[announcement] Piggy Bank 2.1.1 Released

From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom_at_mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 22:34:20 -0500

The Simile Dev team is pleased to announce the availability of Piggy
Bank 2.1.1.

As usual, get it from

  http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/

No functionality was added during this minor release but several
important bugs were fixed:

  1) now Piggy Bank is able to support all charsets in Unicode 3 and
uses UTF-8 as the standard content encoding, this fixes all the char
encoding issues that were reported.

  2) because of mismatch between n3 and turtle syntaxes, Piggy Bank now
uses RDF/XML by default to communicate to the banks.

  3) fixed some escaping problems with URIs and literals containing
ampersands (&) that caused firefox to trigger HTML parsing violations
that caused problems without giving user feedback.

NOTE: there are still issues with URIs that contain ' (single quote) and
" (double quote). No easy and definitive fix was found, as this touches
deeply the way Longwell operates. For now, easiest workaround is to
avoid using ' and " in URIs.

  4) Removed the "Persist" button that caused confusion. Now you can
"save" an item locally or "publish" it a remote bank. "Persist" (that
has been renamed "Deposit") might come back once we implement
authentication and isolation features inside Semantic Bank.

  5) When a collected item is saved, more prominent (colored) feedback
is given.

Enjoy and see you at Galway next week for ISWC 2005.

-- 
Stefano Mazzocchi
Research Scientist                 Digital Libraries Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology            location: E25-131C
77 Massachusetts Ave                   telephone: +1 (617) 253-1096
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307              email: stefanom at mit . edu
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