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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 -
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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
3 votes -
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 -
Alma Digital: Option to unsuppress bib when mark object active
When working in Alma Digital and you change an object to Inactive, you are prompted about suppressing the bibliographic record, which is great. We want that. However, if changing it back to Active, you do not get that same prompt - you have to go into the Metadata Editor to unsuppress the bibliographic record. It would be really helpful if we could unsuppress the record when making an Digital Object active again.
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Prevent drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer
When Access rights indicate to “Allow View” but not download,
Alma viewer currently allows downloading the pdf by “saving as”.The digital Viewer should prevent this option.
Preventing drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer is required to manage digital content resources in alma.3 votes -
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 (thesis) frequently forget to include images. Enforcing this requirement would help prevent such omissions.
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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.".
I kindly ask for your help in implementing this idea, because the students who will be filling out deposit need to remember to add their pictures (images, files).
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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.
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Bezalel archive contains many vimeo files. so it is necessary to add vimeo files to digital titles, we ask to develope a solution that the f
Bezalel archive contains many vimeo files. so it is necessary to add vimeo files to digital titles, we ask to develope a solution that the file name will be included in the section זמינות גירסה דיגיטלית with name, not in קישורים wihout title.
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Allow Citations as Logical Set for Digital Collection Creation
Currently only "Titles" sets are able to be used in the creation of logical Digital Collections:
We would like the ability attach logical sets of Citations to digital collections so that as reserves are added/removed, we do not have to delete all the titles and re-perform the search, nor do we want to add/remove one-by-one. This way, our course reserves digital collection will always be up to date every semester, without worrying about whether professors have submitted their reserve requests on time.
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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.
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View upload status in Alma Digital
I'm uploading large files to Alma Digital (by designating a folder path on AWS). Once I save the representation, I get a message that "The file upload is in progress and may take a few minutes." But there is no way to monitor the progress of the upload from within Alma. It would be very helpful to have some sort of status bar showing the progress of the upload in MB. Thanks.
Please add some way to view the status of an ongoing upload2 votes
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