State of Dev, December 2024 & January 2025

December 2024

Frontend

• Dates in TEI transcriptions are parsed, irrespective of whether when="" oder when='' was used
• Notes for markings are now publicly displayed
  This was missing thus far and is now implemented similar to how event notes are displayed. If a note exists, a small “[?]” appears behind the marking title line. Upon hovering over it, a tooltip appears with the relevant information.

musdb

• Names and descriptions of exhibitions and object groups can now be translated
• Version control
• Log of “current locations” of an object can be exported as a CSV file
• Uploaded object images can now be hidden or published in one batch operation
• API extended
  • (New functions)
  • Transfer object dimensions
  • List images and resources for an object
  • Image metadata
  • Publish / hide object images

January 2025

Frontend

• Objects can now be sorted by the aesthetics of the thumbnail (A dedicated blog post on this will follow soon)

musdb

• Batch transfer between between free text fields of object data
• Alignment of the maximum field length for notes on opening hours is now consistent between UI and database
• Bug fixed with switching between institutions during consistency checks fixed (relevant only to users with administrative access to multiple museums)
• Literature can now be searched by editors

Importer

• Core
  • Automatic transformation of life dates for actors
    • Year of death “01.01.2012” now becomes “2012”, instead of 01.01 as before
  • “?” and “(?)” are removed from the beginning and end of imported keywords
  • Various types of brackets in keyword names are converted to regular brackets
• Parser
  • Stricter internal implementation of settings, all imports can now implement the start_at setting
    • This is particularly useful for the repeated execution of imports that abort due to new, previously uncovered elements and other debugging.
  • New parsers:
    • MODS (mainly used in library contexts)
    • Parser for Exports from Faust for the Händel-Haus
    • Parser for XML dumps from MuseumPlus Classic (MsSQL > XML export per table > Import)
    • Bugfixes
      • Field “Verwender” in Primus parser was mapped to production events
      • Material / technology are now imported correctly in the parser for BeeCollect exports for the Industrial Museums of Saxony
• „Frontend“
  • CLI now also has options for switching off the import of individual areas
  • Help text for command line tool

nodac

• Splitting of keywords now also recognizes keywords that should be split into places, times, etc.
  • Bsp.: „Helm; Berlin“ > Schlagwort „Helm“ + Ort „Berlin“
  • Example: “helmet; Berlin” > keyword “helmet” + place “Berlin”
• When searching for keywords with ambiguous names, both keywords and generally ambiguous terms are now taken into account
• Times can now be merged with others directly from the time edit page