We are happy to announce that a new Arkindex release is available. You can explore Arkindex and try out the newest features on our demo instance, demo.arkindex.org.

Technical release notes for developers and instance administrators are available here.

Document exports

You can now export data from Arkindex as PDF or PAGE XML documents. The Export as PDF and Export as PAGE XML actions are available in any project or folder element, or from the selection.

Document export actions
Document export actions in the Import / Export menu

See the dedicated section in the Arkindex documentation for more information.

Tasks Time To Live (TTL)

Following the introduction of the ponos.maximum_task_ttl setting in release 1.6.6, tasks are now stopped if they reach their TTL. On the process status pages, both the duration of a task and its TTL are displayed.

Task duration and TTL
Task duration and TTL on the process status page

This development was supported by the pictorIA consortium-HN.

Processes

When viewing the elements of a configured process, if a classification was used to filter these elements it is now displayed.

Process elements with classification filter
Process elements with classification filter

If some tasks in a process have been restarted, the old tasks are no longer taken into account to compute the process status. For example, if some failed tasks were restarted and succeeded, the process is marked as successfully completed.

[Enterprise Edition] Project creation loading view

When deploying Arkindex, you can setup a database replica in order to speed up some operations. However, this can cause latency issues when creating new objects. One such issue was that sometimes, when creating a new project, you would get redirected to that project's page before if was created in the replica database, and shown an error because the project could not be found.

Now, after creating a new project you get redirected to a project loading view until the project is found in the database.

Project creation awaiting view
Project creation awaiting view

Miscellaneous

  • It is now possible to edit a Model Version's description, parent, tag and configuration fields from its details page.
  • IIIF URLs containing query parameters (https://somewhere.com/folder/something?IIIF=01/56/12/image/full/full/0/default.jpg) are now correctly handled when importing IIIF manifests.
  • A new setting s3.max_retries is available, allowing you to define the number of times a failing S3 request can be retried. This setting is documented in the Arkindex documentation here, as well as in the technical release notes for this release.