Enhancing Primo for users: viewing videos,indexing PDFs, displaying XML and more.

Abstract

Abstract: UNSW Library has an active development program to utilize the features of Primo to deliver improved searching and usability to users. This paper will discuss five developments over the past year: Creating a video tab in the Primo detailed view for users to play videos using an external streaming media server, or users can opt to play the videos in a new window. Collection- specific drop -down lists for advanced search. Enhanced searching and display using file-splitter to include information about objects stored in a repository such as their mime type and file size; displaying a citation in the Detailed view using an external citation builder application for a user to cut -and -paste; and indexing text extracted from PDFs stored in a repository. Links to access detailed records in multiple formats, including RDF and XML 5. Record-specific thumbnails based on record/resource type