Recommender for standing expressions (that have little or nothing in common with an actual title)
We are switching from Ebsco Discovery Service EDS to Primo VE this year. One functionality that EDS offers - and that seems to be lacking in Primo VE - is the Item Exact Match Recommender https://cloud.ebsco.com/apps/item-exact-match-recommender-custom-data-file-driven
We use this mainly for documents that are widely known by a standing expression that will not help when doing a search for this expression with Primo.
Examples:
1) "Metzger" refers to the document "Lern- und Arbeitsstrategien" by Christoph Metzger. No one knows the title, but everybody knows the standing expression.
2) Decisions by the Swiss Supreme Court, "Bundesgerichtsentscheide" - hardly anyone knows that this has to be searched with title "Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts"
We define a list of keywords and map them to documents, if one of these keywords is used for a search, a recommender service appears on top of the result list, "are you looking for ..." with a direct link to the respective document.
This is a very helpful feature, specially for novices at our institution.
We would appreciate if a similar functionality could be added to Primo VE.
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Christian Schlumpf commented
Heya Stacey, sorry for only coming back so late, as we were busy flipping the switch and becoming part of the newly established Swiss consortium.
Indeed, Recommender helped big time, we o it working as expected, in some cases even beyond ;o)
Best regards,
Christian -
Stacey van Groll commented
Hi Christian - welcome to our user community!
Does the Primo VE Resource Recommender not meet this need? It is described as matching to exact query: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/050Other_Configuration/010Resource_Recommender_for_Primo_VE