Petter Reinholdtsen

Yesterday, a new release of Nikita Noark 5 core project was announced on the project mailing list. The free software solution is an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by government offices in Norway. These were the changes in version 0.3 since version 0.2.1 (from NEWS.md):

• Improved ClassificationSystem and Class behaviour.
• Tidied up known inconsistencies between domain model and hateaos links.
• Added experimental code for blockchain integration.
• Make token expiry time configurable at upstart from properties file.
• Continued work on OData search syntax.
• Started work on pagination for entities, partly implemented for Saksmappe.
• Finalise ClassifiedCode Metadata entity.
• Implement mechanism to check if authentication token is still valid. This allow the GUI to return a more sensible message to the user if the token is expired.
• Reintroduce browse.html page to allow user to browse JSON API using hateoas links.
• Fix bug in handling file/mappe sequence number. Year change was not properly handled.
• Update application yml files to be in sync with current development.
• Stop 'converting' everything to PDF using libreoffice. Only convert the file formats doc, ppt, xls, docx, pptx, xlsx, odt, odp and ods.
• Continued code style fixing, making code more readable.
• Minor bug fixes.

If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to you, please contact us on IRC (#nikita on irc.freenode.net) or email (nikita-noark mailing list).

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