Primo Central Index ( PCI ) - more granularity in excluding content from activated resources - e.g. exclude from index by resource type
Right now in Primo Central Index the customer can either activate or not a resource. But sometimes more granularity would be appreciated. Namely adding a filter by resource type allowing inclusion or exclusion in the index would be very useful. Please note: it's not a matter of adding a resource type in PCI. It's a matter of excluding records with a specific resource type from activated resources.
For example, some resources/data sources contains not only articles, but also journals and other resource types we actually catalogue. Since right now dedup does not work between local records and PCI, this ends up leading to a lot of duplicated entries in the search results (1 for the journal in the catalogue + 1 for the same journal in PCI).
Allowing us to exclude Journals from PCI, thus having only articles, would greatly reduce noise and bias in the search results.
Luigi Siciliano
shared this idea
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Stacey van Groll
commented
I suggest to merge and rename to CDI this submission: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/43803426-customize-cdi-activations-by-resource-types
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François Renaville
commented
Sure! Let's be ambitious! ;-)
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Luigi Siciliano
commented
@François,
the solution you propose is quite powerful. Perhaps a bit complex to implement and manage, but of course powerful.
Simply allowing to include/exclude in the index by resource type (e.g. exclude Book reviews and Reference and include articles) would be an important step ahead that perhaps is more doable in the short term.
However the two ideas go in the same direction and make clear to ExL how some sort of improvement must be figured out. -
François Renaville
commented
Very nice! However, not all PCI articles are real articles: many other resource types are identified as articles (most probably already in the provided sources). Therefore, excluding records based only on the resource type can also remove ‘useful’/’meaningful’ records from discovery. I would prefer a solution in Primo BO:
(1) that combines indexes, search options, operators and search terms:
- Exclude records where TITLE contains phrase “table of contents” AND where COLLECTION is “proquest”
--> To avoid this: https://www.screencast.com/t/6e0DPbyRu- Exclude records where TITLE is exactly “JAMA” AND where COLLECTION is (“crossref” OR “jama”) AND where resource type is “article”
-->To avoid this https://www.screencast.com/t/nsLRvnYH- Exclude records where TITLE is exactly “Index Volume” AND where COLLECTION “sciversesciencedirect_elsevier” AND where resource type is “article”
--> To avoid this https://www.screencast.com/t/rIr3QAZIp(2) and that allows to remove/suppress PCI records based on the PCI IDs (= list of excluded records)