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Occurrence search - dataset list view #19

Open rondlg opened 3 years ago

rondlg commented 3 years ago

Hi,

On this page: https://hp-north-america.gbif-staging.org/data?view=dataset

1) Is it possible to turn off/change/remove the green "How many records" bar for the entries on this page? Given that eBird will always be the biggest player it seems a less than useful visual especially as the number of records is also displayed.

2) Can we override the ordering? Perhaps to alphabetical.

3) Or even better just be like the existing GBIF dataset view https://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?q=

Thanks

Sharon

MortenHofft commented 3 years ago

You are hitting a sore spot. I'm really in doubt what to do with datasets and publishers. The current version is really mostly there to start the discussion about what is needed and to have something

"eBird will always be the biggest player" It is really mostly intended as a list of datasets contributing occurrences to a filtered search. E.g. what are the datasets holding information about Basidiomycota in Alaska That is also serves as a list of all datasets when there is no filter is more of a nice coincidence.

Green bar We default to logarithmic on gbif.org, but like you I'm tempted to remove it altogether. Perhaps do it as a table instead.

Override ordering Unlike gbif.org dataset search, then this subset is defined by the occurrences. Meaning it will only show datasets with occurrences. And we can only really access these through a facet, meaning it will be ordered by counts.

It is essentially doing this https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?country=US&limit=0&facet=datasetKey

Pagination You didn't mention it, but this page need pagination as well

Search You can filter using the occurrence filters, but that doesn't include all the filters from https://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?q= (e.g. not dataset type)

Suggestion Would it make sense to have a occurrence metrics tab + a more dedicated dataset search (not a tab on occurrence search)?

Metrics tab In many ways I consider the current tab a temporary measure until we have a metrics tab with arbitrary breakdowns similar to gbif.org/charts

Dataset search I think we should add datasets as a content type of its own, instead of a tab on occurrence search. And this would be more similar to gbif.org/dataset/search (which doesn't order alphabetically either).

Again the challenge is how to include datasets without occurrences and secondly how to sort them (if size isn't desired). This is a challenge because you cannot filter datasets in the API to match your data scope.

albenson-usgs commented 3 years ago

Yes pagination for the datasets tab is definitely needed. Does it need its own ticket Morten?