Open Platform and Administration
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Open Platform & Administration
Overview
With comprehensive support for open standards and hundreds of REST APIs, Alma quickly integrates with your library infrastructure. Thousands of institutions make millions of API calls on the Ex Libris platform every day.
Roadmap
| 2021 H2 | 2022 H1 | 2022 H2-2023 |
2021 H2
Language Support - Additional Languages
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Search, Sort & Browse will be enhanced to support the special handling of diacritics for additional languages |
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Better support for Alma in specific languages |
Online Printout Improvements
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Improvements to the online printout queue workflow |
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Improved efficiencies for handling pending printouts in the online printout queue |
Email and letter configuration sharing
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Libraries will be able to contribute, copy and share xsl customizations for letters and printouts |
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Institutions can take advantage of the work of the community rather than building letter configurations from scratch |
2022 H1
Z39.50 and SRU for locally managed Authority Records
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Expand the support for Z39.50 and SRU to include locally managed authority records. | Existing Z39.50 and SRU services for incoming queries will be enhanced to also include locally managed authority records | Better integration with 3rd party systems. |
Enhanced External Resource Search
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Improved external resource search infrastructure and capabilities. |
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Better integration with 3rd party systems. Easier administration and configuration of external search targets |
2022 H2-2023
Enhanced Email and Letter Customization
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
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A new graphic interface for the customization of letters and printouts will be introduced, in addition to the textual xsl customization capability |
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Easier administration and customization, without the need for knowledge of xsl |
Support Notes for Configurations
| What’s New | Highlights | Impact |
|---|---|---|
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Many of the configuration entities will support the creation of staff user notes |
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Easier administration and configuration. Staff will be able to add notes and log details of changes made and for what reason |


