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Response (6/29/16) via Brandon: Ex Libris does not plan to offer a data loading service as a free or paid service to Alma customers for several reasons (mostly financial) and would go so far to opine that they would probably not offer it to current SS/PQ customers for much longer based on their response to this question at the Exec meeting.
Detailed response to some specific questions: PDF distributed by Patrick (6/29/16)
Initial questions
- Whether/how to migrate current and historical usage data stored in USTAT into ALMA Analytics
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Follow-up: Any progress on whether current USTAT data (and/or configurations) can/will be automatically loaded into ALMA? Or best practices for migrating usage data prior to go live date? (Can Or can we assume it's similar to the current manual uploading of local COUNTER Data into USTATwe will need to download USTAT data ourselves and manually upload it into Alma.)
- Migrating/re-establishing SUSHI configurations (e.g. from current USTAT instances to ALMA)
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Responses received 6/28/16 in email from Patrick (with PDF attached PDFto this page):
Data Retrieval Functions
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Yes, this is possible. You can also view the specific reports in the Alma interface and in the case of “trouble shooting” it is recommended to use the Alma interface. (screenshot in PDF)
8. Authority title matching to reduce duplicate listings and ensure statistics are properly associated with titles held on multiple platforms; ability to manually match titles where automated matching has been unsuccessful
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