[Isis-users] Finally : ABCD 2.2 beta-release available (English)

[Edwin Hübner]

Dear Egbert,
Thank you very much for your, as well as Guildas, effort in continuous
development of ABCD. It was a great gift for the New Year. I will test the
new version and let you know if any problem.
Best wishes,
Edwin Hübner
(5521)99647-1675


Em seg., 4 de jan. de 2021 às 05:01, ZUE (bzfo) Bibliothek <
bibliothek em ueberleben.org> escreveu:

> Dear Egbert, dear ABCD contributors,
>
>
> Thank you very much for your continued effort and support!!!
>
> It is so good to know that you are keeping on working on the development
> of ABCD against all odds -Thank you!!!
>
> I am looking very much forward to test new releases.
>
>
> With sincere regards and best wishes
>
> Leyla Schön
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> *Von:* isis-users <isis-users-bounces+bibliothek=
> ueberleben.org em iccisis.org> im Auftrag von Egbert De Smet <
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> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 30. Dezember 2020 19:26
> *An:* isis-users
> *Betreff:* [Isis-users] Finally : ABCD 2.2 beta-release available
> (English)
>
>
>
> Dear ISIS-users list colleagues,
>
>
> 2020 has been an extremely difficult year for both professional and
> personal life for many, if not all, of us.
>
> The promised release of a new version of ABCD, i.e. version 2.2, has been
> delayed time and again due to canceled workshops and many other
> corona-related problems.
>
> However since September tests have been ongoing, albeit at very low scale,
> and we think that at this moment we can offer a beta-release for wider
> testing and use.
>
> The most important changes/innovations of version 2.2. can be listed as :
>
> - inclusion of the completely new ABCD OPAC, which can replace mostly both
> Site and iAH, since it offers combined searching of ABCD-databases (with
> merged indexes), facets and other features.
>
> - this version offers a co-ordinated, synchronized combination of the
> versions 1.5 and 2.1; it will be the only basis for further development (so
> the series 1.x is now finished); all features of 1.5 and 2.1 are preserved
> and streamlined.
>
> - reorganization of the many utilities in a new tabbed-menu structure
>
> - various nice improvements are now offered, such as a read-only
> PDF-viewer, improved full-text extraction of also larger documents, DSpace
> records import etc.
>
>
> Unfortunately we detected some problems in other modules of ABCD due to
> changes and the technological software-environment and external libraries,
> affecting EmpWeb, Site-Admin (in Windows only) and Secs-Web. Only partial
> solutions are currently available :
>
> - for EmpWeb, where the combination of a newer Java with MySQL no longer
> allows transactions, we strongly recommend keeping the old environment
> where everything worked perfectly;
>
> - for Site-Admin in Windows, where an unknown problem with the XSL-library
> prevents part of the menus to be shown, we can only advise manual edition
> of the Site configuration files (the HTML and XML files, which are all in
> text-format and therefore can also be edited with simple text-editors) or
> using the Site/Admin in Linux - working fully as before - and copying the
> resulting configuration files in bases/site to the Windows environment; in
> some cases the new OPAC with its improved meta-search capabilities could
> make the use of Site much less important anyway;
>
> - for Secs-Web (rarely used nowadays) we offer in the 'added' databases of
> 2.2 the same databases but directly managed with Central; a script to
> regenerate the holding-records from the command-line is available, so most
> of Secs-Web functionality is preserved but dedicated documentation is still
> missing.
>
>
> On the old download-page of ABCD, i.e.
> http://abcd.netcat.be/files/downloads.html new links to the Debian
> package and  the Windows ZIP archive (containing the new folders) for
> downloading and testing. Both are meant to be installed on existing ABCD
> installations. Full installation packages will need to follow later.
>
> In principle existing databases won't be affected, but some new
> database-folders - e.g. for the added messages in 'lang' and for the new
> opac in 'opac' and 'opac_conf', but also the Secs-Web databases - will be
> installed in a folder 'bases_added' to be copied into the operational
> bases-directory manually. Backing up the existing bases-directory before
> running the 'dpkg -i' command for installing the Debian package, is a good
> idea always, anyway.
>
>
> We hope for some more feedback on this beta-release - it should be
> basically sound while details can still be wrong but remedied - and when
> fully stable the documentation in the 'The ABC of ABCD' manual will be
> updated with an additional chapter on the new OPAC and some minor updates
> on the existing Central module. Documentation on the OPAC is
> however available at the ABCD Wiki and a rich 'help'-function - now
> available in more languages through Google translate built-in - combined
> with a configuration wizard should allow good guidance of the configuration
> process.
>
>
> We wish you all a happy new year 2021 !
>
>
> Egbert de Smet
> Universiteit Antwerpen
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