We’re proud to announce tDAR’s twelfth production release: Lithic. This release contains numerous bug fixes, performance enhancements, and security related improvements. Some specific highlights include:
- Simplified sign-up, purchase, and download experiences
- A new dashboard where non-contributing users can search and use tDAR more easily
- Various performance and security improvements
- New “Contact” functionality allows users to request access to a confidential file, suggest a correction, or connect with the record owner for any tDAR record
- Redesigned Collection edit page to make it simpler to use
- Improved loading speed for image galleries with lots of images
- Improved searching:
- Better relevancy ranking and results for resources in tDAR for a number of cases including Site Codes, pluralization, and multi-word terms
- Collections that may be related to your search are now displayed along with search results
- When viewing search results on a map, hovering your mouse over a result will reveal that resource’s geographic area (for public resources only)
- Better relevancy ranking when displaying map results
- User Notifications on the dashboard are more personalized and dismissible
- The ability to copy or duplicate existing resources in tDAR
- Improvements in data integration:
- Simplified filter page for data integration that does not permit filtering of values that do not exist in the selected data
- Users can now auto-select specific columns when integrating resultsUsers can now associate external DOIs with any resource type except projects