[Pasig-discuss] Archivematica 1.4 released

[Evelyn McLellan]

We are pleased to announce the release of Archivematica 1.4 and Storage
Service 0.7! This version includes a number of bug fixes, new and updated
tools and several new features. Full release notes
<https://www.archivematica.org/wiki/Archivematica_Release_Notes> are
available on the Archivematica wiki, and installation documentation
<https://ww.archivematica.org/en/docs/archivematica-1.4/admin-manual/installation/installation/>
is available on the project website. Here are some highlights:

*CONTENTdm integration*: Archivematica 1.4 introduces a new workflow for
use with CONTENTdm. Rather than connecting to the CONTENTdm server as was
the case in previous versions, Archivematica uses the METS file to create a
tab-delimited file appropriate for use with the CONTENTdm Project Client.
The tab-delimited files will include the File and AIP UUIDs and works for
either simple or compound object workflows. The operator retrieves the DIP
objects, including the tab file, from the Archivematica server and
continues the workflow in Project Client. The new workflow is appropriate
for use in any hosted or non-hosted Archivematica and CONTENTdm environment
because there is no need for the two servers to communicate. Direct upload
to CONTENTdm from Archivematica has been removed in this version.

*DSpace integration*: The treatment of DSpace ingests is enhanced in this
version, including capture of parent-child relationships from the DSpace
repository and improvements to the way licence and OCR files are identified
in the METS file.

*Siegfried file identification tool*: We’re pleased to have written Format
Policy Registry (FPR) rules for using Siegfried, a PRONOM-based open-source
tool provided by the Open Preservation Foundation, for file identification.
We would like to encourage testing at this point - please feel free to
report your results in the user forum and share your experience with the
community.

*Islandora/Archidora plugin*: The updated Storage Service incorporates the
use of FEDORA via SWORD2 as an Access Protocol, which allows the use of the
Archidora plugin to ingest materials uploaded to Islandora through
Archivematica. This is considered to be a beta feature at this time -
testing, documentation and sharing experiences through the user forum are
strongly encouraged! The Archidora plugin was developed by DiscoveryGarden
and is available through Github
<https://github.com/discoverygarden/archidora>. Further information about
the Archidora plugin can be found in the Islandora documentation
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/ISLANDORA715/Archidora>.

*AIP recovery*: New functionality has been added to the Storage Service to
facilitate AIP recovery, from a backed up copy, for example. The recovered
AIP is copied into a dedicated directory which is accessible from the
Storage Service; recovery is then requested via the Storage Service’s REST
interface.

*Bag-info.txt file indexing*: This version introduces a new feature which
indexes and makes searchable the tags and contents of the bag-info.txt file
when bags are ingested. The contents of bag-info.txt are added to the METS
file, making it possible to search the contents of file from the Archival
Storage tab once the material has been processed.

A couple of notes about installing this release:

-This is considered an optional release/upgrade. Although many users will
want to take advantage of bug fixes and new functionality, Archivematica
1.3.2. is still supported.
-This is the first Archivematica release to have separate packages
available on Launchpad for installation. The previous packages will install
Archivematica 1.3.2; use ppa:archivematica/1.4 to install version 1.4.
-Unlike previous releases, only one ppa is required: ppa:archivematica/1.4.
To install Archivematica 1.3.2, you would require both
ppa:archivematica/release and ppa:archivematica/externals



*Evelyn McLellan*
President, Artefactual Systems Inc.
www.artefactual.com
evelyn at artefactual.com
604.527.2056
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