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Digital Resource Management
Overview
Alma Digital provides a rich and flexible set of workflows for managing an institution’s digital repository - from deposit and cataloging to delivery and publishing.
2024 H1
MODS Enhancements
What’s New |
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Impact |
Major enhancements to Alma MODS metadata support
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- OAI MODS for harvesting MODS metadata from a remote MODS repository
- MODS patron deposit
- Expand MODS fields for display in Primo
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Enable richer use of MODS as a local ALMA metadata standard |
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Delivery: Multilingual closed captions and ePub viewer
What’s New |
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Impact |
Subtitles or closed captions displayed in multiple languages |
Alma users can associate multiple VTT files with a single video, each representing a different language |
Improve end user accessibility |
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Toggle Logical and Itemized Collections
What’s New |
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Easily toggle logical to itemized collections and vice versa |
- Toggle an existing itemized collection to an logical one
- Toggle an existing logical collection to an itemized one, retaining the titles already associated to the collection
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Reduce time in migrating existing collections to logical ones and vice versa |
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2024 H2
Digital Titles Staff Search – Enhanced UX
Repository Search
Enhanced UX
What’s New |
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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.
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The user will be able to quickly find titles and perform actions as needed. |
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2025
Continued MODS Enhancements
What’s New |
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Impact |
Normalize MODS records in Alma |
Intuitive mechanism for normalizing MODS records during import and for existing records |
Upgrade cataloging support for MODS. |
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AI-based Digital Enrichments
What’s New |
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Automate metadata generation and content enrichment via embedded AI services |
- Generate metadata elements from AI-based full-text analysis for multiple types of content
- Enhanced searchability by auto-tagging of images, done by AI-based identification of places, people, subjects etc
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Save cataloguing time and improve content searchability by utilizing cutting-edge AI services on all file types |
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Digital Preservation
What’s New |
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Impact |
Guaranteeing long-term access to library digital collections. |
Digital preservation solution that can run directly on library digital collections, run digital preservation workflows, and guarantee long-term access. |
Assist in building a trusted digital repository, guaranteeing long-term access to valuable collections, research data, digitized resources, and more. |
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