WorldShare Record Manager release notes, March 27 2025

 

Release Date: March 27, 2025

Introduction

This release of WorldShare Record Manager provides one new feature and enhancement in addition to three bug fixes. These features will help you manage more complex workflows, including:

New features and enhancements

Use new indexes for searching WorldCat Entities URIs

You can now use new indexes to search for WorldCat Entity URIs:

  • Author URI (ua:)  - things written by specific person entity
  • Subject URI (us:) -  things about specific person entity
  • Work URI (uw:)  - specific work entity
  • Event URI (ue:)  - things about a specific event entity
  • Place URI/up:)  - things about a specific place entity
  • Organization (Author) URI (uy:) - things written by an "organization as author" entity
  • Organization (Subject) URI (uz:) - things written about an "organization as author" entity

These indexes can now be used in an expert search query or through the Advanced Search window.

Example: expert search with uw: plus a URI; it searches for all bibliographic records that contain the work entity referenced via URI.

Please note that you have to type in the full URI as your search criteria.

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Example: advanced search with the uy: index and a URI in the input field

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The index dropdown in the Advanced Search window has now been extended with the new URI indexes. Per default, they appear at the bottom of the index list but you can easily find them by typing in "uri" and the list will auto-suggest the new indexes.

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New user preference for the new URI indexes

You can customize per search scope if and in which position you want the new URI indexes to display.

Go to User Preferences > Advanced Search and select a search scope. You can now check or uncheck all indexes and move them to the preferred order using the up/down arrows.

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Bug fixes

Validating an authority record failed with  no details given

You will now see details on why validation failed on an authority record if you have entered an unsupported character. Previously validation failed but did not give any details about the problem.

Searching field strings did not work correctly

You can now correctly search for field or text strings that contain more than one word. Previously the lookup would just search for the first word and then display the suggested strings.

A blank page showed on bibliographic result lists when facet "Kit" was selected

Result lists will now display correctly when a "Kit" facet was selected or when the results contain record(s) with a "Kit" format. Previously a blank page showed on bibliographic result lists when facet "Kit" was selected or when a record with format "Kit" appeared on the first page of a result list.

Important links

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