Today, after many months of development, a new release of
-Nikita
-Noark 5 core project was finally
-announced
-on the project mailing list. The Nikita 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 0.5
-since version 0.4, see the email link above for links to a demo
-site:
-
-
-
- - Updated to Noark 5 versjon 5.0 API specification.
-
- - Changed formatting of _links from [] to {} to match IETF draft
- on JSON HAL.
- - Merged Registrering og Basisregistrering in version 4 to
- combined Registrering.
- - DokumentObjekt is now subtype of ArkivEnhet.
- - Introducing new entity Arkivnotat.
- - Changed all relation keys to use /v5/ instead of /v4/.
- - Corrected to use new official relation keys when possible.
- - Renamed Sakspart to Part and connect it to Mappe, Registrering
- and Dokumentbeskrivelse instead of only Saksmappe.
- - Moved Korrespondansepart connection from Journalpost to
- Registrering.
- - Moved Part and Korrespondansepart from package sakarkiv to
- arkivstruktur.
- - Renamed presedensstatus to presedensStatus.
- - Use new JSON content-type "application/vnd.noark5+json".
- - Updated prepopulated format list to use PRONOM codes.
- - Implemented endpoint for system information.
- - Implemented national identifiers for both file and record.
- - Implemented comments.
- - implemented sign off.
- - implemented conversion.
-
- - Improved/implemented OData search and paging support for more entities.
- - No longer exposes attribute Dokumentobjekt.referanseDokumentfil,
- one should use the relation in _links instead.
- - Corrected relation keys under
- https://rel.arkivverket.no/noark5/v5/api/administrasjon/, replacing
- 'administrasjon' with 'admin'.
- - Fixed several security and stability issues discovered by Coverity.
- - Corrected handling ETag errors, now return code 409.
- - Improved handling of Kryssreferanse.
- - Changed internal database model to use UUID/SystemID as primary keys
- in tables.
- - Changed internal database table names to use package prefix.
- - Changed time zone handling for date and datetime attributes, to be
- more according to the new definition in the API specification.
- - Change revoke-token to only drop token on POST requests, not GET.
- - Updated to newer Spring version.
- - Changed primary key and URL component for metadata code lists to
- use the 'kode' value instead of a SystemID.
- - Corrected implementation of Part and Sakspart.
- - Changed instance lists with subtypes (like .../registrering/ and
- .../mappe/) to include the attributes and _links entries for the
- subtype in the supertype lists.
- - Adjusted _links relations to make it possible to figure out the
- entity of an instance using the self->href->relation key lookup
- method.
- - Fixed several end points to make sure GET, PUT, POST and DELETE
- match each other.
- - Updated DELETE endpoints to work with UUID based entity
- identifiers.
- - Restructured code to use more common URL related constants in entry
- point values and replace @RequestMapping with method specific
- annotations.
- - Added first unit test code.
- - Updated web GUI to work with the updated API.
- - Changed integer fields, enforce them as numeric.
- - Rewrote and simplify metadata handling to use common service and
- controller code instead of duplicating for each type.
- - Implemented the remaining metadata types.
- - Changed Country list source from Wikipedia to Debian iso-codes and
- updated the list of Countries.
- - Many many corrections and improvements.
-
-
-
-
If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
-you, please contact us on IRC
-(#nikita on
-irc.freenode.net) or email
-(nikita-noark
-mailing list).
-
-
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