Archivematica 1.10 and Storage Service 0.15 release notes

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Supported environments

Please see the installation instructions.

Archivematica 1.9 and Storage Service 0.14 are supported for production use in the following environments:

• Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit Server Edition
• Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit Server Edition
• CentOS 7 64-bit

For development purposes, most of our developers prefer to use Docker containers. These and all above supported environments are linked from the installation instructions above.

Added

Information Packaging (Backlog) Workflow Enhancements

Simon Fraser University has sponsored a development project to improve the ability to store Transfers for a long period of time. The goal is to improve the metadata quality of Transfers to reduce the risk of storing them for a long period of time in a backlog. As a result of this project:

• Transfers placed in backlog are now packaged as bags
• The Transfer METS file now records all preservation actions that took place during Transfer.
• The Appraisal Tab now handles packages with more than 1,000 files.
• A backlog can be populated from a new pipeline from transfers created by another pipeline.

• Documentation: link
• Issues (linked from epic): https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/391

"Vintage" AIP handling

AIPS created in Archivematica prior to version 1.0 can’t currently be re-ingested in more recent versions (due to namespace collisions with the use of PREMIS 2.1).

This change will make it possible to reingest these older AIPS into Archivematica. This work is sponsored by the City of Vancouver Archives.

• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/24

LDAP support for Storage Service

The Archivematica Storage Service now supports LDAP integration. This was sponsored by Piql for the Norwegian Health Archives.

• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/680

External PID declaration

This feature, sponsored by the International Institute of Social History, allows users to include identifiers minted outside of Archivematica in their transfer and written to the premis:object metadata in the AIP METS file. This is done via an identifiers.json file included in the transfer.

• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/133

Changed

AIP METS in PREMIS 3

As a result of the vintage AIP work described above, we have upgraded the AIP METS file to use PREMIS 3 exclusively. In previous versions it had a mix of versions 2 and 3.

• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/370

Fixed

• A number of fixes related to custom structMap import have been sponsored in this release by International Institute of Social History. Thank you!
  • Custom structMaps do not support nested directories: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/283
  • Purpose of Verify structMap in ingest is unclear: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/286
  • Custom structMaps labelled as structMap_2: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/633
  • We also added documentation for custom structMap import: https://www.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.10/user-manual/transfer/import-metadata/#import-metadata
• Bugfix 2: link. Sponsored by someone!
• Bugfix 3: link

Upgraded tools and dependencies

List any tools and dependencies that have been upgraded.

• Tool has been updated to version X.

Deprecated

Issue 174 As of Archivematica 1.10, Archivist's Toolkit integration has been removed. Please see this announcement for more details.

End of life dependencies

List any dependencies that have reached end of life since the last release, as well as a note on the plan going forward.

Make note of any risks, and how users can mitigate them.