v2.7.0

This release corresponds, with minor enhancements, to the paper "Standards Information System for CLARIN centres and beyond" by Piotr Bański and Eliza Margaretha Illig, published in the proceedings volume of the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023. [Link will follow once the volume goes online]

Highlights

• Support for research infrastructures other than, but related to, CLARIN (placeholder for DARIAH, pilot coverage for Text+)
• Enhanced centre descriptions (maintainers, warning when no maintainers set, list of domains used in the recommendations, sensitivity to the RI switch)
• Fixed centre modelling (no more listing centres separately from their recommendations; the centre list is now a function of what the recommendations/ directory contains); one consequence is greater control by the centre over all of its data
• Additions to the formats/ directory (new docs, updates / extensions of the existing ones)
• Small but essential: functionality enhancements and bug fixes; schema enhancements, including annotations and Schematron
• Visual cosmetics, updates in the general information content

... the above were authored by @margaretha and @bansp (credited also as 'piotr')

Centre recommendation updates

• Adding SBX recommendation formats by @ljo in #243
• KP-7936 Update FIN-CLARIN-recommendation.xml (#1) by @mmatthiesencsc in #250
• update SAW recommendation by @redfarg in #264
• updates of IDS recommendations and two maintainers (for textual and audiovisual formats, separately); kudos to Marc Kupietz and Harald Lüngen for their work on the textual part, and to Mark-Christoph Müller for the adjustments in the audiovisual realm.

Full Changelog: v2.6.0...v2.7.0

Standards Information System, version 2.6.0

The highlights of this release are:

• support for research infrastructures other than CLARIN (heavy stress on Text+, experimentally also DARIAH)
• enabling of a different way to traverse formats, along their hierarchical relationships (this is referred to as format family tree and is only linked from the "Popular Formats" menu item)

Other worthwhile mentions:

• the list on the Data Deposition Formats page can now be both filtered and searched
• the centre recommendation page supports curation info (red warning if no maintainer set, otherwise the maintainer is mentioned, e.g. by a GitHub handle)

As a consequence of work on extending the RI coverage and of the first inputhon (at IDS Mannheim), the format of the descriptions of centres and of particular recommendations became more expressive (formats can be referenced, and language tags can be used). Documentation was extended and updated (though that is not part of this code release; the wiki documentation lives in a separate repository).

Apart from that, bugs have been squashed, format descriptions have been extended.

Full Changelog: v2.5.0...v2.6.0

v2.5.0

What's Changed

• usability fixes: better search, better placement of information, better navigation (a.o., #196 #153 #125 #187 )
• enhanced statistics: CLARIN KPI derived automatically from the data in the SIS (#180 )
• further steps taken towards assisting centres in submitting information (schemas, documentation, preparing for "inputhon" as a once-only event for a centre to be done with its data)
• adjust recommendation labels (see #33 )
• more documentation: the "about / FAQ" page, more content on several other pages (a.o. #171 #205 )
• more articulate steps towards extending the SIS's coverage beyond CLARIN (Text+ as a very promising direction) and API adjustments (a.o. #166 #206 #207 )
• new banner installed, with thanks to Elisa Gorgaini (#175 )
• format families graph secretly linked and steps taken towards gradually making it more usable as an alternative format-browsing tool (expected around 2.6.0)
• DB update to eXist 6.2.0 (#162 )
• bug fixes

See also the corresponding milestone: https://github.com/clarin-eric/standards/milestone/10

Full Changelog: v2.4.0...v2.5.0

Standards Information System, version 2.4.0

This is a maintenance release that wraps up the fixes done over the summer of 2022, before the CLARIN Annual Conference.
One new feature has been introduced: a Schematron constraint preventing the duplication of format IDs -- in order to facilitate the creation of new format descriptions.
See also the corresponding milestone (though bear in mind that some issues have been transferred to v.2.5.0, due to them not having been fully researched).

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

Standards Information System, version 2.3.0

What's Changed

• More pronounced division between the format and the standards section, with development focusing on the former, per the Standards Committee's decision;
• functionality for more pronounced statistics, including formats most "popular" in the given domain and laying the basis for computing the format-related KPI measurement;
• better search options, functionality for the use of keywords (cloud now on the front page) and for implementing visualisation of formal format families (as opposed to functional domains);
• consolidated sanity checks;
• credits: @bansp, @margaretha ;
• see the corresponding milestone for discussions of the particular issues.

Some of the choices leading to this version are discussed in "Standards in CLARIN" by Piotr Bański and Hanna Hedeland -- a chapter of the forthcoming anniversary CLARIN book.

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.3.0

Standards Information System, version 2.2.0

Much of what has happened can be seen in the milestone for this release: https://github.com/clarin-eric/standards/milestone/7?closed=1 although bear in mind that some tickets have been promoted to the next milestone if they turned out to be complex or not ripe enough.

In short:

• a lot of internal cleaning and beautification took place
• the information is spread across new pages (e.g. each centre now has an information page, and we have taken the first steps towards possibly extending the SIS to research infrastructures other than CLARIN)
• we have a working sanity checker (the guiding ticket is #115 )
• we have a working API (https://clarin.ids-mannheim.de/standards/views/api.xq )
• the job of centre representatives hopefully got easier -- we now provide templates (#42 ) and the schemas contain closed lists of options together with their descriptions

Full changelog: v2.1.0...v2.2.0

Standards Information System, version 2.1.0

Release 2.1.0 of the Standards Information System bug fixes and many enhancements over SIS 2.0.0 concerning:

• upgrade from eXist 5.2 to eXist 5.3.1 (prompted by the log4j security leak),
• enhanced display of information on formats (including connections to external taxonomies)
• enhanced management of information about centres,
• the ease of contributing information by centre representatives.

The code release accompanies release 1.0 of CLARIN data format recommendations.

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.1.0

Standards Information System, version 2.0.0

Our biographers are going to be devastated the day they learn about the original description of this release getting lost due to a silly error... Still, let's try to make them at least minimally happy:

Release 2.0.0 was the first major release of the SIS after a series of upgrades and with an extension of the data model to encompass centre recommendations of data-deposition formats. The release accompanied release 1.0 of said recommendations.

Full Changelog since July 2021: v2.0.0-beta...v2.0.0

Full Changelog since time immemorial: v1.0.0...v2.0.0

CLARIN format recommendations pre-release, July 2021

This release corresponds to the production version at https://standards.clarin.eu/sis/ .
Apart from stability fixes concerning the switch to eXist 5.2, it contains:

• support for dividing recommendations into functional groupings of formats (called "domains")
• support for expressing recommendations at three levels (recommended, acceptable, and deprecated)
• support for sorting and narrowing the results according to the centre, domain, or level of recommendation
• support for exporting recommendations (this is what constitutes the 'concrete' snapshot of recommendations at a given point in time)

Contributors: Eliza Margaretha Illig, Piotr Bański, Hanna Hedeland and members of the CLARIN Standards Committee

format-recommendations pre-release, March 2021

This is an internal release after a substantive changed aimed at (a) eXist DB upgrade from 3.x to 5.x, and (b) data model modifications to introduce formats as separate but related to standards (in an m:n relationship), as well as (b) new visualizations of format recommendations (not available from the home screen yet).
This version contains very few format-description files, while a lot of issues need to still be sorted out by the CLARIN Standards Committee.

Contributors: Eliza Margaretha Illig and Piotr Bański.