[Isis-users] Something to celebrate for ABCD's 3rd birthday

[bhowa tg]

Hooray. Congrats to prof and entire team.
On Dec 3, 2013 7:58 PM, "De Smet Egbert" <egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> We are very happy to announce several important new developments to the
> Isis/ABCD user's community.
>
> As you know, a few months ago we delivered an advanced version of ABCD on
> a trial basis , which was called 1.2.t (transitional), thinking that with
> the help of some colleagues we could do the debugging and publish it
> quickly by August.
> That version was an important step because it upgraded from PHP5.2 to PHP
> 5.4, a new version of ABCD OPAC based in VHL Site of BIREME, and some
> long-promised features. Then in the course of the following weeks reported
> corrections were made and many new things were added, so that finally we
> have called it ABCD v.1.3 as it is worth a version upgrade.
>
> On December 3rd, ie today on the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of the
> launch of the first version of ABCD v.1.0, in Sao Paulo (Brazil), 2009, we
> will publish the new version, with lot of new features.
> The packages are available at the URL : http://abcd.netcat.be/files/
> They are still the full installation packages, so they will replace all
> existing folders and files in an existing installation. Therefore : make
> sure to first make backups of the bases-folder and the following
> config-files, which have to be checked anyway after installation :
> - /ABCD/www/htdocs/central/config.php
> - /ABCD/www/htdocs/iah/scripts/iah.def.php
> - /ABCD/www/htdocs/site/bvs-site-conf.php
> - /ABCD/Apache2.4/conf/httpd.conf (last part, reference to php.ini).
> - /ABCD/www/bases/abcd.def (in case you have made any changes here).
> In the new version (as from 1.2t) it is possible to refer to different
> database-folders at the login-menu, so one could keep the bases-folder
> separately, outside the actual installation folder - therefore unaffected
> by new installations - anyway, as is already the case in Linux (where the
> bases go into /var/opt instead of /opt). In the Linux Debian-packages the
> demo-databases will only be copied to this database-folder if there are no
> existing databases already, preventing loss of existing databases.
>
> The other news is that we are releasing a Wiki page of ABCD, which
> complements that of BIREME's : ABCD's all historical information, plus all
> the CISIS, VHL Site and the corresponding manuals will be kept in BIREME's
> site, because these modules are theirs. But the latest news about ABCD and
> new releases will be published on this new site that we will reveal by 3rd
> of December.
> See the URL : http://www.abcdwiki.net
> Here only the Spanish part is ready, for the English translation (and
> later on possibly other : Portugese, French...) we need volunteers to work
> on the translation which can be done directly on the WIKI-pages themselves.
>
> In this site we have prepared:
> - A new manual completely re-written by Egbert, with over 160 pages "The
> ABC of ABCD Central : the Reference Manual"; it comes now not only in
> PDF-format but also in a html-website format with links from the table of
> contents to each part.
> - An updated Wiki in English and Spanish, which will replace the current
> one maintained by Guilda in her server, where information will be updated
> continuously and may be open to partners to provide information to the wiki.
> - There will be demos of ABCD aligned to the current version
> - ABCD installation versions for Windows and Linux, with installer and
> instructions
> - Source code of programs
>
> In the following days we'll publish more information on the changes and
> developments brought in this version.
>
> We appreciate all the cooperation and the time spent by Alberto, Edwin,
> Juan, Diego, Gustavo, Alisson , and the team of programmers in Cuba (esp.
> Marino Sánchez), coordinated by Egbert.
>
> regards
> Guilda, Egbert, Ernesto
>
> Egbert de Smet
> Universiteit Antwerpen
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