Talis Aspire Digitised Content
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Rollover - email to requestors
An automated way of contacting all requestors to find out what digitisations they would like to have rolled over would be very useful. Currently this involves sending lots of emails to the requestors of digitisations, to ask which digitisations they want made available next year, which is rather labour-intensive and time consuming.
7 votesThis idea is currently under review while we explore the rollover option in TADC.
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TADC search and reuse from the DCS
The ability of TADC to search for scans already undertaken as part of the CLA's Digital Content Store would be a huge boon to small institutions especially. Whilst TADC is a great workflow solution, it does not currently hold anything apart from 'our' content in the Vault. If we could source scans from the DCS, that would be hugely useful!
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Ability to report on time taken to fulfil requests
We would like to be able to run a report detailing the length of time requests take to be filled, so that we look at establishing sensible KPIs and identify any persistent issues.
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Report of items with new editions /e-versions before starting Rollover process ?
Have the ability to run a report ( which checks for newer editions / e-versions before rollover. It might have to pick up items where last year the lecturer said they were happy with the older edition, but still let us know there were newer edtions after that? We have a policy of not rolling over material unless it's confirmed that the material is required, &
sometimes we don;t get a reply to a renewal email until just before the course starts, start the rollover process , find a potential newer edition, & have to decide between checking with the…5 votes -
Exceeded copy limit workflow stage
It would be useful to have an exceeded copy limit workflow stage added to TADC. We found that we have to keep a note of the local workflow stages outside of TADC for requests that exceed the copy limit. For these requests, we check if an e-book is available for purchase and if not, we contact the lecturer asking them to prioritise one chapter. Having a mechanism to monitor those steps in TADC would mean that all information relating to a given request is available in one place.
8 votesWe have noted this piece of work and the advantage this would bring to your workflows. We will keep you updated as this is prioritised.
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A communications facility in TADC to alert academics pre-rollover
It's important for us to be able to easily communicate with academics of their current digitisations and whether they would like them rolled over into the next period. Apart from a Bournemouth University issue with unit IDs changing every year which makes the rollover of digitisations essential it is vital that we maintain a communications link within the TADC module between library staff and the academic community engaged with TARL and TADC to preserve the integrity and relevance of content within reading lists
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E-book availability checks
We would like to see a tool added to the concierge that would check availability of e-books for purchase from e-book aggregators, such as Askews, Dawson or EBL. As we do not digitise from items available as e-books, we would find it helpful to have the checks done by the concierge rather than perform them manually for each request.
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Display Requests in reverse order
By default the requests are listed with the most recently submitted at the top. At this time of year when a lot of requests are coming in (but they are not required until September) we would prefer to work through them in the order they arrive (so start with request 1). We only went live this week but already I have to scroll to page 3 to find the earliest submitted request. Would it be possible to click on the column headings to change the order of the list?
4 votesWe think the idea is valuable and it is in our longer term backlog for review, scoping and prioritising at a later date
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Rollover digitisations to new time period
At present, the default start and end dates TADC uses for digitisation rollovers are the previously entered dates plus 1 year. Should module dates change, this will mean that course details need to be edited manually on a list-by-list basis. It would be useful therefore to have the default dates set as the new time period for the reading list that the items are on (or at least the option to choose these dates).
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include reject reason in email
When a Digitisation request is rejected, a reason is selected from a drop-down list. It would make sense for this reason to be included in the reject email to the Requestor. At present the same or similar information has to be typed into the Notes field.
(It may also be desirable, for institutions, to be able to ad to the reasons for rejection).6 votesWe are looking at this and how more information can be provided in the emails sent following a rejected digitisation.
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Deletion of bookmark with request linked to it
I would like to request some sort of communication to be sent to the requester and to the Digitisation Service when a bookmark is deleted and has a digitisation request linked to it.
Our experience was with deletion of a bookmark with the request pending to be processed.
There was no automated communication to the requester to notify him/her that the deletion was for a bookmark that had a digitisation request attached to it.
There was no communication from the system to let the Digitisation Service or Admin side of TADC know that the bookmark had been deleted and therefore…51 votes -
Display indication of Expired digitisations within TARL
Within TARL Expired digitisations are not clearly identifiable. The current display of Expired digitisations within TARL:
- From the TARL edit list view - still appears as ‘Digitisation Live’
- From the TARL list view - still displays the Online Resource buttons
- With the CNAME feature active, within the bookmark item view - if the browser is not maximized, the 'view digitisation in a new window' button appears
The display of the Expired digitisation in these three areas is confusing for both staff and students.
This idea suggests to make changes to any or all of these three areas to more clearly…
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Include module code in the subject line of automated emails
We would like to add module codes to the subject line of the automated emails that requesters get when their requests are made live or rejected. Many requesters look after several modules and request numbers mean nothing to them. It would be easier for them to see at a glance the module concerned and they are also more likely to pay attention to the email as a result.
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Automatic notification of the need to renew digitised readings
We would like to receive a notice when digitised readings are about to expire. It would also be useful to have the ability to automatically inform the module leader of this, to see if they want the item renewed for another year.
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Display the status 'Digitisation Pending' in Reading list view in TARL
During the time gap between when Library staff click on the Request Digitisation link from a bookmark in TARL, and Library staff uploading a digitised file into TADC, having the status 'Digitisation Pending' displayed in the Reading list view in TARL, so students, academics and staff can identify why a resource on their reading list may not yet be available electronically.
18 votesThe message that a digitisation is pending now appears in the academic view when editing a list so staff and academics will see this.
We will continue to review the need for this in the student view.
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Ability to amend a URL when linking a digitisation to a Reading list in Aspire
We had an incidence when a digitisation request was raised by one of our Library staff and they inadvertently linked the digitisation to the wrong URL within the reading list in aspire.
Instead of being able to delete the incorrect URL and replacing it with the correct one, the complete request had to be withdrawn and resubmitted.
It would have been great if we could have just changed the URL and reloaded the original request.
Would this be possible please?20 votes -
Ability to search digital content module by bibliographic detail
Could it be made possible to search the digital content module by bibliographic detail?
This would allow us to check whether a particular extract is already in the collection and locate it, also to be aware of multiple articles from the same journal, etc.
44 votesWhilst the concierge checks the vault and copy limits on any requests received, there may be a need to check in advance of placing a request by digitisation staff, so improved searching is something we would like to address but is not currently in our near term development focus.
It has been placed into moved to the longer term backlog.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Allow academics/requestors ability to preview uploaded scans prior to course commencement
Once a scan has been uploaded and we advise academics tthat it is now available on their reading list, they would like to actually view the pdf to ensure it is the correct item and sufficent quality, prior to the course commencement date when it becomes available to students.
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Ability to place a TADC digitisation in more than one place in a list
Items quite often appear twice in our reading lists - Once in the recommended texts and then later on in the list in a weekly reading section
It would be useful to have an easy way to put the same TADC digitisation in more than one place in a list
50 votesThis is not currently in our near term development focus but is something we woudl like to explore in the future
It has been placed into moved to the longer term backlog.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Adding a note for library staff use
There are a number of scenarios where we would like to make a note against a request to flag up some special circumstances which apply to that request.
For example:
1) Explaining we are copyright compliant where it might look like we're not e.g. where page numbers look excessive/two sections of book which make up less than 5%
2) Explaining a discrepancy with the catalogue e.g. looks like we have an electronically available copy/sub but is actually a catalogue error
3) Renewals note e.g. determined at renewal that although there's a newer edition it doesn't have relevant chapter so will…
71 votes
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