What's new in Aperture SDK 1.6.0
Jun 29, 2012
- Brand new TikaMimeTypeIdentifier. Designed to be a drop-in replacement for the older MagicMimeTypeIdentifier. It uses the power of Apache Tika to push the boundaries of what's possible in mime type identification. Among other things, it can distinguish between various ZIP-based formats (ODT vs. OOXML) and various OLE-based formats (Word vs. Excel), in most cases even without knowing the extension.
- you can now crawl files in one folder, then move that folder to a different path, update the data source configuration and let the data accessors access those files in the new path.
- a new generic subcrawler for various XML formats. It has been made possible by the XML type detection abilities of Tika and an XML-to-RDF conversion tool called X2R. Aperture can crawl mediawiki dumps and RSS feeds out of the box. Support for additional XML formats is easy to add.
- a number of small improvements and bugfixes
New in Aperture SDK 1.5.0 (Jul 2, 2010)
- An evolutionary bugfix and improvement release. It brings new and improved functionality for getting data from OpenXML and mbox files, as well as initial support for direct crawling of remote Samba without having to mount them first. Moreover, intensive usage has revealed some loopholes in our email processing code that resulted in loss of email content and attachments - all have been fixed.
New in Aperture SDK 1.4.0 (Jul 2, 2010)
- The 1.4.0 release is a proof that the codebase is really starting to mature. Previous releases brought revolutions (RDF2Go, NIE, maven). This one reaps the rewards of the work done in the past and concentrates on evolutionary improvements and bugfixes.
New in Aperture SDK 1.4.0 (Jul 2, 2010)
- The 1.4.0 release is a proof that the codebase is really starting to mature. Previous releases brought revolutions (RDF2Go, NIE, maven). This one reaps the rewards of the work done in the past and concentrates on evolutionary improvements and bugfixes.
New in Aperture SDK 1.3.0 (Jul 2, 2010)
- This release bears the mark of Maven. We used it because the users wanted a way to cherry-pick the Aperture functionality and dependencies they need, either because they wanted a smaller footprint (aperture 1.3 brings in more than 18 MB of jars), or for legal reasons (e.g. some dependencies use the LGPL license some people don't like). Now, thanks to Maven magic you can reap direct benefits from the modular architecture of Aperture and choose exactly the mix of classes you need.
New in Aperture SDK 1.2.0 (Jul 2, 2010)
- After three years of development Aperture is stable enough to drop the .beta suffix from the release. 1.2.0 leverages architectural improvements made in 1.1.0.beta to bring support for compressed archives and to streamline email processing. A completely new service - the DataSourceDetector allows applications to provide suggestions to users about the data sources on their desktops. A host of bugfixes and minor improvements rounds the image of the leanest and meanest version of Aperture ever made
New in Aperture SDK 1.1.0 Beta (Jul 2, 2010)
- This release aims to reduce the memory footprint and increase the range of data sources explorable by Aperture. It adds support for MP3 files, vcards and mbox mailboxes. The Architecture has been extended with the concept of a SubCrawler, that can crawl DataObjects returned by other crawlers thus opening possibilities for the development of new, even better exploration components.
New in Aperture SDK 1.0.1 Beta (Jul 2, 2010)
- This release bears the mark of the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop - a major research initative where research institutes and commercial companies from around Europe. Aperture is used as one of the pillars of a next-generation platform that will revolutionize the way people organize and use the data stored on their computers. The input from the Nepomuk Community drove us to implement a host of new features that make Aperture more useful, more flexible and more powerful.
New in Aperture SDK 2006.1 alpha 4 (Jul 2, 2010)
- The entire Aperture Framework has been rewritten to utilize the RDF2Go framework. It is now completely independent from the underlying RDF store. Aperture registries and factories can now be used in an OSGi environment as services. The infrastructure allows for on-the-fly deployment of new extraction components.
New in Aperture SDK 2006.1 alpha 3 (Jul 2, 2010)
- This release adds support for crawling ical calendar files. The MIME type detection has been extended to support many more file formats. Extended the tutorials. There are numerous bugfixes and small improvements.
New in Aperture SDK 2006.1 alpha 2 (Jul 2, 2010)
- This release adds support for crawling file systems, web sites, IMAP and Outlook mail boxes. Furthermore, the number of supported file formats has increased significantly.