[ecoinfo] Morpho 1.9.0 Released

[ben leinfelder]

We are pleased to announce the release of Morpho 1.9.0, 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

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Version 1.9.0 is a significant update to 1.8.0 with many new features and bug fixes.

Enhancements:
	-Multi-lingual support has been added in this release, and language packs for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, and Chinese are included. 
	-Explicit UTF-8 character encoding is used across the application.
	-Data entity management has been enhanced to allow import and export of non-tabular data files as well as the ability to view and convert these other data entities into data tables with attribute-level metadata descriptions.
	-Data packages can now be directly retrieved from the network or the local store using their Id.
	-Search filter for users in access control wizard

Important bug fixes: 
	-Correctly handle access control permissions in cases where there are mixed allow/deny rules
	-Effectively capture consecutive column delimiters when importing data tables
	-Validate user profile creation
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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) 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)