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Add ability to embed video in Esploro content areas.
At the moment, iframes (embedded video players) are not supported in Esploro. Embedded video might include content relevant to research profiles, projects, grants, and other areas where videos are already hosted elsewhere (e.g. youtube). This would enhance researcher profile records, and allow the ability to include more engaging content. Please consider including this functionality in all relevant areas, specifically descriptions, summaries, etc.
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Administrator emails for asset messages
Currently, any notifications from researchers regarding asset communications are only visible to administrators via the task list. Even though assets with active messages are separated into its own category in the task list, we would like notifications for assets that already have active messages and received additional messages to be more direct. Notifications could be sent as an email to the administrator or at the least some notification in the task list that there is a new message and which asset it belongs to. As is, it’s not clear which asset has received an additional message and requires drilling down…
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Marking Honors, scholarship, projects, or activities as "featured" to better highlight them
Some faculty or researchers have honors, activities, scholarship, or projects that in some sense defines them. Instead of those items blending in with everything else, it would be nice to have a way of highlighting or featuring certain things. As an example, if someone won the nobel prize, they would most certainly want that to be made more prominent in some way.
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Expertise Finder
Esploro is capable of being an Expert Finder but limited to subject matter expertise gleaned from your Research Topics. What about an entire area for Expertise in the profile? The idea would be to list things you consider yourself an expert in (using the same taxomonies already available or free text) and offer toggles for :
-willing to be contacted about
-willing to mentor
-willing to assist in an emergency
-willing to serve on a committee
etc..Then the expertise is explicitly searchable and also indicative of people willing to apply that expertise in those scenarios. Then we would not…
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Searching for Labels
When it comes to customizing and configuring the labels (Configuration > Portal & Profiles > General Settings > Labels), we have to go through each label section one by one to search for the desired label to update. Is it possible to add a search feature to Labels, such as in Alma where we can search either by description or code name?
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Improve functionality of the Areas of Interest to allow labelled headings and locking of specific serctions
Esploro has ability to add multiple sections in the field for Area of Interest. However, when the profile is edited in the public view (Researcher portal) all the separate segments are merged into one.
We would like the ability to further control the look and access option for the Area of Interest sections.
For example: We currently use HTML to include headers for different sections of Researchers’ biographies, e.g. Biography, Research, Teaching.
Ideally, we'd be able to have separate fields, with customisable labels, in the Area of Interest so that we could control which fields to display and have greater…
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Remove “Edit Profile” if there is No access to the Researcher Profile
We would like to remove “Edit Profile” from the researcher’s actions drop down menu If a researcher has “Has Access to the Researcher Profile” set to No
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Allow customers to modify the frequency of the usage statistics letter
Currently, the usage statistics letter can only be sent monthly. Some researchers find this schedule too aggressive (especially considering asset usage doesn't typically change dramatically from month to month). Many of these researchers tend to unsubscribe as a result. However, some have suggested they would be more open to receiving these notifications is they were less frequent. We suggest Ex Libris consider giving customers the option to modify the frequency of this letter (i.e., quarterly or annually).
Ideally, it would be great if researchers themselves could manage their notification preferences (including frequency) from their researcher profile. See related enhancement request:
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Allow files to be organized in folders
When uploading files, there is no option to put them in folders or maintain the original folder structure. We have a user who has sorted his data by year and the only way to maintain that structure was to create separate assets for each year. They are closely related datasets.
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Controlled vocabularies and metadata field limits
To aid in the discovery of both researchers and assets, it would be great if the following functionality were available:
- Ability to limit keywords/research topics at the researcher level
- Ability to limit the length of the describe your research section of the profile
- Availability of more controlled vocabularies - preferably not LCSH, but a blend of subject-specific vocabularies (MeSH, Inspec, MLA, etc. -- maybe even the controlled vocabularies from the old CSA indexes given how good they are for the social sciences)
- Ability to limit keywords to just items from controlled vocabularies
We had an extensive discussion today with a…
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Search improvement
The search routine in esploro should have the same functions like it is available for Primo --> auto autocomplete or "did you mean?"
Would be a great improvement.
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Add option to easily export internal organization structure to spreadsheet
We would like to be able to export a file which includes:
Top level unit | 2nd level unit | 3rd level unit | etc for all levels
For example:
Weizmann Institute | Chemistry Faculty | Organic Chemistry Department
Weizmann Institute | Chemistry Faculty | Materials and Interfaces Department
Weizmann Institute | Biochemistry Faculty | Molecular Cell Biology Department
We managed to create such a report using the ‘Esploro Research Assets’ subject area – but this report includes only departments and faculties for which we have assets. If there are departments for which we do not have assets, they will…11 votesHi,
I am reviewing Ideas Exchange and have some questions about this idea
This would be an export of the org structure only? Is this in reference to analytics?
What purpose would this report serve?
Thanks
Tami
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Citation only display on profile brief results
Currently, the citation display on the Researcher Profiles includes the first several lines of the abstract. We would like to list via citation only and exclude the abstract from the brief results. This can be done in the portal but is not available from the profiles assets display. We feel that this would look tidier and reduce the need to scroll down the page as much.
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Display Esploro Asset Creation Date in Portal
I received the business/use case below from Carla Cher, the Manager, Intellectual Property and Commercialisation here at RMIT University for displaying the record creation date in a publicly available asset record on the portal.
Carla wrote, "this is extremely important information because our team needs to know the date something is published as this may have an effect on whether we can apply for a patent or not for particular areas of technology. In addition, patent offices will search the database for the thesis when examining a patent application and may reject an application because they consider the date it…
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Assign assets with active messages to administrators
Currently, you can only assign assets that have not yet been approved to administrators. Due to the built in messaging system in the faculty profiles, it would be helpful from a management standpoint to be able to assign assets with active messages to administrators. Currently, assets with active messages are only visible in the general task list. It's not possible to know what is in progress or being reviewed by another administrator unless you open each asset to view any communications. Furthermore, we have to leave open cases set to active to ensure that communications are followed up on (especially…
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Display embargo release date in Esploro research portal
We would like the ability to display the "Release Date", i.e. the date that the embargo on an asset was lifted, in the public research portal. We would like for the embargo release date to display in the asset details for both assets that are currently embargoed and assets who's embargo has lifted.
We think it would be helpful to have an indication in the public asset metadata that the asset was embargoed at some point. This would be helpful for researchers, and also (especially for ETDs) for the asset's author to understand when the asset became available.
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Analytics - ability to report on 'Asset Approved By'
In Analytics, under the 'Esploro Research Assets' subject area, we can currently report on 'Asset Created By' and 'Asset Modified By'.
We'd like to also be able to report on 'Asset Approved By'.This additional functionality will assist us in monitoring the work of trainees that are learning the system and our processes.
thanks
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Ability for researchers to show/hide details in the Communication section of their profile
Our researcher contact details are imported daily and we are finding some researchers add other email, phone and address details via their profile and would rather the alternate contact details be displayed.
We would like a button next to each entry in the Communication section so researchers can decide which to make visible, similar to the toggle visible/hidden icon available in the Affiliations section.
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Add ability to control thumbnail image and alt text
For assets that have multiple files uploaded, we would like to control which file/image is used for the thumbnail on the search results and assets page in Esploro. I have the following sample ETD where two JPG files are uploaded. I would like to use the image Collection.jpg as the thumbnail, but no matter what file name I use or what order I upload files in, the thumbnail continues to use the CollectionInvitation2.jpg file.
There should be a field that allows us to choose which file should be used for the thumbnail image. In addition, there is no Alt…
7 votes -
Selecting a license in self-deposit
Selecting a license is not intuitive on the self-deposit form. You have to click the three dots next to the file after it’s been uploaded, then select the license. This is too bothersome for the researcher, so she's not selecting a license. We can leave this blank for most items, but it's very important for anything we're registering with CrossRef or DataCite, so it requires follow-up with the researcher. It would be better if the form prompted the researcher to select a license (or not).
6 votes
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