Version 2.0 of Providence has been released. Version 2.0 is a major release that brings compatibility with PHP version 8.2 or better.

Providence

• New, more flexible system for tracking changes, such as location history or provenance, over time.
• Improvements to search indexing and built-in search engine to better support hierarchical indexing, text searches including punctuation and non-roman characters, searches on complex accession numbers and more.
• Improved background processing system. Media processing and search indexing background tasks are now more launched more reliably as needed rather than relying on externally configured cron tasks.
• Reporting enhancements, including support for interactive user-provided reporting parameters and background processing of large exports.
• External export system to facilitate integration with digital preservation systems via configurable export of BagIT packages.
• New metadata element data types for file size values and references to media from YouTube, Vimeo, GoogleDocs, Internet Archive and other external services.
• Support for automated translation of profile text (field names, user interface, etc.) using machine translation services such as Google Translate and DeepL.
• Support for automated transcription of audio/video materials using OpenAI Whisper.
• New data import formats, including DublinCoreXML, EHive, METS, MODS, Musearch, SqlLite and iDigBio.
• New GraphQL-based API providing search, browse, introspection and editing functionality.
• Expanded data replication system for synchronization of two or more CollectiveAccess systems.
• Improved support for extraction of media metadata using MediaInfo and EXIFTool.
• ... and many many bug fixes and improvements ...

Note that this version is no longer compatible with PHP version 7.4. Get it now on our download page.