Enhance DC XML normalization routines for external sources (PrimoVE)
In Primo Back Office, there is 86 inbuilt transformational routines for MARC21 and Dublin Core data normalization (e.g. “Take first words”, “Get highest number and normalize last digit”, and “Remove HTML tags”). Most have been translated for MARC21 in PrimoVE by various people but, because of limited regex and Xpath functionality, few have been translated into Dublin Core XML normalization routines for PimoVE.
We would like to see the implementation of full regex and/or XPath / XQuery functionality (or similar) to allow all Back Office normalization routines to be created for PrimoVE.
-
Skalk van der Merwe commented
I support this option as well.
-
Yvonne Kester commented
We have been struggling, trying to get the correct date to display in records imported from DSpace. The Dublin Core has three dates that are imported: dc.date.accessioned, dc.date.available, and dc.date.issued. Alma displays the first by alphabetical order, which is the incorrect date.
My colleague and I have been working on this for weeks, and have gotten in touch with other folks around the world who also are struggling with importing Dublin Core.
There is a definite hole in the functionality here.
-
Stacey van Groll commented
100% support for this submission. As a site using Primo Back Office, I have no idea how I'm meant to transfer all our 7 years of good work in this area to Primo VE when there are such massive limitations.
And also some frustration that there appears to be an expectation that we should just give up and sacrifice this, and move regardless. Especially when some of this work includes also areas of the record which we cannot touch at all in VE, including normalisation of availability statements and links and facets.
It simply is not possible with VE development currently, and Ex Libris needs to address this so that we can properly present all our collections. -
Peta Hopkins commented
I have no votes left, but recalling my experience when trying to harvest records from our institutional repository it was so difficult. Making this easier for those who have to learn xpath from scratch would be so helpful.