2017-03-10 Internationalization SIG Meeting Notes

2017-03-10 Internationalization SIG Meeting Notes

Date, Time, and Connection Information

Mar 10, 2017 at 12:30pm UTC (7:30am Eastern U.S. time). The meeting will be held using Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/207849732 

Attendees

  • @Charlotte Whitt

  • @Cate Boerema (Deactivated)

  • @Ann-Marie Breaux (Deactivated)

  • @Massoud Alshareef

  • @Jesse Koennecke

  • @Julian Ladisch

Goals

  • Discuss I18N needs that are not yet on the spreadsheet

Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

Time

Item

Who

Notes

30 min

I18n tab in 2018 Document

Cate

  • Page layout responsive to text direction for selected language moved to v1 because it's being considered in FOLIO UI components

  • Added row clarifying that FOLIO won't translate user-generated content (e.g. Notes) or library resource metadata (unless translation is supplied in source data)

25

Discussed other tab themes in document to see if any had I18n implications

Ann-Marie

Miscellaneous other international implications (not necessarily i18n - most should be covered by other tabs)

  • What EDI standards are used in the middle east? Edifact is default standard. Between that and API communication, we should be covered globally

  • Need to have flexibility in Acquisitions workflows, and even allow FOLIO use without Acquisitions

  • There are many libraries that have campuses/branches in different countries

    • They are getting by today in one way or another (separate systems, single system in English, other?) but FOLIO needs to do better

    • Will one language per tenant really be sufficient (even just for v1)?

    • Implications for the consortia discussion

  • There are international considerations for data privacy

    • Some countries require data centers to be in a certain location

    • Some customers are satisfied if they can just get local backup

5

Planning for next meeting

Cate

  • We'll synch with Peter and rest of team by email to see if anyone has any additional agenda items for next week

  • If not, we may pause meetings until we have something more to discuss (e.g. implementation options, handling of Asian languages etc.)

 

Action items

 

  • Cate will see if internationalization needs should be added to the consortia research questions

  • Cate will send Harry a link to these notes so he can process anything that isn't already included in the other tabs