This week’s eMediaLibrary release delivers smarter AI-powered search, faster document handling, and a refreshed user experience empowering clients like United Nations and AGBU with more intuitive discovery, seamless asset management, and customizable visual themes for a modern, efficient digital library.
Search & Discovery
1. Smart & Semantic Search Upgrade
- Description: Introduced semantic categorization and concept extraction powered by AI, improving how documents and assets are classified and searched. Added “vibe” search to find related items by concept rather than keyword. 
 
- Clients Affected: UN, AGBU, Open Institute 
 
- Technical Notes: - Implemented semanticfields.xml and DocumentRagManager for document-level tagging. 
- Enhanced quicksearch interface with full-screen view, categorized results, back navigation, and shareable URLs. 
- Multiple refactors of quicksearch.js and results.html for clarity, faster response, and UX consistency. 
- Added dynamic modal support and organized result sorting. 
 
 
2. Cross-System Search Fields
- Description: Added support for multiple field types in cross-system searching to unify data retrieval across projects. 
- Clients Affected: Multi-tenant clients (UN) 
- Commit: #2219, #1697 
 
AI & Metadata Enhancements
1. Document Breakdown (RAG Indexing)
- Description: Added AI-driven document splitting with page-level indexing to support improved contextual search and retrieval. 
- Clients Affected: AGBU, UN 
- Technical Notes: - Added DocumentRagManager and splitEntityDocuments() 
- Each page indexed separately with semantic metadata 
- Fire LLM events after scanning pages 
 
 
2. Concept Extraction & Entity Recognition
- Description: Introduced automatic entity recognition (Companies, People, Locations) using updated AI metadata schemas. 
- Clients Affected: All eMediaLibrary clients using AI metadata 
- Technical Notes: - Refactored named_entity.json and semantics.json structures 
- Added AI functions for generate_metadata() and generate_entity_metadata() 
- Added primarymedia property and entity linking improvements 
 
 
3. AI Assistant & Chat Integration
- Description: Improved AI assistant responses, added processing messages and dynamic response templates. 
- Clients Affected: Open Institute (Impact Bank), 
- Technical Notes: - Enhanced chatterbox.xml 
- Added new assistant models and clarified prompt responses 
- Enabled attachments in chat (verified working across devices) 
 
 
Document & Asset Management
1. Document Splitter Enhancements
- Description: Improved document splitting and thumbnail generation; fixed person picker dialog issue and added LLM event firing. 
- Clients Affected: UN 
- Technical Notes: - Enhanced page thumbnail handling and validation in DocumentSplitterManager 
- Improved field and view mappings 
 
 
2. Multi-Edit and Folder Picker Fixes
- Description: Fixed multi-edit entities saving empty records and folder reload issues. 
- Technical Notes: - Addressed validation logic for empty fields 
- Fixed folder picker reloading behavior 
 
 
3. Hot Folder Enablement
- Description: Enabled automated “Hot Folder” ingest for Home Decor and related clients. 
 
- Clients Affected: Clients with custom-branded deployments 
 
UI & Theming Enhancements
1. Theme Customization Update
- Description: All theme colors are now fully customizable via admin settings. 
- Clients Affected: All clients 
- Technical Notes: - Refactored theme.xml and property definitions 
- Updated color editing options 
 
 
2. Quick Search UI Redesign
- Description: Cleaner layout, improved modal behavior, and better focus handling. 
- Clients Affected: All users 
- Technical Notes: - Added overflow controls, compact CSS, and refined HTML structure 
 
 
Performance & Maintenance
1. File Upload Refactor
- Description: Simplified file upload plugin for maintainability and improved error handling. 
- Clients Affected: All 
 
2. Asset Optimization
- Description: Reduced asset sizes, removed unused FontAwesome and redundant PNG/video files. 
- Clients Affected: All 
 
3. Codebase Streamlining
- Description: Multiple refactors across AI, metadata, and UI scripts to improve readability and system performance. 
- Clients Affected: All 
 
Infrastructure & Admin Tools
1. Update Checker for Desktop App
- Description: Added “Check for Update” link to the desktop application menu. 
- Clients Affected: Desktop users (internal & client-side) 
 
2. Release Note Automation
- Description: Streamlined process using AI-generated summaries and commit logs. 
- Clients Affected: Internal team ( reporting process improvements) 
 
 
 
	         
     
		 
     
							 
							 
							 
							