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  • Adjusting the embargo icon on landing page previews
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 57/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1438 ·

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  • Centre the embargo text on the preview landing page
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1437 ·

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  • Curation overview
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1435 ·

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  • Waiting states, deadline and data location
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1434 ·

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  • Impement an OAI-PMH set fo the ICGEM models
    Open
    DoR not met enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1433 ·

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  • Curation notes and activity history
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1432 ·

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  • Responsible curators and handover
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1431 ·

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  • Curation checklist for Resources
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1430 ·

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  • Switch the internal statistics dashboard completely to COUNTER
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1429 ·

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  • Usage card with chart on landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1428 ·

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  • COUNTER-compliant usage tracking for landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1427 ·

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  • Integrity monitoring for published files
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1426 ·

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  • Use file manifests for Signposting, DCAT-AP and RO-Crate distributions
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1425 ·

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  • SHA-256 checksums for manifest files
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1424 ·

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  • Discover file manifests from the data server and show them on landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 39/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1423 ·

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  • Epic: File manifests with checksums for published Resources
    Open
    enhancement epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1422 ·

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  • Machine-readable TDM statements (TDMRep)
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1421 ·

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  • Differentiated robots.txt policy for search engines and AI agents
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1420 ·

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  • Sitemap for landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1419 ·

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  • Epic: Findability for search engines and AI agents - sitemap, crawler policy and TDM signals
    Open
    enhancement epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1418 ·

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  • Croissant 1.1 export for data Resources
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1417 ·

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  • Validate exported RO-Crates against RO-Crate 1.3 and the GFZ profile
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1416 ·

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  • GFZ Data Services RO-Crate profile 1.0
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1415 ·

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  • Retrieve RO-Crates via content negotiation on landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1414 ·

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  • RO-Crate contextual entities for keywords, coverage, funding, projects, instruments, contacts and relations
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1413 ·

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  • Download a Detached RO-Crate for Resources
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1412 ·

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  • Epic: Detached RO-Crate 1.3 export and GFZ Data Services RO-Crate profile
    Open
    enhancement epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1411 ·

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  • Making it more convenient to use the Editor Settings
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1409 ·

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  • Assistant "RAiD Project Suggestions" for existing Resources
    Open
    assistant enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1408 ·

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  • Include RAiDs of all registration agencies in the local RAiD list
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1407 ·

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  • RAiD projects in schema.org JSON-LD and ISO 19115-3
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1406 ·

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  • Filter by project in the Data Portal
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1405 ·

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  • Projects card on landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1404 ·

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  • Import RAiD projects from DataCite XML, DataCite JSON and ELMO XML
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1403 ·

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  • Resolve RAiDs that are not in the local RAiD list
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1402 ·

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  • Projects section in the Data Editor with RAiD
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1401 ·

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  • Epic: Link Resources to research projects via RAiD
    Open
    enhancement epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1400 ·

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  • Annif model status and manual retraining on the Logs page
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1396 ·

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  • Assistant "Science Keyword Suggestions" for existing Resources
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1395 ·

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  • Live Science Keyword suggestions in the Controlled Vocabularies section of the Data Editor
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1394 ·

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  • Science Keyword suggestion service and API in ERNIE
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1393 ·

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  • Run Annif and train a GCMD Science Keywords model from ERNIE data
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1391 ·

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  • Epic: Annif-based GCMD Science Keyword suggestions
    Open
    enhancement epic

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1388 ·

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  • Implement SWHID in JSON-LD
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1386 ·

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  • Implement SWHID in Data Editor
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1385 ·

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  • Epic: SWHID on Landing Pages
    Open
    documentation enhancement epic

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1384 ·

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  • Rename data center GFZ
    Open
    enhancement SH_K

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 64/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1379 ·

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  • Provide DCAT-AP 3.0.1 as metadata format in the OAI-PMH interface
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1376 ·

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  • Download DCAT-AP 3.0.1 metadata (RDF/XML) in the Download Metadata section of landing pages
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1375 ·

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  • Epic: DCAT-AP 3.0.1 metadata export for Resources
    Open
    enhancement epic help wanted question SH_L

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    McNamara84/ernie#1374 · 1 comment ·

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