What's new in ResCarta 5.1.3
Jan 28, 2016
- ADDITIONS / IMPROVEMENTS:
- Collections Manager:
- Rights data is now added to Dublin Core output.
- Unnecessary div IDs have been removed from METS output.
- BUGS FIXED:
- Data Conversion Tool:
- A bug causing the tool to hang when looking for Ghostscript has been fixed.
- ResCarta-Web:
- Printing JPEG compressed TIFF images on OpenJDK now works correctly.
New in ResCarta 5.1.2 (Jan 28, 2016)
- ADDITIONS / IMPROVEMENTS:
- General:
- The performance of reading object structure from METS records has been improved.
- Command line tools for synchronizing object and collection metadata have been added.
- Data Conversion Tool:
- A command line interface for object per directory conversion has been added.
- Thumbnail directory RCDATA01/thumbs is now ignored.
- ResCarta-Web
- Highlights now have a minimum height of 15px.
- The thumbnail daemon thread is now only started when necessary.
- Temp files are no longer created by the tile renderer.
- BUGS FIXED:
- ResCarta-Web
- A bug preventing image viewer select boxes from functioning correctly in FireFox 40 has been fixed.
- A bug preventing the audio player JSP from compiling correctly under Tomcat 8 has been fixed.
New in ResCarta 5.1.1 (Apr 6, 2015)
- GENERAL:
- The Toolkit guide has been updated.
- BUGS FIXED:
- Data Conversion Tool:
- A encoding bug causing garbled OCR text has been fixed.
- ResCarta-Web
- A bug causing images to sometimes display improperly when search terms are highlighted has been fixed.
- A bug preventing audio playback on Android devices has been fixed.
New in ResCarta 5.1.0 (Jan 30, 2015)
- ADDITIONS / IMPROVEMENTS:
- Data Conversion Tool:
- Tesseract OCR integration has been added.
- Audio Transcription Editor
- Transcriptions can now be saved as text.
- ResCarta-Web:
- Tile cache management has been improved.
- BUGS FIXED:
- General:
- A bug causing errors when reading TIFF files with non-integer resolutions has been fixed.
- ResCarta-Web:
- A bug causing searches to fail within specific collections with names containing multiple contiguous whitespace characters has been fixed.
- Pages no longer display in IE compatibility mode.
New in ResCarta 5.0.6 (Oct 25, 2014)
- ADDITIONS / IMPROVEMENTS:
- ResCarta-Web:
- During login, other tabs are now hidden.
- Installer:
- The bundled Apache Tomcat has been upgraded to version 7.0.55.
- BUGS FIXED:
- ResCarta-Web:
- A workaround has been added for a bug in Tomcat 8 that caused improper page display immediately after login.
- A spelling error in the image viewer search button tooltip has been corrected.
New in ResCarta 5.0.5 (Aug 14, 2014)
- Additions / Improvements:
- ResCarta-Web
- French language support has been added.
- Bugs Fixed:
- ResCarta-Web
- Fixed a bug causing header images not to display properly when run as the root web application.
- Collection check boxes are no longer displayed on the simple search page if there is only a single collection.
New in ResCarta 5.0.3 (Jun 27, 2014)
- Additions / Improvements:
- Indexer
- Added -rebuild and -quiet CLI options.
- ResCarta-Web
- Added browsing and facets configuration to server administration interface.
- Cleaner browse collections styling.
- Added paged collection browsing.
- Added alternate identifiers to metadata display.
- Bugs Fixed:
- Collections Manager
- Fixed a bug causing DC metadata not to be written for sub-collections.
- Fixed a bug causing lose of alternate identifier metadata when objects are added to collections.
- Indexer
- Fixed a bug causing the status text pane to overflow it's boundaries.
- ResCarta-Web
- Fixed a bug causing improper browse and search result layout when thumbnails are disabled.
- Fixed a bug preventing + and - characters from being entered into the image viewer search dialog.
New in ResCarta 4.0.7 (Nov 6, 2013)
- Additions / Improvements:
- General:
- Support for 24-bit 96Khz audio has been added.
- When reading text data stored in TIFF files, only the TIFF header is now read, improving performance.
- Metadata Creation Tool:
- ResCarta-Web thumbnail directory is now ignored by the Metadata Creation Tool.
- Data Conversion Tool:
- Accuracy of automatic audio transcription has been improved.
- The progress bar is now updated during audio transcription.
- Complete pre-existing objects will now be skipped with a warning message. Incomplete pre-existing objects will now be deleted with a warning message.
- Collections Manager:
- Alphanumeric sorting has been added.
- Bugs Fixed:
- Metadata Creation Tool:
- Fixed a bug causing metadata type to not always be preserved when carrying metadata over from one object to the next.
- Fixed a memory leak decoding JPEG images.
- Data Conversion Tool:
- Fixed a bug causing errors when converting audio files with sample rates lower than 44.1Khz.
- Audio Transcription Editor:
- Fixed a bug causing the interface to appear to hang when opening a directory without a metadata file.
- ResCarta-Web:
- A thumbnail generation memory leak has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug causing errors when searching collections with a colon in their name.
- Fixed a bug causing errors when empty collections exist. Empty collections are now ignored.
- Fixed a bug causing audio search hits not to be shown in the audio player for terms stored in multi-term markers.
- Fixed a bug causing improper audio search hit listing and highlighting in the audio player for multi-term and multi-clause queries.
New in ResCarta 4.0.5 (Jul 11, 2013)
- Supports the creation, archiving, indexing, discovery and display of audio information. This is a major update to the ResCarta Toolkit and is a continuation of the material types supported by the tools. ResCarta Toolkit supports Monographs, Serials, Serial Monographs, Photographs, Newspapers and now Audio files.
New in ResCarta 2.0.2 (Oct 7, 2008)
- Upgraded to RcModsSdk 1.3.3
- Upgraded to RcMixSdk 1.1.2
- Upgraded to RcMetsSdk 1.1.3
- Made chages to some org.rescarta.metadata classes to be compatible with new MODS, MIX, and METS toolkits.
- Modified RcObjectMetadata and RcCollectionMetadata to use new SAX unmarshalling capability for METS data.