Using Generic XML to Create a Discovery Import Profile in Primo VE

Abstract

The Kentucky Digital Newspaper (KDNP) program, at the University of Kentucky Libraries, seeks to preserve Kentucky newspapers and make them freely available. The KDNP offers over eighty-seven thousand metadata records of historical newspaper content. While UK Libraries is embarking on its Primo VE implementation, the idea to integrate KDNP content into Primo VE was proposed and thus a project began to import the records. We decided to use a Generic XML file to import the records into Primo VE. This required the creation of a Discovery Import profile in Alma which used a normalization process containing normalization rules to transform the XML into a Dublin Core record and to create local fields. This project also involved mapping local fields for display, creating a local resource type, creating thumbnail images, and indexing full text for searching. This presentation outlines the work we performed to import and display the content.