Release 1.0.9-beta

Released May 17th, 2010

Release 1.0.9-beta includes a complete overhaul of the HTML and CSS design including a new and improved default theme (Caribou) and printer friendly CSS. It also features a expanded access control module allowing tighter security controls, support for ICA-ISDF functions, the ability to duplicate existing descriptions, standards compliance validation, and a large number of usability and performance improvements.

New features

• Support for ICA-ISDF function descriptions
• Validation notices report on compliance with metadata standards when editing archival descriptions and authority records, issue 129
• Expanded access control
  • Access control for authority records, taxonomies and digital objects
  • Limit translation ability by language
  • Switched to Zend ACL library for improved performance, security, stability, and maintainability
  • Improved user interface
• Duplicate archival descriptions feature to simplify repetitive data entry, issue 411
• Move action for archival descriptions allow moving the current description and descendants to any part of the archival description hierarchy (not limited to current collection or fonds), fixes issue 1042
• Specialize CSS for print media makes printouts look good, issue 76
• Cleaner HTML markup and CSS stylesheets for easier theming and better cross browser compatibility
  • HTML tables no longer used for presentation, now only used for tabular data, issue 61
  • Headings now marked up with HTML <h1>, <h2>, <h3>, etc. heading tags
• New default theme (Caribou)
  • Move search and browse to a full width header
  • Drop down menus in main menu to make better use of horizontal space, issue 1309
• Watermarking for reference images, issue 1320
• Allow linking to digital objects from the Internet via URL (HTTP), issue 344
• Implemented a Dublin Core application profile to improve import/export roundtripping
• Comprehensive functional testing procedure documentation

Enhancements

• Performance improvements
  • Improved performance of tree view for ISAD (issue 1303) and thesauri (issue 1520)
  • Improved performance of digital object "image flow" preview, issue 1131
  • Improved performance of physical storage component, issue 652
  • Improved performance of publication status updates, issue 1323
  • Improved performance loading edit ISAD form, issue 1066
• Improvements to user interface for more efficient data entry and browsing
  • Single-click browse menu, configurable by administrator
  • Single-click addition of new archival descriptions, authority records, archival institutions, functions and terms
  • Sort browse pages by recent updates, provide alphabetic sorting as a second option
  • Separate form for importing multiple digital objects
• Added reference code, dates, and level of description to search results and browse pages, issue 1135
• Added thumbnails to search results and browse pages, issue 1315
• Automatic creation of mp3 reference representations for audio files, issue 1469
• Added links into pager to modify the limit of results per page
• URLs in descriptive content now displayed as hyperlinks, issue 356
• Contact information now marked up with hCard microformat, increasing data portability
• Upgraded actor and repository to object oriented symfony forms for more security and reliability. These forms are now consistent with the information object form
• Generalized JavaScript behavior for modal dialogs which is easier to use and improves consistency across all dialogs
• Fine grained migrations
• Metadata standard plugins
• Added automated tests for uploading videos, issue 801
• PEAR channel now managed with Pirum instead of Chiara_PEAR_Server
• Upgraded to symfony 1.3
• Allow multiple values for type of archival institution, issue 486
• Implement new auto-complete style for name access points - issue 127, issue 246 & issue 1045
• Add level of description to archival description browse list, issue 230

Internationalization

• New! Korean translation of user interface
• Merged new and improved user interface translations (thank you to our volunteer translators!)

Bug fixes

• Issue 618 - Deleting notes from term edit screen erases other unsaved changes made to term
• Issue 892 - Can't translate code and note fields in taxonomies
• Issue 916 - when editing ISDIAH records, hitting 'enter' on other form of name or parallel form of name bumps names off list
• Issue 949 - users without view draft permissions can navigate to draft descriptions through browse digital objects
• Issue 985 - issue warning when user tries to use wildcard in search with less than 3 characters
• Issue 998 - multi-page files appear in browse results with both parent and child levels
• Issue 1035 - Deleting language of description and script of description closes information div and erases other changes
• Issue 1053 - Multi-file digital object not passing authentication information
• Issue 1075 - Editing or deleting physical storage returns user to the information object edit screen instead of the view screen
• Issue 1100 - Title in cover-flow viewer is covered up by scroll bar if the title is longer than one line
• Issue 1121 - Users without "view draft" permissions can see draft descriptions
• Issue 1122 - Repository holdings list shows draft descriptions
• Issue 1149 - Error importing notes
• Issue 1544 - Users without view draft permissions can see drafts in term browse results