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This month, I was invited to a “Train-the-Trainers” workshop for the DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) standard, the workshop was a way for the Initiative to create training materials for people to go off and train others with. I will admit that I did not know much about DDI before attending...

We are proud to announce that the Aristotle Metadata Registry version 2.1 is now available for public access. This new release can be downloaded from GitHub or from PyPI. We are in the process of rolling out this version to all our users of Aristotle Cloud, and will be updating...

We’ve had two big updates this month around the membership of Aristotle Cloud Service Australia within the metadata and digital communities that we are proud to announce. On the international front, Aristotle Cloud Services Australia is now an Associate Member of the DDI Alliance. This membership provides us with connections...

The largest change to Aristotle MDR in version 2.0 is moving to a mono-repo to manage both the core Aristotle MDR code and all related extensions in a single managed Git repository. This change makes it easier for us to version extensions and set dependencies of related code. By managing...

May is here, and the team has been working hard and delivering new features from our published 2018 roadmap, including Aristotle 2.0. What is Aristotle 2.0? In Quarter 1 “Aristotle 2.0”, we focused on improving the underlying infrastructure of the software, to use new or better versions of libraries, huge...

The first month in 2018 was a big one for us, there were so many new and exciting things that happened for Aristotle. We now have two new government contracts. Both contracts were signed during January, and one of those agencies signed on for five years! We have also started...

We are pleased to announce that the Canadian Bankers Association is using an open-sourced version of the Aristotle Metadata Registry. Prosper Canada, a national charity dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for Canadians living in poverty, the Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) have launched...

This week we migrated the Aristotle Open Registry over to new infrastructure, which has brought massive speed improvements site-wide as well as added support for encrypted connections for improved security. Along with this upgrade, the Aristotle Open Registry is now running version 1.5 of the Aristotle Metadata Registry. They key...

Today we are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Aristotle Metadata Registry to PyPI – version 1.5. This release, possible thanks to the support of Data61, includes a number of new features, usability improvements and bug fixes. This release also includes a new darker default...

Sam and Lauren have both been accepted to present at IASSIST 2017! This is very exciting, since it will be Lauren’s first presentation at a conference. Sam will be representing both Data61 and Aristotle Metadata Registry, with a presentation on how Aristotle and NationalMap have improved the usability of open...

Our mission with the Aristotle Metadata Registry is to help people make sense of information needed to make change possible, and we are always trying to find new ways to do this. A big part of this is making sure information is available to everyone. That’s why we’re introducing a...

Given the size of Microsoft, their reputation in enterprise environments and the growth of Azure as a cloud platform, its fair to say that ignoring Microsoft (and their associated products) in your test scripts will limit the ability for your app to grow. We’ve had a few requests on the...