Version 1.3

Release Date: August, 2008

Subsetting and Analysis features:

  • Improvements made to Analysis Results page
  • New option to save Analysis to an R script file
  • New analysis support provided for Zelig 3.2 models

Study features:

  • Improvements made to Study File page
  • New Template feature available to create or edit studies
  • Study ID accepts only alphanumeric, dash (-), underscore (_), and period (.) characters
  • Network utility provided to delete a range of studies at one time

Search features:

  • New analyzer indexes studies and data to improve search quality and speed
  • Index utilities modified: remove index locks, index update for studies that failed indexing, improved Index All logic
  • Fix made to does not contain logic in Advanced Search

Dataverse features:

  • New option to copy code for link or button to a dataverse, for pasting to another web site
  • New option to copy code for searching a dataverse, for pasting to another web site
  • New Template feature for studies available in any dataverse
  • New file restriction option controls contents of entire dataverse
  • Improvements made to My Options and Network Options pages
  • Fix implemented for parent collection assignment in a dataverse
  • New integration with Nesstar to harvest metadata using their API
  • New technical features and improvements:
  • DSB subsetting and analysis component rewritten in Java code and to use RServe
  • UNF logic rewritten in Java code
  • Custom remote authorization allows restricted file access from DVN to DVN and from Roper Center (this implementation does not use Shibboleth)
  • Harvest logic rewritten to determine studies contained in a set
  • Fix implemented when harvesting to OAI sets simultaneously
  • Import/ingest added for DDI category attribute on varFormat tag, and decimalization attribute on var tag
  • DVN Citation added to DDI export (abstract field) and DC export (Description field)
  • Use of Tiles changed to Faceletes framework, to support use of ICEfaces components
  • Index server upgraded to Lucene 2.3