Fulcrum Release Notes
- Jeremy Morse
- Melissa J Baker-Young
Sprint 100: March 25-April 15, 2020
- Grant 3 started April 1, 2020
Grant 3 ended April 30, 2022
Sprint 134: March 30-April 20, 2022
Completion of the work to improve authentication usability
Google Analytics Universal to GA4 work
PDF download issue; Update pdf.js
Import HEB backlist metadata into TMM
Create American Society of Papyrologists subpress; move published titles into it
Sprint 135: April 20-May 11, 2022
Implementation of monograph catalog page redesign
Auto handle generation fix
Integrate IRUS gem
Final usability report completed
Automate MARC record assembly for HEB
Sprint 136: May 11-June 1, 2022
Format award metadata on monograph catalog page
Gabii 3d Model and Database access through Resources
Default sort by changed to Publication Date (HEB remains as Date Added)
Chapter Download Button aligned in Table of Contents
Updated language on counter_reports page for librarians accessing outside of IP range
HEB/Bagnall EPUB adjusted to allow for quicker load of table-heavy section
Fix PDF thumbnail links in E-Reader
Bridwell Press title published May 25, 2022
Created unpack button to rebuild enhanced epub
Delete and rebuild Fulcrum handles to fix permissions issue
Upgrade to Hyrax 3.0
Sprint 138: June 22-July 13, 2022
Delayed release to July 28, 2022
Create tombstones for titles removed from EBC and HEB
Change default selections in COUNTER reports
Set up and style MichELT on Fulcrum
Create MACPRA free-to-read product for UMMAA
Use full (book level) HEB ID in displayed "Citable Link" box and citation
Sprint 139: July 13-August 3, 2022
Sitemaps were modified to skip over tombstoned monographs and monographs without FileSets
Footer for Lever Press updated to Ann Arbor, MI and Oberlin and Amherst were removed as partners, as the operations of Lever Press have been fully transferred to Michigan Publishing.
Fix Kibana dashboard link on Impact page
Wrote service that analyzes a HEB monograph and decides what handle(s) need to be registered for it. The service will:
Look at the namespaced HEB ID in ‘identifier’ (e.g. heb_id: heb01234.0123.001) and then:
Book level handle with no dot (the actual HEB Book ID):
will look like 2027/heb01234.0123.001
will link directly to the monograph in question
Title-level handle with no dot (the actual HEB Title ID):
will look like 2027/heb01234
will link to (based on checking Solr for the HEB Title ID)
Directly to the Monograph if there are no additional volumes for the title
To a Blacklight search that uses the HEB Title ID if there are multiple titles
Replicated navigation that was on DLXS and was lost when migrated to Fulcrum. The title Architecture and memory: The Renaissance studioli of Federico de Montefeltro/Kirkbride. Included these changes:
The Navigation section has been updated with the text provided in the Text for navigational icon page. The text wraps around the left side of the Navigation icons.
Links in the Navigational icon were updated per the authors request including linking to the Preamble button, update the link to the List of Illustrations, update the header for C to “Infrequently Asked Questions’; and D should link to Extended Captions
Continuous scroll is now the default for the EPUB
Sprint 141: August 24-September 14, 2022
Released Lever Press’s Princesse de Cleves - September 6, 2022
Disabled delete button on catalog page and dashboard for monographs with more than 200 filesets
Remove “locale=en” param from BAR DOIs, which is a problem for WAYFless URLs
Increase recent books to 4 on Lever Press Aboutware
Sprint 142: September 14-October 5, 2022
Completed Jira Cloud migration (HELIO, FULCRUMOPS, CSB)
Journals resource mockup work
Sprint 143: October 5-November 2, 2022
Extended sprint to 4 weeks bc of Samvera Connect
Journals resource metadata work
Updated HEB VPAT
Sprint 144: November 2-16, 2022
HEB Round 19 Published 11/10/22
APTrust work
SEAS Styled, DOIs on Fulcrum
Send EPUBs to NewGen for remediation
Fulcrum About page updated
Sprint 145: November 16-December 7, 2022
Fedora as backup
Completed PageMajik art audit review
Removed Carillon score code
Bridwell Press Aboutware development
Sprint 146: December 7-14, 2022*
Journals metadata template created
Bridwell Press Aboutware launched December 15, 2022
*Several tickets closed after the sprint closed but before the next sprint starts (January 4). Those tickets have been captured as part of Sprint 146.
Sprint 147: January 4-25, 2023
Monograph page TOC full/partial option
Updated VPATs on Accessibility page
Removal of Safari 13 accommodation for video
Annual cleanup of users/roles on Fulcrum
Process and Reversion Remediated UMPEBC EPUBs
Completed HEB Round 19 publication tasks
Journal resources work
Sprint 148: January 25-February 15, 2023
Date Published on Fulcrum, fix publication date sort
Added properties to Products as part of KBART project
Sprint 149: February 15-March 8, 2023
Hotfix during this sprint (2/23/23) to handle Janeway article embeds and correct date published on Fulcrum work
EXProxy attempted fix
All BAR series were removed; BAR auditing these values
Create Big Ten Open Books Collection
Wireframes completed and approved for Download/Read button to access a free PDF
Wireframes completed and approved for adding warning labels to monograph and fileset pages
Metadata changes: copyright holder to rightsholder, and keywords
GA4 plugin for aboutware
Completion of backup and restore work
Automatic creation of KBART files
EZProxy work including removal of attempted fix from last sprint and the disabling of browser caching requests (Chrome/Chromium)
Update skylight gem
Add Gabii feedback message to collect user feedback
Michelt styling, preparation for move from subpress to press
Sprint 151: March 29-April 12, 2023
Hotfix during this sprint (4/6/23) to put unpacking work into the same queue as ingest activity to try to improve speed of unpacking books and not leaving books in an inaccessible state
Update PDF.js from version 2.13.216 to 3.4.120
Michigan ELT migrated into an independent press
Amherst College Press aboutware updated to include four slots for recent books
Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies, Volume 41 published; first example of cross platform integration - Janeway and Fulcrum
Automate generation of BAR usage reports
Sprint 153: April 26-May 17, 2023
Hotfix during this sprint (5/16/23) to prepare the Big Ten Open Books Collection for soft launch
Improve Platform Search Phase 1 Spike: April 26-May 3, 2023
Research what work/tickets need to be done/created to improve search
Metadata Template and FMSL updated for Rightsholder
Improved load time of monographs with PDF primary FileRepresentative
Sprint 154: May 17-June 7, 2023
Continued migration off of Bulleit-1 server
Migrated from GitLab to GitHub
Preparation for the GA4 migration
Sprint 155: June 7-July 12, 2023
Begin working on Hyrax 4 upgrade
Continue migrating cron jobs for migration to isolated hosting
GA4 migration work
Begin working on sensitive labels feature development
Launch Big Ten Collection on Fulcrum (June 21, 2023)
Remove access message for Open Access presses, e.g. Big Ten Collection, Lever Press, Amherst, etc.
Turn off KBART jobs in TMM
FTP KBARTs to Dreamhost
Apply styling to The Free Electrical and Computer Engineering Textbook Initiative
Sprint 156: July 12-August 2, 2023
Index DOIs for search
Content warning labels
Migrate crons
Implemented content warning labels (How to page)
Implement registration required to download/read feature
Pagination to OPDS feeds
Update AblePlayer from 4.3 to 4.5
Experiment with IRUS embed code/widget
Redirect map for pressweb rebuild
Update BAR Historical Reprints product and licenses
Sprint 158: August 23-September 13, 2023
Added default thumbnail on content warning FileSet for display
Removed fixed layout page scan EPUB (outside of HEB)
TMM to Fulcrum csv cron task gets file from FTP
Fulcrum DOIs/handles rake task for TMM FTP
Implemented changes for Amherst College Press Aboutware
Implement content warning labels for UMMAA/MACPRA
Prepare the UMMAA PASH volumes 1 and 2 for publication
Review and ingest resources
Add alt text to the PDFs
Sprint 159: September 13-October 4, 2023
UMMAA PASH volumes 1 and 2 published (September 12, 2023)
Books Analytics Dashboard added to Big Ten aboutware
Forthcoming status experiment (Amherst College Press: Deep Horizons)
MichELT Take Care
Sprint 160: October 4-November 1, 2023
Continued work on Hyrax 4 upgrade
Work on updating press themes for Bootstrap upgrade
Corrected Crossref Submission Log failures (comp instead of cmp)
KBART publisher and pub date columns fixed
BAR series value changes
Big Ten Creative Commons licenses added to monographs
UVM Backlist file QC
Sprint 161: November 1-15, 2023
Update privacy policy with IRUS information
Added OPDS feed for Big Ten
Tombstoned works removed from royalty reports
APTrust consultation
Migrate Maize Books from DLXS to Fulcrum
Begin work on Aperio aboutware
Open Access Musicology Volume 2: Replace Fulcrum resources with links
Sprint 162: November 15-December 6, 2023
Hotfix v3.24.1 11/30/23: Change destination for PSI reports
Prepare Aperio Press for launch
HEB KBART now use HEB handles in title_url field
Search: count hits in full text search experiments
Sprint 163: December 6-20, 2023
Allow authors to review ebook on Fulcrum in Draft state using Share Link
Remove Admin ebook download; available through Manage Files page
Confirmed that multiple MARC records does not cause problems
Cleanup users/roles for Fulcrum production and preview for 2023
BAR pre-2020 titles finalized
Launch Aperio on December 14, 2023
Extract Homosaurus terms from MARC records
Sprint 164: January 10-31, 2024
IRUS usage stats embedded on monograph pages for all titles on Fulcrum
Free message modified to remove “temporary”
Update FAQ Link on fulcrum.org.counter_reports
Update copyright year in footer
Survey works on OA, PDF-only books
Status page now only available to U-M VPN users or those with Fulcrum role
Put in Able Player PR for italics/bold tags line breaks
Ingest content to preview for Hyrax 4 Bootstrap review
Sprint 165: January 31-February 21, 2024
Add UI control to turn/off IRUS stats tab
Updated link to the BAR End User License Agreement (EULA) pop-up message that appears on the BAR pages
Sprint 166: February 21-March 13, 2024, v4.0
The main work this sprint was to finish and put into production the Hyrax 4.0 upgrade; we ran into issues and had to rollback to v3.29 on March 14, 2024
Turn Allow Share Links controller on for publishers with Open Access books
Sprint 167: March 13-April 3, 2024, v4.1
Re-released v4.0 on March 21, 2024
Hotfix v4.0.1 3/28/24: Aberdeen styles and OA book survey, update mysql2 gem, silence deprecation warnings in production
Fully released Aberdeen University Press (soft launch was 3/18/24, hard launch was 3/28/24)
Work on Hyrax 4 deploy failures
Press analysts can now see the monograph catalog admin menu so they can access the Read Book link and see the manage files in draft mode
Chapter links are disabled for restricted titles for unauthorized users
Fix 500 error when editing PDF, PPT filesets
Fix EBC components missing from Products
Disable continuous scroll for a single title; set to scroll as default
Adjust Lever Press aboutware to remove Events, add YouTube links, fix navigation menu, and fix footer
Sprint 168: April 3-24, 2024, v4.2
Hotfix v4.1.1 4/11/24: This hotfix was focused on implementing fixes to performance issues that emerged after the upgrade to Hyrax 4 on 3/21/24
Buy Book URL multi-value field changed to single value to reflect the actual behavior, which is to say, Fulcrum can only currently support one Buy Book URL
Fulcrum informational pages were updated to reflect, among other things, new clients, case studies and the addition of Integrity as a core Fulcrum value
Added Google Tag Manager to Fulcrum preview and production, which will allow the team to implement tags and trigger events to understand user behavior on the platform
ITS storage migration on 3/1/24 resulted in needing to resolve discrepancies
Issue with Fulcrum URLs not posting back to TMM resolved
Sprint 169: April 24-May 15, 2024, v4.3
Develop interactive application resource type
Develop report of institution grants for a product
Display institution logo in institution access banner
Sprint 170: May 15-June 5, 2024, v4.4
Hotfix v4.3.1 5/23/24: Fix HELIO-3806 Verma bug
Scholarly iQ work started: 5/20/24 kick off
Update PDF.js
Fix access filters and force platform admin tool
Sprint 171: June 5-26, 2024, v4.5
Scholarly iQ prep
Sprint 172: June 26-July 17, 2024, v4.6
Added Altmetric badge to the PDF reader
Added clockwise rotate button to the PDF reader
Added warning for Admins/Editors/Analysts that if they download a PDF, it is the watermarked version and to not edit this version of a PDF
Remove whitespace from DOI field
Add milliseconds to FileSet DOI timestamps
Posted Hyrax 4 upgrade documentation to the Samvera Community
Work on UVM Press aboutware
Sprint 173: July 17-August 7, 2024, v4.7
E-Reader version: Added warning for Admins/Editors/Analysts that if they download a PDF, it is the watermarked version and to not edit this version of the PDF
Scholarly iQ documentation, samples, various
Developed Semantic logger as part of the MARC redesign project
Various performance improvement, including sitemap generation, status page
Electrical Engineering Textbooks have published to Fulcrum
BAR PDFs download
Sprint 174: August 7-28, 2024, v4.8
Hotfix v4.7.1 8/15/24: Launch University of Vermont Press aboutware
Share Link functionality was extended so recipients of a link can view the Draft or restricted access monograph page and resources
University of Vermont Press launched on Fulcrum with six backlist titles on August 15, 2024 and Aboutware
Sprint 175: August 28-September 18, 2024, v4.9
Readership Maps for aboutware sites updated
Created internal Partner Onboarding checklist
Sprint 176: September 18-October 9, 2024, v4.10
Performance work
Accessibility work
Scholarly iQ work - added ISBN
MARC management system redesign work
Can now store monograph-level keywords on Fulcrum, but they will not display
Create hybrid epub for EBC Carson/Owning My Masters (Mastered)
Began onboarding University of Westminster Press
Download csv option on product licenses
Sprint 177: October 9-30, 2024, v4.11
Onboard University of Westminster Press - launched October 31, 2024
Updated Fulcrum Partners page (to include Westminster and EE)
Monograph level content warnings feed into TMM to Fulcrum csv
MARC management system redesign work
Performance work
Investigate Site24x7 outages
Accessibility work
Announce “loading” in E-reader
Sprint 178: October 30-November 20, 2024, v4.12
Hotfix v4.11.1 11/7/24: Update Accessibility page for 2024 Charleston Conference
Scholarly iQ COUNTER platform - launched November 18, 2024
Authenticated users going to https://www.fulcrum.org/counter_reports will be redirected to the Scholarly iQ platform
YouTube Embeds (in e-reader and on fileset page)
Monograph Download button visibility to match Allow Download setting instead of favoring admin users when the book is Public
The same behavior for FileSets will be part of the next sprint
Readership Maps: the cron job was turned on
MARC management system redesign work
Sprint 179: November 20-December 11, 2024, v4.13
Implemented Cloudflare - 12/9/24
FileSet Download button visibility to match Allow Download setting instead of favoring admin users when the book is Public
MARC management system redesign work
Identifier field visible to Fulcrum users on FileSet edit page
YouTube embed adjustments, including to account for YT videos that restrict embedding
In addition, YouTube player is used instead of Ableplayer
Closed HEB conversion from fixed layout EPUB to PDF ticket (the work was completed earlier in the year)
Sprint 180: December 11-18, 2024, v4.14
Updated Preservation Statement
Extract EPUB metadata on ingest and store (in preparation for accessibility metadata - no display yet)
Cloudflare adjustments