CERN DOCUMENT SERVER SOFTWARE (CDSware) NEWS ============================================ Revision: $Id$ Here is a short summary of the most notable changes in CDSware releases. For more info about the current release, please consult RELEASE-NOTES. For more info about changes, please consult ChangeLog. CDSware v0.7.1 -- released 2005-05-04 ------------------------------------- *) important bugfix for bibconvert's ``source data in a directory'' mode, as invoked by the web submission system (BibConvert) *) minor bugfix in the search engine, thanks to Frédéric Gobry (WebSearch) *) minor bugfix in the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch) *) automatic linking to Google Print in the ``Haven't found what you were looking for...'' page box (WebSearch) *) BibFormat Admin Guide cleaned, thanks to Ferran Jorba *) new Catalan translation, thanks to Ferran Jorba *) updated Greek and Portuguese translations, thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos and Flávio C. Coelho *) updated Spanish translation CDSware v0.7.0 -- released 2005-04-06 ------------------------------------- *) experimental release of the refextract program for automatic reference extraction from PDF fulltext files (BibEdit) *) experimental release of the citation and download ranking tools (BibRank) *) new module for gathering usage statistics out of Apache log files (WebStat) *) new similar-records-navigation tool exploring end-user viewing habits: "people who viewed this page also viewed" (WebSearch, BibRank) *) OAI gateway validated against OAI Repository Explorer (BibHarvest) *) fixed "records modified since" option for the indexer (BibIndex) *) collection cache update is done only when the cache is not up to date (WebSearch) [closing #WebSearch-016] *) cleanup of user login mechanism (WebSession, WebAccess) *) fixed uploading of already-existing records in the insertion mode (BibUpload) *) fixed submission in UTF-8 languages (WebSubmit) *) updated HOWTO Run Your Existing CDSware Installation (WebHelp) *) test suite improvements (WebSearch, BibHarvest, BibRank, BibConvert) *) German translation updated and new German stopwords list added, thanks to Guido Pelzer *) new Greek and Ukrainian translations, thanks to Theodoros Theodoropoulos and Vasyl Ostrovskyi *) all language codes now comply to RFC 1766 and ISO 639 *) numerous other small fixes and improvements, with many contributions by the EPFL team headed by Frederic Gobry (BibConvert, BibUpload, WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebSession) CDSware v0.5.0 -- released 2004-12-17 ------------------------------------- *) 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 CDSware v0.3.3 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-07-16 --------------------------------------------------- *) new international phrases, collection and field names; thanks to Guido, Flavio, Tullio *) collection international names are now respected by the search engine and interfaces (WebSearch) *) field international names are now respected by the search engine and interfaces (WebSearch) *) when no hits found in a given collection, do not display all public hits straight away but only link to them (WebSearch) *) records marked as DELETED aren't shown anymore in XML MARC and other formats (WebSearch) *) detailed record page now features record creation and modification times (WebSearch) *) improved XML MARC parsing and cumulative record count in case of uploading of several files in one go (BibUpload) *) personal `your admin activities' page introduced (WebSession) *) added option to fulltext-index local files only (BibIndex) *) initial release of the BibIndex Admin interface (BibIndex) *) checking of mandatory selection box definitions (WebSubmit) *) WebSearch Admin interface cleanup (WebSearch) *) introducing common test suite infrastructure (WebSearch, BibIndex, MiscUtil, WebHelp) *) fixed accent and link problems for photo demo records (MiscUtil) *) conference title exported via OAI XML DC (BibHarvest) *) enabled building out of source directory; thanks to Frederic CDSware v0.3.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-05-12 --------------------------------------------------- *) admin area improved: all the modules have now Admin Guides; some guides were updated, some are still to be updated (WebHelp, BibConvert, BibFormat, BibIndex, BibSched, WebAlert, WebSession, WebSubmit, BibEdit, BibHarvest, BibRank, BibUpload, WebAccess, WebBasket, WebSearch, WebStyle) *) initial release of the WebSearch Admin interface (WebSearch) *) initial release of the BibRank Admin interface (BibRank) *) search cache expiry after insertion of new records (WebSearch) *) search engine now does on-the-fly formatting via BibFormat CLI call to handle restricted site situations (WebSearch) *) webcoll default verbosity decreased for efficiency (WebSearch) *) added BibConvert configuration example for converting XML Dublin Core to XML MARC (BibConvert) *) BibConvert knowledge base mode extended by various case-sensitive matching possibilities (BibConvert) *) fixed various problems with fulltext file names and the submission from MS Windows platform (WebSubmit) *) fixed problem with bibupload append mode not updating XML MARC properly (BibUpload) *) fixed small problems with the submission interface such as multiple fields selection (WebSubmit) *) session revoking and session expiry strengthened (WebSession) *) page design and style sheet updated to better fit large variety of browsers (WebStyle) *) added output format argument for basket display (WebBasket) *) new Swedish translation and updated German, Russian, and Spanish translations; thanks to Urban, Guido, Lyuba, and Magaly *) faster creation of I18N static HTML and PHP files during make CDSware v0.3.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-12 --------------------------------------------------- *) security fix preventing exposure of local configuration variables by malicious URL crafting (WebSearch, WebSubmit, WebAlert, WebBasket, WebSession, BibHarvest, MiscUtil) *) initial release of the ranking engine (BibRank) *) new guide on HOWTO Run Your CDSware Installation (WebHelp) *) fixed submit configurations with respect to fulltext links and metadata tags (WebSubmit, MiscUtil) *) Your Account personal corner now shows the list and the status of submissions and approvals (WebSession) *) uniform help and version number option for CLI executables (WebSearch, BibSched, BibIndex, BibRank, BibHarvest, BibConvert, WebAccess, BibFormat, WebSession, WebAlert) *) uniform technique for on-the-fly formatting of search results via `hb_' and `hd_' output format parameters (WebSearch) *) check for presence of pcntl and mysql PHP libraries (BibUpload) CDSware v0.3.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2004-03-05 --------------------------------------------------- *) new development branch release (important SQL table changes) *) introducing a new submission engine and the end-user web interface (WebSubmit) *) bibupload is now a BibSched task with new options (BibUpload) *) BibWords renamed into BibIndex in the view of future phrase indexing changes (BibIndex) *) more secure DB server connectivity (BibSched) *) record matching functionality (BibConvert) *) character encoding conversion tables (BibConvert) *) Qualified Dublin Core conversion example (BibConvert) *) OAI deleted records policy can now be specified (BibHarvest) *) multi-language collection portalboxes (WebSearch) *) HTML pages now respect language selections (WebSearch, WebHelp) *) minor layout changes (WebStyle) *) updated Russian and other translations *) ChangeLog is now generated from CVS log messages *) plus the usual set of bugfixes (see ChangeLog) CDSware v0.1.2 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-21 --------------------------------------------------- *) development branch release *) fix BibReformat task launching problem (BibFormat) *) fix BibTeX -> XML MARC conversion example (BibConvert) *) updated Spanish translation CDSware v0.1.1 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-19 --------------------------------------------------- *) development branch release *) access control engine now used by BibWords, BibFormat (admin and bibreformat), WebSearch (webcoll), and BibTaskEx *) access control engine admin guide started (WebAccess) *) search engine support for sorting by more than one field (WebSearch) *) more internationalization of the search engine messages (WebSearch) *) new language: Norwegian (bokmål) *) simple example for converting BibTeX into XML MARC (BibConvert) *) new optional --with-python configuration option *) Python module detection during configure *) bugfixes: os.tempnam() warning, login page referer, and others CDSware v0.1.0 (DEVELOPMENT) -- released 2003-12-04 --------------------------------------------------- *) 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 (STABLE) -- released 2002-08-01 ---------------------------------------------- *) 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. - end of file -