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CERN DOCUMENT SERVER SOFTWARE (CDSware) NEWS
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Revision: $Id$
Here is a short summary of most notable changes in CDSware releases.
CDSware v0.1.0 -- December 4th, 2003
* development branch release
* search engine redesign to yield five times more search performance
for larger sites (WebSearch, BibWords)
* fulltext indexation of PDF, PostScript, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and
MS Excel files (WebSearch)
* integrated combined metadata/fulltext/citation search (WebSearch)
* multi-stage search guidance in cases of no exact match (WebSearch)
* OAI-PMH harvestor (BibHarvest)
* bibliographic task scheduler (BibSched)
* automatic daemon mode of the indexer, the formatter and the
collection cache generator (BibWords, BibFormat, WebSearch)
* user management and session handling rewrite (WebSession)
* user personalization, document baskets and notification alert
system (WebBasket, WebAlert)
* role-based access control engine (WebAccess)
* internationalization of the interface started (currently with
Czech, German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, and Slovak support)
* web page design update (WebStyle)
* introduction of programmer-oriented technical documentation corner
(WebHelp)
* source tree reorganization, mod_python technology adopted for most
of the modules
CDSware v0.0.9 -- August 1st, 2002
* first "public" alpha release of CDSware
* recently standardized Library of Congress' MARC XML schema adopted
in all CDSware modules as the new default internal XML file format
(BibConvert, BibFormat, BibUpload, WebSubmit, WebSearch)
* support for OAI-PMH v2.0 in addition to OAI-PMH v1.1 (WebSearch)
* search interface now honors multiple output formats per collection
(BibFormat, WebSearch)
* search interface now honors search fields, search options, and
sort options from the database config tables (WebSearch,
WebSearch Admin)
* search interface now honors words indexes from the database config
tables (BibWords, WebSearch)
* easy reformatting of already uploaded bibliographic records via
web admin. tool (BibFormat Admin/Reformat Records)
* new submission form field type ("response") allowing
greater flexibility (WebSubmit) [thanks to Frank Sudholt]
* demo site "Atlantis Institute of Science" updated to demonstrate:
Pictures collection of photographs; specific per-collection
formats; references inside Articles and Preprints; "cited by"
search link; published version linking; subject category
searching; search within, search options, sort options in the web
collection pages.
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