Data Import Community Minimal Viable Product (MVP)

Data Import Community Minimal Viable Product (MVP)

From PC vision document

What functionality should FOLIO support?

  • Ability to import and export data across all areas of functionality, including connections with external systems (e.g., data import for inventory/acquisitions, APIs)

  • Queries and reports within and across different functional areas of FOLIO (e.g., lists, queries, connections to external reporting tools)

 

What is the user experience?

 

FOLIO users should experience a uniform and intuitive user interface and experience, which covers the following features:

  • Comfortable and diverse search functionality

  • Comfortable and flexible system configuration 

  • Duplication and validation check, with meaningful error messages

  • Flexible customization of interfaces, templates, messages, layout of output to meet local library needs

  • Flexible workflow management

  • Roles, rights and permissions management; 

 

What are some additional FOLIO features?

This final category is a compilation of non-functional/architectural considerations that make FOLIO a better product:

  • The architecture must be scalable and reliable, capable of working with large amounts of data

  • FOLIO should follow a modular concept, allowing for expansion or substitution of functionality to account for local or regional requirements 

  • FOLIO should use APIs in support of interoperability. (e.g., for discovery, finance systems, student registry system, identity management, bibliographic databases, self-­service systems, interlibrary loan, etc.)

  • FOLIO should meet all standard accessibility guidelines

 

Are there areas that are out-of-scope?

Although part of some LSPs, FOLIO does not offer functionality in the following areas, instead relying on APIs for third-party integrations:

  • Knowledge bases for article-level content or link resolution

  • Discovery interfaces