2024-03-11 Meeting notes: Agreements + Inventory interaction

Date

11 Mar 2024 

Meeting will be an hour earlier for Europeans due to time changes.

Housekeeping

• Convener and notes: Martina Schildt 
• Next meeting: 20 Mar 2024 

Discussion items

1. Meeting frequency
2. AGR and INV interactions  
   1. Tentative: 
   2. Technical input on application to aplication linkage
   3. Get guidelines or information on standard approach for storing a link
3. WOLFcon session ideas

Minutes

Meeting frequency

• less frequent meetings 
• keep alternating meetings

AGR and INV interactions 

Defined as next steps in last meeting:

• Identify what can be solved
• Identify what the minimal needs are
• Come back to this discussion rather sooner than later
• Discussion with technical input on application to aplication linkage of this type
• Get guidelines or information on standard approach for storing a link
• figuring out where the connecting points are that make sense to have those connection/integration happen

Minimal requirements

• ability to display link in all records | generic link field that simply points to another record 
  • in Agreements users would like to have this as a first step for AGLs
  • ability to add multiple links to one AGL
  • a URL (might be list of records or concrete titles) > to get a list of records you currently need to add codes to Inventory records (as pre-work)
    • in contrast to the record UUID that would always link to a specific record
  • similar to what is already available in supplementary documents in agreements
  • using URLs seems more flexible 
  • adding URLs as well as linking to UUIDs will provide one way linkage
  • URLs are searches
  • URL would also give flexibility to link to other things

Maximal requirements

• Changing a link on one side should update it in the other app automatically

Level at which linkage needs to take place

• Inventory side: Instance versus Holdings
• Agreements: resource in a KB exposed by Agreements versus AGL level (resource or package of resources)
• example: this AGL covers this Inventory resource
• linkage from both sides needed

Next steps

• Community survey to understand use cases and what will work best for most sites
• continue this discussion on 20 Mar 2024 
• discuss what options we will present to Community on 20 Mar 2024 
• discuss possible WOLFCon topics 20 Mar 2024 
• Martina will propose a new meeting frequency that can be discussed on 20 Mar 2024 

Chat

Attendees

Action items