I am pleased to introduce OISWorks – a new monthly email
newsletter that will provide updates on recent system updates across all
the systems supported by OIS. In recent years, it has become a
significant challenge to create effective and timely methods of
communication for this large, diverse, and busy community. OIS has
a long tradition of relying on active and involved committees and working
groups not only to recommend and prioritize system enhancements but also
to keep the broader community informed about system updates and
improvements. This is a trial newsletter that we hope will enhance
the process of keeping everyone in the Harvard library
community more up to date on system enhancements and upgrades. You
will quickly notice that this is not a highly copy-edited
newsletter. We will strive to convey updates in non-technical
language but our goal here is "quick and brief updates" rather
than lengthy documentation so bear with us as we strive to find the right
"voice" while maintaining a timely publication schedule and
minimizing resources needed to compile the newsletter. Our goal is
to make it easy for everyone to quickly scan the list and find the items
that interest them.
Just a reminder that in addition to the monthly issue of OISWorks, we
maintain a status list of large projects that have been prioritized by
the University Library Council:
http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/systems/devpriorities.html
The development project list is updated on a quarterly basis. I
hope that you find these forms of communication useful and informative –
as always, I am open to your comments, questions, or any constructive
feedback!
Tracey Robinson
Head. Office for Information Systems
Harvard University Library
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OISWorks is a compilation of major and minor system changes released by
the HUL Office for Information Systems (OIS) in the previous month. If
you have questions about entries in this message, please
contact
OIS. More information about OIS-supported systems is available on our
web site:
http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/
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Aleph/HOLLIS Catalog
8/18 Set of non-Latin scripts permissible in Aleph extended to include Devanagari, Tamil, Bengali, and Thai
8/17 Aleph version 19 released
8/01 Sorting of items in public catalog fixed
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Collection Tools (VC & TED)
8/27 Virtual Collections OAI-PMH data provider 1.0.7 released
* Records from the Harvard Map Collection Digital Maps virtual collection are now available for harvesting.
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DRS & Delivery Services
8/25 Page Delivery Service (PDS) 1.2.11 released
* Replaced help links with URNs.
* Fixed parsing of Google brightened METS files that have fully qualified name spaces.
* Changes to allow web crawlers to see the updated version of objects they may have already crawled.
* Added a root link to "Page Delivery Service" banner in header on all pages that points to a brief system information page.
8/15 Image Delivery Service (IDS) 2.0.19 released
* Background of JPEG2000 interactive viewer changed from black to neutral gray for greater ease of viewing.
* Security issue: fixed a cross-site scripting vulnerability.
8/04 Page Delivery Service (PDS) 1.2.10 released
* Multiple code changes that facilitate the generation and web crawling of PDS deep content.
* Cleaner markup: all HTML validates as XHTML; removed unneeded CSS rules.
* Added a Harvard shield favicon.
* Changes to support escaping invalid HTML characters from all text that can be displayed in the PDS interface.
* Fixed object caching bug where an object updated in PDSM is not properly updated in the object cache.
* Fixed bug 2179. Users can no longer submit multiple print requests for the same PDS object. An error will be displayed until previous requests finish processing. A user can submit print requests for different PDS objects concurrently.
* Cleaned up PDS error messages.
* State of a document's table of contents is now stored in each user's local session.
* Browser support tweaks: added support for Safari frame size store and recall; disabled IE7 frame size store and recall.
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OASIS
8/19 OASIS 2.9.9 released
* Repository renamed from "Harvard University Art Museums: Archives" to "Harvard Art Museum".
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OLIVIA/VIA
8/6 VIA 2.4.12 released
* Fixed bug 894: Apostrophes in data cause searches and bookmarking to fail.
* Fixed bug 1120: Inconsistent normalization of search terms (apostrophe not always stripped from queries).
* Fixed bug 1570: Added user warning when javascript is turned off.
* Fixed bug 1891: Search for terms with accented characters fails.
* Fixed bug 1898: System error when displaying record from grid and list view.
* Fixed a bug that caused a VIA cpu spike when question marks were added to queries.
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