Extending Primo beyond your ILS data

source : including EAD and Graphic

SourcesJanet Lute

ILS CoordinatorPrinceton University Library

IGeLU 2014 Oxford, England

Background• Goal is to include numerous and disparate

sources of data that never were and never will be in our ILS

• Many sources belong to Rare Books and include Finding Aid records, visual materials, and local senior thesis records

• Live with Primo since Sept. 2011• Direct hosted on 4.7• Work in close collaboration with Technical Staff

from Rare Books and with our web developer• A lot of this work was trial and error and I learned

lots about the Back Office

EAD and Hierarchy

• Many finding aid records are hierarchical in nature

• Determine how far down the hierarchy you need to go for separate records

• Currently we have records for levels 2, 3, 4 and 5o Level 1 – F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers. This is the container, no individual

record to links to ito Level 2 – Series 1: Writingso Level 3 – Series 1A: Novelso Level 4 – The Beautiful and Dammedo Level 5 – Book I, “A Pleasant Absurdity of Things”

• Most collections are not as complex as this

Finding Aid record and hierarchy

Primo record at lowest levelLink takes you to the next level up

How to get from EAD to PNXConvert EAD to a generic format (done by staff in Rare Books)

Then map this to PNX via Primo normalizationExample of what the XML record looks like

Normalization Rule Set Tips• To get started do a copy from xml-template• One set of rules for all xml data sources• Have a test record in right from the beginning

and test each field as you go along• Be consistent in the use of local fields• Think about what fields are used in your main NR• I have a spreadsheet that summarizes field use

Normalization Rule Sets

• Set up a new rule set for EAD using the usual sections

• By far the hardest section was control• Display – Library Level Availability needed care• Terminology was an issue especially the Primo

use of the term ‘Source’

File Splitter

• Mapping table – File Splitter• Set up an EAD File Splitter

• Mapping table – File Splitter Params

• This sets up the mapping from the xml file for the Pipe and creates separate records

FrontEnd Display Fields Code Table

• Many EAD labels share the ones used by Marc• Subject, Author/Artist, Title, etc. required no action• Local display fields used by EAD needed to be

added

• Really need to pay attention to what you already have

• Might Notes and Summary really be the same thing

Full Display Labels Code Table

• Only the newly added labels needed to entered

Use of local fieldsEx Libris provides up to 50 local fields for Search, Display etc. Follow the set up of Collection Title through various stages NR Search

section

NR Display section

View – Brief Results Tile

Primo Front End Display

Full Display Labels

FrontEnd Display Fields

Views• For initial Testing I created a separate view• Goal is to have all data sources in one view• Brief display tile – think about what data

elements to display, has to make sense for all data sources

• First line includes Title, and Title of Collection• Second line includes Author/Artist

EAD record has title + title of collection but no author

Voyager sourced record has a title and an author

Views – Full display

• Full display tile – may need some specific fields adding

• Again you are balancing the demands of different interested parties, and compromises may need to be made

• Some of the new display labels needed for EAD

Data Sources• Used to define sources of data for the pipe• You want separate sources so that you can control

the pipes

• The top three are for local data sources, bottom one is for our regular Voyager pipe

Data Source for EAD

• Do this in the right order: file splitter, then data source, then pipe setup

• Online Primo help can be useful but it usually does not link tasks together

Pipes List• Set up a pipe to load and delete EAD print, plus a

pipe to load and delete EAD visuals, thesis, etc.

• Each data source can have its own schedule and run independently of your other data sources

• You may also want to delete the entire source and reload

Pipe configuration• This pipe looks for records in a *.tar.gz format in the

directory called /exlibris/primo/data/thesis• Bug in 4.6/7 and gz format is not being recognized; use

tar or tar.gz. Fixed in 4.8

• Not scheduled yet but will probably load records weekly• Indexing and hotswapping processes is shared by all pipes

EAD example recordXML Record

Primo – Full Display

Finding Aids Page

Visuals Example

Senior Thesis exampleSenior Thesis resource type set up

Locations & Availability• Hardest part and most controversial• Some factions wanted detailed item

requestability directly from Primo• Others felt that a link to the correct part of the

Finding Aid and hence to Aeon system for requesting

• This part requires custom coding• Not quite there yet but leaning toward the 2nd

option• Simpler for patrons• Fewer changes to XML records and smaller

records

Locations & Availability

Request This Box will invoke Aeon

Request Link takes you to the Finding Aid

Visuals/Senior Thesis Requesting

• Visuals & Senior Thesis have far simpler records with usually one item

• No finding aids, links directly to the Aeon System

Aeon login screen

What was the point?We have 28 records for “The beautiful and damned “by F. Scott Fitzgerald

EAD Finding Aid Record

Voyager sourced records

What is left to do?• All records not loaded yet; will be over ½ million

initially for the EAD material• Need an ongoing pipe for new and edited records• Locations & Availability tab is still being refined –

local customizations here• May still refine the number of levels for which we

create records• Some top level EAD records have Voyager

records, we will suppress these

I will supply more details on request including normalization rules and the XML file format

Thanks to Kevin Reiss for the Primo customizations kr2@princeton.edu

Janet Lutejelute@princeton.edu

Questions?