Simplifying the source metadata on the beta search view

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11-06-2023 08:30 AM
ThomasHervey1
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Source is important metadata that helps users understand who created or owns content. On the current search and beta search views, for public content, ArcGIS Hub displays a source value and the username on search result cards. Users can also filter public content by "Source". Documented in the ArcGIS Hub FAQ,  the source value follows a hierarchy that can be confusing to end users.

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Based on customer feedback, this week ArcGIS Hub is releasing a change to the beta search view to simplify this logic. This change will primarily 1. remove the owner username, and 2. remove the owner username in the source hierarchy.

Change                  
Today                                                                    
Tuesday                                                  
Public content`{source} | {owner} `
`{source}`
Private content`{owner} `hidden

Source value fallback

  1. Resource > Citation > Contact > Organization Name
  2. Resource > Contact > Organization Name
  3. Organization name in ArcGIS Online
  4. Item Owner in ArcGIS Online
  5. hidden

 

  1. Resource > Citation > Contact > Organization Name
  2. Resource > Contact > Organization Name
  3. Organization name in ArcGIS Online
  4. Item Owner in ArcGIS Online
  5. hidden

 

In the future, the ArcGIS Hub team plans to centralize the source logic and reduce the hierarchy even further in order to make sure all search experiences show the same source value. The team is also planning on making source values configurable directly through ArcGIS Hub. Once released, customers will be able to select from a list of options for displaying source, owner, badges, and more across search results and content views. The team is actively seeking feedback on metadata displays and metadata configuration. So, please share your thoughts on metadata configuration features you'd like to see in the product!

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MiltonSolano
Occasional Contributor

Hi @ThomasHervey1 ,

This is an old announcement and probably you forgot about it, but I'm trying to figure out how the items' source are coming from.

This is my situation: I published datasets built by other people. When I published this datasets, I appear as the default contact for the datasets. See for example this dataset:

https://stridata-si.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/989e6e9f80564319be8fa6ab66ffebbd_0/

I went to (per the Hub's documentation):

Overview > Citation > Citation Contacts > Organization
Overview > Resource Info > Resource Contact > Organization Name

And changed the values there to acknowledge the creators for the datasets. After refreshing the metadata, double check that the values are written into, I don't see any changes on my Hub page. I'm still appearing as the Contact point. Is there another way to make these changes happen? Am I missing something?

Thanks!

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