If an association is made to an external website, geonetwork does not index and display the link

[pvgenuchten]

In case an association is created to a remote website/url, the link is not indexed and displayed, seems geonetwork only allows links to other metadata records, not websites. Suggestion would be to index and show the link.

<mri:associatedResource>
<mri:MD_AssociatedResource>
<mri:name>
<cit:CI_Citation>
<cit:title>
<gco:CharacterString>XXXIV Expedition PNRA project</gco:CharacterString>
</cit:title>
<cit:identifier>
<mcc:MD_Identifier>
<mcc:code>
<gcx:Anchor xlink:href="https://www.pnra.aq/node/148">XXXIV Expedition PNRA</gcx:Anchor>
</mcc:code>
</mcc:MD_Identifier>
</cit:identifier>
</cit:CI_Citation>
</mri:name>

[josegar74]

@pvgenuchten about this comment: Suggestion would be to harvest and show the link.

In the previous snippet the link has a title, unless I'm misunderstanding it, I think that should be enough to display it, no? Not very clear what is the proposal about harvesting? the link content?

[pvgenuchten]

harvesting was a typo - should be 'index' the link and title and display as hyperlink in stead of open-record link

[josegar74]

@pvgenuchten, currently the link is handled in the following code:

https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork/blob/3d71504370d6d8b84efa75efb004f9a8ef9afc26/schemas/iso19115-3.2018/src/main/plugin/iso19115-3.2018/index-fields/common.xsl#L540-L543

It checks mri:metadataReference/@uuidref and if no value checks mri:metadataReference/cit:CI_Citation/cit:identifier/mcc:MD_Identifier/mcc:code/gco:CharacterString

But you're proposing mri:name/cit:CI_Citation/cit:identifier/mcc:MD_Identifier/mcc:code/gcx:Anchor/@xlink:href, before any change I want to confirm it's a correct element to use.

[pvgenuchten]

Nice work, the use of identifier/anchor/@href was suggested by user, not sure if we're able to populate that element from the gn user interface. a suggestion could be to allow both anchor/@href as well as characterstring