Today's note-takers: Team Leads for project updates
Announcements / Reminders
Angela
Table conversion from LDP to Metadb
Working on a spreadsheet that matches current LDP tables up with new Metadb tables, which should make it easy to convert existing LDP queries to work with Metadb
Reporting SIG Holiday Schedule
Plan to cancel December 27 and January 3
Any additional dates we should cancel? Maybe December 20?
Recruiting New Query Developers
The Reporting SIG is always on the look-out for new query developers. Please let us know if you are interested in doing query development or if there are others at your institution who might be a good fit.
Planning for WOLFcon 2022
Angela
Request to PC:
WOLFcon 2022 planning underway - andwe need SIG/Council input. August 31 through September 2 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. See slides for details. Need ideas for sessions; for instance, from community council: governance retrospective/discussion, quarterly community meeting, and budget and planning session. The early ideas can be rough; they are useful for people planning budgets. Thinking there should be sessions for developers, SMEs and SIG members, and library leadership. Add items toFOLIO at WOLFconby December 1. Refinements will happen starting in December.
Any thoughts?
What is WOLFCon?
technically all OLF projects (FOLIO, ReShare, VuFind, GoKB), but historically FOLIO had a big presence
2021 was virtual
Technical Council goes into deeper topics at these gatherings (e.g., technical debt, architectural blueprint)
Reporting SIG often offers training, also advocating
Can meet with other SIGs
what are the sorts of things we cannot do well in our weekly one hour; things that benefit from longer time, physical presence; training, workshopping
want to share with organizers - expect there to be many virtual attendees, need a true A/V, technical presence like you would have for distance learning; at past WOLFcon, we have brought our own devices - laptops on Zoom, microphones, cameras, etc. Very difficult for non-physical attendees to understand what is happening.
Also climate consciousness - virtual attendance is better for the world
what would make a virtual conference different from our normal virtual meetings?
blocking calendars
regional meet-ups
virtual attendance certificates
encourage change of mindset, have people really step away form normal day-to-day
topic thoughts
panel discussion with people who have implemented reporting database solutions (give advice, answer questions) - LDP, Panorama, Bywater, anything else
keep repeating that reporting is important
options for hosting a reporting environment
overview of reporting platforms (e.g, Metadb & LDLite)
FOLIO Analytics introduction
What are FOLIO's commitments to, e.g., openness? How can the governance model protect those commitments against industry pressures?
things to think about
there are limited spots for full-group presentations
there are limited rooms for meetings in the venue
we could potentially organize virtual gatherings alongside WOLFcon without requiring a room in Germany
Updates and Query Demonstrations from Various Reporting Related Groups and Efforts
Community & Coordination, Reporting Subgroup Leads
Project updates
Reporting development is using small subgroups to address priorities and complete work on report queries. Each week, these groups will share reports/queries with the Reporting SIG. Reporting development team leads are encouraged to enter a summary of their work group activities below.
RA/UM Working Group
Getting back into query writing, will talk soon about whether to focus on metadb or keep going with new LDP queries
Angela will begin attending RA SIG meetings every two weeks or so to open the lines of communication
Contact Angela if you would like to join these meetings; Wednesdays
The zoom link for the meeting is https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99254861410. Usual FOLIO password. Our lab sessions are open to everyone. Please bring your questions, examples, and comments about reporting and metadata.
Meetings are 1st Tuesday of the month 12-1pm ET
ERM Working Group
On going investigation on extracting ERM data with LDlite
will rebuild existing derived tables with LDlite
will show results and examples on 22nd Nov
Work in progress on report of agreements by cancellation dates
Group will pilot to document this areas documentation on mermaid
weekly meetings on Thursdays at 9am ET on zoom – contact Sharon Beltaine for zoom link and invitation
Reporting SIG Documentation Subgroup
No changes
Additional Context
Over the next few months, Reporting SIG Documentation Subgroup will be helping to build end-user documentation for https://docs.folio.org/docs/ (much will be linking to existing documentation over on GitHub)
external statistics reports (e.g., ACRL) typically require running queries from different functional reporting areas
these reports will be captured in JIRA under one UXPROD-XXXX report cluster issue, then the descriptions will point to each of the queries required to run them on the folio-analytics repository
institutions will need to rank each of these 8 new UXPROD-XXXX report cluster issues
each reporting development team will take responsibility for the queries in their area for the external statistics clusters
Product Council
For all recent work on FOLIO Reporting SQL development: