2023-12-18 Meeting notes: Text field enrichment | 2024 outlook

Date

 

Housekeeping

Discussion items

  1. Text fields enrichment (RTF, HTML)

Minutes

Feedback in Slack

Bernd Oberknapp: Hi, have you considered markdown (or some markdown flavor) as an alternative to HTML or RTF for rich text fields? This seems to meet the requirements and probably would be easier to handle. HTML and RTF would have to be sanitized to avoid introducing security issues or breaking the frontend, and RTF also has other issues (we try to get rid of RTF in our current library system because for example many mail systems block RTF for security reasons). Using markdown which is much more readable in the original format and can be rendered for display in different ways seems a much better choice to me.

Maura Byrne: I've spoken with people in my department at UChicago, and there was a fair amount of opposition to the idea of changing plain text fields to RTF or HTML.  Basically, it complicates imports and exports, because the entities that either supply or receive data will have to "know" that the data isn't in plain text, and what format it's in.  Someone brought up that HTML might be insecure, if javascript isn't excluded.I asked the opinion of the members of UM-SIG, and the general opinion boiled down to "is the juice worth the squeeze?"  How would we have to change our current setups, workflows, data models, and does the benefit offset that?Also, would something like using RTF or HTML be configurable?  Could UChicago opt out of using it at all?

Response Zak Burke: Yes, this could be an opt-in per-institution setting.

Laura Daniels: So far, there is general opposition to the idea of any rich text/html in Inventory or quickMARC

Requirements

→ do not apply text field enrichment to all fields = opt-in

→ opt-in per institution

Use cases

Use cases for text field enrichment | rtf, html, markdown


2024 topics

  • continue text field enrichment
  • open container discussion items:
    • no integration between Agreements and Inventory - better integration between electronic and physical needed
      • question: how can we best discuss this?
    • capture history over a long time - this is what we had expected from containers and this is still needed in FOLIO
  • Owen Stephens  will prepare problem statements related to Agreements and Inventory interaction and present to AI end of January 2024
  • Filters: contains vs. starts with - from WOLFcon discussion - to be continued 

General: 

  • do we have a member that regularly attends Implementers SIG and could bring discussions and questions there? - like a liaison?
  • same for PO meeting?

Next steps


Chat


Attendees

Present

Name

Home Organization


Amanda RosTAMU

Ann-Marie Breaux

EBSCO


Brooks Travis

EBSCO


Charlotte Whitt

Index Data


Dennis Bridges

EBSCO


Dung-Lan ChenSkidmore College

Gill Osguthorpe

UX/UI Designer - K-Int


Heather McMillan Thoele

TAMU


Ian Ibbotson

Developer Lead - K-Int


Jana Freytag

VZG, Göttingen


Khalilah Gambrell

EBSCO


Kimberly Pamplin

Kristin Martin

Chicago


Laura Daniels

Cornell


Lloyd Chittenden

Marmot Library Network


Marc JohnsonK-Int

Martina Schildt

VZG, Göttingen


Martina Tumulla

hbz, Cologne


Maura Byrne

Chicago


Mike Gorrell

Index Data


Mike TaylorIndex Data

Natascha OwensChicago

Owen Stephens

Product Owner -  Owen Stephens Consulting


Patty Wanninger

EBSCO


Sara ColglazierFive Colleges / Mount Holyoke College Library

Kimie KesterEBSCO

John CoburnEBSCO

Zak BurkeEBSCO

Corrie HutchinsonIndex Data

Lisa McCollLehigh

Jean PajerekCornell

Mark Veksler

Scott PerryU. of Chicago

Sharon BelaineCornell

vbar

Natalya PikulikCornell

Kara Hart

Cathy Tuohy

Jamie Jesanis

Action items

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