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Archivematica 1.2.0
Released September X, 2014
New features
- Sponsored (Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries) For COPPUL hosting functionality at Bronze level, ability to process through to Transfer backlog only
- Sponsored (SFU Archives) SIP Arrangement - Create one or more SIPs from one or more transfers in the Ingest tab Transfer and SIP creation - #1726, #1571, #1713, #1035, #6022
- does not support taking content out of a SIP once it's been moved to the SIP arrangement panel
- Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) Directory printer - See requirements Directory printer for recording original order
- Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) OCR - See requirements OCR text in DIP
- Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) Store DIP - See requirements Store DIP
- Sponsored (Yale University Libraries) Forensic disk image ingest #5037, #5356, #5900
- Sponsored includes identification and flagging of personal information in transfers, as well as other bulk extractor reporting functions
- Add ability to configure Characterization commands via FPR https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/6
- Add verification command micro-service (verify frame-level fixity and lossless compression) #6501
- Improvements to transfer start #6220Scalability: Add nailgun (improve performance of java tools like FITS)
- View pointer files from Archival Storage and Storage Service
- Improvements to file identification metadata in METS #
- Include TIKA #5027 and DROID in packages so FPR can be configured to use them as identification tools
- Include MediaInfo, Exiftool and framemd5 (maybe ffprobe) for characterization and metadata extraction instead of FITS #5034
- Support Dublin Core metadata in JSON (as well as csv, which was already supported) https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/14
- Updated FIDO with the most recent PRONOM IDs ([Version 77]) released July 18th, 2014
Archivematica 1.2.0 runs with a new version of the Storage Service, 0.4.0.
New and Updated Tools
new
- bulk_extractor 1.4.4 http://digitalcorpora.org/downloads/bulk_extractor/
- MediaInfo 0.7.52
- nailgun 0.9.1 http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/
- sleuthkit 4.1.3 http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/download.php
- unar 1.8.1 http://unarchiver.c3.cx/commandline
- Tesseract 3.02 https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
updated:
- bagit 4.9.0 https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-java/releases
- exiftool 9.6.0
- ffmpeg 2.3 https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html#releases
- fido 1.3.1.77 https://github.com/openplanets/fido/tree/1.3.1-77
- fits 0.8.0 http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/fits/downloads
- ImageMagick 6.6.9-7 http://www.imagemagick.org
Storage Service 0.4.0
This release allows integration with LOCKSS storage, adds a fixity checking app to the backend, and includes several developer features as well as features required for future releases of the Archivematica dashboard.
New features
- Sponsored (SFU Library) LOCKSS available as an AIP storage location using PLN Manager "LOCKSS-o-MATIC" (AIP storage / API plugin) #5425 PR15
- Sponsored (SFU) Ability to configure transfer backlog locations via the Storage Service #6131 PR#9
- Sponsored (Harvard Business School Library) Manage DIP storage PR11
- Sponsored (Museum of Modern Art) Fixity checking app #6597 , 1109 PR13
- View pointer files from Archival Storage and SS #5716 PR5
Enhancements
- Optimizations in moving files between Locations #6248 PR4
- Streamlined creation of new endpoints with decorators PR14
- New dependency added unar (and lsar) used to add support for AIP's with multiple Extensions (e.g., aip.tar.gz) #6764 PR15
Bugfixes
- Setting Location path from the user interface #5608 PR10
- Allow email address to be used as username #6674 PR12
- Ability to change internal processing space #6819
- Editing users no longer results in server error #6717
Storage Service 0.3.0
Released April 10th, 2014
Includes backend enhancements and API-level changes only, with no direct user facing changes
- Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
- Sponsored Add support for AIC's https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/2
- Improved unicode support https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/3
- v2 of internal REST API (the API used by the Dashboard) and update documentation
- Storage Service now supports updating - no longer necessary to reinstall to upgrade https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/6
Archivematica 1.1
Released May 2, 2014
New features
- Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
- Sponsored creation and management of AICs #5802
- Sponsored AIP pointer file #5159
- Sponsored pointer file tracks multi-AIP relationships
- Sponsored pointer file includes compression information and other metadata required to find and process (e.g. open) AIP
- Sponsored (University of Alberta) Enhancements to manual normalization workflow
- Sponsored ability to add PREMIS event detail information for manually normalized files via the dashboard #5216 User Manual - Adding PREMIS eventDetail for manual normalization
- Backend/Not user-facing:
- Improved unicode support https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/17
- Better handling of preconfigured choices (processingMCP.xml)
- More choices in processing archive file formats (extra preconfigured choices)
- Improved handling of unit variables (passing parameters between micro-services)
- Update to FITS 0.8.0 (or newer if available)
- Update to ElasticSearch 0.90.13
- Security fix (avoid invoking subshell when running micro-services) https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/16
- File identification in mets is now from file id tool and not FITS https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/15
Bug fixes and enhancements
Archivematica 1.0
Release for public testing: September 2013 Package release: January 2014
New features
- Format Policy Registry (FPR) improvements including
- Ability to add/change format policies in the dashboard
- Ability to update the local FPR from fpr.archivematica.org
- Upload and report performance stats to FPR
- For detailed information about the FPR, see Administrator manual--FPR
- Generation of "fail" reports in the administrative tab of the dashboard
- Eliminate unused interface options (e.g. DSpace transfer, CONTENTdm upload, ICA-AtoM upload) via the administrative tab of the dashboard
- DIP upload to Archivist Toolkit Archivists Toolkit integration with a metadata entry gui in the dashboard and actionable PREMIS rights
- AIP pointer file
- Storage service with API
- Ability to request to delete an AIP via the dashboard
- Upgraded to FITS 0.62
- Ability for multiple pipelines to write to a shared ElasticSearch index and to the same AIP store(s) (i.e. multiple dept's -> one institution)
- Further scalability testing/prototyping and improved documentation