OISWorks provides highlights 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 issue, please
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Development Projects page on the OIS web site.
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Aleph / HOLLIS / HOLLIS Classic
3/30: [Late entry from March] Added Widener Coutts approval files to
Order Loader.
4/5:
Logical bases rebuilt.
4/7:
HOLLIS (AquaBrowser) officially available at Harvard.
4/8: Loaded 38,000 records for ebook set Early American Imprints Second
Series.
4/8: Loaded Touzot records for HCL into HVD03.
4/8: Loaded Aux Amateur records for HCL into HVD03.
4/15:
HOLLIS enhancements update.
4/22:
Beta version of the Scan & Deliver service is released.
4/22: Loaded Erasmus record for HCL into HVD03.
4/22:
HOLLIS enhancements update.
4/24: Loaded 1,250 records for ebook set Digital Library of Classic
Protestant Texts.
4/30: Loaded update to Safari ebook set.
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Collection Tools (TED/VC)
4/15 VC release 1.2.12 added new language expansions for language codes
in the
Digital
Scores virtual collection.
4/27: TED release 1.6.2 included changes to display text and search
behaviors of the
Archived Harvard
University Online Course Catalogs (A-Cats) collection to accommodate
the Kennedy School name change (from Kennedy School of Government to
Harvard Kennedy School).
4/29: Completed the Spring load of updated course catalog data to the TED
collection of
Archived Harvard
University Online Course Catalogs (A-Cats).
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DASH Beta (Harvard University Scholarly Repository)
4/9: A new collection, HLS Student Papers, was added to the Harvard Law
School Community. The submission license screen for the Harvard Kennedy
School now supports an open access policy option.
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DRS & Delivery Services
4/6: PDS Maintenance release 1.4.5 added fixes for a minor glitch in the
Harvard METS profile and PDS logging, replaced links to online help with
URNs, and disabled editing of Google METS files (to prevent PDS from
modifying information it is not currently designed to handle).
4/9: IDS release 2.0.27 included changes to speed up retrieval of stored
JPEG2000 thumbnails and addition of an internal monitoring service to
keep tabs on IDS performance.
4/13: IDS release 2.0.28 fixed a date rollover bug in the internal
monitoring service.
4/29: PDS release 1.2.13 and PDS Maintenance release 1.4.6 added support
for the input and presentation of bidirectional strings (e.g. PDS now
supports display of intermingled English and Arabic text in citation
metadata and page/section node labels).
4/30 FTS (Full Text Search) release 1.3.7 added an updated search set for
page-turned documents in the OCP
Expeditions and
Discoveries collection.
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Feedback Service (a central system for handling online user
comments/questions)
4/2: Feedback release 3.0.5 added support for comments sent by staff
users in the Archivist Toolkit pilot project.
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OLIVIA & VIA
4/1 VIA release 2.5.10 included fixes for numbering/labeling issues in
the grid view.
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Web Archiving (WAX)
4/1 WAX release 1.0.20 included better 404 error handling, support
for paragraphs on collection presentation pages, better handling of frame
conversion, a frameset accessibility upgrade, fixed problems with some
indexed harvests not appearing in the public interface, updated Japanese
"About WAX" text, and improved prevention of leaks to live
sites.
4/28: WAX release 1.0.23 addressed a javascript bug that was causing URL
address links to be incorrectly formed.
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