2024-06-03 Meeting notes: Material type: make optional or keep required

5 min

Announcements

Martina Schildt

• Planning to join PO meeting - decide on date

  • June 19 (2 votes)

  • July 17 (2 votes)

• 2024 Meeting and topic calendar

15 min

Schema changes planned for Ramsons

Ryan Taylor

Presentation of planned changes

40 min

Material type

Presentation of use case and discussion

Kristin Martin

All

Use cases and arguments: https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/AQAqD

Announcements

• June 19 is a public holiday in US

• we will need another option

• Martina Schildt will check with Khalilah

Schema changes

• Main idea: add new fields for subject type and subject source in instance source

• UXPROD-4445: Subject Heading Granularity Updates - Instance schema changes (Folijet)

• new fields would live under subject headings

• Charlotte: better presentation for MARC authority data

  • maybe adjustments for Bibframe and Linked Data app are needed

• Folijet is assisting with linked data app > means both teams are in communication

• will be part of Ramsons - and is on a good way

• There seem to be paired values part of the new schema: if you have subjects, do libraries need to have subject type and subject source

  • they are scoped out to not be required

Material type

• not much is required in the item, but the material type is

• it is not used by all institutions, e.g. Chicago does not use material type

• it is required on the POL as soon as a user wants to create an item in Inventory

• Chicago had issues with data import and material types when migrating to Poppy CSP#4

  • part of migration needed to be rolled back

• the proposal of making material not required has been around for a while

• as we are making “breaking” changes with the schema changes