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traditional Chinese be transcribed into simplified in MDE
Can bib. records in traditional Chinese be transcribed into simplified Chinese in MDE by one click or by normalization rule? like what MS word can do.
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Title search - index the 245 field on its own
My library catalogs most new material according to the international cataloging standard, Resource Description and Access (RDA). One requirement of RDA is that each work is given a unique access point. When cataloging a new work, our catalogers must search our database to determine if their 245 field value (subfields a, n, p) is unique. This is impossible for them to do with the out-of-the-box search fields in Alma when their title is only one or two words long because the Title field searches 38 MARC fields and over 100 subfields. In our database, a basic title search of the…
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Add in the configuration the ability to make the search default of the authorities to be in CZ all the time.
Hello,
When searching in the authorities, Alma jumps from IZ to CZ and vice versa in different menus.
For institutions that do not maintain local authority file, it is frustrating that the search needs to be changed to CZ when Alma “decides” it should be in the IZ.
If there was a check box in the configuration that would enable us to choose that the search default in the authorities would be in the CZ all the time, it would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.
Dafna1 vote -
Running Authorities-Preferred Term Correction job as a report
We would appreciate the ability to run the "Authorities-Preferred Term Correction" job as a report so we could see what changes it would make and then decide if we would want to run the job.
1 vote -
Subject Index search: the comparison is not to contain a certain string but the entire field
PrimoVE enriches the search with terms from the 150 or 450 fields of the authority record when searching by subject index. Still, we would need the match not to contain a certain character string but to match the entire 150 or 450 fields with the subjct being searched for with an exact search in PrimoVE.
This would prevent subjects sharing part of the string (but not all) from appearing in an exact subject search in PrimoVE.For example, if we search for records on "Right to life" in Subjects index, Primo VE also retrieves records on "Right to private life"…
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MD Editor: Release specific record(s) from another cataloger
Currently, the MD editor has an option to release ALL records from another cataloger. It would be ideal to have more granularity in choosing records to release. A common use case: Someone assigns a record to another cataloger but then realizes they should have edited something first. Rather than release all of the other cataloger's records (potentially catastrophic), it'd make sense to have the option to release the single record they need to edit.
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MD editor: Release specific record(s) from another cataloger
Currently, the MD editor has an option to release ALL records from another cataloger. It would be ideal to have more granularity in choosing records to release. A common use case: Someone assigns a record to another cataloger but then realizes they should have edited something first. Rather than release all of the other cataloger's records (potentially catastrophic), it'd make sense to have the option to release the single record they need to edit.
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Currently Alma does not allow local configuration for "electronic material types" and there are limited choices in Alma for "electronic mate
Currently Alma does not allow local configuration for "electronic material types" and there are limited choices in Alma for "electronic materials types" that can not meet some specific needs of the local libraries. Therefore, the enhancement in Alma should be made to allow local configuration for "electronic material types."
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Add Library & Location Facets to Authority Control Task List
Could we add facets for library and/or location to the Authority Control Task list when already filtered by Physical Inventory?
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Ensure that CZ & CDI Metadata is Linked Data Ready
I was advised by the Linked Data Group to post this idea here because I submitted the following for the LOD Working Group webinar in December:
Broader strategic and commercial alliances required to ensure that data is ready to be linked?
To engender confidence in CZ and make it linked-data ready, why don’t the Company do business with e.g. Backstage Library Works for authority control clean-up and maintenance?
Metadata is a global commodity so all stakeholders have responsibility for creating, sharing, enriching and maintaining it, and of course there are costs for all of these elements which we could share.
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Some Important Shortcuts in Alma and OCLC -- Consider User Friendly Changes
Some often used shortcuts in Alma are similar to those used in OCLC Connexion, except for their function. Control + D will delete a record in Alma (and any keystroke after the shortcut is interpreted as confirmation by the popup window), but in Connexion the same shortcut adds a delimiter $.
F8 keyboard function in Alma adds a field, but in OCLC it produces and adds a new record. Many of us, especially special collections catalogers use first OCLC and then Alma for local notes.
Please, consider shortcut changes, which support both important platforms, used daily by many of us.…7 votes -
Alma MDE: Filter by Marc21 field and subfield
As a cataloger I would like to have the possibility in MDE to filter the Marc21 data by field and subfield
value to have a better overview over the current part of the data which is to be checked/edited.
Further I would like to have the possibility to quick access filters which i use often.Proposal:
Add a possibility to filter by field and subfield, e.g. by having an input form for the Marc21
field (rows filtered by "Begins with {value}") and for the Marc21 subfield (rows filtered by
"Contains {value}"). The filtering should by done by "AND" condition. (See…73 votes -
Position sensitive NRs (Normalization Rules) - ISBD punctuation
ISBD punctuation is determined by the following subfield.
For example:
In 245 the subfield preceding $$b must end in one of the following:
1. space + colon
2. space + semicolon
3. space + Arabic semicolon (if your cataloging language is Arabic)
4. space + equal signThe NR syntax currently does not offer any straightforward solution for correcting ISBD punctuation.
We request the development of an NR function that will suffix the subfield with a string based on the subfield that follows it, including the case in which a subfield is the last one.
I think it would be…
78 votes -
New Metadata Editor templates: editing template v. creating new record
Previously, when opening a template in the classic Metadata Editor (MDE), a click on the template name from the list of templates would give a list of options, including creating a new record: there was no doubt as to whether you were creating a new record from the template, or editing the template itself.
However, with the new MDE, clicking on the template name takes you straight into editing the template itself. Creating a new record from the template now requires a right click first to get to the options menu, but this is not at all obvious. It is…
64 votes -
The text font ,font size and color of Metadata Editor
1.When using Metadata Editor, the font size and color of the editing area are not friendly to the editor.
2.The text in the editing area needs to be enlarged by 150% in the browser to make it convenient for users to work for a long time
3.The text color or font in the editing area causes the black text to look like gray, which makes it inconvenient to check the bibliography
4.Can workers modify the Metadata Editor environment to make them comfortable working environment, such as the font size, font type, and font color in the editing area?
This can…
54 votes -
Metadata editor: Enable moving up and down within a field using arrow keys
It would be nice to be able to move up and down within a field using arrow keys in MDE. For example, when a lengthy 505 or 520 MARC field has many lines, the cataloger must now move to the desired line using either mouse or left/right arrow keys, since pressing up/down arrow causes the pointer to move to the previous/next field.
My suggestion is that the pointer should be able to move within the field using up/down arrows and move only to the previous/next field when the pointer is on the first/last line of the field.
Using up/down arrow…
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View actually linked bib records in 'Browse bibliographic headings'
When using the Browse bibliographic headings feature, it is not possible to diplay the list of bib records that are ACTUALLY linked to one authority. We can only see the bib records that match with the authority.
On the contrary, when using the F3 index, Alma provides an extra menu in the 'View' option of a bibliographic heading where one can choose between records that match the authority or records that are linked to the authority.
This Idea requests that the same feature be added in the Browse bib heading tool.19 votes -
Visibility of extension packs and possibility of selecting them one by one for editing and/or deleting
Extension packs once added to a local MARC-based profile are not visible and cannot be retrieved in any way. It would be much better if each extension pack loaded to a bibliographic profile could be visible to system admnistrators in order to be downloaded from bibliographic profile for purposes of editing and reloading, should the need arise. This feature was part of the tentative future developments proposed by Ex libris back in 2017 (see: internal: 2017 Q1 URM-45100)
65 votes -
Improved functionality for Authority contribution (Copy to community)
This copy option was introduced in the November 2019 release: Authority Contribution – Copy Option:
For institutions that are authorized to contribute authority records to the Community Zone, there is a new Record View page action (Copy to Community) that enables you to easily copy an authority record to the MD Editor, edit and save it, and contribute the saved record to the Community Zone and an external authority system such as GND, BARE, or NLI. The Copy to Community action appears when you select a title to view from your Authorities search results on the Community tab. See Copy…
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In addition to LCSH, LSNAF, MeSH, GND and VIAF, Wikidata is at least an another good source to enrich the bibliographic information.
ALMA currently adds URIs of 5 authoriities sources to enrich related bibliographic records. It is a good way for patrons to "crawl from one data description to another" if we push the information to Primo. Those 5 sources are good. However, information coming from Wikidata or Wikipedia seems nowadays to be more accessible and acceptable by the users. We suggest ALMA should add URIs of Wikidata (or the like) , so the users can retrieve more information on related entities.
23 votes
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