RELEASE NOTES - TIND 1.16.0
ILS
We are happy to announce the TIND 1.16.0 release. This is a major feature release with new features, fixes and changes for all products.
The release schedule is as follows:
> Release 1.16.0 Sandbox & Early Release Instances
> Release to all TIND instances
> Customer Release Webinar
[Search | ILS, DA, IR, RDM ]
TIND ILS customers can now activate Index Browse search. This new feature enables end users to browse and search within indexes of terms for specific fields such as Title, Author, Call Number, and Subject. Indexed terms are displayed in alphanumeric order, show the number of matching records in the catalog, and include a link to retrieve matching records. Submitting a query in Index Browse returns potential term matches within the index or highlights the point in the index where the term would appear if not present.
Selecting a matched term returns the traditional search result page where users can continue exploring the results using standard search tools such as facets and format options.
We received valuable feedback from beta testers, and in addition to solving some issues, this version includes
Displaying multiple subfields through concatenation
Possibility to configure the search box placeholder text per index (e.g. replace “Search Author Index” with “Search for Dickens, Charles”).
Improved call number browse
Enabling/disabling case sensitive search and sort
Future improvements will include
Removal of non-filing characters from the Title browse such as “the”, “and”, or “an” as well as other languages
Index browse availability in other TIND products. If you are interested in setting up index browse for your IR, DA or RDM instance, please contact TIND Support.
To learn more, visit: https://docs.tind.io/articlec1h7dgayie-index-browse
[API | ILS, DA, IR, RDM]
TIND has released a new API infrastructure. This will make it easier for local developers to interact with your data in the future. Error handling has also been improved.
This includes:
[Search | ILS, DA, IR, RDM]
TIND now supports the Schema.org type CreativeWork and its sub-schemas. Schema.org was founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex to promote a common schema to try to understand more about what they are indexing. By having websites provide metadata according to schemas from schema.org, they can achieve this. TIND is now outputting metadata as JSON-LD in the HTML document of the record Detailed View. Search engines do only have access to the metadata for publicly available records.
To learn more, visit: https://docs.tind.io/article/f8i40gqg4g-integration-of-schema-org-schemas-for-improved-seo
[Authorities | ILS, DA, IR, RDM]
TIND now supports the Schema.org type CreativeWork and its sub-schemas. Schema.org was founded by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Yandex to promote a common schema to try to understand more about what they are indexing. By having websites provide metadata according to schemas from schema.org, they can achieve this. TIND is now outputting metadata as JSON-LD in the HTML document of the record Detailed View. Search engines do only have access to the metadata for publicly available records.
To learn more, visit: https://docs.tind.io/article/kluefke66q-use-overlay-commands-to-link-an-authority-to-a-bibliographic-record
[File Manager | ILS, DA, IR, RDM]
A default file format was added upon upload if a file did not have a format specified. If a file does not have a valid file format, it will now be blocked.
[Collections | ILS, DA, IR, RDM]
Fixed a bug where collections were successfully created but not immediately searchable
[API | ILS]
Included additional API error messaging when there are issues in the Batch Editor.
[Displays | ILS]
In the Items Details displays, the title will no longer be split when there is a colon present in the title. Before, it would only display the preceding part of the title.
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Search [ ILS, DA, IR, RDM ]
Advanced Search (Customer Release) is tentatively scheduled for the 1.17 release after receiving additional beta feedback from users.
Search [ ILS, DA, IR, RDM ]
TIND has delayed the removal of the Checkout (Legacy) option from Circulation. It will now be removed in the 1.17 release. The legacy option will be deprecated to continue focused development on the enhanced Checkout tool made available as beta last year in the 1.11 release (https://info.tind.io/roadmap/1.11.0).
Translations [ ILS, DA, IR, RDM ]
Updated translation for the PDF Previewer "Select file" translation to include French, German, Italian, and Norwegian in addition to English.
DataCite [ ILS, DA, IR, RDM ]
TIND supports the DataCite Metadata Schema 4.4, a list of core metadata properties chosen for an accurate and consistent identification of a resource for citation and retrieval. This enables TIND to send data to DataCite following the 4.4 schema.