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Meandre 1.4.7 was released today, November 3, 2009. This is the last and most stable release in the 1.4 series before we move onto big changes for the 1.5 series. Version 1.4.7 has a few new features and numerous bug fixes and usability improvements.

As usual, the Download page now points to this stable release:

http://seasr.org/meandre/download/

The raw artifacts are available at the SEASR repository:

http://repository.seasr.org/Meandre/Releases/1.4/1.4.7/

Visible changes since 1.4.5 (Version 1.4.6 was an internal release):

• Meandre server can now load flows from the network and then be restarted and run offline.

• Improvements to the Meandre Administrative Interface for user accounts.

• Allow specification of the port when running a flow from the ZigZag console.

• Performance improvement on component installation by using MD5 checksums to check whether a particular resource already exist on the meandre server.

• When regenerating, downloading jar files is skipped if they already exist on the meandre server.

• Bug fixes.

Loretta Auvil of the SEASR Team presented an overview of SEASR at the Digital Humanities 101: Rethinking the Scholarly Enterprise Workshop at University of North Caroloina, Charlotte. The workshop was held by the Center for Humanities, Technology and Science on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.

This workshop introduced faculty members to new research tools and approaches as well as funding opportunities available through the field of digital humanities. Guest speakers included Loretta Auvil, director of Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research; Kurt Fendt, director of HyperStudio at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Jason Rhody, project officer with the Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment for the Humanities; and Stan Ruecker, co-director of the Humanities Computing program at the University of Edmonton.

The presentation slides for SEASR can be found here.

Last night, I created a movie that walks through the process of installing the SEASR/Meandre tools and shows how to run the tools. You can check out the movie at http://repository.seasr.org/Movies/SEASR_Install_and_Run.m4v. If you listen closely you might even hear my puppy squeak a toy.

Meandre 1.4.5 was released today, May 19, 2009. This is (hopefully) the last and most stable release in the 1.4 series before we move onto big changes for the 1.5 series. Version 1.4.5 has a few new features and numerous bug fixes and usability improvements.

As usual, the Download page now points to this stable release:

http://seasr.org/meandre/download/

The raw artifacts are available at the SEASR repository:

http://repository.seasr.org/Meandre/Releases/1.4/1.4.5/

Visible changes since 1.4.4:

• Workbench now supports flows written in ZigZag
• Workbench can output flows to the .mau format
• Bug fixes in the job submission API for flows that finish quickly
• Flow RDF representations can be converted to ZigZag
• Infrastructure web API and HTML interface added “Publish All” ability
• Bug fixes for multiple users running the same flow
• Stack trace is now printed for the failing Component when a Flow execution aborts unexpectedly

The following presentations were given at the Pathways to SEASR Workshop on March 6 at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

SEASR Overview

SEASR Applications: Zotero

SEASR Applications: Text

SEASR Applications: Audio

SEASR Applications: Discus

SEASR Architecture

SEASR Tools

A new release of the Meandre infrastructure and tools is available. More information here.

The SEASR Team has created the next release of infrastructure and components. This release focused on the execution engine, development environments, components, documentation, and examples. The release includes:

• Meandre Infrastructure – execution environment and administrative interface
• Meandre Development Eclipse plug-in – tool for installing components
• Meandre Workbench – visual icon-based programming environment
• Meandre Zig-Zag – development scripting language
• Community Hub : Keyword Cloud – end-user gateway to published applications (flows)
• Component and flow repositories

Our goal with this release was to reach developers who want to create new component and begin application development with the SEASR environment. We encourage you to download and provide us feedback.

To download SEASR/Meandre, Components and Examples, click here. Documentation is available, and inside behind the scenes is also available on our development wiki.

We presented SEASR and Meandre with an introduction to Text Mining at a workshop sponsored by ICHASS (Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) on July 28, 2008. “This workshop, Information-Rich Environments for Research and Teaching, aims to give humanities, arts, and social science faculty, researchers and students intensive hands-on experience for improving the quality of their work through access to advanced computing infrastructures and applications.”

Also during this workshop, we held a hands on lab where attendees used the Meandre Workbench to perform some text analysis.

Text Mining Presentation

SEASR Presentation

SEASR/Meandre Hands on Presentation

The SEASR Team has created an alpha release of infrastructure and components. This release focused on the execution engine, development environments, components, documentation, and examples. The release includes:

• Meandre Manager – administration tool for users, flows, and components
• Meandre Infrastructure – execution environment
• Meandre Development Eclipse plug-in – tool for installing components
• Meandre Workbench – visual icon-based programming environment
• Meandre Zig-Zag – development scripting language
• Community Hub : Keyword Cloud – end-user gateway to published applications (flows)
• Component and flow repositories

Our goal with this release was to reach developers who want to create new component and begin application development with the SEASR environment. We encourage you to download and provide us feedback.

To download SEASR/Meandre, Components and Examples, click here.

The SEASR development team is hard at work preparing a release of SEASR technologies to date.  The release will include SEASR’s semantic-web, data-driven execution engine, Meandre, as well as components, flows, clients, and plug-ins that will help humanities scholars and programmers to make better and easier use of digital archives and humanities computing resources.  Check back for a release date and news!