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Release 32 (4 June 2019)

Initial Announcement

22 May 2019

Release 32 of ARDC Online Services is scheduled for implementation on 4 June 2019, between 8am and 12pm AEST. This release implements a number of enhancements and bug fixes to Research Vocabularies Australia and Research Data Australia. Below is the list of all the changes planned for this release.

Research Data Australia

  • Optimisation of CSS to improve page load times.
  • Improvements to RIF-CS to Schema.org mapping.

Research Vocabularies Australia

  • New Browse Tree visualisation for the vocabulary view page.
  • PHP configuration changes to prevent errors with the vocabulary widget in tree mode.
  • Enhancements to the vocabulary widget to support more than 10 concepts at any level in a hierarchy.
  • Implement fix for incorrect expand/collapse icons being displayed in the vocabulary widget in tree mode. 

Other Change:

  • ARC and NHMRC grants refresh


During the implementation, the following services are impacted: 

  • Research Data Australia (RDA)
  • RDA Registry
  • DOI Service
  • Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) portal

The following services are not impacted and will still be available during release implementation:

  • Handle Service
  • IGSN Service
  • DOI Resolution
  • RVA Editor (PoolParty)

A soft release on Demo is happening on 3 June 2019 The following services will be intermittently unavailable in the Demo environment during the soft release:

  • Research Data Australia Demo
  • RDA Demo Registry
  • Handle Test Service
  • Research Vocabularies Australia Demo portal

Please schedule your activities accordingly. Feedback or comments should be sent to services@ardc.edu.au. Thank you for your support.


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