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Partial Summon data loads should be ingested into the index within one to two days
Instead of waiting for a weekend data load to be indexed live on Friday and weekday loads to be indexed live on wednesday, it would be best to have all partial data loads added to the index within 1 to 2 days of submission.
49 votesImproving ingestion times and other indexing processes is an ongoing target for Summon and CDI. There are a variety of components that contribute to the current timeline and our team is working on shortening the processing time for each component. Because of this interdependency, we do not have a timeline for when the overall process will be updated.
We appreciate the significance of this idea and have dedicated internal initiatives and teams to addressing this. Because of the longer term nature of this issue, we will maintain this as a priority in development but close this idea so you can apply your votes to other issues that may not have the same development resources currently.
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Add "Apply" button at the bottom of the facet selection window
Add another "Apply" button at the bottom of the facet section on the left of the Summon screen along with the current location (found at the top of the facet selection).
Users have a habit of not applying facets because they forget that they must apply the changes at the top. Typically most "apply" buttons are found at the bottom of filter/facet selections.
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Solving the issue of Inconsistent search results and “disappearing” articles on Summon
We often find that identical searches performed on consecutive days come up with different numbers of results, and articles found when doing the search on one day don’t appear when doing the search on another day. The explanation we have been given is that it depends which server you hit with your search, but shouldn't the contents of each server be identical? This is especially problematic if you are running a workshop where students are completing a worksheet where they are asked to give numbers of results. The missing content is obviously an issue if you find something useful one…
41 votesThe explanation that was given to you and that is described in this Idea Exchange entry regarding why results may change in Summon is unfortunately incomplete. Discrepancies between total counts for search results can be due to a variety of factors, including:
- Time outs on individual servers: the Central Discovery Index sits on hundreds of servers, each returning results. A slow connection may result in two different queries having a result count that is one or two, or even hundreds different. This can be caused by a variety of connections between the index and the end user, and while it can be minimized, it cannot be eliminated. This would account for most of your fluctuations that occur in side by side searches.
- Changes in available records or content: institutions will update their subscriptions or change their catalog records, which can result in one particular resource switching from available to not.
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Opt out of Catalog Match-and-Merge but Keep Full-Text Augmentation
One of the most valuable features of Summon is the full-text indexing augmentation of physical collection catalog records. The feature allows discovery of many items that wouldn't be found otherwise.
Unfortunately, if a site opts out of catalog match-and-merge, it loses full-text indexing of its physical collection. I propose separating the configuration of the two features so that a site could opt out of merging its metadata with metadata from other sources but still take advantage of the full-text augmentation.
37 votesUnfortunately we researched this approach and it would have an adverse affect on indexing and performance overall. One of the goals here (from my understanding) was to keep the benefit of full text while avoiding some of the less desirable metadata (such as what shows up in the facets). We are taking approaches to solve those other problems through other methods. Please add any ideas you’d want us to be sure we’re targeting.
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Add a Searchable Author Affiliation Index for Summon (Advanced Search)
Most commercial databases offer a searchable author affiliation index. Summon does not in the Advanced Search screen, nor is this information indexed in the Author field contents.
Since they must already have this information in their records, why not create a separate searchable index for Author Affiliation??
For our current awareness, we would like to create RSS feeds for journal articles written by professors from other engineering universities.
Thanks!
28 votesThis is a great recommendation and will require multiple steps to complete. We are currently working on improving author content within CDI including adding ORCIDs and normalizing author names, both of which would make completion of functionality such as this possible.
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Make Summon support Baidu for search history function
Summon added search history function on May release 2018, which is great. The data is stored in Google. Unfortunately, Google is not working in China. so could you add the capability of supporting Baidu (the largest search engine vendor in China)?
Baidu supports oauth 2.0. Here is the online doc:
24 votesWe have now added SAML support for Saved Searches, and your patrons can store their searches on Ex Libris servers (rather than on Google Drive or MS OneDrive).
While this isn't specifically Baidu support, it is an authentication process that should work in any region.
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Add scroll bar for faset column
When scroll to the bottom of the search results, it will make the facets invisible, so I would like to add a scrollbar to the facet column.
21 votesClosing, since this idea predates the recent facets redesign in Summon in December 2021.
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Make it a higher priority to work with Ebook Central on deduplication, titles missing from Summon etc.
Some Ebook Central titles do not appear in Summon, while others appear multiple times. Some are not linked with the library's print title. Work with Ebook Central to reduce the incidence of these errors.
20 votesWe are working with Ebook Central on these issues. This is an ongoing process and will continue to work on this as necessary.
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Pin "Apply" button on the Facet (Summon mobile screen)
We have an improvement request about the mobile screen on the Facet of Summon.
Because the "Apply" button is fade out if the user scroll down to the bottom.
Not only this, but there are "Search" button where the "Apply" button supposed to be, and the user click "Search" instead of "Apply" unconsciously.As the result of this mis-clicking, the facet fails often, so we have a request to pin the "Apply" button on the screen even though the user scroll down to the bottom.
Please see the attachment as detail.
16 votesAs part of the facet improvements for the User Interface in the December 2021 Summon Quarterly Release, we've improved the interactions with the facet pane on Summon, eliminating the need for the Apply button.
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Altmetric Filter and the ability to sort search results with Altmetric Score
As often said, Altmetric does not necessarily indicate the absolute value of a paper.
However, Altmetric is an effective indicator for initial scholars to find interesting papers out of a large amount of search results.
Through Summon, if users can easily search for documents with Altmetric granted, more use and effect will be expected.14 votesOur current integration with Altmetrics does not support this at this time.
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Publication date slider or histogram
Please would it be possible to have the option to choose between the existing slider or a histogram/graph for refining Summon search results by their publication date?
13 votesAt this time, all implementations for a histogram or graph adds significant calculation time to the rendering of the page. The amount of time this adds to the page loading can cause users to think the system is having performance issues or just time out and not render.
We will continue to review possible solutions for this as either different options are available or improved system performance allows for inclusion.
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Have the option to download usage statistics for the number of "Report a Problem" emails sent broken down by month.
To be able to download the number of "Report a Problem" emails sent, broken down by month, in the Client Centre. This will help with problems tracking and with seeing if changes to the Summon environment have an impact on the number of "Report a Problem" emails sent.
12 votesWe do not store this information in a format that allows for reporting in this fashion.
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Provide a full list of failed records with my Content Ingestion Report
As a Summon administrator at a library, I would like to fix all of the records that fail Summon ingestion because of encoding errors, etc. Current Content Ingestion Reports only send information about the first 100.
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Support IPv6
Our Institution just added a few IPv6 addresses and will expect more in future, we hope Summon can support IPv6 so that our patrons can be authorized by Summon via IPV6 addresses.
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Integrate BrowZine with Summon
When searching for a specific journal it would be nice to have a link such as ‘View latest articles from this journal’ or ‘View table of contents’ and have the latest articles display in the right pane (with a link at the bottom to view all issues) - this could be similar to how bX Recommender is integrated via the ‘Related articles’ link. This could work nicely with a service such as BrowZine.
8 votesYou can do this currently with custom script. You can find detailed information on how to do this here: https://thirdiron.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BrowZineAPIDocs/pages/104988678/Ex+Libris+Summon+Overview+and+Step-by-Step+Installation+Guide
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Custom Panel Sections
Can it allow upload of image in the future?
a picture is worth a thousand words sometime.7 votesCurrently you can include an image in your custom panel using HTML. This doesn’t allow you to upload and store images on the Summon servers, but if you can host the image elsewhere you an easily include it using an image tag.
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Selecting multiple include/exclude facet at once.
I want to select multiple include/exclude facet at once.
Previous Summon UI, I could select several facet and apply all at once.6 votesYou'll have the ability to do this via the Advanced Search page with the planned redesign. This page will have both includes and excludes and the ability to select multiple at once.
As part of the redesign, we confirmed the More Facet pane that previously provided this functionality was vastly underutilized. Most users did not know if its existence, and if they did find it found the usability challenging.
Providing this functionality via Advanced Search will allow to provide the same benefit with user improvements and better discoverability. Users will be able to easily start with a basic search, then expand Advanced Search to apply multiple filters at once.
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The ability for Summon libraries to edit the MARC records in 360KB would be very useful
The ability for Summon libraries to edit the MARC records in 360KB would be very useful.
6 votesMARC record editing will not be integrated into the 360 tools; MARC record management is handled by the Content Team
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Filter search results by original research and review article
To be able to filter search results by original research and review article category from Summon search facet.
6 votesWith the addition of secondary resource types, these labels are no longer valid and have been replaced.
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Upload KBART Files Directly into 360 for Community Use
In order to enhance the number of databases with full title lists, I would like to be able to upload KBART files provided to us by publishers and vendors. There is a significant time lag between purchasing/licensing ebook packages from Elsevier and Springer, for example, and those books being available in 360. This has a huge impact on efficiency and patron satisfaction. We need tools to aid in maintaining efficient workflows in our current systems.
4 votesHi there,
Thanks for taking the time to submit this request for 360. I appreciate the use case and understand what you're trying to achieve. However, the 360 KB ecosystem is very tightly regulated and its tools are not designed to handle a crowd-sourcing approach like this.
The Content Team is doing a tremendous amount of work to speed up ingestion, and there is a good ELUNA session you can check out to learn more. Another thought is that you can create an LSH database using the KBART files you receive from providers.
I wanted to be sure you got your votes back in light of the new voting "season" that's beginning.
Regards,
Amy
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