Difference between revisions of "Release 1.2"

Revision as of 13:54, 29 November 2011

Please note that ICA-AtoM is no longer actively supported by Artefactual Systems.
Visit https://www.accesstomemory.org for information about AtoM, the currently supported version.

Released Nov 29th, 2011

Release 1.2 was a year in the making and includes a host of new features, including a full Accessions module, a fine-grained Rights interface based on PREMIS, Advanced search, Global search and replace for descriptions, a complete overhaul of print styles for archival descriptions (issue 2093) and search results (issue 2146), and four new reports: file list, item list, box list and physical storage locations.

New Features

Trillium (beta) theme! Brand new fluid width theme based on the Bootstrap framework (Tested in Internet Explorer 9, Safari 5, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4) (issue 2092)
Accession module
Rights (based on PREMIS)
Advanced search (issue 164)
Global search and replace for descriptions (issue 2149)
Bulk XML import (issue 1920)
CSV import of archival descriptions (RAD and ISAD) and ISDIAH archival institutions
- This feature is currently only available for small data sets. Improving CSV import performance and including import of Authority records (ISAAR) and Accession data is slated for Release 1.2.1
Reporting
- Box list (issue 2082)
- File list (issue 2107)
- Item list (issue 2110)
- Physical storage location (issue 2106)
- Printed archival description (issue 2093)
- Printed search results (issue 2146)
Multi-institution digital object upload quotas
- Separate digital object upload directories per institution (issue 2021)
- Limit storage of uploaded digital objects per institution (issue 2022, issue 2023)
SWORD API for importing digital objects (no issue)

Enhancements

Search index performance/scalability optimization re-factor (Issue 2003)
UI improvements based on Usability Testing (issue 164, issue 2062, issue 2092)
Improvements for importing SKOS RDF syntax (issue 2005)
Gracefully handle a large number of child-level descriptions in treeview (issue 1943)
Added admin setting to specify delimiter used in reference codes (issue 1994)
Performance improvements
- Reduce number of default queries (issue 2000)
- Cache action and template code using Symfony (no issue)
Multi-institution portal enhancements
- Search and browse restricted by repository content (issue 1948, issue 1949)
- Improve UX and show logo for search and browse restricted by repository (no issue)
Removed unused entities and related classes: historical_event, map, map_i18n, place, place_i18n, place_map_relation, system_event (r9662).

Internationalization

New! Polish translation of user interface
Merged new and improved user interface translations for Dutch, French, Spanish and Slovenian (thank you to our volunteer translators!)

Bug fixes

Prune empty digital object directories (issue 2155)
Can't import SKOS file if top-level terms contain <broader /> tag (issue 1766)

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 * Global search and replace for descriptions (issue 2149)
 * Bulk XML import (issue 1920)
+* CSV import of archival descriptions (RAD and ISAD) and ISDIAH archival institutions
+** This feature is currently only available for small data sets.  Improving CSV import performance and including import of Authority records (ISAAR) and Accession data is slated for [[Release 1.2.1]]
 * [[Reporting]]
 ** Box list (issue 2082)