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.
Secret Management
The Arkindex platform has supported secrets for a while, but their management was only possible for system administrators until this release.
Using the new Secret menu, available in the top-right corner of the Arkindex interface, you can:
- view all secrets you have access to
- edit your secrets
- share them with other users or group of users
- delete secrets
All these actions depend on the usual access rights. You may not see immediately secrets on your Arkindex instance if the system administrator did not share them with you !
In upcoming releases, secrets will be easily usable with Arkindex workers.
Removal of worker versions from worker results
As mentionned in the previous Arkindex release 1.8.1, we were able to remove the worker versions set on worker results (transcriptions, meta-datas, classifications and entities).
This is the last step in a migration started more than a year ago, to only rely on worker runs.
This change has no impact on the end users, as most of the impactful work was done over the past releases.
Asynchronous IIIF image validation
The API endpoint CreateIIIFUrl now supports optional width and height parameters.
When these parameters are set, the IIIF validation will be done asynchronously (provided your API user can validate images and the targeted image server allows external validation.
This change is useful for large external image providers as it provides an important speed gain. The IIIF image synchronous validation remains the default mode.
More details are available on the technical notes.