We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been deployed to the live service. Details of the inclusions are described in the preview release notice.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.
We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview.
This release fixes format information in results from EBSCO DS.
Fix format information in results from EBSCO DS
Currently, Prism treats all results from EDS as ‘electronic resource’. In this release Prism now uses the information returned by the EDS API to display the correct format of the item as identified by EDS and using EDS vocabulary.
Making the most of your preview
Since the EDS fix is important to those who use the EDS integration but does not affect other customers, we propose to reduce the preview period for this release to one day. However, please do check to ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected in terms of both functionality and styling.
If you identify any issues please raise a Support case.
As with every release, please also ensure that your extensions continue to work correctly.
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
This version of Prism will be released to the live service on Wednesday 8th October 2014.
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.
We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been deployed to the live service. Details of the inclusions are described in the preview release notice.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.
‘Xbox 360’ and ‘Nintendo Wii’ will be assigned as appropriate, in addition to the existing carrier format such as ‘DVD-ROM’. These will be derived from records where the Leader is coded for Computer file and a game platform name is recognised in the Edition or System Details fields.Improvements to the handling of main title information
We’ve revised the processing to derive the main title that displays for an item. This now preserves all parallel titles, removes the ‘et al’ problem, deals with issues involving numbers and tidies up punctuation and spacing.
Improvements to the handling of production, publication, etc. information
RDA cataloguing makes clearer distinctions within information about production, publication, 
manufacture and distribution. We’ve now reflected that in the Prism data model. Publication information will continue to display much as before, but any information about production, manufacture or distribution will be included in the Details section of the Item Detail page.
Security fixes
After conducting a regular penetration test a few small issues were raised and these are also fixed in this release.
Making the most of your preview
These changes will only take effect after the release to the live service, and then records will need to be re-posted to Prism to be processed through the new version. However, please do check the preview version to ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected in terms of both functionality and styling.
If you identify any issues please raise a Support case.
As with every release, please also ensure that your extensions continue to work correctly.
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 Thursday 28th August 2014.
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.
We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been deployed to the live service, as planned. Details of the inclusions are described in the preview release notice.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.
It’s clear from Prism user feedback and comments from customers that it would be helpful to have some indication of how long it will take for a reservation to become available. To satisfy this requirement we’ve added a new column, ‘Position’, to the Reservations page in ‘My Account’. This shows your current place in the re
servation queue, or for multi-work reservations, your place in the queue of the first work that will become available.
Because we’re showing more data on this page we’ve also made a small tweak to the way we handle titles here to prevent things looking cluttered, especially on mobile devices. The statement of responsibility is no longer displayed and long titles are truncated. To see the entire title (and statement of responsibility) you can click the title or cover image, which takes you to the item detail page.
In the Prism Pro EBSCO Discovery Service integration feature there was an issue where selected facets didn’t persist when changing pages; this has now been rectified.
The Prism Pro ILL Module has a feature that searches Prism and other local discovery interfaces before placing a request, to ensure the item isn’t already in stock. We’ve tweaked the way this search is conducted to ensure more relevant results are presented to your users.
Making the most of your preview
This release is now available for you to preview. Please do make the most of this opportunity to gain familiarity with the new features and ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected.
If you identify any issues with your styling please raise a Support case.
As with every release, please also ensure that your extensions continue to work correctly.
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 during next week, w/b 11th August 2014.
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.
If you were unable to attend the Prism Development Update webinar on Monday 7th July or would like to review what we covered then you can catch up on latest developments by watching the recording of the webinar below or by downloading the video.
Highlights include:
We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been deployed to the live service, as planned. Details of the inclusions are described in the preview release notice.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.
We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview, with associated features in a new release of the Admin Console.
This release includes:
Resource Management
Resource Management allows you efficiently to manage metadata workflows associated with collections of resources. Uploading files of records directly to Prism, you can 
provide for discovery and access to resources and maintain an accurate representation of your collections. This can be used for any collection where MARC records are provided and there is no need for them in the LMS database, such as Demand Driven Acquisition plans and subscription collections of ebooks or ejournals.
The latest release of the Admin Console includes a new ‘Resource Management’ option in the Prism section. This allows you to create and manage collections by uploading files of MARC records directly to Prism.
It provides your list of resource collections and the option to add a new collection. Each collection has a name, a provider, a status, a count of the records representing the resources in the collection, and options to edit, suspend, or delete the collection. When the status is ‘Active’ the resources are discoverable in Prism. You can temporarily remove them from being discoverable in Prism simply by clicking ‘Suspend’; the button changes to ‘Resume’, allowing you to restore discoverability with another click. You might use this to suspend a Demand Driven Acquisition plan. The Delete button removes the collection and all its records.
To add a collection you specify a few details and upload a MARC file from your computer or network. To update a collection with addition, change or deletion records, 
you Edit the collection and upload the relevant file. When you add a collection, as well as specifying the name, provider and status, you can select one or more Locations (this is optional and provides ‘Library Location’ facet entries from your data), and you must select at least one ‘Collection’ (the kind defined in the LMS), such as ‘Main Catalogue’, to include the records within the scope of your catalogue.
To try out Resource Management without affecting your live catalogue you can upload data to your sandbox tenancy – select the ‘-sandbox’ Prism tenancy when you go into the Admin Console. Uploaded active data will appear only in your sandbox Prism catalogue. This means you can upload and play with any files, such as those for DDA plans and subscription collections that you have already processed for the live catalogue.
Use of question mark in queries
This fixes a problem where searches for titles ending in a question mark were finding no results because the question mark is the wildcard symbol. Now, a question mark at the end of the query is ignored, so queries such as these work: ‘Why ‘Is multiculturalism bad for women?’ and ‘You talkin’ to me?’.
Making the most of your preview
The Admin Console release is live, at https://admin.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk. The Prism release is now available for you to preview. Please do make the most of this opportunity to gain familiarity with the new features and ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected.
If you identify any issues with your styling please raise a Support case.
As with every release, please also ensure that your extensions continue to work correctly.
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 next week, w/b 30th June 2014.
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.
In a recent enhancement to the user experience in Prism we’ve provided integration with OverDrive eBooks (including eAudio) so that users can see the availability and formats of 
items, download or reserve them, and see their downloads account, directly within Prism. Until now, users have had to follow a link to a separate OverDrive catalogue to manage their e-loans, where they can sign in using their library card number and PIN if you have a Connect for OverDrive licence.
Not only does this help drive up usage of your ebook collection by making it easier to use and increasing awareness of it, but also it gives users a more holistic view of their interactions with the library, with ebook 
transactions incuded in My Account.
You can see see from the image that users can also go back to their ebook loan at any time and download it as many times as they wish for the period of the loan.
If the user wishes to “return” the item in the OverDrive library before it expires, this will update their My Account area of Prism in real time too.
One of the next steps for development that we’re investigating is the possibility of reporting via Decisions on ebook usage.
We’re also adding integration with more ebooks providers – we’re working on integrating Askews and Holts eBooks and eAudio. We are keen to include as many suppliers as we can, so please do get in touch with suggestions for those you’d like to see next.
If you were unable to attend either of the recent webinars on Prism eBooks Integration or would like to review what we covered then you can catch up by watching the recording of the webinar below or by downloading the video.
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For more information about Connect for OverDrive and integrating Prism with OverDrive, please contact your Account Manager.
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