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Statistics API

• Migrated database engine from InnoDB to MyISAM
• Updated API to use SSL when resolving country code iformation using the MaxMind GeoLocation service.

Workflow Management System

• Fixed the ETD multiple advisors (co-chair) issue in WMS SWORD import module.

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Fixed dlr/EDIT solr indexing bad-xml issue for interviewee metadata
• Fixed notification email issue

PHP 8.1 Application Compliance

• Workflow Managemnet System
• Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)
• Discovery & Access/Partner Portal
• My Account
• RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool
• Notification Package
• RUcore API's
  • Get API
  • Relationship API
  • Search API
  • Statistics API
• Shared Classes
  • MySQL Class
  • String Cleaner Class
• RUcore Site Templates

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Migrating to Google Tag Manager

Workflow Management System

• Removed PHP memory limit when SWORD server is processing the incoming ETD package. This fixes the file size limit for ETD delivery.
• Improved logging for SWORD server.

Workflow Management System

• Fixed the bug that when updating controlled terms in WMS configuration, it removes the '+' when it occurs in the term.

Workflow Management System

• Improved error handling for ETD import into WMS. Now it allows import process to continue to next record when error occurs, and uses WMS error handling mechanism to handle the record with errors.
• Improved ETD file type checking in WMS. In addition to using SWORD mimetype value, it now uses WMS archive entity to check the file type.

Workflow Management System

• Modified the WMS record lock/unlock process.
• Fixed ETD embargo update issue in WMS.

Workflow Management System

• Fixed the WMS SWORD import erroneous email issue.
• Fixed the issue that illegal unicode in SWORD xml prevents import of ETD into WMS.

Statistics API

• Updated API to accommodate changes to the MaxMind GeoLocation service.

Workflow Management System

• Fixed the ABBYY processing issue encountered in WMS batch import.
• Added alert for the WMS ETD import when a supplementary file exists in the ETD but doesn’t exist in WMS file policies.
• Fixed the incorrect http 500 response for ETD SWORD import, added email alert for SWORD import errors.

Workflow Management System

• Updates to DOI management

API - PURL/DOI

• Update to DataCite's REST API for DOI management

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Update redirection of SOAR resources

Workflow Management System

• Add SWORD capabilities to ingest ETD from ProQuest ETD Administrator

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Added redirection of SOAR resources

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Security fixes

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fixes

Notification System

• Bug fix

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

• Configuration updates

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Performance enhancement - Collection Hierarchy

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fix

Scholar Deposit

• PHP7 Support

My Account

• PHP7 Support

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• PHP7 Support

RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool

• PHP7 Support

RUcore API's

• PHP7 Support

Workflow Management System

• PHP7 Support

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• PHP7 Support

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Accessibility bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Update to support ABBYY v14.0 and move to cloud services

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Content update to ETD search page

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Adding PDF-A Playback Feature

API - PURL/DOI

• Change from CDL EZID API to Datacite EZ API

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fix

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• ETD Supplementary File Support

Workflow Management System

• ETD Supplementary File Support in Discovery

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fix

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

RUcore OAI-PMH Harvester

• Added DPLA harvesting support for newpaper project

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

Notification System

• Bug fix

My Account

• Bug fix

RUcore Get API

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

My Account

• Bug fix

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fixes

My Account

• Added "email notification" to new local users when creating accounts
• Email SOAR team when a user changes their personal information
• Add an administrative utility to check My Collection Statistics performance
• Replaced Shibboleth authentication with CAS
• Credentials are now when querying LDAP for NetID user information
• Bug fixes

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Added ability to filter and sort by Format in search results page
• Added high resolution image support for multipage items; i.e. Yearbooks etc.
• Added resources to portal at ingest; currently there is a six-hour delay
• Eliminated extra one click for downloading, printing, emailing, etc. of selected items
• Created a Google Video sitemap so videos are discovered in Google search
• All sitemaps based on portal membership
• Added Request a Copy notification for ETDs
• Embargo labels are not controlled by values in rights event metadata
• Added display of rightsstatement.org and creativecommons.org icon badges when applicable
• Bug fixes

RUanalytic Video & Audio Analysis Tool

• Update My Collection Statistics when publishing analytics
• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Added new administrative portal to improve workflow management of deposits
• Fully integrated ABBYY and wkhtmltopdf replacing the Adlib PDF server
• Dynamically retrieving copyright statement from rightsstatements.org in WMS cataloging utility
• Editing Fedora object external relationships in the WMS fedora-edit module
• Added ability to change datastream label during batch upload
• Added ability to enable/disable file rules in WMS instead of deleting them
• Added ability to temporarily turn off e-mail notifications for object ingest/re-ingest
• Bug fixes

Statistics

• Bug fixes

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• dlr/EDIT is now moved under rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu domain
• Granular access control at the collection level
• Resources will now be assigned to portals on ingest
• ARCH SMAP-ARCH datastreams are now updated when an archival datastream is added or purged
• Manage relationship logs the username in audit trail
• Enhanced resource validation
• Bug fixes

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Upgraded media player
• Removed Adobe Flash requirement for video playback
• Expanded Android support for video playback

RUanalytic Video & Audio Analysis Tool

• Upgraded media player
• Removed Adobe Flash requirement for video playback
• Expanded Android support for video playback

Google sitemap issue

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

• Bug fix

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fix

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fix

My Account

• Bug fix

RUanalytic Video & Audio Analysis Tool

• Bug fix

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fix

RUcore Get API

• Bug fix

Notification System

• Bug fix

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fixes

My Account

• Bug fixes

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Support for <dao> tag in EADs
• Bug fixes

RUanalytic Video & Audio Analysis Tool

• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes

Statistics

• Bug fixes

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fixes

RUcore API's

• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fixes

Workflow Management System

• Change connection to LDAP

Statistics

• Performance enhancement

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fixes

My Account

• Moved Scholar deposit application under account application
• Added My Collections and collection statistics under account application
• Bug fixes & enhancements

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• High-resolution image support; Click here for an example.
• Improved restricted resource redirection when login using My Account is required
• Changed portal configuration tool authentication/authorization to use My Account
• Improved EAD playback; Click here for an example.
• Bug fixes & enhancements

Workflow Management System

• Changed authentication to use CAS
• Automated extraction of technical metadata using exiftool and mediaInfo
• Bug fixes & enhancements
• NOTE : Searching by collection name is case sensitive.

Statistics

• Added resource report caching to improve preformance when viewing individual resource statistics
• Added new reource report update triggers to support caching
• Bug fixes & enhancements

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Replaced Perl with PHP
• Bug fixes & enhancements

RUcore API's

• IIIF Image API created
• Search API documentation releases
• Relationship API management utility uses My Account for authentication/authorization
• Collection hierarchy class updated to use mysqli functions

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes

Application Software

• Upgrade to Fedora 3.8.1
• Service pack update
• Support software updates
  • Java
  • PHP upgrade
  • MediaInfo
  • ImageMagick
  • ImageMagick PECL extension
  • Various libraries

Workflow Management System

• Cover sheet bug fix

RUcore API's

• Resource packaging bug fix

Scholar Deposit

• Created a conditional logic workflow based on the user's category selection for scholar deposits.
• Created new deposit forms; added new fields and mapped metadata to WMS.
• Added the ability for depositor to open and edit in Scholar Deposit for the previous deposited version in WMS.
• Bug fixes & feature requests

Workflow Management System

• Back end processing of metadata and cover sheet to accommodate Scholar Deposit changes and features.
• Bug fixes & feature requests

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Display Prioritization
• Bug fixes & feature requests

RUanalytic Video & Audio Analysis Tool

• Audio support
• Supporting document access; transcript, student work, etc.
• Bug fixes & feature requests

Statistics

• Added a timeframe selector on the main statistics pages.
• Bug fixes & feature requests

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fixes & feature requests

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Security patch

Manage API

• Introduced the new Manage API for research data ingest.
• Initially supports the Ocean Observatories Initiative project.

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fixes & feature requests

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes & feature requests

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• 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

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

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes & feature requests

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes & feature requests

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Bug fix

RUanalytic Video Analysis Tool

• Bug fix

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

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
• Updated RUcore statistics: updated content models, updated objects in NJEDL collection
• Bug fixes & feature requests

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• 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

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Google sitemap permanent redirect from mss3.libraries to rucore.libraries

Workflow Management System

• DOI metadata, abstract, generation bug

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

Persistent URL API

• DOI provider configuration change

Scholar Deposit

• Bug fix

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fix

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

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

Workflow Management System

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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

Statistics

• Bug fix

Application Software

• Upgrade to Fedora 3.6.2
• Upgrade to PHP 5.4.14

Workflow Management System

• Bug fixes & feature requests

RUcore API's

• Bug fix

Fedora Management System (dlr/EDIT)

• Bug fixes & feature requests

Statistics

• Bug fix

Workflow Management System

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Import/Export
   • Improved user interface and workflow.
6. 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.
7. WMS Administration
   • Added capability to directly edit "bad xml" for un-retrievable metadata records.
   • Improved user interface and workflow.
8. 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

Discovery & Access/Partner Portal

• Bug fix

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

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

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

Workflow Management System

1. 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

Workflow Management System

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Reorganization of the metadata grouping
   • The organization and display of the metadata/digital objects has been moved from owner-centric to collection-centric.
6. Enhanced collection structure
   • Added more metadata elements.
   • Alphabetized collection list.
   • Collection owners can now be either corporate or personal, or both.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Fedora Ingest
   • Added Uncheck All button
10. 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

1. 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.
2. Search
   • Search and retrieval in RUcore seems to be slow. We are investigating the issue.