20140325 - DataONE Coordinating Node View Service
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Attendees
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Dave Vieglais, Isis Serna, Chris Allen, Chris Jones

Goal 
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Provide a service on the coordinating nodes that given an identifier (PID), will provide a rendering of the content associated with the PID suitable for viewing in a web browser. 

This "content view by identifier" capability is available already in Metacat, which operates as a core component of the Coordinating Node software stack. Enabling access to the Metcat view service at a standard URL should functionality required by such a service.

The appearance of the Metacat view service can be "skinned" to alter the look and feel of the rendering. 

Example of a metacat view of identifer: "doi:10.5063/F10V89RP"

  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/#view/doi:10.5063/F10V89RP
  https://dev.nceas.ucsb.edu/#view/doi:10.5063/F10V89RP
  
  Without CSS:
  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/d1/mn/v1/views/metacatui/doi:10.5063/F10V89RP



Actions
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- Provision a new VM and install clean metacat there (Chris J)

- Provide access to the new VM (Dave)

- Document location of content to change (metcat theme documentation)

- Pointers to documentation for metacat theming:

  https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/themes.html

- Adjust CSS and graphics (Isis, Chris)

- Sketch some possible layouts for the different metadata formats (Isis, Chris)

- Identify who will be involved in review / usability (Dave)

- Change installation on the CNs to support the view service (Dave, Chris J)