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  1. Internet Archive Book Reader

    The Internet Archive Book Reader viewer configured to flip pages left-to-right unless value coded in 008 pos 35-37 (language) is taken from a close list of languages (as documented: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/030Fulfillment/080Configuring_Fulfillment/090Discovery_Interface_Display_Logic/040Digital_Services)

    In cases of visual materials such as photographs, the code of 008/35-37 would be zxx (which means: No linguistic content). The value zxx does not appear in the Right to Left list of languages, therefore the viewer would flip Left to Right.
    However, there are cases (such as photo albums) where the object should flip Right to Left.
    Currently there is no way to both Catalog by Standard and…

    6 votes
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  2. API call to download digital files to run corpus analysis or crawl

    API call to download digital files to run corpus analysis or crawl

    We would like to download the Alma digital files using an API to conduct corpus analysis of our content. At present the available URLs pointing to the PDFs are pointing to the landing pages of the PDFs. It is not possible to extract the PDF from these pages as they load everything with Javascript in a browser.

    Furthermore, it is not possible to automate the use of the job available to download digital files to meet our requirements.

    There is no API available to construct URLs to get…

    11 votes
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  3. Add "depositor" name to "approve deposits" and/or desposit search screen

    We'd like to more easily see the name of the patron who submitted each deposit. It would be useful to see this information on the "approve deposits" screen, and also when you do a repository search for deposits. We mostly want to see this for patron deposits, though if it's relatively simple to add a submitter's name for staff-mediated deposits as well that's even better.

    2 votes
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  4. Access Right based on a user's statistical category

    Can we define an "Access Right" based on a user's statistical category. i.e., we have the Student's academic program listed as a statistical category. We want to limit access to certain resources by academic program.

    4 votes
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  5. Access Rights Policies for Digital Objects: Allow multiple IP addresses in one Access Rights Policy.

    The following article is relevant to the request.

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Digital_Resource_Management/030Delivery/020Access_Rights_Policies_for_Digital_Objects

    We would like to set 5 concurrent users from on-campus and remote access, but currently, only one IP range can be entered in one Access Rights Policy. We would like to add the on-campus IP range and the proxy IP address to the IP Parameter in the Expressions to set up 5 concurrent users from on-campus or remote access.

    3 votes
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  6. On Top Level Collections list, change "created" date to "updated" date

    Please change the Resource Mangement-->Manage Collections-->Top Level Collection menu to swap out "create date" to "last update" or similar. It's important to know which collections haven't been updated. It's only 'nice' to know the create date.'

    1 vote
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  7. sort representations alma digital

    If you attach several digital representations to one bibliographic record in ALMA, and each representation has one file attached, the representations/files are sorted as strings. When managing representations with alphanumeric labels, this can lead to a confusing display order. For example, by default when displaying links to an architectural walking tour, "Stop 2: Rudolph's Master Plan" appears after "Stop 10: Campanile & the Public Square." In the example, you can "trick" Alma into displaying the desired order by adding a blank space before "Stop 2." However, this process is messy and not intuitive. It would be helpful to have the…

    4 votes
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  8. Issue with Embargoed Bibliographic Record Display in Primo

    Current situation:
    Despite configuring an embargo on a digital file, the bibliographic record continues to show up in Primo. In an effort to resolve the issue, we suppress the bib record, but even after the embargo has expired after two years, the record is not visible in Primo.

    Desired outcome:

    If an embargo is in place, it can affect whether the bibliographic record is suppressed or not. Alternatively, when the embargo period ends, the library may receive a notification to prompt staff to manually remove the suppressed status. The desired outcome is to ensure that the bibliographic record is either…

    39 votes
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  9. We would like to see Alma Digital incorporate dates for automatic suppression when we provide access to resources with limited licenses.

    We would like to see Alma Digital incorporate dates for automatic suppression when we provide access to resources with limited licenses.

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  10. Allow a user to change their close-caption settings

    Allow a user to change their close-caption settings such as placement, size of text, color of text, and background color.

    6 votes
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  11. Alma Digital Viewer - Enable/Disable "New Alma Viewer" for representations

    Right now, you can only set rules for when a certain viewer (i.e. Alma Viewer and Universal Viewer) is displayed/not displayed. Specifically in our case, we have unchecked the "Use New Viewer" feature make things cleaner in our interface. However, overtime, another department may begin to use Alma Digital and may want to turn that feature back on (which is better suited for their resources).
    For instance, if we begin to upload image files or digitized newspaper clippings, the New Viewer would work great -- but for other general content, it's not always the best option.

    It would be great…

    0 votes
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  12. Include T&Cs in the Patron Deposit Status Update Letter

    Include the T&Cs that the patron agrees to in the XML for the deposit status update letter, and accommodate it in the stylesheet when the resource is submitted.

    They would then have a copy of what they agreed to.

    I understand we could customise the letter to include this, but I'm concerned that if the T&Cs change, then there is a risk that the letter is not updated at the same time.

    1 vote
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  13. Select All Representations in Digital Resource Editor

    Add a master checkbox to select all representations for a title within the Digital Resources Editor. This would really help with deleting representations when they need to be replaced or purged entirely.

    25 votes
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  14. Repository search: fulltext of digital files

    We'd like to be able to search the full text of digital files in Alma's repository search. This could be useful in situations where multiple files are attached to a title; searching the full text on the title level in Primo will not guide you to the correct file, but a file-level repo search would.
    We see that there is a "fulltext" search index for digital files, but it looks like that index is for the type of full text file (it doesn't search the contents of the full text).

    3 votes
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  15. Add Close Caption file information to Alma Analytics

    We need to report on the status of our digital collection, including which videos are close captioned. This data is not available in Alma Analytics. How hard would it be to add this to the "Digital Inventory" table?

    4 votes
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  16. Alma Digital Support for an auto-captioning service

    Many video streaming services now have an auto-captioning service, .i.e., Youtube, where captions are auto-generated for video content. Since we are legislated to caption our video content, Alma Digital could include this feature and save us months of work.

    7 votes
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  17. Alma Digital: Option to unsuppress bib when mark object active

    When working in Alma Digital and you change an object to Inactive, you are prompted about suppressing the bibliographic record, which is great. We want that. However, if changing it back to Active, you do not get that same prompt - you have to go into the Metadata Editor to unsuppress the bibliographic record. It would be really helpful if we could unsuppress the record when making an Digital Object active again.

    2 votes
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  18. Prevent drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer

    When Access rights indicate to “Allow View” but not download,
    Alma viewer currently allows downloading the pdf by “saving as”.

    The digital Viewer should prevent this option.
    Preventing drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer is required to manage digital content resources in alma.

    1 vote
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  19. Allow for separate top level collections in Alma-D

    There needs to be the option for separate collections in Alma-D. For example, we are using Alma-D for both archival collections and CDL textbook collections. I would like, in Primo, to have them separate as they are two very different collections, but because everything is added as a top collection they are all lumped together.

    1 vote
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  20. Be able to re-use Access rules

    This is specifically for Alma Digital.
    Currently, when creating an Access Rights Policy, you have to create the appropriate Access Rule. Often, we are replicating the same Access Rule across multiple policies. These should be able to be re-used instead of having to be re-created over and over again.

    13 votes
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