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Changelog

September 28, 2020

  • 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.

August 17, 2020

  • 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.

July 6th, 2020

  • 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.

May 25th, 2020

  • A new documentation article on "How to use and download data" is now available to help users interact with the SPARC Portal in the right way.
  • A Glossary feedback link is added to the SPARC Portal footer for the users to submit a new term to the SPARC Glossary.
  • Pagination options are updated on all tables to provide a better user experience around browsing multiple entries.
  • The DOI link on a dataset details page is now clickable and navigates users to Blackfynn Discover, the dataset publishing platform for SPARC datasets.
  • A link to the SPARC Portal status page was added in the footer so users can have full access to the current and historical availability of the Portal and related technologies.
  • The search bar has been updated and allows users to search all sections of the SPARC Portal by selecting which kind of results they expect.

April 13th, 2020

  • Every table on the portal is now sortable to allow you to reorder it the way you need.
    • When using the "Find Data" page, you will now be able to clear your search by clicking the cross in the search bar, this will also reset your search.
    • We added a documentation article to describe the Material Sharing Policy of the SPARC Program