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After the blog has been very quiet this year with regard to the technical development of museum-digital, we are now trying to publish the summaries of new developments – enriched with screenshots – that are prepared for the monthly “regional administrators” rounds in Germany anyway.

These are in the form of listings, and this is how it should be here too.

Frontend

Features & Improvements

  • Some improvements in background scripts, especially better handling of timeouts when calculating “Similar objects” in very large instances
  • Contributors, linked locations and times for an object group are now listed alphabetically by name
  • Table headers for event components (who, when, where) are now only displayed in the A4 PDF if there is also content for the row
  • New search option for object searches: “Is currently on display”
  • Links to the Themator now use the new URL scheme of the Themator
    (https://themator.museum-digital.de/t/690 instead of https://themator.museum-digital.de/ausgabe/showthema.php?m_tid=690&tid=690)
Screenshot aus dem Frontend von museum-digital.
The new filter option “Currently on display” in the overlay for the advanced search for objects in the frontend of museum -digital.
Screenshot aus dem Frontend von museum-digital.
The contributors to an object group are now sorted alphabetically by sorted by name .

Bugfixes

  • Error when searching for controlled list terms that contained multiple spaces via the “Refine search” overlay (search for license “Public Domain Mark”)
  • Exactness setting in the “refine search” overlay was not transferred to the actual search query
  • Simple embedding of an object (analogous to YouTube videos, for example; accessible via the “Cite” menu of an object page) had various errors / now works again

musdb

Features & Improvements

  • In the API documentation of musdb there is now a note that the frontend also has an API
    • Frontend API
      • You do not need to authenticate yourself to use the frontend API
      • The frontend API tends to be faster and easier to use
      • Is read-only
    • musdb API
      • Can do more: Can also see non-public stocks and fields / data types
      • Is much more granular (more queries for the same data, but you likely get exactly the data you are looking for instead of e.g. all data known about a given object)
      • Can be used for writing data
  • Suggestion lists when searching for vocabulary terms in the side column of the object search page have been revised
    • Tooltips appear when hovering over
    • Implementation in Vanilla JS, removing jQuery
    • (this means significantly better performance of the search results list in list format, because jQuery no longer needs to be loaded)
Screenshot aus musdb.
The suggestion lists for places, times, persons and keywords in the quick search function of the object search mask have been re-implemented. The main visible benefit is that explanations now appear directly when hovering over the terms in the list.
  • User page / Login
    • Log of logins now also with IP and user agents
    • Login via login persisted in the browser (“Remember me”) is logged and displayed
    • All browsers permanently logged in via cookie are forced to log in again after a password change
    • New option to invalidate all remembered logins on other devices (browser must be logged in again)
Screenshot aus musdb.
The “Login log” in the account settings can be used to track when and in what context one’s own user account was accessed in musdb. This allows for the identification of account takeovers by third parties. Newly logged and/or displayed are: IP address used to log in, the user agent (identification of the browser) and whether the browser was automatically logged in via a permanent login cookie (“Remember me”).
Screenshot aus musdb.
A new button in the toolbar of the account settings in musdb allows you to log out all permanently logged in browsers / devices from your own account.
  • Object
    • More restrictions for the publication of object data records.
    • An object can no longer be published if:
      • … the object name is the same as the object description
      • … the description contains the character string “lorem ipsum”
    • When object entries are unpublished / hidden, the images linked to the image are renamed (thus invalidating links to the images). When publishing the object again, this is reversed so that existing links work again.
    • Spaces in selection lists are now listed alphabetically as the actual location when linking
  • Literature
    • Acquisitions can now be linked to literature
      • Previous owners etc. can thus be linked to a literature entry
    • Spaces (actual location) can be linked to literature
Screenshot aus musdb.
Via the new tab “Administration” tab on tab on the literature editing page, the location and access context of the literature entry can be linked. This can be useful if the literature module is also used to manage the museum library. is also used to manage the museum library .

Bugfixes

  • Overlay for setting searches for objects: Multi-word search terms were converted into multiple searches instead of being searched as a string of words (“red helmet” > “red” AND “helmet” instead of “red helmet”)
  • Error when searching for controlled list terms that contained multiple spaces via the “Refine search” overlay (search for license “Public Domain Mark”)

Importer

  • Link between literature and spaces (actual location) as well as acquisitions is implemented in the “core” of the import tool
  • ImageByInvno parser (assignment of images to objects via inventory numbers contained in the file name) can now be used to import PDF files

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