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2010-6-22 The 1029 revision provides the following functionality: ● more work on the standardization submission process, from which the first step, checking if a DCS can be submitted and to which TDG, is now publically available ● revision of the help pages ● added smartfeed to the forum ● if language specific stemming and stopping would result in an empty search string the search language is automatically changed into undefined; this fixes bug [3012390] ● fixed checking the validity of an user name, i.e., don’t allow spaces
2010-6-8 The 1006 revision provides the following functionality: ● adhoc groups can now also request a forum ● more optimization of the DCIF generation ● added a page listing DCR/ISOcat related publications ● fixed regression in editing DCSs ● more work on the standardization submission process ● public release of the ISOcat forum
2010-6-1 The 997 revision provides the following functionality: ● more work on the DCIF import process (if you want to bulk load DCs using DCIF contact the ISOcat system administration) ● more work on the forum integration (coming soon) ● the information in the startup popup has moved to the user overview, and the popup is disabled ● released version 1.1.1 of the DCIF Relax NG schema; which embeds a set of Schematron rules to check the referential integrity and also implements almost all of the OCL constraints in the full DCR data model ● paged loading of large DCSs and profiles ● fixed rendering of an empty DC context ● XML-based constraints are now embedded as XML fragments in DCIF documents; this fixes bug [2799874] ● working on DC versioning ● working on standardization submission process ● revision of the DCR Guidelines ● updated the publication list ● added a type parameter to the search web service, which allows to restrict the results to a specific DC type (simple, complex, open, constrained or closed) ● various fixes to speed up the loading of DCSs/profiles ● RDF export has been revised to be useful for more OWL (2) vocabularies/profiles
2010-4-27 The 960 revision provides the following functionality: ● full support for maintaining profile value domains ● fixed in-page links in the context overlay ● released version 1.1 of the DCIF Relax NG schema ● more work on the DCIF import process ● added administration status to the DC viewer ● the DCS scope dialog now allows to propagate the public scope to the DCs (owned by the user) in the DCS ● TDGs can now own DCSs; so a completely external TDG like Language Codes can still cut up its DC set in manageable chunks ● more work on the forum integration ● added status and activity indicators to the TDG view ● properly reset the checker when loading another DC ● remember the position of the splitter between the DC view and the check results
2010-4-19 The 943 revision provides the following functionality: ● work on the DCIF import process ● DCs reusing existing identifiers weren’t handled correctly ● the links offered to matching DCs during the identifier check in the DC editor now open up in a in-page window ● the identifier check can now also report private identifier doublets ● various UI issues ● replacing GI’s erratic autorows with our own and hopefully more stable mechanism ● various fixes to the DC Editor ● sorting in the context navigator ● trying to better limit resource consumption of background processes ● a data category should always be a member of at least one profile ● reordered elements in the DC viewer a bit to follow somewhat the order in the DC editor ● sort some DCIF elements on their id, so they will reflect creation order ● in the value or is-a selection dialogs preselect the already selected simple data categories
2010-4-14 The 929 revision provides the following functionality: ● work on the ISOcat system administration NK plugin ● more work on integrating with a forum ● PIDs are now materialized in the database, so we can incorporate external DC PIDs, e.g., language codes from the ISO/CDB ● fixed some (FF 3.6) UI issues
2010-4-7 The 922 revision provides the following functionality: ● worked around the Relax NG transreption error ● fixed scope bug for value domain query ● fixed some UI issues ● check DCs in the background and limit the resources consumed for that ● never cache the access rights to a DC(S)
2010-3-30 The 914 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixed caching behavior with user profile updates ● when creating a group the owner data wasn’t properly shown ● only include the data categories in a (public) DCS or profile that the logged in user can actually access ● when the user’s first and last name are empty fallback to the login name ● PostgreSQL’s full text search doesn’t like colons, so those are replaced by a space ● added the presentations from the CLARIN-NL ISOcat tutorial to the manual page
2010-3-22 The 910 revision provides the following functionality: ● first support for right-to-left languages ● sorting the language and linguistic sections ● fixed wrong xml:lang attribute in DCIF export ● added spyglasses to the DC editor, which provide help on what purpose the fields are intended for ● fixed opening of the help page ● fixed opening user profile editor ● getting ready for adding a forum ● updated the supported browser table ● provide more context information in the DC check messages ● fixed caching behavior in the registration process, which resulted in the failure of sending the emails ● fixed wrong variable which made it impossible to update a DCS
2010-3-3 The 899 revision provides the following functionality: ● removed a repaint that made the workspace scrollbars reset ● tell which group is about to be deleted ● fixes for rendering problems with FF 3.6
2010-3-1 The 896 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixes for rendering problems with FF 3.6 (?) ● the DC scope shouldn’t be cached ● first version of a mechanism to let a change event bubble up through the DCR network, e.g., from a DC to a DCS or profile ● the DCS viewer now also reacts when a DC has changed ● fixes and updates to the help pages ● added a more prominent entry link to the frontpage ● adapted rendering of a TDG ● updated publications ● some TDG have no members which have an ISOcat account, so the TDG render should be able to cope with an empty list ● optimizing the usage of XSL on the client side by caching the compiled stylesheet ● now that DC identifiers are editable there is no need to jump to the origin field when an existing DC is loaded into the editor ● optimized load time by postponing the load of GUI related JavaScript classes till they component is actually used
2010-2-15 The 881 revision provides the following functionality: ● work has started on the next development phase which will support the standardization process; this series of development releases will have the nickname Percival ● various optimizations to the database schema ● text areas and binding the Enter key to a default action didn’t work together; fixed now ● the owner of a group can now delete it ● when you leave the group editor with changes you’re now asked if you want to save them ● fixed regression in the scope editor ● the scope editor only show groups from the Private and Shared sections from the users workspace ● fixed nested doll scrollbars in the workspace viewer ● if the user is a member of a TDG it will also appear in the Private (if the user is the chair) or Shared (if the user is a judge or a regular member) sections of the workspace; the schema for the workspace resource now reflects this ● the chair of the TDG can now maintain it, i.e., change the description and add/remove members ● the chair of a TDG can give it access to a DCS (s)he owns ● tell which DCS will be deleted in the confirmation dialog
2010-2-4 The 872 revision provides the following functionality: ● various fixes to cope with GI 3.9 changes/bugs ● fixed opening group editor
2010-2-3 The 871 revision provides the following functionality: ● the search options overlay allows to tweak the parameters of a search, e.g., limit it to a specific profile ● in the HTML representation of a simple DC the is-a relationship was wrongfully glued into the description section, now it has become part of the general DC information ● when checking access rights for a group pick the first reference found in the users workspace; this fixes bug [2939438] ● upgraded to General Interface 3.9 ● the owner of a DCS can now delete it; this partially implements feature request [2840196]
2010-1-18 The 862 revision provides the following functionality: ● for guests by default open the public part of the workspace ● in DCIF select the linguistic sections that belong to a DC ● ISO 12620:2009 has been published ● on January 8, 2010, a workshop to discuss the requirements for a Relation Registry on top of the DCR was held in Nijmegen; there is now a web page from which the given presentations can be downloaded and a short summary of the results of the workshop is given
2009-12-9 The 854 revision provides the following functionality: ● never cache a check result ● deleting profile membership didn’t work ● fulltext search is now completely rewritten ● some additional parameters for the search resource in the REST interface: 1. limit the answer size (default is 100) 2. language of the keywords (default is en (English)) 3. search within a set of specific profiles ● different handling of the ‘Loading …’ overlay which made IE unstable; this also fixes bug [2355342]
2009-11-24 The 843 revision provides the following functionality: ● in the DCIF value domains are now sorted on the DC name ● DCSs and profiles are now also sorted on the DC name ● context DCS or profile is set correctly again ● moved the ‘open in a detached window’ link closer to the default link ● made it more explicit when a linked DC is not part of the context DCS or profile ● fixed a corner case which could result in a lost update
2009-11-23 The 839 revision provides the following functionality: ● the justification field in the DC Editor has gotten more space ● the basket was always exported using the default guest profile, which meant that private DCs were pruned away ● show a loading overlay while the DC Editor is still loading the DC ● update the window title of a detached DC viewer if another DC is loaded in it ● never cache a query result ● the DCS viewer now handles its loading overlay, which means that it also shown with a reload ● added a screencast on how to show the log window and send the messages to the ISOcat system administrator
2009-11-19 The 833 revision provides the following functionality: ● the type of a DC can now be changed in the DC Editor ● the tree view now also works in a regular DCS ● selecting a DC in a detached DCS viewer, will also open a detached DC viewer ● added links to open related DCs in a/another detached DC viewer ● in the English language section editor the name section and the definition fields are indicated as mandatory ● added a rudimentary print action for DCSs and DCs
2009-11-11 The 822 revision provides the following database cleanup: ● removed phantom, i.e., empty (data element) name sections and various texts (definitions, explanations, etc.) introduced by the autorow bug (fixed in the previous update) ● introduced the registration status ‘private’ for data categories which aren’t yet submitted to the standardization process ● the registration status of all data categories is now ‘private’, unless they had a ‘standard’ status in which case the status is now ‘candidate’ ● all data category versions are now set to 0.0.0 ● data categories owned by a TDG are now assigned to the chair of that TDG This cleanup now makes it possible for TDG chairs to share previously standard data categories with members of their TDG (using the regular mechanisms supported by ISOcat), and thus start the cleanup process of the registry.
2009-11-4 The 817 revision provides the following fixes to the DC Editor: 1. save button was never enabled due to change in the DC REST interface introduced in the previous update 2. after creating a language or linguistic section the language is checked in the appropriate language menu [2840115] 3. GI now returns the autorow as actual data leading to phantom rows in the database; now the autorows are pruned away before saving a DC [2839479] 4. added support for a spyglass to some tables, this enables one to see, for example, the full English definition while editing the French definition in a second language section editor by hovering over it 5. for closed DCs which are member of the private profile it is now possible to include any simple DC in their value domain, i.e., when there isn’t any profile overlap the simple DC is assigned to the private profile value domain
2009-11-2 The 815 revision provides the following functionality: ● upgraded to General Interface 3.8.1 ● updated the publication list ● DC PIDs are now redirected to the REST interface using HTTP code 307 (temporary redirect) to indicate that the client should keep on using the PID ● added handling of the view parameters profile, workingLanguage and objectLanguage to 1. the DC PID 2. the DC REST interface 3. the DCS REST interface ● upgraded to PostgreSQL 8.4.1 ● extended the list of known languages
2009-9-26 The 805 revision provides the following functionality: ● added a manual page to the portal site
2009-9-25 The 804 revision provides the following functionality: ● some fixes for authorization problems ● open issue: when you mistype your credentials in the login dialog ISOcat and the browser may currently get out-of-sync as the browser may keep on using the wrong credentials [2866579]
2009-9-24 The 802 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixed DC access problems ● keep the ranking of search results
2009-9-21 The 800 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixed locking problems ● added reload button for the workspace ● reload the workspace when a DCS scope changes
2009-9-18 The 796 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixed concurrency problems ● the scope of a DC(S) can now be changed, i.e., groups can be given read and write rights to a DCS (and its DCs) or a DC and/or a DC(S) can be made public
2009-9-3 The 779 revision provides the following functionality: ● an overlay to display the change log of a DC ● switched to icons only to squeeze space in the toolbar ● the workspace tree now allows to just open and close the folders without directly selecting them ● fixed Google Chrome multiple-select issue ● optimized loading time of (ad-hoc) DCSs
2009-9-2 The 771 revision provides the following functionality: ● a first version of the group editor and viewer ● fixed error checking in the DC editor [2840120] ● more fixes to the DC editor ● fixed concurrency problems
2009-8-18 The 739 revision provides the following functionality: ● more fixes to the DC editor ● more fixes to handle empty inputs ● clicking the reload button in the DCS viewer now always invalidates the cached DCS, i.e., one can force a DCS to be regenerated to see DC name changes ● fixes to the algorithm to determine an appropriate name of a DC
2009-8-11 The 731 revision provides the following functionality: ● when during the recover action to retrieve lost credentials multiple accounts for the same email address are found, all these accounts will be reset ● included the recover action in the welcome menu ● fixed some DC editor issues ● upgraded to General Interface 3.8 (the open source release is now managed by the Dojo Foundation instead of TIBCO) ● fixed concurrency problems which would make user sessions inaccessible ● after saving a DC the user is now asked if she wants to add it to the basket ● the help page is now opened in a separate browser window instead of a dialog ● the help pages have been completely revised and updated
2009-7-7 The 707 revision provides the following functionality: ● a poor man’s ranking scheme for search results while waiting for real full text search ● don’t sort search results on the DC names ● changed simple login into session management ● put basic messaging infrastructure into place ● the editor now locks the DC, so no changes get lost ● optimized profile/DCS requests ● better caching performance ● fixed some concurrency issues ● upgraded to TIBCO General Interface 3.7.1.6
2009-6-3 The 671 revision provides the following functionality: ● extension to the RESTful interface ● fixes to some schemata ● updated the ISO 12620 data model figures
2009-5-20 The 664 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixes to the DCS access control ● the basket service from the RESTful web service interface also became user specific ● the DC viewer now supports an explorer overlay, which allows to navigate through the version history, the is-a relationships and the value domain relationships ● the “new DCS” button now works ● added button to remove the selected DCs from the basket
2009-5-15 The 646 revision provides the following functionality: ● fixes to the DCS access control ● fixes to the internal RESTful interface for DC(S)s
2009-5-13 The 643 revision provides the following functionality: ● upgrade to TIBCO General Interface 3.7.1, which supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 ● some icon URLs were not properly rewritten ● fixed some IE-specific JavaScript problems
2009-5-7 The 638 revision provides the following functionality: ● the DC editor 1. editing conceptual domains and linguistic sections 2. editing the identifier 3. added check that the identifier is a proper local part of an XML QName 4. numerous fixes to the backend code ● access control for private DC(S)s has been implemented ● search now also returns private DCs ● added tracking and tracing facilities to the backend ● updated the ISO 12620 model ● various fixes to the DCIF ● by default use the flat DCS view ● fixes to the website to support IE8 ● fixed and closed the following bug reports: 1. [2308461] Firefox shows default password dialog 2. [2355296] block private DCs 3. [2661026] Firefox pops up default password dialog 4. [2355294] search should also return private DCs Note: with this revision IE8 isn’t yet fully supported by the ISOcat web interface, for this we need to wait for the next release of TIBCO General Interface.
2009-4-9 The 607 revision provides the following functionality: ● some updates to the ISOcat RESTful web services interface ● refactored the DCS viewer and reused this component now at various places leading to more uniformity in functionality
2009-3-16 The 594 revision provides the following functionality: ● the ISO 12620 page now contains the latest DCR data model diagrams, and now also includes the new overview diagram as well as a link to a PDF document containing all diagrams ● the prominent link to the Tilburg workshop has been removed, notice that the workshop page is still available but submission of the TDG survey has been disabled
2009-3-8 The 593 revision provides the following functionality: ● the Data Category editor now supports the editing the data type of a complex Data Category, and specifying the value domain of a closed Data Category
2009-3-2 The 587 revision provides the following functionality: ● upgrade to TIBCO GI 3.7, which supports Google Chrome ● a fresh, and the last, import of SYNTAX, which fixes issues with non-English Name Sections ● more work on the ISOcat RESTful web services interface ● synchronization of the data model with the latest draft of ISO 12620 ● fixes to increase the stability of the server ● the full name field in the user profile is now split into a first and last name field ● new users now need to accept a disclaimer
2009-2-11 The 563 revision provides the following functionality: ● a fresh import of SYNTAX, where the import process has been fixed to better determine the type of complex Data Categories ● a description of the ISOcat RESTful web services interface ● various fixes to make the actual interface comply with this description ● made the various New buttons in the web interface explicit
2008-12-30 The 547 revision provides the following functionality: ● the Thematic Domain Groups (TDGs) and their profiles have been synchronized with the new TDGs and activities list ● the Data Category editor is now operational, although the part to edit conceptual domains and linguistic sections has not been implemented yet ● a Data Category specification can now be checked against a set of rules derived from the current draft of ISO 12620.2 ● interface elements have been checked on proper capitalization ● the internal set of data categories related to the DCR data model has been updated and extended leading to a better rendering of a Data Category specification Note: This update includes several updates of the database schema and contents. To facilitate a smooth propagation of these to the production server the database will be replaced, which means that user accounts and DCSs created since the beginning of December will be lost. Note: Firefox shows from time to time its default login dialog.
2008-12-8 On January 7 and 8, 2009 the first DCR Board meeting, followed by an ISOcat tutorial/workshop, will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands. See the DCR Board meeting and ISOcat workshop website for further information about this event.
2008-12-1 The 485 revision provides the following functionality: ● the search functionality has been extended, although this isn’t yet available in the UI ● the DC editor now validates the identifier, and won’t allow you to save a duplicate; when there aren’t private duplicates but public ones it also pops up a warning ● the database has been updated with the state of SYNTAX on 17 November 2008; unfortunately this means that user accounts and DCSs only available on ISOcat are lost ● fixed a basket bug ● added scope and owner information to the DC viewer ● by default sort a profile/DCS on the name ● suppress profile value domains of non-context profiles ● reset paging model when switching to a flat DCS view ● added a context menu (activated with a click on the right mouse button) to hide/show columns in the DCS viewer; the identifier column has been added as a by default hidden column
2008-11-15 The 442 revision provides the following functionality: ● the ISOcat software has now a SourceForge project ● more “loading …” info ● reset scrollbars when the next DC is loaded ● adapted the DCIF schema to support different levels of granularity ● added support for a ‘domain oriented’ DCIF dump ● added support for nested DCSs ● full support for rendering hierarchies in the DCS viewer ● suppress references to simple DCs which aren’t part of the selected profile/DCS
2008-11-5 The 430 revision provides the following functionality: ● more support for nested profiles ● added initial help system ● reworked the (public) REST interface ● added support for a shallow DCIF dump (support in the export dialog is pending) ● added thematic views intermediate level ● it’s now possible to drag multiple DCs to the basket ● started adding support for rendering DC hierarchies in the DCS viewer The revision also fixes some known issues
2008-10-9 The 401 revision provides the following functionality: ● colorings of statuses in the DCS viewer ● more of data model is covered by the DC editor; however, it’s not yet possible to save the changes made
2008-8-11 The 354 revision provides the following functionality: ● a RDF(S) export format for Data Category Selections
2008-8-9 The 343 revision provides the following functionality: ● expert users can now preview the DC editor form ● the DC and DCS views can now be detached, i.e. opened in an window, in the Explorer and Tabbook views ● My Workspace and the TDG nodes in the workspace viewer can now be selected, which shows information for the user or about the thematic domain group
2008-8-4 The 320 revision provides the following functionality: ● the Syntax data has been (partially) converted into the revised data model as described in the upcoming ISO 12620 ● the interface has been adapted to also support this revised data model ● the revised DCIF is supported ● many more (minor) changes to the interface
The following functionality is (temporarily) dysfunctional: ● the GMT export format, which may be resurrected but then based on the revised data model ● the Syntax RPC interface depends on the GMT export and thus is also dysfunctional at the moment; the RPC interface will also be resurrected but only the procedure prototypes will be backward compatible, results will conform to the revised data model
2008-6-27 The 263 revision fixes the following functionality: ● fixed the email validation regular expression ● the DCR data model DCS is now properly cached, leading to much improved DC rendering performance
The following additional changes were made to this page: ● the LREC paper has been published ● the planning has been updated ● added a section containing information on ISO 12620
2008-5-19 The 220 revision fixes the following functionality: ● the known issue 'on resize events the main views are not repainted' has been fixed by explicitly requesting a repaint of the active view ● an export of a DCS will now also respect the (temporary) relax flag
2008-4-17 The 207 revision provides/fixes the following (new) functionality: ● a keyword search function, however the current setup may return DCs which aren't officially accessible by the user ● new rendering of DCs, based on DCs related to the DCR data model ● GMT export for DCSs and the basket ● support for a basic set of procedures from the Syntax RPC interface: 1. getProfiles 2. getDataCategories 3. getDataCategory 4. searchDataCategories the endpoint of this RPC interface is: http://www.isocat.org//rpc/syntax, follow this link to get a description of the interface ● almost complete rewrite of the database access layer, leading to improved performance
2008-2-20 The 168 revision provided/fixed the following (new) functionality:: ● user management: 1. new users can register 2. existing users can login 3. existing users can recover their login details 4. existing users can update their user profile ● DCS management: 1. create a new private DCS 2. edit and save a private DCS ● a rudimentary REST API ● the REST API enforces some access control ● various fixes to synchronize the loading of UI components ● front-end code cleanup ● fleshed out more of the back-end modules
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