Discovery Open Forum - Primo VE Tips & Tricks I

Preliminaries

@Christian Ward (Unlicensed)

• Looking Forward - (Life After Thunderdome)

  • Primo/Primo VE UI/UX Evaluation (Gabriel Gardner & Heather Cribbs) to be presented at the next Open Forum.

  • Next Open Forum - December 10th @ 1pm

  • Open Forum Topic Survey

    • Discovery group will be surveyed before each open forum to determine open form topics.

    • Survey Results

• How to view PNX

  • Useful for viewing the complete PNX record and for resolving issues related to dedup/FRBR and relevancy ranking.

Relevancy Ranking

@Christian Ward (Unlicensed)

• @Christian Ward (Unlicensed) provided an overview of how to affect relevancy ranking of Primo VE search results. There are two areas to check in Alma:

  • Boosting Records in Blended Search Profiles

    • Can influence how results from local and external data sources are blended.

  • Ranking Configuration

    • Determines the overall visibility of local records in search results and can be configure to boost by fields, data (and date range), resource type, and a general boost.

  • Boost vs Deboost

    • Boost = values > 1.0

    • DeBoost = values > 0.0 and less than 1.0

    • Boost (deboost) values multiple the score associated with a record. ie., higher boost values = higher scores, smaller boost values = lower scores.

Unpaywall

@Christine Holmes

• Configuration options for enabling UnPaywall were discussed and SJSU, Northridge, LongBeach, and SFSU provided experiences and pitfalls they have encountered.

• Gabriel Gardner suggested revisiting usage statistics later in the academic year to determine the impact of the feature on user interaction and back-end statistics.

Dudup/FRBR Issues

Samuel Barber

@brandon dudley (Unlicensed)

• Due to limited time, Samuel will provide a summary document of the issue and @Christian Ward (Unlicensed) will disseminate to the discovery group.

• Brief Summary: Dedup/FERBR issues have been reported by several campuses. The CO and the Norm Rules Task force have discussed, and @brandon dudley (Unlicensed) would like feedback from campuses who identify Dedup/FRBR related issues. Feedback will be taken to Ex Libris via multiple channels to determine a path forward for resolving the issues.

• Full Summary:

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