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

Date

Mar 11, 2024 

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

Housekeeping

• Convener and notes: @Martina Schildt 

• Next meeting: Mar 20, 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 Mar 20, 2024 

• discuss what options we will present to Community on Mar 20, 2024 

• discuss possible WOLFCon topics Mar 20, 2024 

• Martina will propose a new meeting frequency that can be discussed on Mar 20, 2024 

Chat

Attendees

Action items