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ticTOCS Prototype ChangeLog

Version 3.0 Beta functionality is "gradually" being released

• TOC feeds from 92 publishers have been added to CRON job. That means that the feeds from 8356 out of 8890 journals (94%) are being automatically updated by the CRON job [03-Sept-08] (Santy)
• Added Oxford University Press and Elsevier to CRON job. (That makes 2814 out of 7772 journals (36%) included in CRON job) [08-Aug-08] (Santy)
• CRON job working for Biomed Central Ltd., Emerald, Nature Publishing Group, Institute of Physics (IOP) and Informa UK (Taylor and Francis) journals [18-Jul-08] (Santy)
• CRON job working for Sage journals [9-Jul-08] (Santy)
• Implemented greyed-out of visited articles for registered users [8-Jul-08] (Santy)
• Implemented greyed-out of visited journals for registered users [7-Jul-08] (Santy)
• Restored the rendering of search results by relevance and implemented a facility to give users the option to present search results in alphabetical listing or by relevance [3-Jul-08] (Santy)
• As Blackwell is now Wiley, a plan was outlined and it is being executed to update relevant metadata [1-Jul-08] (Lisa)
• CRON job working for Inderscience journals [30-Jun-08] (Santy)
• Fixed the ticking bug and added a 3rd tick in the top of the TOC display area [25-Jun-08] (Lisa)
• Fixed an error with the OPML exporter, which was exporting all the TOCs based on IP address and not on user account authentication [27-Jun-08] (Santy)
• Added the confirmation link in the subjects of emails sent to new users to alleviate the email restrictions of ticTOCs server [19-Jun-08] (Santy)

Version 2.0 Beta

• Developed an Account Management Application (APA) for registration and sign in of users (Santy)
• Integrated APA with myTOCs (Santy)
• Implemented alphabetical list of search results (Santy)
• Re-harvested complete Directory (Lisa)
• Re-indexed complete Directory (Santy)
• Integrated AJAX code (developed by ICO3) for tracking user activity (when user expands articles or when ticks journals from the search and browse sections) (Santy)
• Developed PHP-based tracking user activity (when user views a Journal Homepage, clicks on an article title or clicks a journal title from the search and browse sections) (Santy)
• Developed Export to RefWorks And Tracking RefWorks' user activity (Lisa)
• Reformatted expanded article to contain authors, abstract, page numbers and DOI (Lisa)
• Removed many journals that were either old or duplicate entries in the database (Lisa)
• Implemented a filter mechanism to remove old issues and to display only current issues (Santy)
• As the Royal Society of Chemistry includes images in the content:encoded module, added this module to the expanded article for this publisher only (Lisa)
• Fixed a bug that was displaying the (+) sign and the links for expanding and collapsing TOC articles when there was nothing to expand or collapse (Santy)
• Rolled out the use of UTF-8 encoding as a default encoding in order to render non-western characters (Santy)
• Developed a simple web interface to help with the identification of relevant subject headings for ticTOCs (Santy)
• Fixed bugs found in Version 1.1 Beta (Lisa, Santy)
• Included comments in MyTOCs when there are no TOCs or not signed in, to encourage users to sign in or register (Lisa)

Version 1.1 Beta

• Made a link to home page (Logo and a home link in the nav bar should go to homepage) Added links to home page. (Lisa)
• Fixed bug: Panels not open by default (The collapsible panels on the left should all be open by default) Set properties to have all panels open. (Lisa)
• Edited / Updated text on web pages using the templates. (Lisa, Santy)
• Removed the inconsistency between the way how search and browse were displaying results (moved Publishers search box above displayed results; removed bullet points, numbered lists; Used format First | Prev |.….| Next | Last to navigate. (Lisa)
• Made Adding/Removing myTOCs more obvious. (there was a check box in corner that was not obvious.) Added div around checkbox and added in text to make it appear more obvious. (Lisa)
• Indented 2nd Line if journal title is on more than one line (After removing bulleted/numbered lists, it was required to indent journal titles. (Lisa)
• Fixed bug that was allowing the display of ISSN/eISSN with "00000000" value. Fixed code to make only display the ISSN/eISSN if not null and not equal to 00000000 (Lisa)
• Fixed bug that was shortening Publishers' names when browsing by publisher, although there was space to display them. Fixed AJAX related code and modified the structure of publishers table (Santy)
• Fixed bug that was preventing myTOCs from working in IE6 browser. (Santy)
• Fixed bug that was preventing ticTOCs webpages from clearing previous search sessions. (Santy)
• Fixed bug in SQL code that was producing an error when some navigation parameters were missing (e.g. when trying searching for Public Health. Page 6 of the search results was blank, even that there were more than 10 pages returned by the query) (Santy)
• Updated the number of Publishers with TOCs (Santy)
• Fixed a bug in the Search API that were producing inconsistent Ranking of Search Results (Santy)
• Partially fixed a "cursor jumping" bug (Cursor automatically jumps to browse by publisher. Annoying when searching TOCs on smaller screen. (Santy)
• Implemented a javascript-based facility for expanding and collapsing TOC articles. (For gold dust we need abstracts to be suppressed, then click on + to expand.) (Santy)
• Fixed an error in the CSS that is used for expanding and collapsing TOC articles (Lisa)
• Altered and re-indexed Lucene API in order that searches are done only in journal title field. (Some users said that search results were too long and confusing because the search was being done in the publisher name, journal title, toc title, journal subject and items fields (title, authors and abstract.) (Santy)
• Fixed bug that was producing wrong search results and made the stopwords list suitable for ticTOCs purposes. (Users couldn’t find relevant queries (e.g. for “information”) or sometimes Lucene API was returning “strange” and “unrelated” hits. (Santy)

Version 1.0 Beta

• Front-End
  • Implemented mock-up using HTML transitional validated and CSS 2.0 (Lisa)
  • Implemented templates and XML parsing for rendering HTML on the web (Santy)
  • Implemented Javascript SpryCollapsiblePanel.js for collapsing left hand side menus (Joe)
  • Developed "tick" functionality to allow users to save myTOCs using cookies (Santy)
  • Developed an "OPML Exporter" facility to allow users to export their TOCs as an OPML file (Santy)
  • Developed an AJAX-enabled interface to handle "searching within browsing by publisher" (Santy)
• Back-End
  • Developed back-end DB for TOCs Directory, MyTOCs User Preferences and Feeds Collection (Santy)
  • Done initial tests using MySQL for searching journal titles (Lisa)
  • Switch to using Lucene PerX Search Engine, which includes numerous engine level improvements to support MyTOCs User Preferences Requirements (Santy)
  • Developed ticTOCs Browse API (Santy)
  • Developed myTOCs API (cookies based) (Santy)