[Isis-users] about ABCD 2.0 and 3.0

Tue Jan 17 02:10:09 CET 2017

Estimado Egbert:

Es una gran alegría tener noticias sobre el ABCD, y las novedades que se
están desarrollando.

En cuanto a la consultas del SECS Web, por lo menos de las 5 instituciones
que trabajan con ABCD ninguno utiliza SECS Web, si en algún momento se
puede complementar sería bueno, pero no es muy difundido su uso.

Luego si se utiliza 32 o 64 bits, por las características de los equipos
que ya se tiene apoyo que sea para 64 bits.  Creo los usuarios también
debemos hacer posible de mejorar los equipos que se tiene en las
bibliotecas.

Saludos.

Atte. Gualy Ch.

Gualberto S. Chuquimia Chasqui
Responsable Biblioteca "Julio Rodriguez Rivas"
Facultad de Medicina - UMSS
http://www.med.umss.edu.bo/
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g.chuquimia en umss.edu.bo
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Cochabamba - Bolivia

2017-01-16 6:16 GMT-04:00 De Smet Egbert <egbert.desmet en uantwerpen.be>:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> it has been a long while since I last communicated on the new versions of
> ABCD, largely compensated for however by Guilda making a lot of efforts
> last year, despite her difficult situation in a difficult country, working
> on ABCD 1.5.1, which might be the last version released in the 1.x
> generation of ABCD. A long list of very useful new features (e-mail
> reminders, barcode configuration and printing, new parameters in abcd.def
> and config_extended.php...) have been added so the software development
> certainly has not been stalled.
>
> From my side I have been busy - and still will be busy for a while - in
> developing version 2.0 while as from tomorrow a more intensive effort will
> be done working (with 2 Cuban visitors) on ABCD 3.0 (based on J-ISIS). I
> failed to have it ready as hoped for as a New Year present to the
> community, apologies requested. But some of the new features have been
> tested largely and for quite some time now in partial 2.0 installations in
> real libraries, so that was useful anyway.
> On ABCD 2.0 I would like to mention the following issues :
> - the main new features are resp. :
>    * Unicode for the interface(with e.g. Amharic and Sinhalese interfaces
> in the process of creation, Arabic also being considered) but also for
> contents indexing and searching of non-Latin alphabets;
>    * full-text databases with not only links but also full-text indexing
> and pre-view, with both batch- and interactive creation of collections,
> kind of a mix of dSpace and Greenstone;
>    * new module : Online Document Delivery System (ODDS), accessible from
> ABCD Site
>    * mySite (status consultation for library-users) accessible from ABCD
> Site for both standard and EmpWeb circulation systems.
> - a lot of efforts already have been made to remain fully 1.5.1 compatible
> - we plan to only provide 64-bits packages for Windows and Linux, no
> longer 32-bits (however running in 32-bits would still be possible but
> require e.g. different libraries for php_yaz and in Linux for the
> CISIS-utilities used)
> - we plan to no longer provide Apache and PHP in the Windows package but
> rather rely on installers like wamp and xamp; both need only a small
> ABCD-virtualhost file to be copied from the ABCD-installation package into
> w/xamp and allow more flexibility re new versions of PHP and Apache-service
> management.
> - we want to have ABCD2.0 fully compatible with PHP7 since support for
> PHP5.x (currently 5.6) is announced to be terminated and considerable
> performance gains are reported with PHP7; we still have problems with
> Secs-Web however running in PHP7 (as it uses several external libraries
> which needed to be upgraded : smarty, yui...) and this has delayed once
> again the planned final release of ABCD 2.0. Our concern here is : who
> actually uses Secs-Web and how bad would it be to release ABCD 2.0 without
> a working Secs-Web module ? It should of course still work with PHP5.6
> since nothing has changed there and it worked well.
> So I invite all of you to react on the question 'who needs still 32-bits
> ?', 'who uses Secs-Web' and how urgent is a PHP7-compatible version ?
>
> About ABCD 3.0 I have to be brief : the Cuban team working on it has
> started testing it in Cuban universities but refrained from making it
> available to testers outside their own controlled context, including me. In
> one month from now I will need to decide, based on the progress during the
> working-sessions of the Cubans with me until then, on whether or not the
> idea of a real FOSS ABCD3.0 fully benefiting from the (CDS/)ISIS philosophy
> and technology is still on.
> ABCD 3.0 should - since it uses J-ISIS and the new underlying technology
> of Berkeley DB and Lucene with Java - contain all ABCD 2.0 features and
> capabilities (e.g. full-text and Unicode). Database definitions and
> management will be used from the already excellent tools on these in
> J-ISIS (which by the way comes already with its own WWW-interface in
> addition to its rich desktop client), so ABCD 3.0 will focus more on the
> specific library management features.
>
> Wishing you all a nice - or better at least - new year 2017.
>
> Egbert de Smet
> Universiteit Antwerpen
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