GUI availability: multiple entries for temp. networks

[petrrr]

Here I would like to report an observation regarding the GUI for availability as deployed at Orfeus/ODC:

• https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/quality/availability/

This regards the drop-down menu for the network. You can observe that there can be multiple entries for the same 2 letter station code for temporary networks.

Very probably this is due to the fact that the 2-character network codes are reused for temporary networks and that this 2-character code by it self is an incomplete key. It requires the combination (start year/net code) to form a complete key. It is also not clear to the use which temp. network or experiment he is actually selecting.

I therefore would suggest that the combination of "year/net" is displayed instead, e.g.

• 2016/3A
• 2011/4C
• 2015/Z3
  (We find the year more significant in the case of temporary networks)

[jppzanetti]

The duplicated network codes are indeed ugly, but my suggestion would be to simplify it and just deduplicate the completion list.

While semantically a temporary network is identified by both a code and a start year, neither this page nor WFCatalog really differentiate between two networks that share the same code, e.g. 2008/3A and 2016/3A. And since network code, station code, start date, and end date are always needed for the query, I don't believe users miss the network start year.

[s-schneider]

@petrrr

[jppzanetti]

My suggested improvement is now up at https://www.orfeus-eu.org/data/eida/quality/availability/.