Alma Digital
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Add a date measure to Digital Inventory/Usage Analytics
For Digital Inventory/Usage, we can only see total (cumulative) downloads and views. It would be helpful to have a date measure to see usage over time for digital files.
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Alt-Text Capability for Images in Alma-D
To improve accessibility, libraries should be able to add alt-text to image files uploaded to Alma-D.
8 votes -
Alma Digital Support for an auto-captioning service
Many video streaming services now have an auto-captioning service, .i.e., Youtube, where captions are auto-generated for video content. Since we are legislated to caption our video content, Alma Digital could include this feature and save us months of work.
5 votes -
Authority control for MODS and DC
My understanding is that authority control is not applied to Dublin Core or MODS metadata (particularly when that metadata is stored and managed in Alma, not as external records). We're interested in controlling name and subject headings in DC or MODS records so that headings are updated when authorities change, and so that these headings appear in Primo browse lists.
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Support viewing pptx files in Alma viewer
It would be good if it was possible to view pptx files (PowerPoint/slide decks) in Alma viewer.
This could enable better access to teaching and conference resources.
5 votes -
Public note should not overwrite other label
When we add a public note to a digital representation, our configured ViewIt label regarding copyright disappears. That label should stay there, even if a public note about the representation is added. Public note is “stronger” than the default copyrights label c.uresolver.viewit.repcopyrights.copyrightsicon. Thus – if Public note exists – it will show it in the View Online services. It would be very helpful if multiple notes and labels could show at the same time.
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Display video length/duration for Alma Digital videos
Alma Digital video files listed in the Online Access Options of Discovery list the file type and size but not the duration. It would be helpful for our patrons if the duration of the video was also included in this same area.
4 votes -
Be able to control access rights by user login combined with patron role with a specific scope at library level.
Be able to control access rights by user login combined with patron role with a specific scope at library level.
Example:
Be able to specify a parameter in the access rules that grant access to the representation on Library A if the patron is logged in and his patron role scope = Library A, meaning, only user logged in and belonging to that library are able to access that document.4 votes -
Access Right based on a user's statistical category
Can we define an "Access Right" based on a user's statistical category. i.e., we have the Student's academic program listed as a statistical category. We want to limit access to certain resources by academic program.
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We would like to see Alma Digital incorporate dates for automatic suppression when we provide access to resources with limited licenses.
We would like to see Alma Digital incorporate dates for automatic suppression when we provide access to resources with limited licenses.
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Repository search: fulltext of digital files
We'd like to be able to search the full text of digital files in Alma's repository search. This could be useful in situations where multiple files are attached to a title; searching the full text on the title level in Primo will not guide you to the correct file, but a file-level repo search would.
We see that there is a "fulltext" search index for digital files, but it looks like that index is for the type of full text file (it doesn't search the contents of the full text).4 votes -
Display access rights' copyright statement when editing a representation
Optionally an access right policy in Alma can have a copyright statement associated with it.
When editing a representation in Alma, the existence of the copyright statement is not displayed to the user. The user can enter another copyright statement for the representation which overrides the one associated with the access rights policy.
I would expect that the copyright statement should at minimum, be displayed to the user so they do not have to guess if this is an access rights policy where they must also assign a copyright statement.
I had expected that it would show in the copyrights…
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Add the student’s name to the Approve Deposits screen.
In the standard Alma interface for approving deposits or final projects (for example, via the Review Deposits task list or a dedicated approval screen), the displayed columns are fixed to a predefined set of fields. Currently, there is no built-in configuration option to enable a student name column in this view.
I submit an enhancement request through the Idea Exchange to request adding the student name field to the Approve Deposits screen.
Thank you.3 votes -
Allow selection of one collection from multiple options on one record when adding a representation
When using the route Resources -> Add Digital Representation, you can search for and add a representation to any existing collection. However, if you have a bib record with multiple collections, and you use the "..." -> "Add Representation" menu option on that record, the representation defaults to one of those collections and you're unable to change it; this forces you to use the first route instead if you want to add that representation to a different collection.
Using the "..." -> "Add Representation" route should allow you to select which collection you want to add it to if there's…
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The record (Deposit and Staff-mediated Deposit) can only be saved if at least one image, video, or MP4 file is uploaded.
Your assistance in implementing this idea would be greatly appreciated, as students completing the form frequently forget to include images. Enforcing this requirement would help prevent such omissions. Thank you.
3 votes -
Download ZIP file in digital viewer and IIIF viewer
In the digital viewer and IIIF viewer, each file can be downloaded individually. Currently there is no option for patrons in Primo/NDE to download a ZIP file containing all the files in the representation. The only people who can do this are librarians in Alma. An option for patrons to do these bulk downloads would improve efficiency in our workflow.
4 votes -
Remove/edit boilerplate copyright statements - digital
We would like to replace the list currently in boilerplate "copyright statements - digital" with our own copyright statements, as we want to limit the use of too many different statuses in the drop-down list. Currently it is not possible to remove the standard statements or to make adjustments to it.
3 votes -
Representations in Inventory in Metadata Editor
When viewing inventory in the Metadata Editor, it would be very useful to see more information about Representations. Currently, only Usage Type and Number of Files are shown. This is not helpful when there are multiple representations with the same usage type and the same amount of files, like in the screenshot.
3 votes -
On Top Level Collections list, change "created" date to "updated" date
Please change the Resource Mangement-->Manage Collections-->Top Level Collection menu to swap out "create date" to "last update" or similar. It's important to know which collections haven't been updated. It's only 'nice' to know the create date.'
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Allow a user to change their close-caption settings
Allow a user to change their close-caption settings such as placement, size of text, color of text, and background color.
3 votes
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