blog/data/2020-03-02-noark5-nikita.txt

   1 Title: Nikita version 0.5 released - updated free software archive API server
   2 Tags: english, standard, nuug, offentlig innsyn, noark5
   3 Date: 2020-03-02 19:00
   4
   5 <p>Today, after many months of development, a new release of
   6 <ahref="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
   7 Noark 5 core project</a> was finally
   8 <ahref="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2020-March/000519.html">announced
   9 on the project mailing list</a>.  The Nikita free software solution is
  10 an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
  11 government offices in Norway.  These were the changes in version 0.5
  12 since version 0.4, see the email link above for links to a demo
  13 site:</p>
  14
  15 <ul>
  16
  17   <li>Updated to Noark 5 versjon 5.0 API specification.
  18     <ul>
  19       <li>Changed formatting of _links from [] to {} to match IETF draft
  20       on JSON HAL.</li>
  21       <li>Merged Registrering og Basisregistrering in version 4 to
  22       combined Registrering.</li>
  23       <li>DokumentObjekt is now subtype of ArkivEnhet.</li>
  24       <li>Introducing new entity Arkivnotat.</li>
  25       <li>Changed all relation keys to use /v5/ instead of /v4/.</li>
  26       <li>Corrected to use new official relation keys when possible.</li>
  27       <li>Renamed Sakspart to Part and connect it to Mappe, Registrering
  28       and Dokumentbeskrivelse instead of only Saksmappe.</li>
  29       <li>Moved Korrespondansepart connection from Journalpost to
  30       Registrering.</li>
  31       <li>Moved Part and Korrespondansepart from package sakarkiv to
  32       arkivstruktur.</li>
  33       <li>Renamed presedensstatus to presedensStatus.</li>
  34       <li>Use new JSON content-type "application/vnd.noark5+json".</li>
  35       <li>Updated prepopulated format list to use PRONOM codes.</li>
  36       <li>Implemented endpoint for system information.</li>
  37       <li>Implemented national identifiers for both file and record.</li>
  38       <li>Implemented comments.</li>
  39       <li>implemented sign off.</li>
  40       <li>implemented conversion.</li>
  41     </ul></li>
  42   <li>Improved/implemented OData search and paging support for more entities.</li>
  43   <li>No longer exposes attribute Dokumentobjekt.referanseDokumentfil,
  44    one should use the relation in _links instead.</li>
  45   <li>Corrected relation keys under
  46    https://rel.arkivverket.no/noark5/v5/api/administrasjon/, replacing
  47    'administrasjon' with 'admin'.</li>
  48   <li>Fixed several security and stability issues discovered by Coverity.</li>
  49   <li>Corrected handling ETag errors, now return code 409.</li>
  50   <li>Improved handling of Kryssreferanse.</li>
  51   <li>Changed internal database model to use UUID/SystemID as primary keys
  52    in tables.</li>
  53   <li>Changed internal database table names to use package prefix.</li>
  54   <li>Changed time zone handling for date and datetime attributes, to be
  55    more according to the new definition in the API specification.</li>
  56   <li>Change revoke-token to only drop token on POST requests, not GET.</li>
  57   <li>Updated to newer Spring version.</li>
  58   <li>Changed primary key and URL component for metadata code lists to
  59    use the 'kode' value instead of a SystemID.</li>
  60   <li>Corrected implementation of Part and Sakspart.</li>
  61   <li>Changed instance lists with subtypes (like .../registrering/ and
  62    .../mappe/) to include the attributes and _links entries for the
  63    subtype in the supertype lists.</li>
  64   <li>Adjusted _links relations to make it possible to figure out the
  65    entity of an instance using the self->href->relation key lookup
  66    method.</li>
  67   <li>Fixed several end points to make sure GET, PUT, POST and DELETE
  68    match each other.</li>
  69   <li>Updated DELETE endpoints to work with UUID based entity
  70    identifiers.</li>
  71   <li>Restructured code to use more common URL related constants in entry
  72    point values and replace @RequestMapping with method specific
  73    annotations.</li>
  74   <li>Added first unit test code.</li>
  75   <li>Updated web GUI to work with the updated API.</li>
  76   <li>Changed integer fields, enforce them as numeric.</li>
  77   <li>Rewrote and simplify metadata handling to use common service and
  78    controller code instead of duplicating for each type.</li>
  79   <li>Implemented the remaining metadata types.</li>
  80   <li>Changed Country list source from Wikipedia to Debian iso-codes and
  81    updated the list of Countries.</li>
  82   <li>Many many corrections and improvements.</li>
  83
  84 </ul>
  85
  86 <p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
  87 you, please contact us on IRC
  88 (<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
  89 irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
  90 (<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
  91 mailing list</a>).</p>
  92
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