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CDSware v0.5.0 is released
December 17, 2004
http://cdsware.cern.ch/news/
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CDSware v0.5.0 was released on December 17th, 2004.
This release is recommended to all users of prior DEVELOPMENT versions
(v0.1.x and v0.3.x), as well as old STABLE v0.0.9 version that becomes
officially deprecated as of this release.
What's new:
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*) new rank engine, featuring word similarity rank method and the
journal impact factor rank demo (BibRank)
*) search engine includes ranking option (WebSearch)
*) record similarity search based on word frequency (WebSearch,
BibRank)
*) stopwords possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
*) stemming possibility when ranking and indexing (BibRank, BibIndex)
*) search engine boolean query processing stages improved (WebSearch)
*) search engine accent matching in phrase searches (WebSearch)
*) regular expression searching mode introduced into the Simple
Search interface too (WebSearch)
*) Search Tips split into a brief Search Tips page and detailed
Search Guide page (WebSearch)
*) improvements to the ``Try your search on'' hints (WebSearch)
*) author search hints introduced (WebSearch)
*) search interface respects title prologue/epilogue portalboxes
(WebSearch)
*) improvements to admin interfaces (WebSearch, BibIndex, BibRank,
WebAccess)
*) basket item ordering problem fixed (WebBasket)
*) access error messages introduced (WebAccess and its clients)
*) new account management to enable/disable guest users and
automatic vs to-be-approved account registration (WebAccess)
*) possibility for temporary read-only access to, and closure of, the
site; useful for backups (WebAccess and its clients)
*) possibility for external authentication login methods (WebAccess)
*) new XML MARC handling library (BibEdit)
*) when uploading, bad XML records are marked as errors (BibUpload)
*) improvements to the submission engine and its admin interface,
thanks to Tiberiu Dondera (WebSubmit)
*) preparations for electronic mail submission feature, not yet
functional (ElmSubmit)
*) added example on MARC usage at CERN (WebHelp)
*) legacy compatibility with MySQL 3.23.x assured (BibUpload)
*) legacy compatibility with Python 2.2 assured (WebSubmit)
*) test suite additions and corrections (BibRank, BibIndex,
WebSearch, BibEdit)
*) French translation fixes, thanks to Eric Grand
*) minor Czech and Slovak translation cleanup
Download:
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<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.5.0.tar.gz>
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.5.0.tar.gz.md5>
<http://cdsware.cern.ch/download/cdsware-0.5.0.tar.gz.sig>
Upgrade notes:
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To upgrade from CDSware v0.3.3, please follow about these steps:
- Stop bibsched daemon and all submission procedures and write
operations. For example, you may want to disable the site
completely. Then backup your current database and CDSware files
in the installation directory.
- Untar new sources and rerun configure --prefix=... with old
parameters.
- Merge your old config.wml with the new one. There are new
options in the new config.wml, so it is not sufficient just to
copy over your old config file. However, the new config file
only adds new options, so merging of your old file should be very
straightforward.
- Run make.
- Update your table structure with new definitions:
$ make update-v0.3.3-tables
If you are upgrading from previous releases, you have to run
previous update-v0.3.0-tables and friends respectively first.
(See Makefile.am for what these commands do.)
- Update your table content with new definitions:
. To activate ranking by word similarity, you have to run SQL
statements related to rnkMETHOD tables, e.g. like this:
$ echo "TRUNCATE rnkMETHOD; TRUNCATE rnkMETHODDATA;" | \
./modules/miscutil/bin/dbexec
$ echo "TRUNCATE rnkMETHODNAME; TRUNCATE collection_rnkMETHOD;" | \
./modules/miscutil/bin/dbexec
$ grep rnkMETHOD modules/miscutil/sql/tabfill.sql | \
./modules/miscutil/bin/dbexec
or you can configure ranking methods via BibRank Admin
interface.
. The EXTRACT_EMAIL BibFormat UDF function has been fixed
(thanks to Guido Pelzer) and you are advised to delete the
old definition and enter the new one, e.g. like this:
$ echo "DELETE FROM flxUDFS WHERE fname='EXTRACT_EMAIL';" | \
./modules/miscutil/bin/dbexec
$ grep "EXTRACT_EMAIL.*if" modules/miscutil/sql/tabfill.sql | \
./modules/miscutil/bin/dbexec
By doing this your table definitions should be fully up to date.
- Run make install and webcoll and then restart your Apache server.
After that restart bibsched in the auto mode. If you activated
some ranking methods, then you have also tell bibsched to execute
bibrank daemon periodically, for example:
$ bibrank -s1h
(See also ``HOWTO Run..'' documentation in the Admin Area.)
- You are done. Check that everything is running fine.
Known problems:
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*) Several modules of the this release (e.g. the mail submission
system) are experimental and not yet activated. You may have a
peek at what is planned, but please do not rely on them.
*) The admin-level functionality for several modules is not fully
developed yet.
*) Fulltext file storage management is not yet linked with the
metadata management.
*) ElmSubmit module not yet activated.
What's next:
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*) Fixing the problems mentioned above.
*) Developing BibIndex for better phrase indexing and browsing.
*) Developing clearer relations and dependencies between metadata
records and fulltext files.
*) Automatic reference extraction program.
*) Citation search and ranking.
*) Download statistics and ranking.
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