We would like a process to verify a file of Primo Permalinks are still valid for our institution.

Our librarians and professors place Permalinks in online documents for our patrons. As the documents age and portfolio IDs change the links can fail. This is very frustrating for our patrons.

The only link verification method today is to manually click on each permalink. This tedious and time consuming process is not cost effective when there are hundreds of links to check. Using standard web link checkers that operate in batch only establishes that a page does not result in an HTTP error.

An Alma-specific verification process would help ensure the usability of web content that links to Primo. Ideally, a user could upload or paste a list of URLs into a tool, which would then check that each link resolves to a valid Alma or CDI record. As this relies on knowledge of both Alma and CDI record IDs, an external tool does not make as much sense as an ExLibris maintained solution.