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2014-6-26

The 5392 revision provides the following functionality:

 Data Category specifications now show their CC-BY license. The attribution is satisfied by including the DC PID when you (re)use a DC.

 

2014-5-23

The 5277 revision provides the following functionality:

 in the DC viewer the administration section is now closed by default

 some IE specific fixes

 

2014-4-11

The 4949 revision provides the following functionality:

 added check for a whole DCS to the REST API

 collapse the Administration Record in the DC HTML view

 

2014-3-31

The 4853 revision provides the following functionality:

 version 1.3.2 of the DCIF schema makes the Schematron patterns compliant with ISO/IEC 19757-3:2006

 

2014-3-7

The 4643 revision provides the following functionality:

 Upgrade to the official release of General Interface 3.9.2, which supports the latest browsers

 

2014-1-27

The 4346 revision provides the following functionality:

 a note associated with a new definition was never saved

 

2014-1-20

The 4295 revision provides the following functionality:

 new search option to filter on the recommender

 

2013-11-18

The 4037 revision provides the following functionality:

 version 1.3.1 of the DCIF schema fixes the pattern to prevent empty strings, i.e., it now just requires a non-whitespace first character

 Shibboleth header fallback chain can now be configured

 updated to General Interface 3.9.2. r1199 to fix support of IE 11

 

2013-9-16

The 3583 revision provides the following functionality:

 added administrator interface to change the status of a selection of DCs

 added button to explicitly reset an effective or until date

 fixed SQL generation for ‘deleting’ fields, i.e., set them to NULL

 version 1.2 of the DC Reference schema adds the dcr:targetDatcat and dcr:targetValueDatcat attributes and elements to be used in schemas to link instances to a data category; these allow to make explicit the level of indirection, i.e., a schema declaration of an element with a dcr:targetDatcat implies a dcr:datcat at the instances, introduced by annotating a schema with DC PIDs; to be used by TEI Feature System Declarations

 updated to General Interface 3.9.2 r1111 to fix IE 10 support

 made the internal API more RESTful

 added caching to disk for DC DCIF representations

 more flexible administrator interface for importing DCIF

 version 1.3 of the DCIF schema doesn’t allow empty string at most places, as an empty string doesn’t carry any information and where no information is required the element is already optional; the schema is now open for foreign elements and attributes

 

2013-8-7

The 3295 revision provides the following functionality:

 raise an error when a DC isn’t a member of any profile

 

2013-7-8

The 3121 revision provides the following functionality:

 the exact match mode for the search now really works on phrases, i.e., respects word boundaries, and is case insensitive

 the new substring match mode for the search does case sensitive matching without respecting word boundaries, e.g., will match ‘foobar’ when looking for ‘foo’

 

2013-6-21

The 3055 revision provides the following functionality:

 added a link to the group viewer/editor to switch to the group specific ISOcat view

 the root workspace node now indicates the view

 

2013-5-23

The 2930 revision provides the following functionality:

 check the (local) uniqueness of the PIDs in version 1.2.1 of the DCIF schema

 allow informal TDGs, which can manage a profile but aren’t involved in the official ISO standardization process

 fixed sending a group invitation email

 the change history of a DC can now also be accessed by an Atom feed

 for a DCS the history of all its DCs can be accessed (but by default only up to the last 100 changes are shown) both in the UI and as an Atom feed

 

2013-3-21

The 2728 revision provides the following functionality:

 the HTML view of a DC also renders the is-a hierarchy for the simple DCs in a closed value domain

 the special profile list editor is replaced by the general list interaction pattern

 Private is an ambiguous term in ISOcat, as a first step the Private profile is replaced by two profiles: the ‘undecided’ and the ‘not available’ profiles; existing DCs which were member of the Private profile are now member of the ‘undecided’ profile

 fixed the binding of a Shibboleth account to an ISOcat account

 throttle access to the DBMS and throttle DCIF generation of large DCSs/profiles

 when a value domain is updated the associated simple DCs are rechecked

 

2013-1-30

The 2512 revision provides the following functionality:

 finetuning of the CLAVAS representation

 user interface improvements

 

2012-12-4

The 2381 revision provides the following functionality:

 fixed some typos (thanks to Fons Laan and Ineke Schuurman)

 DCS now gets unselected from the workspace when a search result is loaded

 fixed issues around editing constraints

 added experimental CLAVAS representation

 added warning when a simple DC doesn’t appear in any conceptual domain

 

2012-10-24

The 2332 revision provides the following functionality:

 public groups with at least 5 members can now recommend DCs

 constrained DCs can now use the new ‘SCHEMAcat reference’ rule type to refer to, e.g., an EBNF schema that described the valid conceptual domain

 

2012-10-2

The 2272 revision provides the following functionality:

 fixed opening up the help page from the user interface

 

2012-9-28

The 2260 revision provides the following functionality:

 fine tuning of the access rights handling in the scope editor

 the HTML rendering of a profile/DCS now correctly shows the simple DC is-a hierarchy

 the ISOcat source code repository has been merged into the CLARIN EU repository; the revision number now follows this repository

 isocat.org is now redirected to catalog.clarin.eu, which is a Shibboleth Service Provider; users with institutional credentials from the CLARIN Identity Federation can now bind these to their ISOcat account and can then login to the ISOcat web user interface using these credentials, but for now the forum still uses the ISOcat credentials; PIDs will continue to be based on isocat.org, and we are in the process of making that server a part of the CLARIN Service Federation

 

2012-7-4

The 1375 revision provides the following functionality:

 a simple DC which is a member of the Private profile can have an is-a relationship with a DC from any profile, i.e., this to allow is-a relationships between DCs that need further harmonization (for instance aligning profile membership)

 fixed rendering of the public forum link in the group editor

 DC(S) access can now be further refined to read-only and read-write, where previously the latter would be the default

 

2012-6-15

The 1368 revision provides the following functionality:

 clearer warning in the DC viewer when the DC is deprecated or superseded

 the exact match mode now also works for non-name fields, e.g., definitions and examples

 fixed the handling of the limit for the number of search results

 the UI now returns all search results by default

 

2012-6-6

The 1362 revision provides the following functionality:

 simplification and speedup by switching to PostgreSQL 8 enumerations

 removed residue of support for the SYNTAX GMT RPC interface

 even when a DC is private its specifications can now be accessed, however, the DC will not be included in navigation/search/etc. in the public section of the web user interface; this allows to always be able to access DC specifications if they appear ‘in the wild’

 IE fix for changing the password [3527186] (thanks to Oddrun Pauline Ohren)

 the checker now warns if a language section contains more then one definition

 

2012-3-19

The 1314 revision provides the following functionality:

 fixes to searching in a specific view

 sort DCSs on various places in the workspace

 

2012-2-27

The 1306 revision provides the following functionality:

 access to the public part of ISOcat can now be limited to a specific view, i.e., only to DC(S)s accessible from a specified (thematic domain) group (e.g., CLARIN-NL/VL)

 fixed rendering of the superseded-by link in the context overlay

 work on the DCIF import process

 

2012-1-16

The 1284 revision provides the following functionality:

 sort data element names and name sections

 better rendering of names in the HTML view of a DCS/profile

 

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