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Allow expiration dates for Alma digital representations
When editing an electronic portfolio, you can set an "available until date" under the general tab. We'd like a similar feature available for Alma Digital representations. That way the representations would automatically become unavailable on a particular date.
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Create new workflows to allow POLs to handle digital-only resources/purchases
As we continue to find new ways to leverage Alma Digital, we are now using it to host our purchased streaming films (i.e. upload the digital streaming video file to be viewed in the Alma Viewer). Part of our process is attaching a POL to the corresponding record in Alma. However, there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to associate a POL with a bib record that only contains digital content.
It would be great if an Alma workflow could be created to allow POLs to be attached to Digital resources the same way that they can be attached…
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Representations in Inventory in Metadata Editor
When viewing inventory in the Metadata Editor, it would be very useful to see more information about Representations. Currently, only Usage Type and Number of Files are shown. This is not helpful when there are multiple representations with the same usage type and the same amount of files, like in the screenshot.
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View upload status in Alma Digital
I'm uploading large files to Alma Digital (by designating a folder path on AWS). Once I save the representation, I get a message that "The file upload is in progress and may take a few minutes." But there is no way to monitor the progress of the upload from within Alma. It would be very helpful to have some sort of status bar showing the progress of the upload in MB. Thanks.
Please add some way to view the status of an ongoing upload2 votes -
thumbnail download blocking function from ALMA-D viewer screen
In addition to the Main Window where the image is shown in the Universal Viewer, user can right-click and print in a separate window showing the guide and the empty space of the Contents window showing the file of the title as a list. Please block the download function so that the function is not used.
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searching subcollections
Searching in Primo within a subcollection from Alma Digital does not work. When visiting a subcollection page, and a page with multiple subcollections and using the search bar at the top, you get zero results. There is a message underneath saying, "Didn't find what you were looking for?
Try searching all collections" which has a hyperlink. Once you click on "try searching all collections", it works.1 vote -
Report of Draft Deposits in Alma Digital
The 'Delete Draft Deposits' job can be run to delete draft deposits, those never submitted older than a predefined number of days. There is no reporting mechanism in place in Alma or Analytics to provide a report of those candidates before performing the deletion. You basically run the job not knowing how many records it will affect. A reporting mechanism should be made amiable before performing the deletion, so the operator can understand the impacts of running the job.
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Please add the ability to run jobs on a representation level in digital records
Hello
Currently, the jobs for digital records run only on "Title" level.
If we run a job on a record that has more than one representation, the job will run on all the representations, even if we want it to run only on a specific one.In electronic records and physical records we have jobs that run on a portfolio level and item level.
The same should be applied on digital records.
The job should include changing information (for example public note) and deletion if needed.
This should also help the following idea:
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/42199792-enable-withdrawing-digital-representations-job-basThanks,
Dafna83 votes -
Be able to control access rights by user login combined with patron role with a specific scope at library level.
Be able to control access rights by user login combined with patron role with a specific scope at library level.
Example:
Be able to specify a parameter in the access rules that grant access to the representation on Library A if the patron is logged in and his patron role scope = Library A, meaning, only user logged in and belonging to that library are able to access that document.1 vote -
Add an additional audio track in the Alma Digital viewer
With the announcement of the new ADA rules implementing WCAG 2.1 requirements for audio-assisted descriptions for streaming video (see https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#audio-description-prerecorded), we would like Alma Digital to accept an additional audio track in its film viewer that would play simultaneously with the video. While we can currently add an additional file to the Alma Digital representation, it cannot play simultaneously with the video.
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Add Mintel Global Outlook on Sustainability Reports to CZ
Request to add Mintel reports on Global Outlook on Sustainability to the Community Zone
These are recently released reports in September 2024
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Add a Public Note to all representations at the collection level
This function, that exist in the configuration of an electronic collection, doesn't exist in a digital collection, so there is no other way to add a text to all records that will be shown in Primo.
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Provide DOI agency integrations for Alma Digital
There is now a handle integration for Alma Digital as well as Esploro - great.
There are Crossref and DataCite DOI integrations for Esploro (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Esploro/Product_Documentation/Esploro_Online_Help_(English)/Esploro_Integration/Configuring_External_Systems_in_Esploro), but not for Alma D.
Please consider adapting these for Alma Digital resources. This would support institutions who might be hosting student theses and other scholarly comms in Alma D, and complement the handle integration.
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Metadata Editor option to Expand from Template available for Dublin Core records
In MDE, the option "Expand from Template" should be available for DC records.
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Digital Inventory Import Matching (Dublin Core)
If the Match Method for a digital inventory import profile is dc:identifier, then matching should only happen on the dc:identifier. dc:identifier should not match with other fields like dcterms:identifier (dcterms:URI)
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Enable search within and hit highlight in IIIF Universal Viewer
Enable search within and hit highlight in Universal Viewer by enabling Content Search API. Example: https://ronallo.com/iiif-workshop/search/uv-search.html#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&r=0&xywh=-704%2C1430%2C4652%2C3913
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Digital Import Profile - it does not manage the existing digital representation
We use the digital import profile to update our digital collections. Currently, the system does not allow us to update the digital representation linked to the title; it only adds the new one, regardless of whether it is identical to the existing one or not. It would be desirable for the Merge and Overlay parameters to apply to digital files as well, not just to the MARC fields of the record.
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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 -
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…
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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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