We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview.
This release includes:

• Stock Purchase Request form (Prism Pro)
• Integrated search service item data available via the Prism Linked Data API

Stock Purchase Request form (Prism Pro)

This new Prism Pro feature provides a form where users can recommend items for purchase by the library. All the Prism text is configurable, as usual. The user is invited to sign in, if not already signed in, before the form is displayed. When the form is submitted the bibliographic information is used to search your Prism catalogue to see whether you already have the item. If you have, then brief details of the most relevant match are displayed with options to check availability or view more results or, alternatively the user can submit their stock purchase request. If no match is found then the details entered by the user are re-displayed with a button to confirm and submit the request.

An order and Work (including a MARC record) are created and the order number is displayed to the user as a reference number to use for enquiries. In Alto, the Order status is potential and the Type is ‘Reader request’. The requester’s barcode number is given in Source and in the Note with some text indicating that it is a stock purchase request. No items are generated.

For further information and to enable the Stock Purchase Request form please contact your Account Manager. This feature requires Local data Services (LDS) version 1.10, which, in turn, requires that you are on Alto version 5.6.1. or higher. Documentation on creating a link in the Prism header to the Stock Purchase Request form, when enabled, is given in the Prism Forum.

Integrated search service item data available via the Prism Linked Data API

It has been possible for some time to get search results from integrated search services such as Summon, EDS and others via the Prism Linked Data API for re-use in other applications. In this release we’ve extended the Item Data feature of the Linked Data API to allow the details of an individual item in an integrated search service (typically one that occurred in search results) to be retrieved in a variety of formats. To construct the URL to do this, please refer to the Prism Linked Data API documentation, in the Item Data API section.

Making the most of your preview

Please check the preview version as early as possible to familiarise with the new functionality and to ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected in terms of both functionality, including extensions, and styling.

To preview this release, please precede your tenancy URL with ‘demo.’, like this: demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk/{your tenancy name}. If you have your own host name, you’ll need to use demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk instead.

Release to the live service

The release of Prism to the live service will be on Wednesday 20th May 2015.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Prism blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.