Release Notes for 06/04/2019

Pika Release Notes 2019.05

New Functionality

  • Aurora Implementation
    • Final wrap-up for June 10th go-live
    • Order record handling
    • Anything older than 4 mo is not displayed as on-order
    • Special handling for internal workflow
    • Added manual grouping entries from Marmot to expedite better grouping
  • Colorado State Government documents updates
    • Update docs monthly

  • DPLA Feed Improvements

    • Inclusion of related entities as DPLA subjects. All inclusions are:
      • All of the object’s subjects (no restricted subjects)
        • Previously incorrectly limiting to 5 subjects
      • The owning collection’s title
      • Related people entities (not publisher, which is in another DPLA  field)
      • Related organization entities  (not publisher, which is in another DPLA  field)
      • Related event entities

  • Built a cron process that compiles the feed into a single JSON file for the PP Hub to download for inject to DPLA.
  • Archive analytics improvements
    • Updated to latest GA analytics.js
    • Added Object Owner dimension

  • Owning library total views across all sites of objects

  • Views tracked in Marmot Islandora property and library property/view.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix order record extract for Addison that was broken by the last release
    • Patch deployment
  • Invalid pickup locations display for AspenCat libraries
    • Now defaults to display library system for libraries using sublocations
  • Change to indexing and display for subject headings
    • When records have both BISAC and LC subject entries, both will correctly included in their corresponding facet. Previously only LC subjects were indexed if both types were present
    • Ignoring ILS specific subfields in 650 for display, which fixes searches by linked subjects
  • Default cover will now display more diacritic characters
  • Switched to an “UTF8 Unicode” font that includes a large range of UTF8 characters
    • Note: It isn’t possible for a font file to cover the entire UTF8 encoding
  • Hoopla location suppression settings
    • Wasn’t working at the location level to suppress certain holdings

Sideloads

  • Aurora
    • RBdigital eAudio
    • RBdigital Magazines
    • Lynda
    • Learning Express
  • Western State
    • Elsevier
  • Flatirons
    • Creative Bug for several libraries
  • Bemis
    • RBdigital magazines added to results

Additional Work

  • Rebrand North Branford
    • Update colors and logo
  • Created code contribution guidelines

Documentation

  • No updates

Meeting Date: 
Tuesday, 2019, June 4
Documentation Type: 
Release Notes
Committees: 
Discovery Committee