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2025-01-09 - OA SIG meeting

2025-01-09 - OA SIG meeting

Owned by Martin Bauschmann
Feb 13, 2025

Meeting time: Monthly meetings, every second Thursday of the month, EST/EDT: 8:30 AM

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OA Working Group Wiki: Open Access SIG Home

Google Drive Folder: Open Access Working Group - Google Drive

Meeting recordings: SIG Meeting Recordings

Slack channel: #open-access-management

Mailing list: folio-rm-oa@ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org (Subscribe here selecting 'folio-rm-oa' list)

Housekeeping and major community updates

  • Please add questions and topics to the OA Implementers' topics page. Topics or questions posted in slack will be added here as well.

Agenda items

  • Presentation/Discussion Folio Prioritization Process

Minutes

Guest Attendees/Speakers

@Alexis Manheim (Stanford University Library): Product Council (PC) Chair, PC Liaison for OA SIG

@Kristin Martin (University Library Chicago): PC Member

@Martina Schildt (GBV): PC Member, Member of FOLIO Prioritization Process Working Group

@Jesse Koennecke (Cornell University Library): PC Member

Presentation

Kristin presents the current Folio Roadmap (see: FOLIO Roadmap ) and stipulations from the Prioritization Working Group

Kristin and Martina outline the prioritization in the Aqcuisitions SIG:

  • Feature ideas come from topics discussed at the Acquisitions SIG and are listed on the Acquisitions/Resource Management implementers wiki page

  • Topics are then converted to features in Jira Tickets, searchable via tag "acq-sig-topics"

  • voting system for Jira tickets -> click "thumbs up" in the side bar to vote for the issue (Atlessian Account necessary)

  • Pro’s -> clear quantitative designation of demand; easier prioritization for developers

  • Con’s -> expectation management: high scores lead to

Discussion

@Owen Stephensdescribes prioritization process in OA SIG which is not entirely different from the initial process in Acquisitions SIG:

  • Wiki Page for implementer‘s topics (gaps, feature requests etc.) at OA Implementers' topics

  • Topics from the wiki page along with unfinished business from first development wave of the OA App are derived into Jira tickets, searchable via tag „open_access_management”

  • no voting system in place

Owen points to the current problems with regard to app development in the OA App:

  • OA App is not part of the regular flower release cycle

  • no standard development process for those apps as opposed to the apps in flower releases which have dedicated Development Dashboards as part of the FOLIO Roadmap

  • OA App has approval from product council but not from technical council for incorporation in flower releases

Kristin: raises the question of future interaction problems with other apps

Jesse interjects that the OA App might be a case for microservice infrastructure outside of flower releases

Owen: sees work towards integration in flower release as long-term community issue because there is no development of new functionality entailed

Martin: focus of future funding from Leipzig University lies on functional app development accompanied by maintenance contracts that assure compatibility with flower releases

Martina: proposes the idea for new approval process in technical council with potential joint funding from the community

Kristin: supports the idea of joint funding using the example of the Courses App

Group agrees that more marketing for OA App is necessary in order to attract further support/funding from the Folio community

PC Meeting as a starting point: Martin will present OA App in one of the next meetings to extend the outreach