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Alma/Primo VE Release Notes

CDI-Related Updates

  • SF: 06579412, 06590326, 06608446, 06805952
    Some "Reference" type records from Gale were incorrectly merged with similar titles, causing linking and availability issues. This has been fixed by adding additional criteria (start and end page) to the matching logic.
  • SF: 06673290
    "Yellow Pad" was added to the CDI overmatch titles list to prevent Business World Online "Yellow Pad Archives" from merging incorrectly.
  • SF: 06402107, 06703417
    addata/jtitle is now returned in the PNX for resource type "Newsletter" and returned as &rft.jtitle in the link resolver.
  • SF: 06655481
    The CDI collection facet truncated the collection name to 50 characters. Requests for collections with longer names failed to return results. This has been fixed.
  • SF: 06353537, 06820210
    Page Count is now returned in the PNX display/tpages for all CDI fields mapped to the following Primo monograph types: 
        - Book 
        - Report 
        - Archival Material/Manuscript 
        - Text resource 
        - Dissertation 
        - Score 
        - Other
  • SF: 06770945
    When used in searches, citations copied from numbered reference lists returned no results if numbered entries started with more than one digit (such as 18. Kumar RD. Leadership in healthcare. Anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. 2013;14(1):39–41). This has been fixed.
  • SF: 06353537
    For display in Primo's full record, CDI now includes the page count when the content type is the following:
    • Book
    • Report
    • Archival Material/Manuscript
    • Text resource
    • Dissertation
    • Score
  • SF: 05310136
    In some cases, the "From" date in Primo VE's publication date facet failed to include the earliest publication dates in the search results. This has been fixed.
  • SF: 05317773, 05434138, 06346738, 06498378, 06578315
    When a record from a collection on the cdi-special-template-dbids list was merged with one or more records that were not on the cdi-special-template-dbids list, linking issues occurred. To resolve this issue, CDI now:
         1. Prefers the source associated with the collection on cdi-special-template-dbids.
         2. Returns the control/sourceid from special template DBID provider and from the same participant.
         3. Returns the sys_external_docid as the control/sourcerecordid
         4. Returns the sys_external_product_id as the control/addsrcrecordid.
    This update takes precedence over the client provider preference.
  • SF: 06537957
    Backlinks for CDI records appeared in the Links section. This has been fixed by adding the $$Hfree_for_read parameter to all backlinks in CDI Open Access records to prevent Primo from applying a proxy prefix.
  • SF: 006476151, 06519583, 06601029
    Publication date for newspaper article records in Newspaper Search showed only the year and did not include the month and day. The PNX has been updated to return the Display/create date for newspaper articles in the YYYY-MM-DD date format.
  • SF: 06344202
    Book reviews appeared before the physical books in the search results. This has been fixed by boosting the ranking of the target book/eBook records.
  • SF: 06649243
    Added the word "Douglas" to CDI's stemming exception lists so that the query Dougla would not match "Dougla".
  • CDI records were not highlighted when searching by title and "equals exact phrase" operator. This has been fixed.
  • SF: 05331213
    In some cases, Norwegian words were stemmed incorrectly and expected results were not returned. This has been fixed.
  • SF: 06022719, 06675147
    The record's thumbnail displayed the template instead of the desired thumbnail. This has been fixed.
  • Sometimes metadata for an article from different sources had different dates. This leads to confusion when all dates are searchable but only one is displayed. Because this issue is usually caused by individual participants in a merged record, we have changed how the merged date is determined and used for article type records. We will now prefer the date provided by a majority of data sources and use this single date for facets, display, and rights calculation. In cases where a single date does not hold the majority, we will use the latest date.
  • Some sources, specifically catalogs, sometimes provide incorrect language values for monographs. We have identified the majority of those sources and now exclude their language values from CDI so that they will not be used for facets and display. Further improvements are planned for the future.
  • SF: 05323780, 06434636, 06402657 (Updated June 15, 2023)
    Many users search for known items by copying and pasting entire citations from a webpage or a list into a Primo search box. While our search engines already support a majority of these searches, we still had cases where extra information in these searches confused the search engine and prevented items from being found. We now use an Open Source AI tool called Grobid to parse the search query so that our search engine can find and return the cited items in search results. Our test results show that this has solved all reported cases where these searches previously failed.
  • SF: 05305916
    Removed the black panther > leopard mapping in CDI's controlled vocabulary - search query expansion list.
  • SF: 05309434, 06319292, 06320336
    The Topic Overview pane for Wikipedia records did not display the Source. This has been fixed.
  • SF: 06544417, 05323856
    The Topic Overview pane proxied open access records when the Do not proxy open access records setting was enabled. This has been fixed by adding an open access indicator to Topic Overview records to ensure that proxies can be disabled for open access records when this setting is enabled.