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Digital itemized sets
Currently it is impossible to create an itemized set of digital titles/representations/files as the option of Rep ID header is not recognized by the system.
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Publish Alma-D to Google (Fulltext .txt, .pdf) and Google Images (.jpg, .tiff etc.)
Provide option to Publish collection from Alma to Google (files of type .txt, .pdf for full-text indexing by Google) and Google Images (in the case of img formats .jpg, .tiff, etc.)
This is an alternative to Primo discovery layer (Google is moderately popular search engine, Bing and Baidu etc.)
https://images.google.com (or click Images tab in Google) show photos and thumbnails from all over the Internet, and Google allow you to upload an image and search where it came from or similar images which may be helpful to publish/assert the origins of a file.
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Make Digital representation metadata indexed for searching in Primo
During our current implementation of Alma Digital, we have noticed that the representation metadata is not indexed for searching in Primo. We would like this to be possible so that users are able to search using details from the representation details such as chapter title.
Product management responded hat - The model of partial / special representations (such as chapters, issues, audio tracks etc) is designed for a multi-part entity, adding representation-level details, such as chapter numbers. However – these additional details aren’t catalogued in Primo but mainly designed to allow filtering or sorting of representations in the viewIt service.
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Enable provenance ID field in batch ingest for digital representations
In the November 2019 release new fields (Provenance ID and File provenance ID) were added for digital representations and files.
These fields are not supported in the batch ingest processes.
It should be possible for institutions to specify these fields in whichever batch ingest methods they use. eg. Upload CSV or Excel should have corresponding columns. For xml uploads the inventory information tab in the import profile should allow the user to specify where these IDS are to be extracted from.
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Extend Title: Open Access search field to include Dublin Core records
At present when using advanced search the Title: Open Access field only retrieves MARC records. We need it to retrieve Dublin Core records as well.
The documentation (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/010Getting_Started/050Alma_User_Interface_%E2%80%93_General_Information/Searching_in_Alma) states that it looks for this in the MARC record: 506 0_ $f Unrestricted online access $2 star
It should also look for "dcterms:accessRights Unrestricted online access" in Dublin Core records and any other appropriate DC fields that might contain that text.
This would make it much easier for us to define sets suitable for contributing to other databases via OAI-PMH.
Since we are now using the new boilerplate digital…
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Patron Deposit Forms: full control over the normalization rules on all Marc21 fields
When using NRs on Patron Deposit Forms, it is not possible to apply these rules on fixed fields. On the other hand, some rules are running in the background and set indicators or add new fields upon existence of some subfields (eg. 245 $c) that cannot be turned off.
- Allow normalization rules for the point of import for all fixed fields (that would add the 006, 008, LDR and so on)
- Remove all out of the box normalization rules for all fields (e.g. field 245 sets the indicators 1 | 0 and creates a 100 field with the indicators 1…
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Alma Digital - Batch ingest make the first page always be the thumbnail
When doing batch ingest, it will auto-generated thumbnail.
Sometimes the thumbnail will generate other than first page.
When we migrate the images to Alma-D, the representation files are indicated XXX1.tiff, XXX2.tiff, XXX3.tiff, etc. The "first page" means XXX1.tiff.
We tried to use job called "Thumbnail generation", which use for generating thumbnail for each digital file in the manage set.
However, this job can only generate thumbnail randomly.The Alma-D experts said if thumbnail doesn’t exist in representation level, Alma-D will take the smallest PID sorted in ascending order as the thumbnail automatically.
Is it possible to…
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Customize Alma Digital viewer login menu with Mashup CSS file
Use Alma's Mashup CSS file (or other CSS file) to customize the Alma login menu used by Alma Digital Viewer.
As for today, this is not available and appeared as inconsistent (colors, font, size, accessibility...etc), with other pages inside
Alma. There is no way to provide any additional help information for the user on the login screen other than just the labels,
and the use of the labels are limited by the OTB CSS configuration.10 votesHello All,
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Selecting/deselecting multiple sets for OAI harvest
The configuration of the digital collections import profile allows you to declare sets, but the only current options seem to be to harvest all sets or to harvest single sets individually. There's no way to CTRL-Click to include multiple sets.
This CTRL-Click functionaity and/or set exclusion should be a feature request. For most collections, we have one or two sets that should be excluded and dozens that should not. Doing dozens of individual harvests is impractical.
9 votesHello All,
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Viewer service rule based on search set
It's great that Alma provides the option to add your own Viewer Services for presenting content from Alma Digital.
We're interested in offering customized viewers to display content from some special collections, but with the current Service Availability Rules, it's not possible to limit a viewer to specific collections.
It would be great if you could create a Service Availability Rule based on a Set, so the viewer would be shown for all members of that set.
8 votesHello All,
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Universal Viewer: Support for custom css
We would like to suggest the support for custom CSS in Universal Viewer.
There's a few minor modifications we would like to make, such as widening the right column a bit.
8 votesHello All,
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Please provide more flexibility for creating video file thumbnails
It would be great if Alma provides more flexibility for creating video file thumbnails. For example,
1) Creating a couple more thumbnails and letting the user to choose one
2) Taking the frame in the middle of the whole clip
3) Giving the user a configurable option to set the timing, etc.Now thumbnail generation for video is taking the frame in second 1 (00:00:01) - and make it the thumbnail of the video file. Consequently many of thumbnails look alike because mostly there is a few seconds of 'opening' or fade-in effect.
Therefore, it needs to be configurable by…
7 votesHello All,
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Add copyright statements to the job Generate Representation from Existing Bib
The August 2021 Alma release introduced the option for Access rights policies and Copyright Statements - Digital to be managed independently (we really like this thank you).
However, the Generate Representation from Existing Bib job does not have options for Extracting Copyright Statements from a subfield, nor a Default copyright statements field from a field in the bib record, or for setting a default copyright statement.Please enhance this job so that we can generate representations, ingest the files and set the copyright statement all in one go, rather than have to either edit the reps manually, or if they…
7 votesHello All,
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Link to viewer from record in Collections lobby for digital records
We'd like the option to link directly from the record in the collections lobby to the viewer. We think users are largely interested in getting directly to the resource for digital collections and as the metadata can be displayed in the viewer going to the full record screen before the viewer is an unnecessary step.
7 votesHello All,
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Alma-D 인터페이스 상에서 업로드 가능한 단일 파일 용량을 500MB -> 5GB (AWS 허용 용량) 로 확대
Alma 상의 Digital Uploader 나 Add Digital Representation 에서 업로드 가능한 단일 파일 용량을 500MB -> 5GB (AWS 허용 용량) 로 확대해 주시길 부탁드립니다.
저희는 Alma-D 를 통해 간접적으로 AWS S3 를 이용하고 있는 것인데 AWS S3 가 지원하는 최대 5GB 까지의 업로드 기능을 Alma 에서 제한하는 것을 이해하기 어렵습니다.
또한, 파일과 메타 연결 및 퍼블리싱이라는 Alma 의 기능을 이용하기 위해 Ex Libris 에서 책임지지도 않는 서드파티 툴을 이용해야만 한다는 것 역시 고객에게는 이해가 어려운 부분입니다.
UHD 영상이 범람하는 시대에 500mb 라는 용량 제한(업로드 및 썸네일 생성 등에 동일한 용량 제한 적용되고 있음)은 동영상 콘텐츠의 구축과 활용에 커다란 불편사항이 되고…
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Include Universal Viewer statistics in Alma Analytics
Alma Analytics does not include file view statistics for the Universal Viewer - only the Alma Viewer is counted.
If you have the Universal Viewer enabled then the files viewed figure in Analytics (Analytics Digital Usage reports > Digital Usage Measures table > Number of digital file views) does not include the Universal Viewer.6 votesHello All,
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Please separate Download and Print control function
- There is Allow Download option on Access Rights configuration and we want it to be separated to Allow Download option(the viewer – the Download and Save As) and Allow Print option(Print button).
Even users are not allowed to download some digital contents, still there are needs to print them out for personal researches, like ILL staff don't send the whole file but provide printed papers upon requests.
- Whether or not the print function is going to be separated, it would be better if there is a setting to adjust the maximum number of pages users can print, like many e-book…
6 votesHello All,
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Enhance reporting for digital import profiles to harvest remote repositories
Currently the report generated after a digital import profile to harvest metadata from a remote repository has run is extremely minimal. It just states that a job "completed with errors", see attached file.
I'd like to recommend 3 enhancements. The first is to provide more information about the errors. For example, the harvest failed because the records listed below are invalid. The second recommendation is to provide a maximum error threshold like what is currently available in Primo. Lastly, integrate an option to strip any HTML and escape invalid characters as part of an import profile normalization process.
These enhancements…
6 votesHello All,
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Create or modify XMP, IPCT or Exif metadata of digital assets in batch
The owner or copyright statement in the XMP, IPCT or Exif metadata of a digital object stored in Alma can change. If this happens, you need to export the digital Objects like PDFs or images change the XMP, IPCT or Exif metadata and reimport the assets. By consequence, the docid changes and permalinks to these images are not valid anymore.
It would be useful, if Alma could create or modify XMP, IPCT or Exif metadata of digital assets stored in the AWS cloud in bulk.5 votesHello All,
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Expanded XML for Delivery Registration Status letter
In setting up the Delivery Registration Status Letter used by Controlled Digital Lending we've found the item information available in the XML to be incredibly sparse. Currently the only information about the item is the Primo URL and title (only subfield a).
We'd like to see the XML for this letter expanded to include at least the author, edition, and publication information. Ideally, the XML for this letter would have somewhat comparable item information to what can be found for Fulfillment letters sent to patrons about physical items (e.g., On Hold Shelf Letter, Ful Cancel Request Letter, etc.).
4 votesHello All,
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