2025-10-06 Cross App SIG Meeting notes

5 min

Announcements

• Upcoming Sessions: 2025 Meeting and Topic CalendarPreview

  • Reached out to John Coburn about User Preferences

  • LOC is on hold until…?

• I picked October 30 for our PC slot.

Search and Standards Documentation

• What needs to happen next to get this done? (See

  for WOLFcon sldies)

  • Re-confirm the goal/features/requirements

    • A user should be able to easily find how a search field works for certain advanced features (truncation, wildcard searching, whitespace handling).

    • A user should be able to easily see whether or not FOLIO complies with what the community has decided is the standard for these edge cases across the system as a whole.

  • Choose a place for the documentation to live ⭐️

    • Do nothing

    • Use the Wiki <--this was more popular than anticipated

      • If we do this, as far as I can tell it will not be interactive--there is no way to make searching easy in these huge tables. It will also be challenging to keep things in alignment and make updates. However, this is central and easy to maintain

    • Use raw Jira issues and report out on them

    • Put it in the docs <--this got some traction

      • If we do this, it could just be one more section in the docs area where the field appears. That seems appealing--this is where I would assume most people would look.

      • It won’t be possible to do things like look at compliance across the system as a whole, I don’t think. The docs is also not easy to search.

    • Piggyback on an institution’s service like Libguides

    • Create a web extension

    • Literally put it in FOLIO helptext

    • Create a document

      • Maybe a massive spreadsheet is the way to go?

    • Create a website <--this is still probably the easiest (see https://taracbarnett.github.io/search-standards-test-2/)

      • Like that it’s flexible, hate that it's external and challenging to update for novices.

  • Enter the data

  • Tour-de-sigs