[Isis-users] about ABCD v2.0b

[Isabel Ayres]

Dear all,
Congratulations for great efforts.
All the best,
isabel

2015-01-09 14:11 GMT-02:00 De Smet Egbert <egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>:

>
> Dear all,
>
> with my best wishes for a good year 2015 I am happy to announce
> availability of ABCD v2.0beta.
> This has been on its way since quite long in fact. One of the main new
> features, justifying the 'major' upgrade to '2', i.e. the 'full-text'
> digital library feature, was already demonstrated by myself in an
> international conference (in New Delhi, India) 3 years ago... but kept
> hanging in for long time for reasons explained below.
>
> We have now finalized two main scripts for this 'digital library' feature
> :
> - a script (using Tika Server from Apache) which loads all documents in a
> pre-defined folder on the ABCD-server, preserving the underlying structure
> of sub-folders as searchable 'sections' of the 'repository', into a
> database with the existing metadata (embedded into the documents, as far as
> available in DC) and - if included into the field-selection based on Dublin
> Core - the complete text-extraction into a dedicated field which will be
> full-text indexed. After a full-index generation of the newly created
> database, which goes reasonably fast as we use the /n option of CISIS (MFN
> as the only posting), the database can be fully used in ABCD Central (e.g.
> editing metadata) and searched/displayed in the ABCD iAH-OPAC.
> - another script will allow to interactively upload one or more documents
> from a (local) machine to the ABCD-server and have it incorporated into the
> database mentioned above. So after initial creation of a collection with
> this script the collection-database can be gradually updated with new
> documents.
> - individual records ('documents') can be 'protected' by a password field
> in the record to allow self-submission of documents by authors without
> jeopardizing the records by other authors (an ABCD 'profile' to only allow
> data-entry access to the repository database is to be created).
>
> Other good news about this version 2.0b :
> - added : module 'Online Document Delivery Services' (ODDS)
> - added : new module OAI (Isis-OAI-Provider from BIREME)
> - added : thesaurus feature (Guilda's thesaurus consultation during
> data-entry and/or searching)
> - added : several new utilities creating loanobjects/copies databases,
> - added : duplication checker
> - added : barcode checker (for stock-taking)
> - added : record-splitter based on repeatable field
> - soon to be added : RFID/SIP2 functions for automation of loan-functions
> by robots
> - soon to be added : LDAP functions
> - soon to be added : Unicode support.
> with most of the new utilities 'made in Cuba'.
>
> However there is also some bad news : some new features, based on
> non-standard versions of the CISIS-utilities of BIREME, don't fully
> function correctly, more specifically :
> - searching in iAH works well but calling exactly the same searches from
> ABCD Site with its 'meta-search' feature as a URL, this doesn't work for an
> unknown reason;
> - non-standard CISIS-databases do not work properly in Isis-OAI-Provider
> (probably for the same reason as the previous issue : they are accessed by
> a 'search-URL');
> - Unicode is still to be tested much more by experts of non-Latin
> languages.
>
> In fact these three pending issues have made me delay to publish of this
> version for now about 2 years, but I no longer can justify such delay any
> further. If people are really interested in using these new features in
> ABCD, they will have to add their voices to mine (which was too weak
> clearly) by asking BIREME to check for this. I only got the disappointing
> advice to use 'ISIS1030' type of 'LILACS'-style database, therefore
> foregoing all new modern non-traditional library uses of ISIS in ABCD and
> putting us back into the 80's... The main special versions of CISIS to be
> considered are 'BigISIS' (big records and databases, only available for
> Linux), 'FFI' (big records for Windows but without incremental indexing)
> and Unicode CISIS. Since BIREME is moving out of their 'BVS Site' (the one
> used in ABCD) the problem of the Site (as much as we could verify/test only
> when doing meta-search to non-standard CISIS databases) has very low
> priority, however since also OAI seems to be affected with a similar
> problem, we hope they will still address the issue as this is also relevant
> for their own network of the BVS.
> I have not been able to convince BIREME of the importance of the
> possibility to fully use 1Mb-records in ISIS as done in BigISIS and FFI
> (while this was nevertheless part of the initial ABCD-contract and
> therefore always has been the idea). I am afraid it will take many more
> voices to still convince them.
>
> I am availing this new version 2.0beta from my server abcd.netcat.be/files.
> Other than the mentioned issues, which do not affect normal operations of
> all other basic ABCD-functions, this version is fully compatible with
> (because based on) version 1.4.
>
> Also a new downloads-page is created with a new 'tab' for documentation.
> One important new document is a manual on EmpWeb (draft version for
> comments) but the new v2.0b features still need to be added to the manual
> of ABC of ABCD, which we hope to do in the coming few months.
>
> Please feel free to send me feedback.
>
>  Egbert de Smet
> Universiteit Antwerpen
>
>
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Isabel Ayres
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