Release13Changelog

Technical Changelog

The second major release for 2014 includes a rewrite of the ANDS Harvester software,a rewrite of the Data Source Settings page of ANDS Registry and new and improved data citation export functionality, as well as several other performance tweaks and bug fixes.

Highlights of R13 include:

• Implementation of an export to Endnote function from view pages
• Enhancement to Research Data Australia’s (RDA’s) URLs to support Search Engine Optimisation
• Implementation of an improved ‘Contact Us’ form in RDA -Rewrite of the Data Source Settings page of ANDS Registry (“ORCA”) to fix random error messages displayed when viewing or editing the page
• Addition of Thomson Reuters DCI export options to Data Source account page
• Rewrite of the ANDS Harvester software to improve performance and error reporting and to support CKAN and CSW import

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Installation of this upgrade:

• update the ANDS-Registry-Core codebase (either fetch latest tarball or git fetch && git rebase origin/master) (Complete instructions here for R12.1 to R13 migration)
• install and configure the ANDS-Harvester codebase (Further instructions here)
• install python (Further instructions here)
• update registry database (etc/db/mysql/dbs_registry_r12_r13_incr.sql)
• update SOLR schema to R13 (check etc/misc/solrschema_r13.xml)
• reindex registry contents (via the maintenance dashboard) (no need to re-enrich, index is sufficient)
• run harvest update script (via the maintenance dashboard)
• run datasource update script (via the maintenance dashboard)
• (optional) update the ANDS-Registry-Contrib codebase (either fetch latest tarball or git fetch && git rebase origin/master)