Release 0.2.2

Released for test: 01/12/2009

Some of the most important changes in this release:

• Functionality added to backup the database from the command-line ( Issue 157 )
• Added support for XHTML tags in body text; you now can markup data like the description with HTML tags as long as it's valid XML ( Issue 179 )
• PIMS imports now support empty cells in the Excell sheets ( Issue 254 )
• Labels for homepages are configurable ( Issue 191 )
• Support for blogs using foaf:weblog ( Issue 32 )
• Search facility for projects and people ( Issue 153 )
• Link project imports via rdf:seeAlso ( Issue 201 )

See also the complete issue list for this release.

Previous releases

Release 0.2-rc1

Released for test: 25/09/2008

We are pleased to announce the release of Simal v0.2-rc1

Simal is a framework for building project registries. Using Simal you can quickly collate details about projects and participants. This data can then be accessed via a command line tool for scripting, a RESTful API for mashups or a web application for humans.

This release is a complete rewrite of the 0.1 release which was always intended to be a proof of concept. 0.2 now utilises an RDF repository rather than a flat file system. Consequnetly performance is vastly improved in this release.

Key features include:

- Ability to import DOAP from the local filesystem or a remote URL - AJAX browsers for finding people or projects - Fully categorised listings - Export of RDF data models - RESTful API

Installing

Binary releases: http://simal.oss-watch.ac.uk/userQuickstart.html

Source: http://simal.oss-watch.ac.uk/devQuickstart.html

Demo

A live demo of the latest developments can be found at http://simal.16degrees.com.au

Questions and Feedback

Assistance is available on our mailing lists, which can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/simal-users (for users) and http://groups.google.com/group/simal-contributors (for those wanting to get involved)

Bug reports and feature requests are also welcome, please submit them to our issue tracker at http://code.google.com/p/simal/issues/list