CONTENTdm Tools 2.3

Fixed

• Copied Get-Org-Settings do dashboard.ps1 startup script to fix false-positive warnings about parallelization.

CONTENTdm Tools 2.2

Changed

• Additional modifications to setupNonAdmin.ps1 to accommodate more environments.
• Updated README text.

CONTENTdm Tools 2.1

Changed

• Fixed bug in setupNonAdmin.ps1 for users without administrative rights to their workstations.
• Updated README text.

CONTENTdm Tools 2.0

Added

• Settings page added to the dashboard.
  • Organizational settings to be saved and cached (requires restart).
  • Multiple user passwords can be saved, when a username is passed as a parameter, it will look up stored credentials.
    • Warning: CONTENTdm Tools is designed for single-workstation use by a single user. Only allow multiple users to store credentials in a trusted environment.
• Parallel processing for Batch Create and Batch OCR.
  • Downloading images.
  • Converting images for OCR.
  • Running OCR.
• IIIF download method for Batch OCR. (Monograph compound-objects not supported at this time.)
• Collection metadata export (tab-delimited text), unlock collection metadata, index collection metadata features added to the dashboard.
  • CONTENTdm credentials must be stored for user to export metadata.
• PDFtk and xpdf utilities added.
  • Text can now be extracted from existing searchable PDFs if included in object folders rather than running OCR.
• Verbose logging and help text added to scripts and functions. Progress indicators, where possible, for parallel actions.

Changed

• Batch Create now supports batch creating items as well as compound objects
• Organizational settings and user credentials are now saved in a CSV and managed through dashboard GUI with CLI fallback. Passwords are stored as secure strings.
• Normal field names can now be used for batch edits, CONTENTdm Tools will map field names to field nicknames automatically.
• Batch OCR uses throttled downloads for collections with over 200 images to download.
• OCR text now preserves line breaks, but removes duplicate line breaks.
• "Start Batches" on navigation menu now just called "Batches".
• Collection and field lookups moved into a single UI row.
• Updated documentation.
• Moved logic for various activities into external functions for reuse.
• Metadata processing will now automatically add File Name field if not included and make sure it's the last column if it's included.
• Improved error handling and QC reporting.
• Batches from the dashboard now start in PowerShell window using -ExecutionPolicy Bypass.

Removed

• Nothing

CONTENTdm Tools 1.0

This initial MVP release includes PowerShell scripts for:

• batch creation of compound objects
• batch editing of metadata
• batch re-OCR of an entire collection
• web-based dashboard for running scripts and querying CONTENTdm collection and field properties.