Regular updates to the tDAR software comprise an integral part of Digital Antiquity’s commitment to digital archaeological data preservation. The Fluvial release of tDAR (Fall 2011) includes the following primary components:
Collections:
- A new way to organize and display resources. Collections can be stacked or nested to allow you to organize resources. You can add a name, description, and sort-order to your collections.
- Share, collections also simplify the way that you can share resources with other users. It enables you to assign a user or set of users permissions and then assign a set of users to that collection. This should simplify managing rights for resources.
Data Integration:
- Data integration UI has been entirely reworked to simplify the process.
- Results are now summarized to allow you to more easily assess whether the results are correct
New Creator pages:
- tDAR now display a “creator” page for people and lists all of your resources organized by resource type, by title.
Batch Upload:
- updated template with improved labels, examples, and help text in excel comments
- improved error messages
homepage:
- improved map and graph
User Dashboard:
- reworked to provide faster access to all of your resources, improved graphs
- access to collections
Record display & editing:
- improved, more concise record display
- image display works better with multiple images
- translated datasets now displaying
- added print stylesheet to make printing cleaner
- Date Created now a required field for records
Search Results:
- results display enhanced with additional limits on the right, you can now limit by file access information (whether the item is shared or marked as confidential
- improved sorting options
- search relevancy has been significantly improved for people, places, and title matching
Datasets, Coding Sheets, & Ontologies:
- updated category variables