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Release18Changelog

lizwoods edited this page Dec 2, 2015 · 1 revision

Technical Changelog

The final major release for 2015 includes additions to RIF-CS vocabularies, improvements to the ANDS Vocabulary Service, improvements to analytics reporting and a number of Research Data Australia and ANDS Registry bug fixes and enhancement requests received through the ANDS Service Desk.

Highlights of R18 include:

RIF-CS Schema Changes

  • Addition of new Collection types: software, classificationScheme, publication
  • Addition of new Service type: store
  • Addition of new identifier type: fundref
  • Changes to accessRights type definitions: open, conditional, restricted
  • Changes to 'hasCollector' relationship type definition

Research Data Australia (RDA)

  • Reintroduction of a browse by subjects interface
  • Improved Activity, Grant and Program Search result summary
  • RDA changes to support the amendments made to Access Rights Types

Cite My Data (DOI) service

  • Update DataCite schema to version 3.1
  • Allow DOI users to manually update DOI metadata via a more user-friendly form
  • Manual activation/deactivation of a DOI

Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA)

  • Display enhancements to RVA portal
  • Display enhancements to RVA - My Vocabs
  • Display enhancements to RVA repository

ANDS Registry

  • Implementation of customisable parameters for CSW harvests
  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements to the Services Analytics Reporting
  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements to the Theme CMS
  • Allow retrieving of NLA party records referenced in the relatedInfo element

Installation of this upgrade:

  • update the ANDS-Registry-Core codebase (either fetch latest tarball or git fetch && git rebase origin/master)
  • (optional)update vocabs database (dbs_vocabs_r17_to_r18_incr.sql)
  • RDA Solr schema has been changed. Deploy newest version; it is the file etc/misc/solrschema_r15.xml
  • (optional)Vocabs Solr schema has been changed. Deploy newest version (from applications/portal/vocabs/etc/schema.xml to /usr/local/solr-4.10.4/example/solr/vocabs/conf/schema.xml). Restart Solr. Reindex:
  • (optional)update the ANDS-Harvester codebase
  • (optional)Start the harvester: service ands-harvester start