[Medin_standards] FW: Metadata Maestro v2.0.0

Wed May 21 14:41:20 BST 2014

Dear MEDIN Standards Working Group,
As you know, The Crown Estate and SeaZone  have been working towards a new release of Metadata Maestro. We would be very grateful if you can find time to test the updated software and send us any  feedback by 30th May.  You can download the test version of the tool using the link and password at the bottom of the email.
Best wishes,
Clare

From: Edmonds, Peter [mailto:Peter.Edmonds at thecrownestate.co.uk]
Sent: 20 May 2014 16:03
To: Postlethwaite, Clare; Bojar, Kasia; Derrick.Thirlwell at fluor.com; Redstone, Phil; Goh, Andrew; Strich, Anke
Cc: Lesley Mansfield (L.Mansfield at hrwallingford.com)
Subject: RE: Metadata Maestro v2.0.0

Hi all,

Thank you to those of you that were able to find the time to provide feedback to us on Metadata Maestro. We have considered your comments, and where practical incorporated changes into a new release. In parallel, we have been working to finish the work that was initially proposed. We now have a new release of the software which I would be very grateful to have feedback on by 30th May.

As per last time, please feel free to send this on to colleagues. Clare, I’m happy for you to send this on to the Standards Working Group, and perhaps the DAC Working Group for feedback.

As before, please note that this is a test version of the tool, and as such may have stability issues and bugs. You are only licenced to use this for testing purposes, and this will expire on 30th May 2014). You will need to uninstall the current version of Maestro in order to install this one.

For context, we have asked SeaZone to look at the following (items that were included in the previous delivery are highlighted in bold, those that are new in this delivery are highlighted in bold italics. Some items were too technically difficult to implement within the budget, these are struck out):

A.      Keywords – you should now be able to access the keyword search tool from within the form in the metadata editor; fuzzy search is performed by default, and if you select keywords from more than one vocabulary list and add them (rather than drag/drop), then new keyword nodes should be created automatically).

B.      Rationalised menus – these should now be clearer and more navigable

C.      Help menu – this should now be more functional, and includes the Maestro user guide.

D.      Selecting the metadata profile  - where this was a drop down box, and easy to accidentally change by scrolling when it was selected, thereby losing your work, there is now a button to stop this from happening.

E.       Start up dialogue – The current welcome screen (if this does not appear for you, go to Metadata Tools>Options, and de-select the box “Do not show start up dialogue”) has been augmented by the addition of a start up dialogue giving you access to the most common tasks.

F.       Workflow – This will make it simpler for the user to work through the forms, only showing relevant entry boxes, re-ordering the node tree, ensuring the tree is collapsed when you open the editor, rather than confusing and overwhelming the user, changing the names to be more consistent where sensible, and linked better to the error messages, removing the confusing red symbols and replacing with a simple (m) for mandatory, (o) for optional and (c) for conditional, creating new “next”, “previous” and “add new” (where relevant) buttons to each form

G.     New node creation – Adding the required responsible parties, and pre-populating the required roles as default behaviour.

H.      File Identifier – fix bug that overwrites fileID when you load an existing metadata record, create a better workflow around generating new file ID’s and making it more difficult to accidentally edit/overwrite/delete it.

I.        Nil Reasons – making it easier to create nulls and a more consistent method.

J.        Context Help – embedding help within the forms to allow the user to understand what’s required.

K.      Application window behaviour – fixing movement of windows within the overall application window and tidying it up.

L.       Search – looking into the addition of an index (populating results as you type) and dictionary test (e.g. “did you mean..”)

There are a few other items that I have collated from feedback, which I will provide on to MEDIN as ideas for further development, so please feel free to throw in any ideas that come to you.

Many thanks,

Pete

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