Unable to Update Metadata Due to Geographic Bounding Box Validation

[Marina Chagas Oliveira]

Hi everyone,

We have some datasets that were published a few years ago where the Geographic Bounding Box metadata was entered using degrees, minutes, and seconds (DMS) rather than decimal degrees.

These datasets were created and published before the validation was introduced, so now we are unable to save any metadata updates because the existing DMS values trigger a validation error ("... is not a valid entry").

We also have some cases where the warning is: "Geographic Bounding Box has invalid coordinates. East must be greater than West and North must be greater than South. Missing values are NOT allowed.", but in these cases, I understand that the information was entered incorrectly.

Would it be possible to temporarily disable the validator or create some kind of exception for these existing datasets?

Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Marina,

Sorry, I can't think of any way to disable the validator or exclude certain datasets. It would require a code change.

Is the conversion from degrees, minutes, and seconds to decimal degrees something that could be automated, perhaps with a script?

Thanks,

Phil

p.s. I assume you're talking about the validation introduced in Dataverse 6.1 in https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/10142

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