Sufia 1.3.0 released

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

We are pleased to announce the release of Sufia 1.3.0

This new release includes:

  • Depends on Hydra::Controller::DownloadBehavior
  • Upgraded to hydra-batch-edit 1.1 which includes session-less batches in hydra-collections
  • Moved most of the Dashboard behavior into Sufia::DashboardBehavior to enable overriding
  • Added Model to_s instead of using display_title
  • Added after delivery hook to contact form controller
  • Removed the version page
  • Various bug fixes

Thanks to Carolyn Cole, Justin Coyne, Jeremy Friesen, Kurt Baker, and Mike Giarlo who all contributed to the release.

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

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Hydra Head 6.2.0 released

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

We are pleased to announce the release of Hydra Head 6.2.0 containing one minor feature and two bug fixes:

  • Fix mismatched arguments in DownloadBehavior
  • Allow discovery_permissions to be set in AccessControlsEnforcement
  • Fix solr name for the embargo release date

Thanks, as ever, to the team.

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

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Yale becomes Hydra’s 18th partner

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

We are delighted to announce that Yale University has become the Hydra Project’s 18th formal partner.

Susan Gibbons, the University Librarian, tells us that Yale made a decision in fall 2012 to use Hydra as a development platform for their digital collections. The first Hydra-based collections are due to go live in September 2013 and there is an “aggressive plan” to migrate dozens of additional collections from obsolete platforms to Hydra in 2014 along with several new ones. Many of the collections involve complex objects, non-Western languages and have highly granular access requirements.

We greatly look forward to the collaboration.  Welcome Yale!

 

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Sufia 1.2.0 released

Posted on May 11, 2013 by

We are pleased to announce a new release of the Sufia gem.  1.2.0′s notable improvements are:

  • DownloadController uses load_instance_from_solr for speed improvement
  • Raise an AccessDenied error if a download is not allowed rather than show an image
  •  Autoload the datastreams directory
  •  Set default variables (fits_path, id_namespace) in the engine config.

Thanks to Justin Coyne, Carolyn Cole and Mike Giarlo.

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

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Sufia 1.1.0 released

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

We’re pleased to announce a new release of the optional Sufia gem – 1.1.0.

Sufia is a component that adds self-deposit institutional repository features to a Rails app. Sufia is created with Ruby on Rails and builds on the Hydra Framework.

Sufia has the following features:

  • Multiple file, or folder, upload
  • Flexible user- and group-based access controls
  • Transcoding of audio and video files
  • Generation and validation of identifiers
  • Fixity checking
  • Version control
  • Characterization of uploaded files
  • Forms for batch editing metadata
  • Faceted search and browse (based on Blacklight)
  • Social media interaction
  • User profiles
  • User dashboard for file management
  • Highlighted files on profile
  • Sharing with groups and users
  • User notifications
  • Activity streams
  • Background jobs
  • Single-use links

Version 1.1.0:

  •   Tweaks dashboard UI to be less busy: actions now in dropdown button
  •   Allows HTML tags in metadata helps to render
  •   Fixes notifications icon
  •   Raises routing errors in dev and test so they can be resolved
  •   Refactors users controller for easy re-use
  •   Adds JSON support to users controller
  •   Removes dependency on sitemap gem

Thanks to Carolyn Cole, Dan Coughlin, and Justin Coyne for their contributions.

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

 

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New releases of Hydra-head, Active-Fedora and OM

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

We are pleased to announce new releases of our Hydra-head, Active-Fedora and OM (Opinionated Metadata) gems:

Hydra-head 6.1.0

  • Fixed Solr 4 compatibility issue in construction of policy clauses in Hydra::PolicyAwareAccessControlsEnforcement.
  • Removed references to dictionaries that are not in the default solrconfig. Config templates are now in active-fedora.
  • hydra-access-controls requires blacklight.
  • Upgrade guide removed — see wiki for upgrade notes.
  • Added .yardopts so that rdoc.info generates correct API documentation.
  • active-fedora upgraded to 6.1.

Active-Fedora 6.1.0

  • Give a list of classes that decend from ActiveFedora::Base
  • ActiveFedora::Base.exists?(nil) now returns false. Fixes #56
  • Removed extraneous solr configs.
  • Deprecated get_values_from_datastream. Fixes #52
  • Added ActiveFedora::Base.decendants
  • Added some sensible defaults to the solrconfig. Removed comments about old fields.
  • active_fedora_model solr field corrected to be single-valued.
  • Fixed fields for solrconfig permissions.
  • Deprecated Attributes#update_datastream_attributes.
  • Delegate registry works with descendants of ActiveFedora::Base, not just direct subclasses. Fixes #59
  • New ActiveFedora::Auditable mixin – provides access to Fedora audit trail.
  • Fixed has and belongs to many, so it calls remove_relationship on the right object.
  • Added jetty.yml to solr generator to overwrite the Blacklight jetty.yml.
  • Upgrade to om 2.1.0.

OM 2.1.0

  • support for element names with periods in them
  • support for time datatype (‘type: :time’)

Thanks as always to our developers.

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

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Duke University is Hydra’s 17th Partner

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

We are delighted to announce that Duke University has become the Hydra Project’s 17th formal partner.

In their Letter of Intent, Duke say:

“One of Duke’s core principles is “knowledge in the service of society.” Interwoven throughout the educational curriculum and research enterprise of the university is a culture of public engagement with real-world issues. One way the Libraries have sought to embody this value is by promoting open access to scholarly research as an institutional priority. We strongly believe that when scholarly research is freely available, it has the potential to reach more people, accelerate new discoveries, and make a bigger impact on the world.

“We see the Hydra Project as an opportunity to leverage the substantial investment we and our partner institutions have already made in preserving the knowledge that is generated on our campuses and sharing it with the world.”

Welcome, Duke!!!

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Active Fedora 6.0.0 released

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

Active Fedora 6.0.0 has been released including:

  • New solr schema with descriptive field suffixes
  • Added support for RDF lists
  • RDF does not index terms by default
  • count is now a scoped query.
  • ActiveFedora::Base.reindex_everything
  • RDF terms can store empty string
  • Access properties by using hash notation.

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

Thanks, as always, to the team.

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Active Fedora 5.6.3 released

Posted on April 15, 2013 by

We are pleased to announce the release of Active Fedora 5.6.3.  Changes include:

  • (backport) Fix has and belongs to many, so it calls remove_relationship on the right object
  •  pin AF 5.x to solrizer 2.x
  •  Rubydora 1.4+ compatibility with the new RecordNotFound

The current versions of all Hydra gems can be accessed through https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Gems+and+documentation

Thanks, as always, to the team.

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Two new Hydra-based websites

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

We’re delighted to be able to point you to two relatively new websites using Hydra technology.  Tufts University recently launched the Tufts Digital Library and Johns Hopkins University have used Hydra to make available their Levy Sheet Music Collection.  Both are excellent additions to the world of Hydra!

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