Release 1.0.9-beta

Released May 17th, 2010

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 authorization by language
  • Switched to Zend ACL library for improved performance, security, stability and maintainability
  • New access control user interface
• Duplicate archival descriptions feature to simplify repetitive data-entry, issue 411
• Move button for moving archival description outside current collection or fonds, in addition to modifying arrangement within a collection by drag-and-drop in the hierarchy tree
• 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
• Link to digital objects from the Internet via URL (http), as well as from the client filesystem, 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

Internationalization

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