Discover Release Notes March 2023

Release Date: March 1, 2023

API Ingested eAudiobook Rollups

For eContent Beta libraries, we have updated our ingest of eAudiobook materials from all eContent vendors to insert a required metadata value for audiobooks enabling materials that were previously unable to rollup into textual works to now do so. Work with your Product Manager or Implementations Manager to reindex previously ingested eContent and apply this update to your materials.

eContent Vendor Supplied Cover Images

Vega is now able to utilize URLs for book covers that we receive from vendors to provide cover images for materials.

Bug Fixes

Axis360 API Ingest

An issue with the ingest and index of eContent records from the vendor, Axis360 has been resolved. Libraries in eContent Beta who were waiting to test this vendor can begin testing again.

Zero Search Results Fix

An issue with bibliographic records having more than one material type that was causing searches for these materials to return 0 results has been fixed.

Borrowbox Language Fix

For materials from the Borrowbox subscription library that do not have language metadata a default language of English has been applied to records.

Release Date: March 15, 2023

Translation Workflow Updates

The string translation workflow has been updated to allow for easier translation of strings in Vega. In the Staff Admin choose Localization settings > Manage translations. You will see several new options for managing translations of strings in Vega. The Download Global Translation button will give you the default Vega language file for each language. To customize a translation file for the first time, download the global translation file and use the 'Upload' button to upload it. The new 'Edit' button will then allow you to edit custom strings from the staff ui in an editor without downloading the string file. To access a FIND tool in the editor, click inside the editor modal and use CTRL-F to open the find tool. Type in the string you would like to locate and use the Next and Previous match arrow buttons to navigate the strings file for each instance of that string. To update a string, edit the value displayed inside double quotes.

When you have customized string data in Vega for a language the last update date will be logged and displayed for the given language file.

Changes made to customize strings in Vega are now consistent across updates and new language strings will inserted into customize string files for editing as they are added to the system without wiping any previous translations to other strings.

If you see any problems in Vega Discover with the display of strings or the Manage Translations workflows due to previously customized strings we recommend that you do the following steps in order:

  1. Turn off the custom translation in the Manage Translations settings enabling the default global translation for display.

  2. Download the Global Translation File for the language.

  3. Upload the Global Translation file for the language to populate the custom language file for editing.

  4. Use the Edit button to add previous custom strings.

    These strings will remain throughout future Vega updates and will not need to be reapplied as was the previous workflow.

  5. Re-enable the custom translation by turning on to display your custom strings in Vega Discover.

Bug Fixes

Notification Preference Fix (Polaris Libraries)

A problem was fixed where changing the patron notification preference to TEXT in Vega was deleting the phone number value for patrons.

Release Date: March 29, 2023

eContent Management Available for All Libraries

We are excited to announce that Electronic & Digital Content Management is ready for all of our clients!

For libraries who are live with Vega Discover

Submit a Vega Support Ticket and Support will enable this new feature for you.

For libraries that are in Implementations or the Development Partner Program

Reach out to your project or product manager contact to schedule a meeting and we will walk you through the setup.

eContent Management Features Breakdown

  1. Vendor Format Mapping. Tells Vega how to display content that we ingest from the vendor by mapping it to your existing ILS materials types. This will ensure that your econtent subscription materials interfile seamlessly with your other catalog materials in Vega and display to your patrons based on the material type vocabulary your library uses. Required before turning on the "Use API to provide records directly to Vega", option.

  2. "Use API to provide records directly to Vega", option for each configured subscription. Ingest Records directly to the Vega Context Engine bypassing the ILS. If you use this method, all econtent subscription data will be managed by Vega. Vega will update your subscription content daily to add new content, update existing content, and delete expired content.

  3. Upload Logo button for each vendor subscription. Allows the library to customize the vendor logo displayed in Vega search results.

  4. eContent Management view for Consortia. Allows consortia managers to view an overview of how eContent is configured across all Consortia Collection Sites. Allows Consortias that share econtent subscriptions among one or more Collection Sites to share subscription content to participating Collection Sites.

  5. Collection Site Level Configuration. Allows Collection Site member libraries that purchase econtent separately from the Consortia to ingest their purchased econtent directly into their site only.

  6. Record Extraction Logging tools. Allows libraries to view econtent extraction details including, daily log of data updated, list of added/updated titleIDs, count of deleted titleIDs, search for records via ISBN, view a list of ingested records with title, author, isbn, and format data, download vendor metadata mappings, download individual vendor title and vegaframe formatted title metadata that was ingested into Vega.

  7. Vendor provided images for ingested materials when available. Provides additional cover image coverage for titles that may not have a Syndetics provided image.

  8. ILS cataloged titleID record preference default. If you catalog a record with a matching titleID to an ingested vendor subscription content record Vega will display your ILS copy of the record instead of the ingested copy. This allows library catalogers to provide an additional level of cataloging to portions of their econtent collections by loading some materials and adding additional metadata in the ILS.

Suppress Items from View in Vega by Status

The Staff Admin setting for Item Status Mappings has been updated with a new column labeled 'Suppressed'.

Clarivate must run a process to add an item suppression data field to the system. So please wait until Friday March 31st to assure that this process has completed on your Vega system before suppressing item statuses.

Once this process is complete, to suppress items that have a given item status from displaying in Vega, click the checkbox next to a status and Save the configuration. Allow a couple minutes for the status updates to index in Vega and update the display. Suppressed status items will not display in the Location Drawer or Editions table. If a title only contains items with a suppressed status it will display like a record that has no items attached and will not be able to be found in searches that are limited by the suppressed item's Location.

Bug Fixes

Data Fix for Axis360 eAudiobooks

A problem was fixed for eAudiobooks that have been ingested from the Axis360 APIs directly into Vega Discover Context Engine. The eAudiobook material type code was unexpectedly changed by the vendor, breaking the mapping for these types of materials so that they were mapping as the Default format type.

If you were an eContent Management Beta Partner and previously ingested Axis360 materials please reach out to your Product Manager contact for assistance in reingesting these materials using the corrected mapping so that they show up as eAudiobook materials.