Release 1.0.5-beta

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Released March 11th, 2009. Release 1.0.5 includes a number of new features:

• The full import and export of archival descriptions using the Encoded Archival Data (EAD) XML format
• A template for adding Simple Dublin Core metadata
• A page turner interface for multi-page digital objects
• Administrator configurable menus
• The ability for ICA-AtoM to act as an OAI-PMH server and make its data available to OAI harvesters
• Several improvements to the web based installer
• New Slovenian, Italian and Farsi interface translations and updated translations for other languages
• New bilingual sample data in French and English (Fonds Maurice Lamontagne provided with permission from the Library and Archives of Canada)

Release 1.0.5 also includes a host of bug fixes. The full list of enhancements and fixes includes:

• Enhancement: add Encoded Archival Data version 2002 (EAD) XML import (issue 442) and export (issue 443)
• Enhancement: add user interface template for Simplified Dublin Core metadata standard [1], issue 440
• Enhancement: add OAI-PMH compliant response mechanism to respond to OAI harvesting requests, issue 551
• Enhancement: add a user interface for managing and customizing menus, issue 133
• Enhancement: add a migration command line tool for migrating data from previous versions of ICA-AtoM, versions 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 supported
• Enhancement: add a page turner interface for viewing compound (multi-page) digital objects and automatically generate reference and thumbnail representations for each page of a multi-page document (PDF or TIFF), issue 468
• Enhancement: add a multi-lingual French and English fonds to demonstrate and test the system's internationalization interface, issue 454
• Enhancement: add a progress bar to the web based installer, issue 406
• Enhancement: add options to the web based installer for a remote database server URL, a database port and an optional prefix for ICA-AtoM tables, issue 426
• Enhancement: add resizable data input areas for easy editing of long data elements (requires JavaScript), issue 493
• Enhancement: add a sample EAD XML file to allow user to test EAD import functionality on demo CD, issue 587
• Enhancement: add Slovenian, Italian and Farsi translations for the user interface and default content
• Enhancement: updated Selenium test suite including tests for release 1.0.5 functionality, see testing
• Fix issue 616: add untitled placeholder text for unnamed objects to prevent display of raw URL strings
• Fix issue 617: deleting an event type term that had an attached information object caused fatal error in information object view screen
• Fix issue 614: no warning when uploaded digital object exceeds max_file_size
• Fix issue 605: researchers can not read textual digital objects
• Fix issue 605: media type select box doesn't work for digital objects
• Fix issue 595: can't add taxonomy term
• Fix issue 594: can't delete container
• Fix issue 554: QubitEvent does not save if only event type and date display values are entered
• Fix issue 554: no culture fallback for event dates on ISAD or RAD show templates
• Fix issue 528: adding information objects without title breaks select parent level function
• Fix issue 522: can't set the site title and description to an empty string
• Fix issue 460: cached sort order on person/organization list
• Fix issue 446: deleting a linked description status term causes a fatal error
• Fix issue 399: TIFF images try to display inline in browser
• Fix issue 423: disable Firefox work offline option for demo CD
• Fix issue 453: web installer: Notice - Use of undefined constant STDOUT
• Fix issue 318: digital object thumbnail creation fails for multi-page PDF files
• Fix issue 585: display problem on import/export page
• Fix issue 482: deleting or altering some test data breaks translate module

For technical details on changes to the Qubit Open Information Management Toolkit for this release, see Qubit commits r1600:2126 at http://code.google.com/p/qubit-toolkit/source/list