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  1. 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.

    5 votes
    1 comment  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  2. Create a new Researcher Profile API that returns the Researcher Profile as a complete entity

    Please create a new Researcher Profile API that returns the Researcher Profile as a complete entity. That is, it returns the contents of the Overview (including the profile URL), the Output, the Projects, and the Grants(?) tabs.

    1) It would be great to have all of this information returned in one API; and
    2) You currently have to filter the Assets API by "Shown in profile: Yes" in order to mimic the display in the Researcher Profile; and
    3) Projects (and future Grants?) information is not currently available via API.

    Thanks,
    Blake

    7 votes
    0 comments  ·  APIs and Integrations  ·  Admin →
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  3. Auto Assignment for Asset Types

    We have regularities in terms of which colleague checks which type of assets. It would be nice if I could automatically add the assginment to the asset type for these people. otherwise, as admin, I always have to check first and then end up assigning the same colleagues again anyway.

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  4. 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:

    1. Ability to limit keywords/research topics at the researcher level
    2. Ability to limit the length of the describe your research section of the profile
    3. 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)
    4. Ability to limit keywords to just items from controlled vocabularies

    We had an extensive discussion today with a…

    10 votes
    1 comment  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  5. Separate configuration options for faculty and student works

    We would like to have more granular control over our asset display configurations. Theses/dissertations and other types of non-published student works do not have the same descriptive needs as published faculty works, and having a blanket configuration that is meant to address all types of published and non-published works is leading to confusion as to how to correctly present and interpret the presented metadata. In order to best represent our non-published student works and ETDs, it would be better to have those assets configured separately from faculty works.

    22 votes
    1 comment  ·  Research Portal and Publishing  ·  Admin →
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  6. Link Media Mention to Asset

    Media Mentions are usually related to a specific asset, not just a specific researchers. It would make the system more useful if a relationship with a specific asset were possible

    5 votes
    3 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  7. 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.

    4 votes
    Under Review  ·  0 comments  ·  Research Portal and Publishing  ·  Admin →
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  8. "Update DOI Registration Agency - Research Assets" Job Improvements

    The "Update DOI Registration Agency - Research Assets" job that runs daily does not provide detailed reporting. A detailed report of successfully updated, failed, and migrated assets would aid in troubleshooting and administration of the job.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  APIs and Integrations  ·  Admin →
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  9. 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…

    9 votes
    1 comment  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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    Under Review  ·  AdminTami Ezra (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

    Hi,


    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


  10. "Show all" Button in asset lists

    It would be helpful to include a "show all" button in the asset list of the researcher profiles, in order to show all projects/assets on one page.

    1 vote
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  11. Thesis advisor/committee member should populate Activities from the ETD record

    ETD asset records already have the activity of Thesis advisor/committee member connected directly with titles of ETDs, student names, dates and degree. Adding this information as separate Activities will be time consuming and will likely be filled with errors. This information should be maintained in one place, the ETD record, and then should display in the activity for the faculty member. We should not be creating duplicate information when we can help it. this would ensure that information remains current and is accurate

    24 votes
    5 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  12. ORCID Integration to populate other identifiers

    The current Esploro ORCID integration writes the employer to the ORCID. At Southern Cross we have an integration that also pulls the other identifiers from the ORCID record. It would be ideal if the Esploro ORCID integration also wrote the identifiers contained on the ORCID record to Esploro. For example ResearcherID and SCOPUS ID.
    Many researchers have linked these identifiers to their ORCID we would like to see them automatically linked via the API to the Esploro Researcher record.

    33 votes
    0 comments  ·  APIs and Integrations  ·  Admin →
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  13. The organization sub-unit should be searchable by Alternative Names

    This functionality is already planned.

    0 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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    AdminTami 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.

  14. Ability to flag external and internally managed grants

    When a researcher is involved with a grant that is not managed by the organisation it would be nice to be able able to display this on the profile grants tab. So Internally managed grants would display as internally managed and ones where the researcher is a collaborator on a grant that is owned by another institution would show as externally managed.

    9 votes
    0 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  15. 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.

    4 votes
    Under Review  ·  0 comments  ·  Researcher Profiles  ·  Admin →
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  16. Add preferred pronoun field

    Allow a researcher to add a preferred pronoun to their researcher record that will be displayed in the researcher profile.

    29 votes
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  17. Allow usage data to be captured more granularly

    We would like to suggest two improvements for capturing asset views/downloads at a more granular level.

    1) Tracks usage for each file associated with an asset
    An asset can include more the one file. However, Esploro only shows the combined usage of all files associated with the asset. We would like views and downloads to be tracked individually for each file.

    2) Track usage by geography.
    Allow users to drill down (in both the portal and Analytics) to view usage by country of origin. This would be particularly helpful for evaluating the reach and impact of an institution's research in…

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Portal and Publishing  ·  Admin →
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  18. 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…

    4 votes
    Under Review  ·  0 comments  ·  Research Portal and Publishing  ·  Admin →
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  19. Map programs & research units to ETD types

    Now that undergraduate students can self-deposit in Esploro, it is essential that the process be as straightforward as possible. Currently the programs and research units that they must select from are all possibilities. We would like a way to identify the relevant programs and research units so they are given a subset of relevant options. Without having an appropriate subset it will be much more challenging for everyone, and we are sure we will get a lot of incorrect information in the form.

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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  20. 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…

    5 votes
    0 comments  ·  Research Repository  ·  Admin →
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