Release 8.10

02 August 2023 by Aaron Ballagh in Release Notes

Release 8.10
New work area Notifications tab, Aggregation API Beta, Agent and Attorney logo grids, German localisation and more!

New Features and Improvements

Notifications Tab

With this release, we are pleased to add a new work area tab for managing your saved query and dynamic collection alert notifications. The Notifications tab allows you to view new and past notifications, mark them as read/unread and delete notifications all within your account work area. Read more about Notifications and Alerts.

Introducing the Aggregation API Beta

We are also pleased to introduce the Aggregation API Beta, providing an additional API endpoint that supports aggregation requests. Currently in beta, the Aggregation API will enable users to run the same aggregation requests used to power all the analysis charts and metrics available in the user interface, allowing users to perform their own analyses on the entire scholarly and patent datasets.

The query syntax for the Aggregation API uses a modified version of the Elasticsearch Aggregations syntax, with the following aggregation types supported: cardinality, average, max, min, sum, terms, date histograms and filters. Beta API documentation is available here: https://docs.api.lens.org/aggregations-beta.html

We are currently seeking testers to help us finalise parameters for release. Use cases for the Aggregation API include research analyses, calculating metrics, creating and displaying charts. If you are interested in trying or testing the Aggregation API please contact us at Support.

Agent and Attorney Logo Grids

With this release, functionality for creating Agent and Attorney logo grids has been added, allowing you to create and add Agent and Attorney logo grids to analysis dashboards e.g. https://link.lens.org/OhRez0ZHDrh.

Logos have been added for over 600 Agent and Attorneys, however not all Agent and Attorneys have a logo. If we are missing a logo or have an incorrect logo for a particular Agent or Attorney, please suggest an alternative by contacting us at Support.

New Language Options - Deutsch (German)

Continuing with the updates to our localisation, with this release we are pleased to announce the addition of translated message properties in Deutsch (German). Much of this localisation has been done using machine translation with a check from a native German speaker.

Please note, not all elements of the UI have been checked for each language. If you see a term that is not translated correctly or should be improved, please let us know by contacting us at Support. The updated localisation does not include PatSeq, PatCite, In4M or individual reports.

Other Improvements and Changes

The Lens is a work in progress and with each release The Lens team improves on certain features or perfects the quality of the data and the service to provide you with the most comprehensive data we can source. While often these changes stem from users' feedback, they also originate from improved data processing and improvements in the source data. In this release, here is the list of other improvements and changes that were implemented:

  • Standardised search and filter functions in the work area
  • Added a redirect to the account activation page for non-confirmed password resets
  • Added Sequence Count to the fields available for visualisation in the histogram chart type
  • Updated the default scholarly works dashboard and preset charts in the analysis wizard
  • Added support for collection import by OpenAlex identifiers
  • Added JSON Lines export file format to the Download Citation options for scholarly works
  • The updated date is now displayed in the Notifications modal in the work area sidebar
  • Updated the masthead and design of the search box on the homepage
  • Updated the responsive behaviour on subscription pages
  • Updated the Climate Action Landscapes landing page
  • Added tooltip to the Stemmed query tools filter
  • Hide citations tabs on mobile menu if 0 citations counts
  • Show no author info if no authors are available
  • Removed the legacy query warning on the Saved Queries work area tab
  • Updated Japanese message properties

Fixes

  • Fix display of legal status calculation log modal on individual patent documents
  • Fix article scatter plot display when limit is set to 1,000
  • Fix patent family abstract message displayed when no abstract is available
  • Update legal status modal fix for Unknown statuses
  • Fix patent family message being displayed for some WO/US patent images/pdf when the images/pdf are available

API & Data Improvements

Scholarly Works:

  • Indexed journal article full text and added abstracts and copyright statements provided by Springer Nature, adding full text for 9.5M scholarly works.
  • Renamed scholarly works fields fulltext to full_text and has_fulltext to has_full_text. Note: The fields fulltext and has_fulltext will be deprecated in a future release, please replace these fields with the new fields in your scholarly works API queries.
  • The top-level identifier fields doi, pmcid, pmid, magid, coreid and openalex have also been deprecated, please use the fields ids.doi, ids.pmcid, ids.pmid, ids.magid, ids.coreid and ids.openalex instead.

Lens API (version 2.10.0):

  • Added and improved API error and validation messages.
  • The size of result sets that are supported by offset/size based pagination has been increased to 10,000 results.
  • Released the beta Aggregation API.

For guidance navigating the API, please check the API Documentation, and to report bugs/issues, usability related questions, or to request features, please use our GitHub issue tracker.

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