2024-07-23 BELA Meeting Notes

1

Housekeeping

• Attendees  - please add your name to the list of attendees.

• Who can take notes today? Let’s start selecting the notetaker in the alphabetical order of the first name. We will start with “A” today. If there is no one with the first name starting with “A” we will move down the alphabet.

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Ramsons release updates

• Bulk edit (Kanban Board)

  • most current work is on the backend

  • Instance records

    • new search functionality

    • normalized column headings

• Lists app (Kanban board)

  • collaboration with BE to make querying faster
    
    

Bulk edit of FOLIO instances’ notes is a part of ongoing UAT: Microsoft Forms

• Please participate and provide feedback

4

Follow up on Bulk edit MARC Instances

Issues raised by SMEs:

https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/gpdW

• Not all libraries might have slicing enabled for data import

  • Enabling slicing is recommended

  • Not enabling will impact BE and Data Import, possibly other apps

• Slicing timeouts

• Priority of data import jobs

  • BE will adhere to same prioritization

  • Jennifer Eustis: concerns about prioritization of Edifact files

    • DI group said can’t be prioritized

    • Magda will look into it

    • Sara Colglazier supports on behalf of 5 Colleges

• Overwriting fields protection

  • Doable with profile creation

  • Possibly need to move to next release (Sunflower?)

• Bulk edit logs are prefered

  • Will display errors from DI

  • User can navigate to DI for more details

• BE for MARC records Ramsomes will be POC

  • Lynne Fors wants to stress to users that this is POC

  • Amanda Ros suggested making announcements in BELA and MM Slack channels

Question from developers:

• LDR and 005 fields changes on the preview

  • MARC preview: should we update LDR and 005 accordingly?

  • Amanda Ros: Is it all or nothing or can it be a changeable setting?

  • Jennifer Eustis: Be consistent with QuickMARC behavior

  • Magda supports updating

  • Bob Scheier demo in QuickMARC, updates 005 once saved

5

Follow up on Bulk edit: Errors vs. Warnings

Kimie’s mockups:

• Consensus “looks great”

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Implementation topics

• https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/_oEm

  • Created by Jennifer Eustis

  • Add vote/like button?

    • Sara Colglazier: Helps with setting priorities

    • Magda: Devote some meeting time to review? Will help clarify stories

    • Sara: adding topics to the table is valuable for discussions and clarifying questions

    • Jennifer: Transparency and keeping track of topics

    • How to address topics?:

      • Sara: In Acq, in chronological order

      • Jennifer: likes Magda’s 15 minutes suggestion

• https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BICdD