CollectionSpace is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 3.2. This is a public release that as undergone complete regression testing. This release includes work focused on performance, usability, and aesthetics.
Follow this link to go to the release page: http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/DOC/CollectionSpace+Release+Docu...
Here's what's new:
1. Improved...
The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 2.5. This release is the culmination of the first six-months of 2012 and represents improved functionality for search, locations and movements, date handling, controlled vocabularies, and hierarchical authorities. In addition, refactoring work was completed in the user interface layer.
• Advanced search capabilities were rolled-out across all record types.
• Structured date functionality was extended to additional areas including object collection history and inscriptions.
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The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace version 2.0. This release is the culmination of a year-long team effort to improve functionality, lessen the complexity of creating new functionality, and to provide greater support for implementers of stand-alone installations and their in-house development staff.
New user-facing functionality includes: Roles and permissions enforcement; media handling; hierarchical vocabularies; import/export; reporting; advanced search; and structured dates. A few of the highlights are below.
Media Handling:...
The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce a major upgrade of the CollectionSpace Services Architecture in conjunction with the integration of the highly anticipated release of version 5.5 of the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (scheduled for release in mid-November 2011).
The Nuxeo Enterprise Platform provides repository and content management services as a key component of the CollectionSpace framework. In the past year, Nuxeo have changed their recommended default configuration from the JBoss platform to a leaner stack based just upon Apache and Tomcat. Accordingly, and to...
The CollectionSpace project team is pleased to announce that CollectionSpace Version 1.8.2 is available for download. This updated release allows CollectionSpace to be used with Internet Explorer 8, and fixes an issue that under certain configurations could cause Nuxeo to be unable to authenticate to its database.
This release can be downloaded via: https://source.collectionspace.org/collection-space/src/services/...
The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace Version 1.8.
This release adds support for media handling, hierarchical vocabularies, storage location authority, delete, import, export, and groups. Significant changes under the hood include improvements to performance, increased support for localization, simplification of configuration, and upgrade of the core platform to use PostgreSQL. Initial development work in support of batch processing was started. Development efforts also included increased support for multi-tenancy, or the means by which a...
Join the project leads of CollectionSpace, Pachyderm, Omeka, and Open Exhibits at the American Association of Museum's Annual Meeting for an introduction to "open source" and a frank discussion of the promises and pitfalls of open source software in the museum.
The presentation is currently scheduled for Wednesday, May 25th. Check out the full program online.
The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace 1.3, which is now available for download. This new release builds on CollectionSpace 1.0 by adding the Object Exit procedure, new fields in the Cataloging procedure, repeatable fields and repeatable groups of fields, User Roles and Permissions, many critical bugs, and full regression QA testing. Additionally, developers will be able to take advantage of the integration with Jasper Reports to write CollectionSpace reports. In the future, report generation will be...
The CollectionSpace team is pleased to announce the release of CollectionSpace 1.0. This release is the culmination of eight releases of our web-based, open source, collections information management software. CollectionSpace supports a set of core activities that are at the heart of professional practice for those who manage collections and the information that is generated over the lifecycle of collections ownership and care. These core activities - including acquisition, deaccession, loans, movement, and initial deposit - as well as the supporting functions that help make data entry...