Provide option to disable course information being indexed for search in Primo VE
We have chosen not to display course information in our Primo VE but found that local records appear higher in our search results when they are attached to a Leganto reading list. Support tell me that 'it is part of OTB and by default it will be indexed’.
In the ‘Search Section Mapping’ part of the 'Mapping to the Display, Facets, and Search Sections in the Primo VE Record' Knowledge Center page, it says: 'Course information – Primo VE indexs the course name, code, and instructor for records associated with course reading lists.'
We don't understand why course and instructor names should be considered in a search over bibliographic data when we are not displaying any course data in the results. It affects user confidence in the search results and is another thing our subject librarians need to explain.
We strongly believe it should be optional, as I believe it was with Primo BO (where 'Course reserve information is not published to Primo unless Alma is configured to publish course enrichment information'), hence it is another Feature Alignment issue with Primo VE in comparison to Primo BO.
Bronwen Blatchford
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Stacey van Groll
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I have too few votes available to devote to this and we don’t actually use course information at our site, but am commenting support for the underlying premise of expectation of customer autonomy over what local data is searchable in their own discovery environment for their own records.
This is a logical and reasonable baseline standard, is available to customers using Primo managed by Back Office, and Ex Libris should have prioritised maintaining the option of choice when developing Primo VE, rather than deciding just to hardcode their chosen OTB.