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1 Introduction 
1.1 Purpose of the Document 
The main purpose of this document is to pres ent a User Manual for the main user functionalities of 
the Portal Version 4.3, launched in production in May 2019. This document consists of an update of 
the User Manual for the Portal Version 3.0 published in November 2017[4]. 
 
1.2 Reference Documents 
Id Reference Title Version 
[1] EDP_S1_MAN EDP_S1_MAN_Portal-Version1-UserManual_v1.0 1.0 
[2] EDP_S1_MAN EDP_S1_MAN_Portal-Version1.3-UserManual_v1.2 1.3 
[3] EDP_S1_MAN EDP_S1_MAN_Portal-Version2.0-UserManual_v1.0 2.0 
[4] EDP_S1_MAN EDP_S1_MAN_Portal-Version3.0-UserManual_v1.0 3.0 
Table 1-1: Reference Documents 
 
1.3 Terminology 
Acronym Description 
API Application Programmer Interface 
CKAN (replaced by the “Data Platform”) 
CSV Comma separated values 
Data Platform Single page web app for managing and displaying datasets 
DCAT-AP DCAT Application Profile - Metadata specification based on the Data 
Catalogue vocabulary (DCAT) 
DRUPAL Content Management System 
ECAS / EU-Login EU user login page 
EDP European Data Portal 
FME Feature Manipulation Engine 
GUI Graphical User Interface 
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol 
JSON JavaScript Object Notation (a lightweight data-interchange format) 
maps.app Geo-spatial data visualization application 
MQA Metadata Quality Assistant 
RDF Resource Description Framework 
SOLR Search engine used for portal content search and dataset search