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

[Mônica]

Dear Egbert,

I would like to thank you and congratulate the developer's team for the new
version of ABCD.
I will install and execute the validations of the new version with Edwin.
I wish the whole community a great year.

Sincerely,
Monica.

Em seg, 4 de jan de 2021 10:37, Edwin Hübner <edwin.hubner at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> 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 at 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 at iccisis.org> im Auftrag von Egbert De Smet <
>> egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>
>> *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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