azgs / azlibrary_react

azlibrary frontend

Arizona Geological Survey Web Application

The Arizona Geological Survey freely publishes all of its materials online at https://library.azgs.arizona.edu. This online repository is powered by a custom data service - https://data.azgs.arizona.edu and database. The combination of all three services is codenamed AZLib.

Features List

The following is a checklist of key features that the web application (and/or underlying API/database) are meant to facilitiate.

• Versioning: AZLib currently supports a linear versioning system where relationships between new publications that supersede an older publication are explicitly tracked. A user is always able to find the successor/predecessor of any item in the repository.

• Geographic Search: AZLib supports geographic search of its items. This is powered in the web applicaiton through a leaflet interface and in the API by OGC WKT queries.

• Full-text Search: AZLib supports full-text search of the metadata records AND any of the texts (e.g., PDFs, word-documents) bundled in the publication. This is powered on the back-end by the native PostgreSQL full-text search functions (tsvector and tsquery).

azlibrary_react's Issues

Update the alert box with latest update info

Update the alert box code in layout.js

New items to report

Previous search results are now saved on back-button.

Can now directly open individual PDFs instead of downloading entire zip. Please note we have reports of this feature not working properly on Mozilla Firefox.

Was there anything else we changed from an end-user perspective?

Change how "blank" form display

It would be cool if when the form is completely blank, the query results do not populate and instead a message shows up that says something like "Your search results will update in this display in real-time as you fill out the form."

Since this has to do with the state handler I think it could be taken care of simultaneously with #15

Render the keywords by group

Currently keywords are sorted by theme, place, and temporal. We don't do anything with this information and just provide that info in parentheses, but I think it would make sense to group them together in some way?

Change "Search Publications" to message explaining live-update.

Change look of the filter by map extent button

I think something more like this would be better...

1. Increase font for text
2. Add a border (similar colour to the other borders used on the page)
3. Change from checkbox to Large Toggle Switch.

Update notification box for latest round of updates

Similar to what we did in #22, we'll want to showcase our recent improvements. I think violet might be a nice color this time...

1. Show total number of collections.
2. Sort by year
3. New versioning options (maybe don't list this since it is kind of backend issue)
4. What else?

Bottom paging buttons don't do anything.

The paging button for search results works on the top, but not on the bottom.

Hotlink files to new api peek endpoint

The api now provides an endpoint to view files within collections. Hotlink the files in the file list to use this endpoint.

Change search to be on submit?

As @NoisyFlowers and many others have pointed out. The current setup of having the results happen in real-time is just too unfamiliar to user. People want an on-button event to open a new search page.

Not sure when to prioritize this change or if we even should make this change or we should just make people get used to it. Either way, finally documenting the issue.

Define api url in .env

Move the api definition into .env

New home for geomapaz

https://geomapaz.azgs.arizona.edu/

We currently run the following app from People's Host, the same way we used to run https://library.azgs.arizona.edu/.

The code for it is here https://github.com/azgs/Geologic-Map-of-Arizona-Leaflet.

I am curious if there is a way for us to have this served from the current AZLib serverv instead as we are trying to close out our People's Host account? I'm assuming just through a diff nginx port?

ALL returns should be sorted by pubyear

This would require a backend change to the API.

Maintain form state on Back from collection page

Maintain the search form state when the user backs out of a collection page.

Keep track of form state on back-button

Users have requested to be able to hit back button and the form remember their previous search inputs.

Drop series from the advanced search options

Series is such a garbage search parameter, I question whether it should be included. But, I think that others might disagree... putting it here as a long-term question.

Page does not load on 200th

I did the following

1. Hit the "LAST" button of the top pagination scrollbar then proceeded to move backwards through the pages.

3. When I specifically hit page 200 the screen goes white and fails to load. Interestingly, hitting page 199 works. So there is specifically something breaking about the records on page 200.

I am marking this as Low Priority because I've only encountered this on that one page, but it is entirely possible there are other instances of whatever is causing this elsewhere in the db and I just have not encountered the problem yet.

Move this to azgs org

Move this to azgs org. LOL

Figure out how to implement Google tag

Andrew uses GTM to monitor the react client. Not sure how this worked before our shambling change to AL2, but need to figure out how to make it work there.

Filter special chars

Title and Author will throw an error if we use special characters such as , ! & ( ) etc

We need to identify all the special chars that cause an error and filter the inputs.

File Download Links Not Working for DGM-77

I am attempting to access the GIS data for DGM-77 (Geologic Map of the Wintersburg 7.5' Quadrangle) and none of the file download links work. Is there an alternate location to access the data?

Make author names searchable/links

It would be nice if when interrogating a record you could click the author name to get more items matching the author name.

Add Contact page

A standard contact page is appropriate.

The layout of the page can just be plagiarized from how it is on the main page

https://azgs.arizona.edu/about/contact

Of course change email.arizona.edu to arizona.edu

Client does not parse multiple lineages correctly.

I'm putting this as an enhancement/bug because

1. The way it is currently implemented isn't working since collection names are just smooshed together making an unworkable link.

2. Even if it was working, it would look pretty ugly. Can we think of a better design/layout for presenting this information?

The three superseding collections are smooshed together. Not only does it look bad it doesn't work cause it will try to take you to a bogus collection.

Permalink formatting

Currently the permalink is aliased as UA Library, but it would be better if the full handle was shown.

So instead of

UA Library

it should just be

http://hdl.handle.net/10150/630150

Disable map scroll wheel scrolling until map is clicked

It's really annoying to be using the mouse scroll wheel to navigate a page and then have the map grab it and start zooming out. Disable this until the map is explicitly clicked.