats: CRAM, JPEG2000, NDPI, NIFTI, OIB, OIF, ROI, SWC
The SPARC Portal Help Center presents a separate article about the dataset details gallery viewer.

over 4 years ago by Joost Wagenaar

At the bottom of all pages, “Glossary”, “Terms of Service” and “Material sharing policy” options are added to allow users to navigate to the respective SPARC project pages effortlessly.
The SPARC Portal Help Center presents a separate article about the SPARC Materials Sharing Policy.
The About SPARC page now has a new section regarding the SPARC's Plans for the Future.
On the Projects listing page, the NIH Award is now a clickable link redirecting to the NIH RePORT page.
On Dataset details pages, there is now a "Cite Dataset" button in the upper portion of the page so the user can easily navigate to the citation section.

over 4 years ago by Joost Wagenaar

At the bottom of the SPARC Portal homepage, the “SPARC Publications” option is added to allow users to find all the publications linked to a SPARC project.
On the “Find Data” page, the title of the page now appears over the search bar, so users know which page they’re on.

over 4 years ago by Joost Wagenaar

The SPARC portal is enhanced with a new “Maps” section which provides a visually appealing user interface to navigate through anatomically/physiologically accurate structure of various species.
A new gallery viewer interface is introduced on the dataset page for the user to view the graphical thumbnail gallery of images (including 3D image stacks), videos, and scaffold data.
A documentation link is added to the File browser of a dataset to present guidance on how to navigate the dataset format.