Digital Antiquity is proud to announce the release of “Knap,” the latest release of tDAR.  The “Knap” release required the tDAR staff to take a step back and review the entire application from a number of major perspectives including, performance, security, data storage, and user-experience.  Much of this work helps to establish features that will be available in future releases for you to enjoy.

 We focused on a number of major areas of the code including:

  • Improved application security
  • Clearer error messages, and better in-form validation
  • Increased performance of the entire web-application (faster searches and page loading)
  • Better display on mobile  devices
  • Ability to add ORCID Identifiers to your user account
  • Improved results for auto-completes with many results, especially when searching for people
  • Improved validation and error messages for bulk uploads.
  • Bulk uploads now support data sets
  • Resources can now inherit individual and institutional roles from projects
  • File Descriptions are now printed on cover-pages, which may be useful for redaction notes
  • Display of new and popular items on the explore page
  • The user-registration page was simplified
  • Pagination options were added for the column metadata screen
  • Table and column relationships are display for MS Access Databases
  • Fixed parsing issues with converted OWL ontologies, now maintaining import order, and improving duplicate checking