2021-08-12 Metadata Management Meeting notes

PC update

No PC meeting this week

Conveners' updates (link to come)

Action: Philip will no longer be able to serve as a representative. Any ideas? Send Laura a message. Laura will discuss with PC.

Other updates/announcements

Searching in Inventory vs. Orders/Receiving

@Dennis Bridges @Laura E Daniels

Normalization (e.g., search behavior with leading/trailing spaces) – should the apps be consistent? Are there exceptions?

Laura compared searches in Receiving and Inventory. Example: An ISBN search in Cornell's FOLIO with a trailing space worked in Inventory, but not in Receiving

Jessica (via chat): "Can we make search behavior the same where possible? I know some apps will have different needs, but this seems really basic."

Anne-Marie: "I thought you were heading to a different place - in Orders and Receiving, we normalize the ISBNs. And in Inventory, there is a Normalized ISBN search, but it's actually normalizing in a different way"

Jenn Colt - Should trailing whitespace be trimmed as a matter of practice by FOLIO?

Jacquie noted that some older Duke barcodes have an intentional space at the end. 

Jenn Colt (via chat) - "for us check in check out didn’t work on barcodes with a space at the end (because the physical barcode didn’t have the space i guess)"

Dennis - A lot of work has been done on search performance - quicker searches in Juniper. Elasticsearch would open up a lot of possibilities for search and filtering.

ISBNs in Inventory and Orders are stored in different places, so searches for an ISBN in each app are going to different places. 

Felicia (via chat): "Copy & paste sometimes picks up extraneous HEX characters that appear as spaces"

Ann-Marie (via chat): "I think the inconsistencies happen because of different developers and something that may have not been a conscious decision. And the only way we find those inconsistencies is by folks doing these searches in different apps and identifying them. So I think this is a valuable discussion"

Acquisitions should be consulted on search behavior. Heather McMillan will add it to a future agenda for acq.

The app interaction group will be consulted as well.

Inventory search enhancements in the works will be seen in Kiwi.

Aaron Trehub

Auburn

Amelia Sutton

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Amanda Scott

Middle Tennessee State University

Ann-Marie Breaux

EBSCO

Ann Kardos

UMass Amherst

Annalisa Di Sabato

@Cult

Brian Clark

University of Alabama

@Charlotte Whitt

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Christie Thomas

Chicago

Christin Seegert

hbz

Colin Van Alstine

Smith (FC)

Damian Biagi

Dennis Bridges

EBSCO

Dennis Christman

Duke University

Douglas Chorpita

Goethe Uni Frankfurt

Dracine Hodges

Duke University

Dwayne Swigert

Felicia Piscitelli

Felix Hemme

ZBW

Jackie Gottlieb

Duke University

Jackie Magagnosc

Cornell Law

Jacquie Samples

Duke University

Janet Ewing

Jason Kovari

Cornell

Jeanette Kalchik

Stanford University

Jenn Colt

Cornell

Jennifer Eustis

UMass Amherst

Jesse Lambertson

University of Chicago

Jessica Janecki

Duke University

Joshua Barton

Michigan State

Joshua Lambert

Khalilah Gambrell

EBSCO

Kristin Martin

University of Chicago

Kristen Wilson

Index Data

Laura Daniels

Cornell

Laura Evans

Linda Turney

Middle Tennessee State University

Linh Chang

Lisa Furubotten

Texas A&M

Lisa McColl

Lehigh University

Lisa Sjögren

Chalmers

Lucas Mak

Lloyd Chittenden

Marmot Library Network

Magda Zacharska

EBSCO

Mark Arnold

Martina Schildt

VZG

Meghan Bergin

Molly Driscoll

EBSCO

Nancy Burford

Nancy Lorimer

Stanford

Natalie Sommerville

Duke University

Natascha Owens

Chicago

Niels Erik Nielsen

Patricia Ratkovich

University of Alabama

Patty Wanninger

EBSCO

Philip Schreur

Stanford (PC Liaison)

Raegan Wiechert

Missouri State University

Rita Albrecht

hebis-Verbundzentrale

Rita Lunnon

Robert (Bob) Scheier

Holy Cross

Sara Colglazier

MHC/5C

Theodor Tolstoy

EBSCO

Tim Watters

Library of Michigan

Tiziana Possemato

@Cult

Wayne Schneider

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