Title: Release 0.3 of free software archive API system Nikita announced
Tags: english, standard, nuug, offentlig innsyn, noark5
Date: 2019-03-24 14:30

<p>Yesterday,  a new release of 
<a href="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
Noark 5 core project</a> was
<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2019-March/000451.html">announced
on the project mailing list</a>.  The free software solution is an
implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.3
since version 0.2.1 (from NEWS.md):</p>

<ul>
  <li>Improved ClassificationSystem and Class behaviour.</li>
  <li>Tidied up known inconsistencies between domain model and hateaos links.</li>
  <li>Added experimental code for blockchain integration.  </li>
  <li>Make token expiry time configurable at upstart from properties file.</li>
  <li>Continued work on OData search syntax.</li>
  <li>Started work on pagination for entities, partly implemented for Saksmappe.</li>
  <li>Finalise ClassifiedCode Metadata entity.</li>
  <li>Implement mechanism to check if authentication token is still
   valid.  This allow the GUI to return a more sensible message to the
   user if the token is expired.</li>
  <li>Reintroduce browse.html page to allow user to browse JSON API using
   hateoas links.</li>
  <li>Fix bug in handling file/mappe sequence number.  Year change was
   not properly handled.</li>
  <li>Update application yml files to be in sync with current development.</li>
  <li>Stop 'converting' everything to PDF using libreoffice.  Only
   convert the file formats doc, ppt, xls, docx, pptx, xlsx, odt, odp
   and ods.</li>
  <li>Continued code style fixing, making code more readable.</li>
  <li>Minor bug fixes.</li>
  
</ul>

<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
you, please contact us on IRC
(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
mailing list</a>).</p>

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