South Asia Archive Product Roadmap
Immediately, the platform will benefit from:
a modern, mobile-responsive platform that works on all browsers;
search, page, and image loading that is ten to twenty times faster than before;
an advanced search UI that includes NEAR operators and wildcard truncation;
a user interface that displays more than 100 languages;
additional indexing, both human- and AI-powered; and
the ability for users to create lists, share, and upload content.
The migration schedule is as follows:
May 20 through June 5, a select group of librarians will be beta testing and providing feedback. Please let us know if you’d like to be part of this program;
June 5 through June 30, your institution will be automatically authenticated on the platform and we will share further details about the migration;
June 30, we will begin redirecting traffic from the legacy site to our platform.
Features currently under development
Item | Detail | Timeframe |
Customer portal | Enable librarians to self-source MARC records and COUNTER statistics. | Early Fall 2022 |
Additional topics for browsing | More topics to facilitate more precise searching | Summer 2022 |
Improved product description and help files | Improved description of database and its features with new text and help videos | Summer 2022 |
Series | Remove single items from series tab and add summary describing each series’ historical context and import. | Summer 2022 |
Merge individual segments | Documents were originally divided into segments for faster loading. However, this prevents the ability to search and page forward within an entire document. | Fall 2022 |
Thumbnail Gallery | The ability to view all pages in volume as thumbnails | Fall 2022 |
Print & download | Enable printing and downloading | Fall 2022 |
Tighter controlled vocabulary for Organization/Publisher/Printer/Author | Increased standardization of entity names and separation of publisher and printer | TBA |
Addition of publisher region | Creation of a new metadata field and data ingestion | TBA |
Known bugs - updated June 6, 2022
Item | Detail | Timeframe |
No known bugs at this time. | |
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