v0.167 8/21/2024

Digital Sigillography Resource

Register of Seal Catalogues, Seal Impressions, and Seal Matrices

Changes, Patches, and Updates

21/08/24 Addition of basic login / logout forms
Beta test of an experimental set of revised pages. The aim is to reduce page load times so that the site as a whole can handle more traffic. Entity pages now exist in two versions. Version one is served by default to all users and has drastically reduced content to enable the fastest load. Version two gives users more information at the cost of slower load times and is only available to users that are logged in.
12/06/24 Fixed bug in place information page that allowed for duplicate manifestation entries
21/05/24 Added fields to allow classification repository dates (circa....)
25/03/24 Revision to DL27 images for Harvey Computer Catalogue
12/03/24 Generic seal icons added to use in situations where image is unavailable
RTI content added
13/02/24 Item information page includes information about the content of the record
Actor information page includes references to the actor
12/02/24 Approximately 790 additional seal impression images for various archives, including Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Archives
Additional data for Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Archives
11/01/24 Revision to 'About' page
04/01/24 Refinement to query that builds temporal distribution graphs to speed load times
26/09/23 Prototype tool to compare dates from published seal catalogues and the predicted dates
Added data from Linenthal and Noel, Medieval Seal Matrices in the Schøyen Collection (Oslo: Hermes Publising, 2004)
27/06/23 Prototype 'TIme' analysis page. The aim is to enable users to sort seals by period and type.
23/06/23 Exhibit page offers RTI images
RTI images display on Seal Manifestation page
18/06/23 Minor bug fixes for seal search form
08/06/23 Revision to page that displays 'place' information to bring it into harmony with 'search seal' form.
Revision to 'search seal' form. The query code redesigned to allow for searches for RTI images, but also to make better use of native Django processes.
24/05/23 Location of Portable Antiquities seal matrices updated to link to Ordnance Survey (https://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/)
28/04/23 Bug fix for Representation page Prototype 'Type' page
27/03/23 Prototype seal 'type' information page
21/03/23 Prototype machine learning seal data tool
03/03/23 Prototype machine learning dataset info page
07/10/22 Update to 'about' page
20/09/22 Fixed bug in calculation of portion of seals assigned a place
13/09/22 Fixed bug in calculation of portion of seals with class
02/08/22 Addition of dates to British Museum seal records
Fixed bug in image metadata upload form
07/07/22 Fixed bug that crashes 'Item' page when the item is associated with an undetermined or unknown location
Transition of British Museum references to 'Museum Number', which is currently used on their website.
19/06/22 Revision of vocabulary relating to seal impressions
07/06/22 'Terminology' page revised to include images, tooltips with definitions, and hierarchical display for classification terms
16/05/22 'Collection' page replaces database statistics page. Collection page offers information on temporal and spatial distribution, and classification distribution
Map page offers county and region views
10/04/22 Page loads streamlined
Database statistics page
'Class' information added to 'Seal' page
15/12/21 New user interface
03/09/21 Revision to 'Item' page
08/07/21 'Exhibition' page added
'Representation' page updated to show RTI visualizations
Viewer for Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) installed.
30/06/21 'Place' page added
'Map' page added
Term 'Actor' replaces 'Person'
'Discovery' tab added to navigation bar
14/06/21 Revision of the 'About' page
13/06/21 Various user interface refinements, including the addition of titles to each page
Fixed misdirecting link on 'Item' page
Added two more filters to 'Person Search' -- Person Corporate Class and Person Corporate Order.
07/06/21 Revision to 'Persons Search' page
Test data added for corporate entities
Database changed to separate information for individual persons and corporate entities (such as Religious Houses)
30/05/21 'Index' page revised
Navigation bar revised to include dropdown menus
'Person' information page revised
'Person Search' page added
17/05/21 Revision of 'Representations' page
09/05/21 Links to 'Advanced Search' and 'Change Log' added to Navigation bar
Clicking on a thumbnail image of a seal/ cast/ matrix takes user to 'Representations' page
'Representations' page added
'Change Log' page added
16/01/21 Donation button
Various fixes and refinements to user interface
Administrative interface