Release 35 (17 December 2019)

Release 35 of ARDC Online Services is scheduled for implementation on 17 Dec 2019 , between 8am and 12pm AEDT . This release implements a number of enhancements and bug fixes to Research Data Australia and Research Vocabularies Australia. Below is the list of all the changes planned for this release.

Research Data Australia

Enhancements to the harvester to support chunked transfer encoding via HTTP v1.1
Addition of new harvest method to support harvesting from MAGDA API
Fix bug where records with special characters in subject label are failing to index due to error thrown during subject resolution
Fix bug where RDA Registry pre populates PURE Harvest params with CSW values
Fix issue where harvest last run date on the Dashboard is shown in the past

Research Vocabularies Australia

Apply a sensible limit to resource search API methods
Updates to RVA search event logging to capture concept search information
Amend concept search collapsing rules to use version release date instead of the last updated timestamp of the vocabulary
Fix bug where filtering of the visualisation on the vocabulary view page causes notation and/or child count to be duplicated

During the implementation, the following services are impacted:

Research Data Australia (RDA) portal and RDA Registry
Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) portal
DOI service
Handle service
IGSN service

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

RVA editor (PoolParty)
DOI Resolution
Handle Resolution
IGSN resolution

A soft release on Demo is happening on 16 Dec 2019. The following services will be intermittently unavailable during the soft release:

Research Data Australia (RDA) Demo portal and RDA Demo Registry
Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) Demo portal
Handle test service
IGSN service

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