Release 1.0.9-beta

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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.

New Features

  • Support for ICA-ISDF functions
  • Validation feedback reports to data-entry users when rules from metadata standards aren't met by an archival description or authority record, issue 129
  • Expanded Access control
    • Access Control for authority records, taxonomies and digital objects
    • New access control user interface
  • Duplicate archival descriptions feature to simplify repetitive data-entry, issue 411
  • 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
  • Support for importing digital objects from external URLs, as well as from the client filesystem, issue 344
  • Automatic creation of mp3 reference representations for audio files, issue 1469
  • Ability to move an archival description to another fonds, in addition to modifying arrangement within a fonds by drag-and-drop in the hierarchy tree
  • Implemented a Dublin Core application profile to improve import/export roundtripping.
  • Fine grained migrations
  • Metadata standard plugins
  • Comprehensive list of functional tests
  • Added automated tests for uploading videos, issue 801
  • PEAR channel now managed with Pirum instead of Chiara_PEAR_Server
  • Upgraded to symfony 1.3

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
  • 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

Internationalization

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