Produce a Publishing Profile for BrowZine
The idea is to create a specific publishing profile for sending data to BrowZine on a scheduled basis. The presently used data format (Google Scholar XML with Sources) could be better served as a CSV file for numerous reasons. Additionally, the Publishing Profile should be able to accommodate the scenario of a library's holdings being made up of a combination of NZ and IZ holdings.
Please contact john@thirdiron.com for full technical guidelines for the best and most reliable data exporting configuration. Thank you!
Note:
Over time we have come to understand a number of limitations in the approach suggested here (http://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/10145424-add-google-scholar-xml-as-a-publishing-profile-e) and while this effort may still be valuable for other services OTHER than BrowZine, we highly recommend a specific publishing profile in order to provide a simple-to-setup and accurate data export.
Dedicated publishing profile for integrating with ThirdIron Browzine is now available.
Detailed information regarding the integration can be found here:
https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/alma-integration-with-third-iron-browzine/
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The new integration which will have a dedicated publishing profile for BrowZine, requires development on BrowZine end, According to John Seguin from BrowZine the development will be completed by 2019 H1.
In the mean time I recommend integrating with BrowZine according to the instructions mentioned in https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/Exporting-Electronic-Portfolios-from-Alma-to-BrowZine/
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Skalk van der Merwe commented
I would support this too, but have run out of votes.
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Helen Garner commented
It would be great to get this enhancement and make this task into a fully automated process.
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Sean Purcell commented
Yes please, we need this too!
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Anonymous commented
Any update on this? It's been under review for over a year. We would love this feature.
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Andrew Brown commented
Is there any news on this please? I think it must be quite high up the list now.
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Anne Woje commented
Nord University support this idea to enhance our workflows.
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John Seguin commented
Hello! We have posted a new idea over here: http://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/31310698-produce-a-publishing-profile-for-browzine which we have come to learn would be a better solution than the one proposed above for BrowZine use. If you are interested in making the export to BrowZine better, please see this idea instead. Thanks!
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Julie Neenan commented
I agree with the comments made by others. Automating this would be beneficial - at the minute we rely on a alert in a shared calendar to remember to do this for BrowZine.
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Pauline Smith commented
I wish Ex Libris could have a feature where we can schedule export jobs for different vendors. I created a Python script to run the job via API, however, the files will go to the institution folder instead of the private folder. I do not know how that would affect anything. And then, I have to do window scheduling to run the script, which I have not done before. It is too much work and requires too much programming knowledge. It would be perfect if Alma has a scheduling export job feature for us to select different schedules.
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Wayne Morris commented
University of South Wales support this idea to enhance our workflows.
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Anonymous commented
Second this idea as an enhancement for efficient workflow.
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AdminDana Sharvit (Admin, Ex Libris) commented
We have updated https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/Exporting-Electronic-Portfolios-from-Alma-to-BrowZine with information about how to run the process automatically using API's
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Sharon Robinson commented
We are thinking about Browzine at the moment so it would be great if the processes could be scheduled.
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Sue Dentinger commented
The job to output to Browzine was easy enough to create although it would be nice if it were automated. The real problem is that you can't schedule it to run on a regular basis causing unnecessary manual work and having to put it in your calendar to do. There are enough Browzine and RapidILL sites out there that it would be great to have these as standing jobs you could enable on a schedule you set. Thanks for considering it. Sue Dentinger, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison.
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John Seguin commented
John from Third Iron here! Thanks for posting this enhancement request Thomas. Indeed, all of our mutual BrowZine/Alma customers would benefit from this enhancement as ALMA is the only system available that does not provide automatic data feeds to BrowZine on a routine basis. We will direct or other mutual customers to this enhancement request for them to upvote/comment as well. The only thing I would add to this request, for the sake of simplicity of users it to consider making one of the options in step 1 shown here: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/Exporting-Electronic-Portfolios-from-Alma-to-BrowZine be clearly labeled as a "Setup Automatic Export to BrowZine" for new users rather than having them have to check all the boxes correctly as outlined in the above Ex Libris Developer Blog. While not required of course for this to work, this would certainly make for the best possible user experience!
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Sue Dentinger commented
Thanks Asaf. There are at least two institutions at the Univ of Wisconsin consortium who would be interested in this as well.
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This idea seems to already be included in a similar one titled "Add "Google Scholar XML" as a publishing profile exported data format". We will merge them
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Joe Devanna commented
In order to export holdings to BrowZine in Alma currently you need to manually run an export of holdings via FTP.
It would be helpful to have an out-of-the-box publishing profile to schedule a weekly export to BrowZine.
Currently you can set up a manually configured publishing profile to export in marc21 or kbart schema, BrowZine requires the Google Scholar XML schema.
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Thomas McNulty commented
While that is the process we currently follow that process is not scheduled/automated. Adding the Google Scholar XML format would enable us to schedule the job using a publishing profile on a regular basis and take these routine jobs off our plate.