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| − | Released November 2nd, 2009 | + | Released November 2nd, 2009 |
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| + | Included a major scalability overhaul of the ICA-AtoM user interface, allowing the application to work with larger data-sets: | ||
* Auto-complete form fields for easily narrowing and selecting from a very large set of possible options | * Auto-complete form fields for easily narrowing and selecting from a very large set of possible options | ||
* Full-text search for persons/organizations and repositories | * Full-text search for persons/organizations and repositories | ||
* Incrementally load archival descriptions in tree-view to prevent long page load times | * Incrementally load archival descriptions in tree-view to prevent long page load times | ||
| − | * Removing the performance intensive | + | * Removing the performance intensive "parent-select" for creating hierarchies and replacing with: |
** Ability to add multiple child-level descriptions at one time | ** Ability to add multiple child-level descriptions at one time | ||
** Drag-and-drop interface for moving archival descriptions within a fonds or collection | ** Drag-and-drop interface for moving archival descriptions within a fonds or collection | ||
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| + | == New features == | ||
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* Full support of the ICA standards governing [http://www.ica.org/en/node/30230 ISAAR(CPF)] relationships | * Full support of the ICA standards governing [http://www.ica.org/en/node/30230 ISAAR(CPF)] relationships | ||
* An implementation of the [http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=7776 ISO 2788:1986 (monolingual)] and [http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=12159 ISO 5964:1985 (multi-lingual)] guidelines for thesauri | * An implementation of the [http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=7776 ISO 2788:1986 (monolingual)] and [http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=12159 ISO 5964:1985 (multi-lingual)] guidelines for thesauri | ||
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** includes a hierarchical tree-view for easily visualizing complex vocabularies | ** includes a hierarchical tree-view for easily visualizing complex vocabularies | ||
** includes dynamic replacement of a non-preferred term with the preferred term during data entry | ** includes dynamic replacement of a non-preferred term with the preferred term during data entry | ||
| − | * Basic document workflow | + | * Basic document workflow, |
** Implement "Draft" and "Published" status for archival descriptions | ** Implement "Draft" and "Published" status for archival descriptions | ||
** Integration with the access control module to restrict who can view "draft" descriptions | ** Integration with the access control module to restrict who can view "draft" descriptions | ||
| − | * Improved access control, including a user interface for administrating | + | * Improved access control, including a user interface for administrating, |
** User and group permissions for viewing, editing & deleting archival descriptions, globally or on a per repository basis | ** User and group permissions for viewing, editing & deleting archival descriptions, globally or on a per repository basis | ||
** User and group permissions for viewing and publishing "draft" descriptions | ** User and group permissions for viewing and publishing "draft" descriptions | ||
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| − | + | == Bug fixes and enhancements == | |
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* Enhancement: Update Selenium functional tests for new features and enhancements introduced in releases 1.0.8 | * Enhancement: Update Selenium functional tests for new features and enhancements introduced in releases 1.0.8 | ||
* Enhancement: Update data migration task for 1.0.7 -> 1.0.8 upgrades | * Enhancement: Update data migration task for 1.0.7 -> 1.0.8 upgrades | ||
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* Enhancement: Allow case insensitive searching of accented characters, issue 848 | * Enhancement: Allow case insensitive searching of accented characters, issue 848 | ||
* Enhancement: Create a new repository from the information object edit forms, issue 677 | * Enhancement: Create a new repository from the information object edit forms, issue 677 | ||
| − | * Enhancement: More context information for archival description search results, | + | * Enhancement: More context information for archival description search results, issues 255 and 796 |
* Enhancement: Separate name access points and events, issue 1044 | * Enhancement: Separate name access points and events, issue 1044 | ||
| − | * Enhancement: EAD import - convert | + | * Enhancement: EAD import - convert ISO 639-2 codes to RFC4646, issue 534 |
* Enhancement: Support upload of bitmap (*.bmp) digital objects, issue 697 | * Enhancement: Support upload of bitmap (*.bmp) digital objects, issue 697 | ||
* Fix: Prevent data loss when a large digital object is uploaded, issue 613 | * Fix: Prevent data loss when a large digital object is uploaded, issue 613 | ||
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* Fix: Digital object won't generate reference & thumbnail reference at same time, issue 536 | * Fix: Digital object won't generate reference & thumbnail reference at same time, issue 536 | ||
| − | For technical details on changes to the Qubit Open Information Management Toolkit for this release, see | + | |
| + | For technical details on changes to the Qubit Open Information Management Toolkit for this release, see commits 2582:3855, http://code.google.com/p/qubit-toolkit/source/list | ||
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Latest revision as of 12:48, 17 May 2010
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 November 2nd, 2009
Included a major scalability overhaul of the ICA-AtoM user interface, allowing the application to work with larger data-sets:
- Auto-complete form fields for easily narrowing and selecting from a very large set of possible options
- Full-text search for persons/organizations and repositories
- Incrementally load archival descriptions in tree-view to prevent long page load times
- Removing the performance intensive "parent-select" for creating hierarchies and replacing with:
- Ability to add multiple child-level descriptions at one time
- Drag-and-drop interface for moving archival descriptions within a fonds or collection
- A command line task for full-text search indexing, avoiding web-server timeouts when indexing large data sets
- Improved XML import performance by approximately three times
New features
- Full support of the ICA standards governing ISAAR(CPF) relationships
- An implementation of the ISO 2788:1986 (monolingual) and ISO 5964:1985 (multi-lingual) guidelines for thesauri
- including support for Broad Term/Narrow Term, Use/Use For and See also relationships
- includes a hierarchical tree-view for easily visualizing complex vocabularies
- includes dynamic replacement of a non-preferred term with the preferred term during data entry
- Basic document workflow,
- Implement "Draft" and "Published" status for archival descriptions
- Integration with the access control module to restrict who can view "draft" descriptions
- Improved access control, including a user interface for administrating,
- User and group permissions for viewing, editing & deleting archival descriptions, globally or on a per repository basis
- User and group permissions for viewing and publishing "draft" descriptions
- Greatly improved support for import and export of EAD formatted XML documents, including
- DTD validation for EAD documents
- Multi-lingual (i18n) support
- Batch upload of digital objects
Bug fixes and enhancements
- Enhancement: Update Selenium functional tests for new features and enhancements introduced in releases 1.0.8
- Enhancement: Update data migration task for 1.0.7 -> 1.0.8 upgrades
- Enhancement: Admin setting for sorting archival description treeview: alphabetically, by identifier, or in order descriptions are entered, issue 909
- Enhancement: In-browser audio playback for digital objects, issue 236
- Enhancement: Improved web installer security and functionality
- Enhancement: Add XML export links to archival description context menu
- Enhancement: ISO-8601 date support, issue 414
- Enhancement: Avoid having to scroll down lengthy drop-down list for language/script in control area, issue 533
- Enhancement: Add pager to term/browse list, issue 1076
- Enhancement: Allow case insensitive searching of accented characters, issue 848
- Enhancement: Create a new repository from the information object edit forms, issue 677
- Enhancement: More context information for archival description search results, issues 255 and 796
- Enhancement: Separate name access points and events, issue 1044
- Enhancement: EAD import - convert ISO 639-2 codes to RFC4646, issue 534
- Enhancement: Support upload of bitmap (*.bmp) digital objects, issue 697
- Fix: Prevent data loss when a large digital object is uploaded, issue 613
- Fix: Remove ISAAR & ISDIAH note types not listed in ICA standards, issue 773.
- Fix: EAD export fails if repository record lacks country code, issue 709
- Fix: EAD export fails when repository lacks contact type, issue 797
- Fix: EAD import registers fonds creator twice as access point, issue 720
- Fix: EAD attributes should not be translated, issue 844
- Fix: EAD phystech should not be a child of physdesc, issue 845
- Fix: non-latin character data not escaping properly in XML export, issue 838
- Fix: In IE, note field data being duplicated, issue 1025
- Fix: Digital object won't generate reference & thumbnail reference at same time, issue 536
For technical details on changes to the Qubit Open Information Management Toolkit for this release, see commits 2582:3855, http://code.google.com/p/qubit-toolkit/source/list