RADAR Software Release (Version 1.19.1)

Published: 21.03.2024

RADAR Cloud software version 1.19.1 is now available as of March 21, 2024.

The new software contains the following new features:

New function: Creation of usage statistics
Administrators can now generate usage statistics for flexibly selectable time periods. These contain the total storage volume, the new storage volume used during the time period and the respective number of datasets - separated for archived and published data. The listing is made per workspace and, if defined, also contains allocation by category.
The new function is available in the contract dashboard > Statistics: Reporting by time period. With its help, responsible parties in RADAR-using institutions will be able to transparently track the annual billing of RADAR usage in future.
Optimized: Workspace
The workspace page has been made clearer for administrators and curators. The options for managing "Workspace Users & Roles" and "Default Metadata" can now be viewed and accessed on the workspace page directly below the dataset listing.
New format for DOI and RADAR-ID
As part of the ongoing consolidation of our software code, DOIs will now be generated in a new format. The DOI suffix will now consist of a sequence of lower and upper case letters instead of an integer. The previous integer was generated using a separate counter service. The sequence of letters now used, on the other hand, is identical to the unique technical dataset identifier already in use.

Previous DOI format: 10.22000/9187
New DOI format: 10.22000/EpHokVEhuZhDrVxF

The implementation of the new DOI format streamlines our software stack and will still guarantee the unique and permanent identification of every dataset published in RADAR. The identifier for archived data packages, the RADAR ID, will also correspond to the new format in future and contain a sequence of letters as a suffix.
The change will not affect DOIs or RADAR IDs that have already been reserved. These will remain reserved and will be published or archived in the previous format.

Note: This software release also affects the community-specific publication services for research data based on RADAR:

RADAR4Chem, funded by NFDI4Chem (DFG Project Number 441958208)
RADAR4Culture, funded by NFDI4Culture (DFG Project Number 441958017)