Page Comparison

In Scope: 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
    
    
• 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
    
    
• BreadthTypes of Source Records:
  • MARC-21 files?  Yes
    • Binary? Yes
    • XML? Yes
    • 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 FOLIO
• 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)