Primo Discovery

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This area is relevant only to Primo VE environments.

Using the Primo Discovery area, the Design Analytics user may create reports/dashboards for the Primo Discovery area and is able to answer the following types of business questions:

What is the total number of titles indexed in Primo VE?
How many of the indexed titles are local?
How many of the indexed titles are external?
How many of the indexed titles are physical, electronic, or digital?

This data is collected once a month. The Data Available as of measure can be used to see when the data was last collected.

Star Diagram – Primo Discovery

Field Descriptions

The following fields are available in Primo Discovery.

Primo Discovery – Field Descriptions

Measures

The Measures table is a fact table that stores all measures relating to indexed titles.

These measures do not include titles that are suppressed from discovery.
In cases where active titles do not have any physical, digital, or electronic inventory, those items are calculated only under the Number of Local Titles Indexed in Primo VE measure and may explain why the sum of the Number of Physical Titles Indexed in Primo VE, Number of Electronic Titles Indexed in Primo VE, and Number of Digital Titles Indexed in Primo VE measures is not the same as the amount shown under the Number of Local Titles Indexed in Primo VE measure.

Measures
Field	Description	Additional Information
Total Number of Titles Indexed in Primo VE	The number of local and external titles indexed in Primo.
Number of Local Titles Indexed in Primo VE	The number of active local titles indexed in Primo.
Number of Physical Titles Indexed in Primo VE	The number of physical titles indexed in Primo, which includes the following: titles with active physical items titles with active physical items or holdings records titles with active holdings records and no items
Number of Electronic Titles Indexed in Primo VE	The number of electronic titles indexed in Primo, which includes the following: titles with active electronic portfolios titles with active electronic collections
Number of Digital Titles Indexed in Primo VE	The number of digital titles indexed in Primo, which includes titles with active digital representations.
Number of External Titles Indexed in Primo VE	The number of external titles indexed in Primo.

Dates

The Dates table is a dimension table that stores details about the date of indexing. Key fields are used whenever calculations are required. Description fields may be used for formatting the display of the report. Alma stores the following types of fields:

Calendar Fields – These are date fields as they display in the calendar.
Fiscal Date Fields – These are date fields that match the institution's fiscal period. In the examples below, the fiscal period of the institution is for fiscal year 2012 that starts June 1, 2011 and ends May 31, 2012.

Based on the levels included in the report, this dimension enables users to determine the number of indexed titles at the levels described in the following table.

Dates
Field	Description	Additional Information
Month	Stores the month of the date in month description format such as February
Month Key	Stores the month of the date in number format such as 2 for February	This field is useful when you want to sort by the month, which does not work properly when using the alphabetical field.
Full Month	Stores the month and the year of the date in a display format such as Feb 12	This field is useful when comparing data on a month basis between years.
Quarter	Stores the quarter of the date in a display format such as Q1
Year	Stores the year of the date in number format such as 2012
Fiscal Month Key	Stores the fiscal month of the date in number format such as 2 for February	This field is useful when you want to sort by the month, which does not work properly when using the alphabetical field.
Fiscal Year	Stores the fiscal year of the date in a string format such as 2012.	If the fiscal year description is stored in the institution fiscal period configuration table. This value is taken from there.

Institution

The shared Institution dimension allows the Network Zone to view reports according to institution. If an analytics report is run from the Network Zone in a collaborative network implementing a Network Zone, all member institutions are included in the report for Institution Code and Institution Name. If an analytics report is run from an institution that is not part of a collaborative network implementing a Network Zone, only the single institution from which the report is run is included in the report for Institution Code and Institution Name.

Reports involving data across a collaborative network implementing a Network Zone may take longer to run than reports within one institution.

This dimension is available in every subject area. It contains the following fields:

Institution
Field	Description	Additional information	Data Type	Data Size
Institution Code	The code of the institution.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Summary tab. The label in Alma is Code located on the right pane.	VARCHAR	50
Institution Name	The name of the institution.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Summary tab. The label in Alma is Organization unit name.	VARCHAR	255
Institution Address Line 1	The first line of the address of the institution. It usually includes the building number and the street name.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Contact Information tab. This is taken from the address configured as the Preferred address. The label in Alma is Address Line 1.	VARCHAR	1000
Institution City	The city of the institution.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Contact Information tab. This is taken from the address configured as the Preferred address. The label in Alma is City.	VARCHAR	255
Institution State Province	The state or province of the institution.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Contact Information tab. This is taken from the address configured as the Preferred address. The label in Alma is State/Province.	VARCHAR	320
Institution Country	The country of the institution.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Contact Information tab. This is taken from the address configured as the Preferred address. The label in Alma is Country.	VARCHAR	320
Institution Postal Code	The postal code of the institution.	Configured from: Configuration > General > Add a Library or Edit Library Information > Contact Information tab. This is taken from the address configured as the Preferred address. The label in Alma is Postal code.	VARCHAR	200
Institution Timezone	The timezone of the institution.	The timezone is set during implementation.	VARCHAR	255
Data Available As Of	When the institution data became available in analytics.	Displayed at the bottom of the main Analytics menu.	VARCHAR	255
Data Updated As Of	When the institution data was taken from the Alma database.	Displayed at the bottom of the main Analytics menu.	VARCHAR	255