In Scope:
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as of August 2018
- Functionality:
- Retrieving files? Probably not for v1; interim solution: retrieve manually
- Staging area? Yes
- Matching & dup rules? Yes
- Parsing the MARC files? Yes
- Create, Overlay/Update, Delete? Yes
- Loading files? Yes
- Outcomes of those loads? Yes
- Updating MARCcat?
- Updating Inventory?
- Updating Holdings?
- Updating Items?
- Updating Authorities?
- Updating Orders?
- Anything else? ERM?FOLIO Records Affected:
- MARCcat Bibliographic Record? Yes, via stored MARC Bib Record
- MARCcat Holdings Record? Yes, via stored MARC Holdings Record
- MARCcat Authority Record? Yes, via stored MARC Authority Record
- Inventory Instance? Yes, via stored MARC Bib Record
- Inventory Holdings? Yes, via stored MARC Bib or Holdings Record
- Inventory Items? Yes
- Inventory Container? TBD
- Orders? Yes
- Invoices? Yes, via MARC Bib Records and EDIFACT
- ERM? No
- Breadth:
- MARC-21 files only?
- Binary? Yes
- XML? Yes
- EDIFACT files?
- Other?
- MARC-21 files only?
- What MARC Loader(s) do we need in FOLIO?
- Migrating bib data into the system?
- MARCcat batch loader?
- Inventory batch loader?
- Searching & bringing a single record into the system?
- Can we combine?
- JSON? Probably not for v1
- UTF-8/Unicode character set? Yes
- MARC-8 character set? Probably not for v1; interim solution: convert to UTF-8 before loading
- EDIFACT Invoice files? Yes
- Delimited/flat files? Yes, but lowest priority; interim solution: convert to MARC before loading
- Order API data? Not through Batch Loader; will be handled in a different way
- Miscellaneous
- Load single records into FOLIO: TBD (needs further discussion); interim solution: use Batch Loader, but something more lightweight in the future
Out of scope:
- Exporting records from FOLIOMARC invoicing
- Complete bib/holdings/item data migration from previous system (may use some aspects of Batch Loader, but probably more CLI/JSON oriented and less UI-oriented than Batch Loader)