Permalinks in Ex Libris Primo

ubfuberlin

When I am searching literature in library catalogs which are operating with Primo software of ExLibris the library catalog is mentioned (e.g. "fu-berlin.com") in the bibliographic description of the item in Zotero. But Primo offers also permalinks for the catalog entries, which are not grabbed by the connector. Is it possible to change this?

e. g. a permalink for a book ("Human Stain" by Philip Roth) in the catalog of Freie Universitaet Berlin:

https://fu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=FUB_ALMA_DS21887583470002883&context=L&vid=FUB&search_scope=FUB_ALL&tab=fub&lang=de_DE

Best regards,
Marc

bwiernik

Note that you wouldn’t store such a link in the URL field, as the actual full text of the item is not available from there. The only place you would want to store such a link would be as a link attachment, but I’m not sure most users would find it that particularly useful if they already have the item catalog information in their libraries.

adamsmith

We do store permalinks from other catalogs, so I'd be open to that, but it's a bit tricky with Primo in that I'm not sure there's a standard place the permalink gets stored in the PNX, i.e. the metadata.

At the FU Berlin, e.g., it's in addata/url and in display/lds06 -- I'm not sure we can rely on that always having the same meaning

datentaste

Hi Adam,

in fact there is no pre-defined place where the permalink is stored in the Primo PNX.
I would advise against display/lds06, because its a local field i.e. may vary among different institutions. The addata/url is more reliable by definition [1], but empty in the pre-defined normalization templates. So Primo admins from different libraries need to create a custom rule to store the link in addata/url, like we do at Freie Universität.

Unfortunately, even the vendor (Ex Libris) does not use addata/url for many resources coming from their external article-index (Primo Central), e.g.: https://fu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_doaj_soai_doaj_org_article_55c8e7a54ceb48e5800e584da70dfe2c&context=PC&vid=FUB&lang=de_DE&search_scope=FUB_PC&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=fub&query=any,contains,otlet paul&sortby=rank&facet=tlevel,include,open_access&offset=0&showPnx=true

Ex Libris suggests to use the link from the browser https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/apis/deep-links-new-ui/ but its not a permalink, as some parameters may change over time.

Another possibility is to catch the link from the Primo frontend.
Currently, its possible to create a permalink with a document ID (docid) like this:
https://[root]/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=[document ID]&vid=[VIEW-ID]&lang=[language]

Here is an example (local resource at FU) :
https://fu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=FUB_ALMA_DS21884799250002883&vid=FUB&lang=de_DE

Another example (external resource form Primo Central)
https://fu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_doaj_soai_doaj_org_article_55c8e7a54ceb48e5800e584da70dfe2c&context=PC&vid=FUB&search_scope=FUB_PC&tab=fub&lang=de_DE

I don't know if Zotero can access the document ID, _and_ View-ID. At least the Document ID is accessible via the RIS-Export, e.g. https://fu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?doc=FUB_ALMA_DS21884799250002883&vid=FUB&showRIS=true
but the View and URL-base must be deduced from the current browsers URL.

I hope this helps to improve Zotero - thank you for all your efforts.

Johannes

[1] https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Technical_Guide/010The_PNX_Record/140The_Additional_Data_Section#ww1050167