December 9, 2025
We are pleased to announce a new version of FAIRDOM-SEEK is now available, which is version 1.17.2
This is a patch release that includes some important bug fixes and improvements, in particular:
- A new SPARQL view, that allows SPARQL queries to be made over the public graph directly in SEEK, if running together
with the Virtuoso triple store.
- Ability to execute queries and store the URL of queries for later re-use.
- Configurable set of predefined example queries.
- Added support for registering DataCite based DOIs, in addition to CrossRef based DOIs. Alongside this the list of Publication types have been expanded to include those supported by DataCite.
- Fixes related to registering Publications as Bibtex files.
- Fix to the rendering of Publication abstracts.
- Expanded the list of Model types, execution environments and formats to support Machine Learning models.
- Enhanced the schema.org metadata support
- to include identifiers for DOI, ROR and ORCID
- added LabProtocol (from Bioschemas) as a type for SOPs.
- fixed the JSONLD endpoint to be available for all items that support schema.org metadata.
- Reduced the batchsize when reindexing all items from 250 to 50, and made configurable through
Seek::Config.reindex_all_batch_size. - Fix to better handle requesting invalid citation styles. Previously an invalid style would become the default style, leading to subsequent errors.
- DataHub specific:
- Return to the single page view when cancelling from an items Manage page.
- Fix propagating permissions to child Assays and Sample types.
More details about the changes can be found in the 1.17.2 Release Notes.
Details on installing SEEK can be found in our Documentation, at https://docs.seek4science.org/get-seek.html – including running with Docker.
The upgrade guide can be found in the usual place at https://docs.seek4science.org/tech/upgrading.html