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Digital Resource Management

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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​

2022 H1

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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2022 H2 

Controlled Digital Lending - Long term circulation

What’s New Highlights Impact
Controlled Digital Lending for long term circulation
  • Maintain own-to-loan ratio of both physical and digitized copies for long-term circulation.
  • 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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Digital Titles Staff Search - Enhanced UX 

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Repository search
   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 operation​s

  • Show more information

  • Perform quick actions

The user will be able to quickly find titles and perform actions as needed

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Digital Files Staff Search - Enhanced UX

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Repository search
   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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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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2023

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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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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Google Scholar Indexing

What’s New Highlights Impact
Enable indexing digital scholarly material in Google Scholar  Adapt Alma Digital scholarly collection pages to be crawled and indexed by Google Scholar Enhance exposure of digital scholarly material

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