[Web4lib] Kete 1.1 released

[Joann Ransom]

We are delighted to annouce the release of Kete 1.1

Kete 1.1 is now available with a giant helping of new features and 
improvements. This is also the first release where you can grab Kete 
from our code repository's new home at Github.com. See 
http://kete.net.nz/site/topics/show/25-downloads for details or browse 
the code online at http://github.com/kete/kete/.

For those who haven't seen Kete in action, Kete is open source software 
that enables communities, whether the community is a town or a company, 
to collaboratively build their own digital libraries, archives and 
repositories. Kete combines features from Knowledge and Content 
Management Systems as well as collaboration tools such as wikis, blogs, 
tags, and online forums to make it easy to add and relate content on a 
Kete site. You could create a service like Google's Knol for your 
community using Kete.
An in-depth list of features and issues resolved can be found at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/182-kete-11-features-and-bug-fixes 
, but here are some highlights:

• Privacy Control - ability to designate any item version within a 
basket as only viewable to its members (guide at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/191-use-privacy-controls-on-whole-site-or-a-specific-basket) 


• Content Licensing - users can choose from Kete instance's available 
Licenses for a piece of content they create. Creative Commons licenses 
are available to be loaded as license options with one command on the 
server. (guide at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/181-using-content-licenses-in-kete-11) 


• OAI-PMH Repository - an Kete instance can optionally answer OAI-PMH 
harvester requests for its content. (guide at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/190-turning-on-ketes-oai-pmh-repository) 


• Force use of SSL Encryption on Private Items and User Account 
Information (optional) - Kete now can be configured to use HTTPS for all 
sensitive areas (login, registration, private items, certain 
administrator functionality). (guide at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/172-forcing-kete-to-use-ssl-for-private-requests) 


For examples of Kete 1.1 in action check out Kete.net.nz 
(http://kete.net.nz ) and Kete Horowhenua (http://horowhenua.kete.net.nz/).

Installation:

The Installation Guide at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/114-installation has been 
updated for Kete 1.1.

Upgrades:

If you already have an existing Kete site, the upgrade steps are 
outlined at 
http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/177-upgrading-to-kete-11-release 
..

Reporting Issues:
We are also now using a much more robust issue tracker for reporting 
bugs or requesting features at http://kete.lighthouseapp.com/, but I 
recommend you take a look at 
http://kete.net.nz/site/topics/show/23-how-to-add-a-ticket first.

Credits:
Kete 1.1's major work was funded by Te Reo o Taranaki, Aotearoa Peoples 
Network New Zealand (http://www.peoplesnetworknz.info/), the New Zealand 
Mental Health Commission (http://www.mhc.govt.nz/), Katipo, and HLT. It 
was done by Walter McGinnis, Steven Upritchard, and new Kete team 
members at Katipo, James Stradling and Kieran Pilkington. Patches were 
contributed by Joe Atzberger and Mason James for Liblime as well as Sam 
Villain for Catalyst IT, Ltd.


Kete is a Ruby on Rails application, so huge thanks go to those that 
have worked on Ruby and Ruby on Rails for providing a great foundation 
to build an application on top of. Thanks also go to the team at 
IndexData (http://www.indexdata.com/) for their work on Zebra which Kete 
uses as the basis for its search and browsing functionality.


Kete also benefits from numerous plugin and gem developers, see vendor/ 
plugins and config/required_software.yml for details. Thank you for the 
great software libraries!