MattReimer
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7 months ago This is a good suggestion @shelbysawyer. I can totally see the use case too. I need to think about it a little more broadly because HUC is a US-centric measure and we need this to work everywhere but it definitely informs how we could inform search going forward.
For example, there's nothing but a little effort stopping us from implementing a "starts-with", "ends-with" and "is exactly" dropdown on metadata searching.
Ill definitely bring this up the next time there's a phase of work on the data exchange
Posting in this repo because I don't have access to the data exchange repo--
I created several Collections in the Data Exchange to pair with figures in my thesis (and, later, a manuscript) that feature Riverscapes projects. The manual creation of Collections worked well when I only needed a few projects (e.g., <5), but it wasn't worth the effort required for figures that used projects from whole 2-digit (region), 4-digit (subregion) or 6-digit (basin) HUCs.
For context:
This got me thinking: it would be handy if the Advanced Search option to specify by HUC wasn't limited only to exact 10-digit HUC matches.
With this feature, instead of manually searching for and adding the roughly 47 projects in a basin, we could type in the 6-digit HUC code, project type, and version to return all 47 projects with the same first 6 digits of their HUC code in one search.
This is where part 2 of my request comes in-- could we find a way to add all projects that fit search criteria to a collection in one go?
I know the 1,000 project limit would still apply to collections, but considering that the average 2-digit HUC (the biggest) has an average of 864, my guess is that it wouldn't be that common. Also, I'd think a simple message popup reading something like "This search criteria exceeds the maximum number of projects allowed (1,000) in a collection. Try refining your search by project type, version, and/or extent" would be fine.
In summary, the ability to 1) identify projects using 2-, 4-, 6-, and 8-digit HUC codes and 2) add all projects (<1,000) that fit given search criteria to a collection at once would be very useful for transparency and citation purposes.