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Want to view more of a bibliographic record when editing without having to scroll
There is currently quite a lot of unused space above and below a bibliographic record. It would be great if I could drag the bottom of the bibliographic record down further when I am editing so that I can view as much of the record as possible at once.
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Add indication that the bib. record has a MDE note
It would be helpful to have an indication that there is a MDE note regarding this record posted by a cataloger.
One option to see this indication can be on the preview of a bibliographic record. It can appear the same way as when there is an order for the record (see photo attached), and if you click the number, it should take you to the note.
Additionally, it should be either reportable to Analytics or searchable in Alma, so that it will be possible to find all the records that have MDE note.54 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…
52 votes -
Diacritics and special characters
When importing records from vendors diacritics and special characters should also import. Currently they come in as random characters or unicode and it takes up staff time to manually correct them.
51 votes -
Add a drool normalization process option, to Publish to Primo job
This will enable libraries to export to Primo their activated CZ bibliographic records, under the same conditions applied on their local bibliographic records.
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EuroVoc Thesaurus implementation
Add EuroVoc http://eurovoc.europa.eu to Authority Vocabulary.
It is the multilingual, multidisciplinary thesaurus covering the activities of the EU.42 votes -
Metadata Editor: Add More Keyboard Shortcuts and Make Existing Ones Intuitive
The ME needs a keyboard shortcut for every function. 'Search External Resources', 'Release Record', and many other actions do not have keyboard shortcuts, so I still essentially have to use the menu for everything. This is simply inaccessible.
Secondly, the shortcuts that do exist don't make sense. A new field is F8, but deleting a field is CTRL + F6? Why not just make it CTRL + F8? Or F9? These shortcuts are poorly thought out and confusing.
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Ability to select records to release from MD editor
Cataloger can release 1 record per time or all records can be released, but it would be useful catalogers could select multiples records to release.
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Authority data: first indicator in the bibliographic record
Now we have many mistakes in our bibliographic records in the settings of the first indicator by connecting with authority data (GND, IdRef, ..). It would be great to have an automatic process, which takes over the first indicator of the authority data to the bibliographic record when you select the authority heading.
What you have then is the following: First indicator, preferred term and authority identifier are taken over from the authority record to the bibliographic record by using “select” in the index view of the authority record.
It would be great, if this is implemented for 1XX/6XX/7XX in…31 votes -
Create a set from records held in the Metadata Editor
It would be useful to be able to save all of the records that you are working on in the metadata editor as a set to come back to later.
For example, this would be helpful when working on a bound with where you need to work on several records at the same time and need to add links across the records. At the moment, if this work is not completed and we need to return to it later, we would then need to create an itemised set by searching for and adding each record individually. Instead, it would be…
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Create a Separate Search Index for Specific OCLC Number
Currently, the OCLC Number for a record is indexed in the search index "Other System Number." This is not ideal, since the Other System Number indexes other numbers related to vendor record, CONSER, related item, etc.
We request that Ex Libris provide a separate search index for OCLC number based on the presence of the '(OCoLC)' prefix in the 035 $a and/or $z, or (without prefix) in the 019 $a if there is a number in the 035 with an (OCoLC) prefix. Currently these specific (OCoLC) numbers are mixed in with other numbers occurring in the 019, 035, 773, 774,…30 votes -
Overlay representations with the same file name when a match for the bib is found.
At National Agricultural Library, we ingested about 400,000 articles into Unified Repository (UR) each year. The UR will be replaced by Alma. One urgent need that we have is to overlay not only the existing bibs with updated article metadata from publishers, but also representations with the same file name, e.g. source.xml, mods.xml using import profile for digital repository. Is it possible to overlay representations with the same file name when a match for the bib is found?
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Lists of Name Authorities similar Subject Authorities
Lists of Name Authorities similar Subject Authorities
When cataloging a bibliographic record, Alma allows selecting different lists of Subject Authorities (LC, UC or UANDES, etc.). In the case of the Name Authorities, it currently only allows the use of a list of Name Authorities. We propose that the authorities of name are handled in the same way as the Matter Authorities.// Al momento de catalogar un registro bibliográfico, Alma
permite seleccionar distintos listados de Autoridades de Materia (LC, UC o UANDES, etc.). En el caso de las Autoridades de Nombre, actualmente sólo permite usar un listado de Autoridades de…27 votes -
In Metadata Editor, open records by MMS id directly
It's common to have a list of MMS ids that need to be worked on in Metadata Editor. The current workflow is to do a repository search, be taken out of MDE, click "Edit Record" and wait to be slowly taken back into MDE.
It would speed things up tremendously if there was a way for users in MDE to input an MMS id and just have the record open up straight away.
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Create a task that orders the 6xx (subject) fields
Alma currently does not have a way to mass resequence the 6xx subject fields, at least into consecutive order. This is an issue in analytics if subject is the field you organize your results by, as the initial subject field (600) may no longer be the first subject displayed and therefore searched on.
25 votes -
Version control/history of normalization, merge, and indication rules
Alma should store the version history of normalization, merge, and indication rules - just like bibliographic metadata - in case someone makes an inadvertent edit. This would allow users to restore the rule to a previous, working state.
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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.
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Improvements for the MDEs left pane
The left pane in the MDE is a very helpful tool for navigation in daily business. With the following improvements it could be even more helpful:
- Customization of the display of the different databases in all the tabs (records/templates/rules): it would be very helpful if one could select only the databases that are necessary for the daily work for display (example: I have in the record tab 14 different databases of which I only need 4, and one that I need is only accessible through the drop down menu); if a selection is not possible it would be helpful…23 votes -
22 votes
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Authority creation - Populate 670 Source Data Found from open bib
When creating an authority by F3 searching from a bib record and clicking "Create authority record", no data is linked from the bib. Voyager populated bib information in new authorities to track and differentiate headings.
Please populate the 670 field (Source Data Found) in the new authority record with Title, date in $a and MMS ID in $w.
This would look like: 670 ##$a [245$a], [260/264$c] $w [001]
21 votes
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