Digital Resource Management

Overview

Alma Digital provides a rich and flexible set of workflows for managing an institution’s digital repositories - from deposit and cataloging to delivery and publishing

Roadmap

2021 H2	2022 H1	2022 H2-2023
Controlled Digital Lending - Queue Management IIIF V3 Support Batch File Download Autonomize Copyrights Advanced Digital Delivery	Digital titles Staff Search - Enhanced UX Representations - New Staff Search Results Full-Text OCR	Exhibition View in Discovery Advanced Controlled Digital Lending Digital Files Staff Search - Enhanced UX Collection Tree View

2021 H2

Controlled Digital Lending - Queue Management

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Manage queue for digital content lending	Patrons register for a digital resource which is limited by the number of concurrent users A notification will be sent when the resource is available	Enhanced patron services for digital resource lending

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IIIF V3 Support

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Support advanced services of IIIF API v3	Upgrade IIIF manifest to Presentation API v3 Upgrade Universal Viewer Support delivery of non-image sequences via IIIF, such as PDFs, audio-visual and more	Expand range of content to be delivered via IIIF services

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Batch File Download

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Download all files of a set	Support downloading all files of a set to a local server	Improved staff access to digital content

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Autonomize Copyrights

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Copyrights can be assigned regardless of access rights	Copyrights can be assigned to digital resources as an autonomous attribute, removing dependency on access right policies	Simplify copyright assignment

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Advanced Digital Delivery

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Strict download control, annotations and 3D	Fully restrict file download Support annotations of digital content via IIIF viewer Support rendering of 3D objects	Support advanced digital delivery services

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2022 H1

Digital Titles Staff Search - Enhanced UX

(Themes - Repository Search and Lists - Enhanced UX)

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
The Digital Titles Staff Search will be updated and redesigned for better usability, performance, productivity and overall user experience	Ability to use multi-value selection facets Ability to perform cross-page bulk operations Show more information Perform quick actions	The user will be able to quickly find titles and perform actions as needed

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Representations - New Staff Search Results

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Search and run jobs on the representation level	Search on representation level Create representation-level sets Run representation-level jobs	Simplify digital content management

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Full-Text OCR

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Generate full-text ALTO XML for searching text	Run a job in Alma to generate full-text ALTO XML from digital files, allowing for searching full-text and highlighting results in the Internet Archive Book Reader	Advanced Digital Discovery

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2022 H2 - 2023

Advanced Controlled Digital Lending

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Advanced CDL (Controlled Digital Lending) management	Maintain own-to-loan ratio of both physical and digitized copies. New digital material lending flows will be synced with physical fulfillment in order to control number of concurrent copies on loan.	Remote access to digital copies while guaranteeing alignment with CDL fair use

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Exhibition View in Discovery

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Customizable exhibition view of digital collections	Customizable display of digital collections, including timelines, narratives and more	Advanced showcasing and exposure of special digital collections

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Digital Files Staff Search - Enhanced UX

(Themes - Repository Search and Lists - Enhanced UX)

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Search and run jobs on the file level	Search on file level Create file-level sets Run file-level jobs	Simplify digital content management

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Collection Tree View

What’s New	Highlights	Impact
Redesign collection tree management to facilitate digital repository structuring	Side-by-side view of: Folder structure of entire collection tree Details and content of highlighted collection Multiple actions for restructuring collection tree	Bird’s-eye view of entire digital repository, for better decision making and restructuring

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