Primo VE 2024 Q2 Feature Release

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Linked Open Data - Discovery of Person Entity

From Ex Libris Release Notes:

With the integration of Linked Open Data (LOD), Primo VE can now associate records with LOD, specifically persons (such as authors and historical figures) and display this information in the UI. The person entities are based on LoC (Library of Congress) and are enriched with Wikidata.

NOTE

• In this phase, person entities are linked only to local records that are linked to LCNAMES authorities.

• The information gathered from the LoC and Wikidata is updated once weekly.

• Currently, this functionality is supported in English only.

To support this functionality, the following changes were made to the UI:

• Autocomplete Person – Person entity suggestions are now provided for search terms entered for simple and advanced searches. Selecting a suggestion opens the associated Person page.

• Person Info Card – Displays the person's information in the Recommendations panel on the Full Display page if the record is associated with a linked person entity. Selecting the person's name in the card opens the Person page. A title may be associated with more than one person entity. In the following example, the book is linked with the author and the person about which the book was written.

• Person page – Displays the person's information on a full page. In addition to the person's information, this page also includes the following sections, which enable users to discover titles associated with that person: Titles in Library Written by Person, Titles in Library Written about Person, and People Associated with Person.

(Additional Analytics and Configuration sections are included in the release notes.)

Additional Documentation: Wikidata

Ideas Exchange: Enable person entity functionality at the view level

Discussion

UCR: Would like to know what value it gives to the user. Is there an impact to search results (does it create lag)?

UCD: Have it turned on in the sandbox. Haven’t noticed any specific lag but that’s hard to tell in the sandbox. The way it’s laid out now it drops you into a different UI. Questions about how it’s calculating things. Haven’t asked Ex Libris any specific questions yet.

UCSD is looking at it more next week. UCR has it on the things to look at list.

Support Discovery of Local Authority Records

UCR: Very disappointed it’s only local authority records. Felt it shouldn’t have go live without LC being supported. Special collections have asked for better ways to search for collections by donors. Maybe use local authority files for that. So, might be able to leverage this after all.

Add "Exclude CDI Resource Types" Option to CDI Scopes

UCR: Potentially could be useful to reduce duplicates but would need a lot more testing.

Analytics Improvements (NZ)

From Ex Libris Release Notes:

In Alma Analytics, staff accounts in the Network Zone can access all of their member institutions' data, but they could not do so in Primo VE Analytics. With this enhancement, the NZ can view their member institutions' data in Primo VE Analytics for all Subject Usage areas.

Discussion

CDL Observations:

• Currently, we only see the new-to-Alma campuses at the NZ level (presumably this is a bug)

• The new Design Analytics Limited roles (Designs Analytics – Resources, etc) do not have access to Primo Analytics. (Weirdly, they also don’t have access to the Shared Community Folders in regular Analytics. I’m not sure if this is by design or not.)

Examples of things one

• Usage of top menu links

• What user groups and the actions they’re used.

• Zero searches and popular searches

• How are people coming into Primo (doesn’t include IP addresses)

Let Gem know if you’re interested in doing any UC-wide reports and we can try them out and see what they look like.

Features Not Discussed

• Support HAN Proxy for CDI Links

• Translate Letter Names for Patron Opt-In/Out in My Library Card

• Showcase Carousel Enhancements

• Bibliographic Call Number Browsing Improvements - Indexing

• Support Subject Indexing of MARC 689 Field for German Region

• Linked Data - Add Dedup Local Key for Work URI

• Split Configuration for Hypertext Linking Using Exact and Only

• New Linking Template for InfoBase

• Monthly Refresh of CSL Styles

• EndNote Icon for Primo Export Options