[open-science] fw: [ecoinfo] Morpho 1.10.0 Released

Tue Sep 11 00:04:17 UTC 2012

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From: ben leinfelder <Leinfelder at nceas.ucsb.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:35:06 -0700
Subject: [ecoinfo] Morpho 1.10.0 Released

> We are pleased to announce the release of Morpho 1.10.0, an
> application for managing and sharing ecological and environmental data
> through the creation of structured metadata (data documentation).
> Morpho enables data sharing among scientists through Knowledge Network
> for Biocomplexity servers. The new release of Morpho can be downloaded
> from:

> http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/morphoportal.jsp

> ---------------------

> Version 1.10.0 is a significant update, most notably it now supports
> [Ecological Metadata Language] EML 2.1.1 for multi-lingual metadata
> translations.

> Other enhancements include:
> -Fully compatible with Metacat 2.0.x versions of the metadata server
> -More robust CSV parsing during data import
> -Support for using special characters in query terms (accents, etc)
> -Internationalized access control rule display

> ---------------------

> We hope that this software is useful to you. We welcome feedback and
> comments that will make the application more useful in the future.
> Please submit bugs and problems through our bug tracking system
> (http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org) and send general feedback to
> 'morpho-dev at ecoinformatics.org'.

> Current development of Morpho was supported by the National Science
> Foundation for the Semtools project (Grant #0743429), the DataONE
> project (OCI #0830944) and by the National Center for Ecological
> Analysis and Synthesis, a Center funded by NSF (Grant #EF-0553768),
> the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of
> California.

> The Morpho Development Team
> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)