Archive-It Integration in Primo/Primo VE
by Yael Shahar
June 23, 2021
You can integrate search results from Archive-It within the Primo/Primo VE interface by using the new ‘Archive-It-Open-Search-API-Primo-widget.’
The following example was developed by Ex Libris to support the integration of Archive-It for the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC). Other institutions can benefit from the example by using the code and adjusting several parameters as detailed below.
How does the Archive-It integration look in the Primo user interface?
When entering a search term in Primo, we use the Archive-It search API to display the results on top of the Primo search results. We display the first result from Archive-It and links to other results and versions are presented.
How to use the Archive-It integration widget?
The widget can be found here:
https://github.com/ExLibrisGroup/Archive-It-Open-Search-API-Primo-widget
To use it, just:
- Copy the content of the ‘custom1.css’ into your ‘custom1.css’ file.
- Copy from custom.js file lines starting at “app.component” and ending with the line before last with the closing brackets (“}])”), into your custom.js file.
- Adjust the following parameters to include the relevant values for your institution:
- moreResultsURL
- apiUrl