Access controls added. Allows for limiting access by on IP address and/or NetID.
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
Bug fixes & feature requests
Notification System
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Changed from GET method to POST method for entire Collection Management Statistics Report.
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore API's
Get API refactoring
August 24th, 2015
Version 7.6 includes
Scholar Deposit
Integrated Scholar Deposit with more OA requirements
Updated Scholar Deposit interface and contents
Added print function in view summary page.
Bug fixes & feature requests
My Account
Updated gatekeeper class based on SSO enhancements
Bug fixes & feature requests
Workflow Management System
PDF file security setting detection - RUcore will not accept pdf files with security features being set
Digital file 1:1 relationship - improved multi-file upload process, and added feature for user to enable/disable master-presentation 1:1 relationship
Digital file upload workflow improvement
Digital file type checking - file type is checked against user specified file type to alert possible errors using exiftool
Mapping for batch import - workflow improvement
Batch import - workflow improvement
New metadata configuration option - added option for configuring required element group to accommodate the requirement for dates
Option for no-collection-affiliation - user can now select no-collection-affiliation to create "orphan resource" in WMS or edit Fedora resources without collection restriction. But orphan resource must be associated with a collection before it can be ingested into Fedora
Capability for Fedora edit to edit datastream - with proper permission assigned, user can edit datastreams (replace/delete) in WMS Fedora edit
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Search facets
Revised RefWorks and EndNote mappings
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Stats database cleanup, a script looking for article's title in the xml mods and put the title back to fedoralive table where title is empty
Integrated dlr/EDIT statistics to SSO authentication system
Bug fixes & feature requests
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Change from the old authentication system to the new Single Sign On authentication
User interface enhancements
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore API's
Added Statistics API method for time line graph for daily downloads
Bug fixes & feature requests
June 22nd, 2015
Version 7.5.2 includes
Workflow Management System
Bug fixes & feature requests
February 9th, 2015
Version 7.5.1 includes
Workflow Management System
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Bug fix
RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
Bug fix
December 22nd, 2014
Version 7.5 includes
Scholar Deposit
Automated notification to faculty member upon ingestion
Automated notification to faculty member when an embargo expires
Automated notification to faculty member when a copy of the embargoed article is requested by a user
Weekly notification to the authors when their work appears in the "most downloaded" list
Bug fixes & feature requests
My Account
Simple community registration form
ORCID validation
Dynamic Bibliography link
Bug fixes & feature requests
Workflow Management System
Automated school collection record for scholarly deposit
My workflow feature
Customizable, collection and user level templates for digital file processing
New workflow to allow recreation of cover sheet
Capability for editing the version of submitted work
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Added capability to export in RefWorks, EndNote Web/Desktop Client, and RIS format
Added simple citation feature
Select Items enhancements
Resource Feeds Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0
Document viewing with limitations; no printing or downloading
Date range searching
Dynamic Bibliography
Request a copy of an embargoed item
Blocking downloads from IP addresses that appeared to have an inordinate number of downloads of the same object within 24 hours.
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Stats database cleanup
Added check points to block statistics update, if the IP address is blocked from downloads
Bug fixes & feature requests
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Added an option to recreate cover sheet
A few changes to the Solr schema to accommodate the requirements of OA searches.
Added capability to manage IP addresses that are restricted from RUcore downloads
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore API's
Bug fixes & feature requests
December 3rd, 2014
Version 7.4 includes
Scholar Deposit
Form enhancements to align with Open Access requirements
Resource versioning support
Bug fixes & feature requests
My Account
Added two new features: "My submitted Works" and "My Collection Statistics"
Bug fixes & feature requests
Workflow Management System
Added configurable options to use ClamAV to scan uploaded files for virus and to generate cover sheet for articles
Resource version handling infrastructure (metadata, database, and code)
Access control option in the Administration module
Added/Updated content models according to the new content model specifications
Added capability for RBHS school/department to submit scholarly work
Enhancements
Added WMS metadata save-continue option
Added WMS capability to handle personal name ORCID in the metadata
Improved capability of handling large number of file upload
Structure map can now be individually re-generated
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Streaming video and audio upgrade
Browse lists with dynamic values; populated from faceted fields
Generic search agent upgraded to new search layout
Added "select items" capability for partner portals
Record versioning support
Upgraded display of published analytics
Added origin date of resource in public statistics view
EAD Finding Aids search and display capability
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
New HTML 5 user interface; Flash no longer required
Streaming video support
Threaded discussion of analytics and events
Export of analytics in Rich Text Format
Versioning of analytics and events with viewing and exporting
Device and gesture support; iPads
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Developed a statistics API class for top 10 downloads in a week period
Support for anti-virus scanning of added or changed datastreams
Support for OA search requirements
Changes to the Solr schema itself to accommodate the requirements of Open Access project
Bug fixes & feature requests
August 20th, 2014
Version 7.3.2 includes
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Google sitemap permanent redirect from mss3.libraries to rucore.libraries
April 25th, 2014
Version 7.3.1 includes
Workflow Management System
DOI metadata, abstract, generation bug
April 09th, 2014
Version 7.3 includes
Scholar Deposit
Improved file uploading procedure
Integrated Scholar Deposit login with My Account/single sign-on system.
Updated the LDAP list of university units and display it in alphabetical order.
Re-arranged "assign permission" steps and updated interface
Bug fixes & feature requests
My Account
Implemented single sign-on platform
Bug fixes & feature requests
Workflow Management System
File upload module - More flexible file upload and processing procedure.
DOI - Added mapping and export option for Datacite description element.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Select Items feature added. Allows a user to select multiple resources from RUcore and either print, email, or share the list.
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
Migrated to the RUcore single sign-on platform
Statistics
Removed public statistical report of Record Views
Enhanced RUcore statistics, removed timeline, remove full records view and updated statistics API
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore Website
Enabled SSL site-wide
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Bug fixes & feature requests
March 31st, 2014
Version 7.2.4 includes
Persistent URL API
DOI provider configuration change
February 28th, 2014
Version 7.2.3 includes
Scholar Deposit
Bug fix
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Bug fix
November 15th, 2013
Version 7.2.2 includes
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
JPEG page turner support with search capabilities
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Support for logging JPEG page turner usage
Bug fix
October 17th, 2013
Version 7.2.1 includes
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore API's
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Bug fixes & feature requests
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Bug fixes & feature requests
September 16th, 2013
Version 7.2 includes
Workflow Management System
DOI implementation: All newly created records in WMS will have a DOI assigned. There are 5 metadata elements (title, creator, publisher, publication date, and type of resource) that are required by EZID but publisher, publication date, and creator are not required in WMS. If you do not enter any values in publisher and creator, "No value supplied" will be automatically supplied at the time of DOI creation. However, if you do not enter a date (date created, date issued etc., in origin Info), the state of the DOI will be automatically set to "reserved"; also the ingest status column will display "Done*" in red. If you see this status, you need to change the State of DOI.
Handle ID: WMS will NOT assign handles for any newly created records. However, all existing records in WMS that are not ingested will have a handle ID. PLEASE RE-SAVE THE RECORD BEFORE INGESTING. Re-saving will remove the existing handle ID from the record.
Search for collections and objects: You will be able to search for a collection or a resource record across all collections in WMS. All matching records will be highlighted in red.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Scholar Deposit User Interface
HTML file upload added.
If you deposit an item to Scholar Deposit with more than one author, the depositor is able to order the authors list.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Download statistics for the Faculty Portal
Stats database changes: All the records with JPEGS and JPEGM are updated to JPEG.
It will not count JPEGS and JPEGM as datastreamID download any more.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
New RUcore search interface
Moved public mss3.libraries addresses to rucore.libraries
New citation record display
Clean URL's for accessing resource files
Performance enhancements
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore API's
New persistent URL API for Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
Created documentation for Relationship API
Granular object inspection options with GET API
Brought OAI-PMH API into compliance
Bug fixes & feature requests
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Bug fixes & feature requests
July 31st, 2013
Version 7.1.1 includes
Statistics
Bug fix
May 30th, 2013
Version 7.1 includes
Application Software
Upgrade to Fedora 3.6.2
Upgrade to PHP 5.4.14
May 22nd, 2013
Version 7.0.1 includes
Workflow Management System
Bug fixes & feature requests
RUcore API's
Bug fix
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Bug fix
April 8th, 2013
Version 7.0 includes
Workflow Management System
Configuration for digital file handling
Added configuration option to package (tar or zip) all master files together before archiving or archive files individually as they are uploaded.
Streamlined the file policy configuration process by separating digital file handling rules from file policies. Default rules will only need to be set once. Special rules can be set for collections with special file handling requirements.
Added configuration option for directory handling rules.
Automatically output (and update) digital file policies to the file system as xml file for use by other RUcore modules.
Improved user interface and configuration workflow.
Configuration for metadata
Added configuration option for technical metadata. Options include how to generate technical metadata (automatically or manually), and where to store them (inline or offline).
Improved user interface and configuration workflow.
Digital file uploading and processing
Allow multiple archival file upload and processing if so configured, and the file sections in the metadata have been re-worked according to the new specification.
Allow directory upload and processing.
Automatically detect and process the directory structure for files uploaded as packaged file format (tar, zip, etc.).
Automatically create structure map for directories uploaded, preserving the structure of the directory as well as original file names for future use.
Allow user to customize datastream labels.
Improved user interface and workflow.
Metadata cataloging
Improved handling and error checking for date-related fields.
Automatically generate technical metadata if so configured, and allow for manual editing of technical metadata for all files uploaded.
Improved user interface and workflow.
Import/Export
Improved user interface and workflow.
Fedora I/O
Moved ingest process to background to improve the overall workflow. Status of ingest are shown for all ingested records and logs for each record are available for viewing.
Allow editing of off-line technical metadata in Fedora-edit module.
Improved user interface and workflow.
WMS Administration
Added capability to directly edit "bad xml" for un-retrievable metadata records.
Improved user interface and workflow.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Scholar Deposit User Interface
Updated Faculty Category/Genre.
File Policy enhancement and file uploading stats report.
Improved notes field and added a new option in copyright holder.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Download statistics for the Faculty Portal
Stats database changes: two fields (datastreamID and countrycode) have been added to two tables; updated countrycode using the GeoIP service; updated datastreamID based on the file type.
A new method has been added to stats API package for getting single object statistics.
A full record view has been added to the report system.
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Ability to download complete complex objects and data projects
Option to display resource level usage statstics from the public display
Portal level configurable file policy and style creation
Improved configuration interface for creating Browse lists
New public search interface
Performance enhancements
Bug fixes & feature requests
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Bug fixes & feature requests
March 4th, 2013
Version 6.3.1 includes
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Bug fix
October 16th, 2012
Version 6.3 includes
RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
Search for video in the repository
Analyze and annotate video
Create analytics, or playlists, of annotated video
Share and collaborate with other reseachers throughout the video analysis process
Publish completed analytics into RUcore
October 2nd, 2012
Version 6.2 includes
Scholar Deposit
Added a field for special notes to the RUcore staff
Added a progress bar that tells users how far along they are in the deposit/submission process
Added middle name or initial field
Alphabetized the list of departments/institutes/centers on the Department pull down list
Simplified the list of categories
Added an information review page with a button to make changes
Bug fixes & feature requests
September 21st, 2012
Version 6.1.2 includes
Three Solr/Lucene indexing issues were addressed in this release. Some of those included:
Adding all subject elements to the Solr/Lucene index
Addind descriptive event metadata elements to the Solr/Lucene index
More information on resolved issues
Fedora Management (dlr/EDIT)
April 23rd, 2012
Version 6.1.1 includes
MODS element "classification" has been added to Solr/Lucene
Bug fixes & feature requests
WMS
Fedora Management (dlr/EDIT)
February 27th, 2012
Version 6.1 includes
Workflow Management System
Ability to track changes made to the WMS configuration and administration
Finer grained user role/privilege control at collection level
Improvement of display/functionality of collection browser
Improvement of workflow to allow direct jumping between record list and file handling module
Improvement of file upload workflow to allow selecting all file handling instructions
Improvement of file upload workflow to display real time file processing status
Improvement of Fedora ingest workflow to display real time ingest status
New implementation of RPC for ETD and OCR to replace deprecated PHP functions
Bug fixes & feature requests
Scholar Deposit Module
The Scholar Deposit category list is aligned with the categories that Rutgers University faculty must use for official personnel actions, including reappointment and promotion documents
Replacement of newly deprecated PHP functions
Bug fixes & feature requests
Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
Support for the Solr/Lucene search engine that replaces amberfish
Replacement of newly deprecated PHP functions
Bug fixes & feature requests
Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
Integration of Solr search engine
Improved management interfaces for associating resource to portals
Performance enhancements
Replacement of newly deprecated PHP functions
Bug fixes & feature requests
Statistics
Integrated stats database from collection based to portal based
Added capabilities to generate search stats based on the portal ID
Replacement of newly deprecated PHP functions
Bug fixes & feature requests
January 17th, 2012
Version 6.0 includes
Migration to new server equipment
Migration to new large storage array, 40 terabytes with triple redundancy
November 17th, 2011
Version 5.2.1 includes
Workflow Management System
Bug fixes & feature requests
Scholar Deposit LDAP interaction
Manual creation of a Faculty collection via WMS
Bit rate reduction bug in Technical metadata section causing issues when editing legacy records
Discovery & Access
Performance improvements on search and retrieval
Performance improvements when accessing datastreams
Bug fixes & feature requests to generic search agent provided by the partner portal
September 2011
Version 5.2 includes
Workflow Management System
Improved User Interface
Streamlined workflow navigation. It is now more focused on and optimized for general-user digital material cataloging process.
The options for switching to different modules, including user account management, are now available to the user at any stage of working in WMS.
Sub-functional module navigation buttons are moved to the top of the screen, and are available to the user no matter which sub-module he/she is working in.
Switching between collections can now be performed at any stage of metadata and digital object workflow.
Metadata cataloging
To improve the performance of the utility and the user experience, the handling and processing of metadata cataloging within the session have been moved to client side.
Long-existing bugs in the handling of event metadata cataloging have been fixed, along with other identified issues.
Template
Ability to create a template record from another template record as well as an existing record.
Able to enter CV terms when creating a template.
The name of the template is displayed on the metadata entry screen.
Handles no longer appear in a template record.
File Upload
Thumbnails are created from the first page of PDF, word doc, and original or derivative TIFF files.
Presentation files can now be created from the derivative TIFF files.
Added an option to Delete All Existing files.
Reorganization of the metadata grouping
The organization and display of the metadata/digital objects has been moved from owner-centric to collection-centric.
Enhanced collection structure
Added more metadata elements.
Alphabetized collection list.
Collection owners can now be either corporate or personal, or both.
Flexible date elements
Configurable encoding standards.
Configurable date format for each standard.
The configured date formats are enforced for user date entry.
Able to add date in free text format.
Customizable metadata entry form
Metadata elements can be added, removed, enabled, or disabled at collection level.
Metadata html form entry field type can be specified or changed.
Controlled Vocabulary Term sources can be enabled or disabled at collection level.
Controlled vocabulary field can be configured to allow free-text entry.
Fedora Ingest
Added Uncheck All button
Embargo policy
Automated creation of XACML policy for embargoed resources if certain metadata fields have been populated with certain pre-defined values (trigger). Current trigger is: rights metadata must have the following entries in the rights event:
Rights event type = Embargo and event end date = YYYY-MM-DD.
The trigger can be configured in configuration module.
Scholar Deposit Module
Faculty members can deposit NIH funded articles directly using the new features added.
Under Title of Journal, volume number, issue number, date, start page and end page added.
Faculty members have access to view download statistics for their collection
Discovery & Access
Improved "showfed" display.
Collection objects are suppressed from the results list by default except the RUresearch portal.
By default, the collection structure is hidden, and a "+" button is added to expand the collection tree.
By default, the collections are unselected.
Record results are transformed using new XML binding method allowing multiple data sources to provide record information.
Added ability for Partner Portal users to create search filters in advanced search menus.
Fedora Management (dlr/EDIT)
Improved Marc Export Utility.
Added capability to manage embargo policy.
Added capability to manage relationships.
Statistics
API updating and reporting functions added.
The stats reports have been divided into five small stats reports in Fedora Management.
Known Issues in RUcore Release 5.2
Workflow Management System (WMS)
Some older records in WMS may not ingest. Resaving the record seems to resolve the issue.
Ghostscript in WMS has some problem creating thumbnails for some PDFs.
Search
Search and retrieval in RUcore seems to be slow. We are investigating the issue.
June 2011
Version 5.1.2 includes
Security patch
August 2010
Version 5.1.1 includes
Various Bug fixes & feature requests across multiple applications
Improved Google Scholar indexing
April 2010
Version 5.1 includes
An enhanced Partner Portal architecture
Improved thumbnails for images
Flexible access control (via xacml) for ETD embargoes and licensed videos
Third party deposit and support of multiple authors for the Scholar Deposit service
Dramatic overall search performance improvements
Many feature enhancements (WMS, signature checking, full text search for ETDs, support of MARC ingest, etc)
December 2009
Version 5.0 includes
Shibboleth and XACML capabilities for Authentication and Authorization
Darwin Quicktime Streaming with Protected URLs for Licensed Videos
Upgrade to Fedora 3.0 and Support of Content Models
Storage Architecture Upgrades to Support Large Files
WMS Open Source Offering Improved Configurability
Architectural Upgrades including 64 bit mode and PHP5
Metadata Enhancements to Support Video
July 2009
Version 4.5.2 includes
NJViD Enhancements
Security fixes
October 2008
Version 4.5.1 includes
Bug fixes & feature requests for Scholar Deposits
Bug fixes & feature requests for Search Interface
Bug fixes & feature requests for Workflow Management System(WMS)
April 2008
Version 4.5 includes
Enhanced search display, collection hierarchy and browse features
Enhanced Scholar Deposit features
Automatic PDF generation of Scholar Deposits
Individual statistics pages for Scholar Deposits
Enhanced datastream validation/signature checking
February 2008
Version 4.2 includes
Scholar Deposit feature added
Marc export of records from Fedora
Rutgers Electronic Theses & Dissertations (RUetd) record import into the Workflow Management System
Workflow Management System - Updated controlled vocabulary terms
August 2007
Version 4.1 includes
Faculty templates and personal faculty collections
RULIB genres to support scholarly deposits
Faculty and department collection setup in WMS
Copyright and multiple author authorization for scholary deposits
May 2007
Version 4.0 includes
There have been many architectural and metadata enhancements in this release. Below is a list of new and enhanced features delivered with this release.
User Interface Display of Collection Hierarchies
Custom Portals for Partner Websites
Full Text Searching Enhancements
Workflow Management System Help Center
Workflow Management System Editing of Fedora Objects
March 2007
Version 3.0 includes
Expanded search, retrieval and display functionality.
Enhancements to the Workflow Management System to support audio objects, improved template functionality and metadata modifications.