2.10.0

Installation

For server installation:

• ced2ar.war is the server binary
• BaseX.war is the server database template
• ced2ardata2ddi.war is an optional server binary for the ced2ardata2ddi service. ced2ardata2ddi.war files are located at ced2ardata2ddi/releases.
• redeploy_ced2ar_v2.sh is a script used to backup some config files before redeploying ced2ar-web.war.

For desktop installation, see previous release.

New Features and Issues

New features and issues only come from github:

• GitHub - The public site where users of the system can post Issues.

Jira has been phased out. This is the last release that will refer to JIRA.

• JIRA - Phased out. The restricted site used by the development team to track work related to CED2AR development.

New Features

The following high level features have been added in this release:

• CED2AR v2 has been Dockerized! You can now implement a standalone docker configuration. See: README.md

• A new page has been added to generate PDF files from codebooks. See: #46, The CED2AR Configuration Files

• More information on how to set up the various ways CED2AR can be configured has been added. See: #35, #36, The CED2AR Configuration Files

Resolved Issues

The following issues were fixed in this release. They are listed below.

github Issues

• #32 - Ability to edit stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt if necessary
• #35 - Provide some example configuration files
• #36 - Improve documentation of configuration properties
• #42 - The wiki.ncrn server is missing the "official version" line and link.
• #43 - ced2ar-web-beans.xml: Replace 2 hard coded property values with property names.
• #46 - Zero byte pdf problem

jira Issues

New Feature

• CDR-230 - Develop docker-based approach for running V2
  • CDR-231 - Create BaseX container
  • CDR-245 - Create CED2AR container
  • CDR-246 - Create means of changing config
  • CDR-252 - Add ced2ardata2ddi service
  • CDR-251 - Volume mount data directories

Issue

• CDR-255 - Document API ingest/export feature for v2

2.9.0.0

Installation

Note: IF you are upgrading an existing installation of CED2AR AND you back up and restore your config files (like we do) THEN you need to add the contents of the patch files to your existing config files. Instructions are at: Patches/v2.9.0.0

For server installation:

• ced2ar.war is the server binary
• BaseX.war is the server database template
• ced2ardata2ddi.war is the server binary for the ced2ardata2ddi service
• redeploy_ced2ar_v2.sh is a script used to backup some config files before redeploying ced2ar-web.war.

For desktop installation:

• ced2ar.jar is the desktop binary
• ced2ar.sh will run ced2ar.jar

New Features and Issues

Currently, new features and issues come from two sites:

• GitHub - The public site where users of the system can post Issues.
• JIRA - The restricted site used by the development team to track work related to CED2AR development.

We try to cross reference a GitHub issue against a jira issue (CDR).

New Features

The following high level features have been added in this release:

• New +Create tab in Manage codebooks page. - Allows the user to take a dataset (Stata or SPSS) and generate a basic DDI-C codebook. Finally, the new codebook is loaded into the CED2AR database. This is an experimental feature that works with file datasets. (The repository option has not been implemented.)
  User Documentation
  CDR-207, CDR-208, CDR-213, CDR-227, CDR-239, CDR-240

• The Modify a Codebook page is now titled Manage codebooks - There were some minor UI changes to the v2.8 page, tabs and buttons. In v2.9, the new page title is Manage codebooks. The old Add tab is now Upload.
  CDR-208

• ced2ardata2ddi service added - A new SOA service has been added to support the conversion of datasets (Stata or SPSS) into DDI-C codebook format. (The SOA service is only used in the +Create tab. System administrators have the option of turning off this service. If the administrator unchecks the service, the +Create tab will not be displayed to the user.)
  Administrator Documentation
  CDR-213, CDR-227, CDR-239, CDR-240

Resolved Issues

The following issues were fixed in this release. They are listed below.

github Issues

• No github Issues were closed in this release. Some issues were worked under jira. Example: CDR-206

jira Issues

Issue

• CDR-206 - Codebook UI: Principle Investigator, Data prepared by
• CDR-193 - wrong header image for wiki-census

New Feature

• CDR-207 - Add import for Stata/SAS
  • CDR-208 - codebooksEdit changes
  • CDR-213 - ced2ardata2ddi prototype 2017
    • CDR-227 - Track down ced2arddigenerator-1.1.1.jar source code
      • CDR-239 - ced2arstatareader changes
      • CDR-240 - ced2arspssreader conversion
• CDR-242 - Add study title (stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl) to edit/codebooks page

QA Fix

• CDR-241 - /studies page displays Error retrieving data -or- CED2AR has no codebook studies

Other

• CDR-233 - Create 2.9 release
• CDR-244 - Update Local Desktop Binary build instructions

2.8.2.0

Installation

Note: IF you are upgrading an existing installation of CED2AR AND you back up and restore your config files (like we do) THEN you need to add the contents of the patch files here to your existing config files. Instructions are at: Patches/v2.8.2.0

For server installation:

• ced2ar.war is the server binary
• BaseX.war is the server database template

For desktop installation:

• ced2ar.jar is the desktop binary
• ced2ar.sh will run ced2ar.jar
  The following high level features have been added in this release:

New Features and Issues

Currently, new features and issues come from two sites:

• GitHub - The public site where users of the system can post Issues.
• JIRA - The restricted site used by the development team to track work related to CED2AR development.

We try to cross reference a GitHub issue against a jira issue (CDR).

New Features

The following high level features have been added in this release:

• Browse by Study - Displays a list of Study Titles (stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl). Clicking on a study title displays the codebook in a tabbed horizontal layout. The tabs are the DDI codebook complex types (Doc, Study, File, Data and Other Material).
  User Documentation
  #3 docDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl vs. stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl enhancement
  [CDR-157] - docDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl vs. stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl [GitHub issue]

• UI Navigation Customization - Can set the properties used to display/hide navigation tabs and the names of those tabs. (They are set using the /ced2ar-web/config page.)
  Administrator Documentation
  [CDR-157] - docDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl vs. stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl [GitHub issue]

• Global Authentication Option Added - Setting accessMode to AdminOnly allows only users with the ROLE_ADMIN role to access the application. All others are prevented from accessing the pages. This is primarily used for codebook-development servers where crowd-sourced edits are curated and edited by administrators.
  Administrator Documentation
  [CDR-189] - Enable global authentication option in web properties

Resolved Issues

The following issues were fixed in this release. They are listed below.

github Issues

• #26 Possible to delete investigator?

• #16 Variable edit mode: access levels question

• #9 Uploads sometimes fail and produce bad error message: invalid XML bug

• #8 can't see crowdsourced edits; official version unviewable bug question

• #6 sha1sum bug

• #3 docDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl vs. stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl enhancement

jira Issues

Issue

• [CDR-168] - Improve versioning automation
• [CDR-180] - ERROR SimpleAsyncUncaughtExceptionHandler...ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ced2ar.eapi.VersionControl
• [CDR-183] - Configuration page is not updating
• [CDR-194] - delete investigator [#26]

New Feature

• [CDR-157] - docDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl vs. stdyDscr/citation/titlStmt/titl [GitHub issue] [#3]
• [CDR-189] - Enable global authentication option in web properties

QA Fix

• [CDR-181] - Version control is not commiting or pushing in v2
• [CDR-191] - Enable generation of ced2ar.log
• [CDR-193] - header image for wiki-census

2.8.1.2

• Updated interface to expose the variable fields ‘Universe’ and ‘AnlysUnit’ for editing and viewing
• Added fix to support PDF generation on Windows systems

For server installation:

• ced2ar.war is the server binary
• BaseX.war is the server database template

For desktop installation:

• ced2ar.jar is the desktop binary
• ced2ar.sh will run ced2ar.jar

2.8.1.1

Added crowdsourcing features, neo4j integration and much more!

For server installation:

• ced2ar.war is the server binary
• BaseX.war is the server database template

For desktop installation:

• ced2ar.jar is the desktop binary
• ced2ar.sh will run ced2ar.jar

2.8.1

Please see 2.8.1.1:
https://github.com/ncrncornell/ced2ar/releases//2.8.1.1

2.6

Features

The first public release since the Fall 2012 Beta

Frontend

• New editing UI forms
• Prov editing controls
• SAS/STATA variable export
• On demand PDF generation
• Improved handling of CSS/JS
• Improved font loading

Backend

• New editing UI validation and encoding
• Prov editing controls
• Demo mode added to profiles
• Import/Export functionality between CED2AR and Prov

Additional

• License information finalized
• Source code released on GitHub