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CDI Subject Normalization and New Keyword Field
Following customers feedback that the subject terms in Primo VE were inconsistent, not normalized, duplicative, and lead to user confusion, we undertook a project to vastly improve the quality of CDI subject terms. Subject terms are being received in CDI in various formats and styles from providers and aggregators. To address the reported issues, incoming subject terms are now mapped to a controlled vocabulary, which is based primarily on LCSH and MeSH. The outcome of this mapping is the following:
Subject field (Normalized) – This indexed field includes only subjects that match the CDI controlled vocabulary. They are deduplicated and normalized.
Keyword field – This new field includes all subjects that could not be mapped against the CDI controlled vocabulary. These subjects are considered keywords, which are also indexed and searchable.
For more details, see Using Normalized Subject Headings from CDI.
Note When disabled, the existing Subject field for display, search, and facets is used.
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Shared Digital Resource Improvements
Previously, when Digital Resource Sharing was enabled for your IZ, the following digital objects were shared with all institutions in the network:
Alma-D records stored in your Alma repository and in your remote digital repositories.
All records that you imported from external data sources (which are also considered digital objects but are not managed in Alma).
With this enhancement, you can now indicate whether you want to share digital records that were loaded from external data sources with other institutions.
Discussion
Embed Primo VE Showcase Widgets on Any Website
This enhancement enables you to embed a visual carousel of records tailored to the library’s specifications, helping libraries promote their content in other websites. The Primo VE Showcase utilizes Primo VE searches with pre-filters, conditions, and facets to dynamically display results. For example, it can show new books about a specific subject that were added to the catalog in the last 7 days, using a subject filter and date facet. As new records are added that match your search query's parameters, they automatically appear on your website.
For more information regarding the configuration of the carousel widget, see Primo Showcase – How to Embed in the Ex Libris Developers Network.
Discussion
Support Configuration of Displayed Holdings Level in Get It
Currently, the holdings level in the Get It section works as follows:
If there are only items in one location, the Location Items page opens by default for the location in Get It.
If there are items in more than one location, the Locations page opens by default in Get It, which requires users to select the location first.
With this enhancement, you can configure whether to display the Locations page by default when there is only one location available.
Discussion
Automatically Enable Quicklinks
Make your end users’ search and discovery experience smooth and seamless with Quicklinks, which automatically embeds direct links to PDF and HTML full-text documents within the search results. With over 40 content providers supplying direct links and over 1.5 billion articles supported by Quicklinks, users can spend less time navigating to full text and devote more time exploring the valuable resources available to your patrons. Hundreds of institutions are already using Quicklinks, seamlessly exposing links to their patrons.
With the May release, our plan is to enable Quicklinks automatically for all customers, but you have the option to opt out of its automatic enablement.
For more details regarding Quicklinks, see Quicklinks in Primo and Primo VE.
Discussion
Support HTML Coding in Additional Labels
Support for HTML coding in labels varies between codes in Primo VE, and in some cases, there is very little support. With this release, the working group has selected a set of codes that allow HTML coding, including the <href> tag for linking.
Discussion
Resource Types Filter Bar - Additional UX Improvements
Added the following improvements to the Resource Type Filter Bar:
When hovering over unselected resources, the cursor now indicates that the resource is selectable.
For RTL languages, the icons and text for the More field's menu now support the RTL direction.
For the Hebrew interface, the more field is now aligned properly.
Discussion
Collection Discovery Optimization
In order to optimize thumbnails appearance in the Collection Discovery records, we changed the call to include retrieval of the thumbnail from OPR together with the delivery information.
Discussion
Update Key Calculation
Added the Japanese title 年報 to the REMOVE_COMMON_WORDS OTB list to prevent false dedup.