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Close current internal affiliations for purged users
When a user is purged their researcher record is updated from "Affiliated" to "Non-Affiliated - Previously Affiliated." However, their internal affiliations are not moved from "Current" to "Previous". In order to do that, customers must additionally run the Update Set of Researchers job. We recommend that this functionality be added to the purge job so that when a user is purged all open internal affiliations are closed with todays date.
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Ability to bulk download files from asset record
We have some assets, especially datasets, that have a large number of files attached. It would be very handy if it was possible for a user to bulk download all (or selected) files rather than having to download them individually.
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Add Teams, Committees, Working Groups as data in Profiles
We would like to see information in the profiles that indicates what Teams, Committees, and Working Groups a person is on or has been on in the past. The field should be indexed so it is searchable and include a date range.
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Provide Asset Update API Method
It would be useful in some circumstances to be able to Asset's via the API instead of manually through the administrative interface or the export, modify in Excel/CSV, and re-import.
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Remove formatting bar from 'Biography and expertise' field when field is disabled in front end
When the 'Biography and expertise' field is disabled for researchers in the front end, the formatting bar should be removed to avoid confusion.
Please see image attached.
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Esploro to push Qualifications to ORCID profile
We would like Esploro-ORCID integration to push selected information in the "Education" section of their Researcher Profile into the "education and qualification section of the ORCID profile.
Currently, the integration only pushes assets and affiliations.
In our case, we give a certificate or badge to researchers upon completion of our Open Research Module.
We are able to expose that badge in the ORCID profile outside Esploro (an example of how the NASA exposed a badge can be seen https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3807-2892), but ideally we would like to push the badge via the repository.
See, for instance, Researcher Profile https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/profile/felix_pedrotti/overview?institution=44SUR_INST
In addition,…
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Ability to delete "researchers" in bulk
Currently, removing the "Researcher" flag or deleting a researcher, we need to search for the person in Manage researchers; click on the three dots on the right side; and then select Delete. There is no way to select several names and then delete them; or run a job to delete them.
The functionality of making someone "unaffiliated/previously affiliated" is not the appropriate solution due to the way that we are ingesting "researchers".
All university staff is pushed into Alma flagging them all automatically as a researchers resulting in having many "false" researchers.
Hence, I'm proposing to have a functionality that…
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Allow multiple urls to Esploro
Esploro can perform multiple functions including faculty profiles, institutional repository, and managing ETD submissions. These functions are distinct and descriptive urls are needed to help user communication. A couple of cases:
Faculty: A faculty member has created a profile for public access. The url of facultyprofile.univ.edu would be appropriate and helpful
Graduate student: A person has completed their thesis and needs to submit. The submission also needs to go through an approval process. In this case submit-etd.univ.edu or similar would be appropriate and helpful.
Researcher: An external researcher wants to view the university created assets. In this case ir.univ.edu would…
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Esploro metadata to be compatible with the USRN Desirable Characteristics of Digital Publication Repositories toolkit
The USRN Desirable Characteristics of Digital Publication Repositories toolkit (https://github.com/antleaf/USRN-Discovery/wiki/Toolkit) aims to provide repositories with a report to identify areas where the platform isn't meeting best practices for metadata. I have attached the report from our instance of Esploro which highlights that licence URLS on records aren't being picked up (and other issues). Can Esploro's metadata and OAI integration be improved to meet the requirements?
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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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Show the languages information in the Researcher Profile
Currently, we register the languages spoken by the researchers in the back end of Esploro. But this valuable information is not visible in the public Researcher Profile. We would like this info to be visible, since this way researchers can be contacted in different languages facilitating networking.
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pop-up notification when communicating with researchers about an asset
When communicating with researchers about an asset, staff members must open the asset record, navigate to the communication tab, enter their message, and click "Send." However, their message is not actually sent to the researcher until the asset record is saved. This is not particularly intuitive, especially because the message appears as a new line in the communication history with the date sent and name of recipient. In order to make this step clearer, we recommend adding a hint or pop-up notification letting staff know the asset record must be saved in order for the message to be sent.
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Include additional entities on CV (media mentions, projects)
Add the option to include missing entities (media mentions & projects) on the CV.
As we enable these new features on profiles they are more obviously missing on the CV.1 vote -
Ability to reorder fields with multiple lines via drag and drop in back end and on profile
We would like to see drag and drop functionality implemented across all fields in both the repository and the portal that have mutlitple lines, e.g. relationaships on assets so that relationships can be displayed in desired order. Links on the profile page. Education. Research topics and keywords. Related content on the asset.
Currently many of theses fields display in the order they are entered and some display in a random undetermined order. If links need to be reordered they have to be deleted and re-added. This is a duplciaiton of effort.
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AdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
As has been noted drag and drop is available in many places. We have no immediate plans to add more. Removing the Planned status so institutions can continue voting for this. Please indicate where it is most missing.
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The organization sub-unit should be searchable by Alternative Names
This functionality is already planned.
0 votesAdminTami Ezra
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Removed the "Planned" status because although this is still on our longer-term roadmap, there isn't a definite timeline.
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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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