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Topic | Status | Description or Use Case | FOLIO App(s) | Date added / by | Interested | Meeting Discussion(s) | Jira Issue(s) | Action | |
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1 | Source URI for description Element needed in Inventory Instance Administrative Metadata | in progress | needed for integration with external sources for descriptive metadata | Inventory | 2025-02-12 @Laura E Daniels | @Kalli Mathios |
| UXPROD-5135: Add Source URI for Description to Inventory Instance Administrative DataClosed | Take to MM SIG Write up associated stories |
2 | Creating Instances from linked data descriptions | Open | we need to be able to “import” linked data, with or without storing it in FOLIO, to generate Instance records in Inventory | Linked Data Inventory | 2025-04-11 @Laura E Daniels |
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3 | RDF/BF → Instance mapping | Open | subtask of Creating Instances from RDF; already have some work done from Sinopia |
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| mapping vs importing? (i.e., creating Instance w/out full description stored in FOLIO) |
| talk to DI SIG |
4 | Storing RDF without MARC conversion | Open | Some institutions will prefer not to have RDF converted to MARC | Linked Data |
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| very much related to mapping vs importing |
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5 | Exporting FOLIO Instance as json-based schema | Open | Not just Linked Data | Inventory | 2025-04-09 @Laura E Daniels |
| can already be done via API |
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6 | Exporting RDF | Open |
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7 | Search in a 3rd-party application, starting from Inventory | Open | In Inventory, search in, e.g., Sinopia, Share-VDE, or Marva | Inventory Linked Data | 2025-05-09 |
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8 | Capture an entity present in a 3rd-party application and save it in Inventory | Open | Select the entity found in, e.g. Sinopia, Share-VDE, or Marva, and save it to Inventory Is this considered a type of data import? | Inventory Linked Data | 2025-05-09 |
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9 | Updating an Inventory instance automatically updates a corresponding entity in a 3rd party application | Open | FOLIO data is considered source of truth | Inventory Linked Data | 2025-05-09 |
| FOLIO as source of truth vs. external data store as source of truth? |
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10 | Sample Data for Linked Data App |
| for test environments |
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11 | Discovery from linked data |
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