SIG Reports 2025-01-20

Acquisitions SIG

See Acquisitions SIG meetings agenda and notes wiki here for more details if interested -

• Ramsons Release Highlights (Dec. 20th, Dennis B.)
• Meetings cancelled for Dec. 24th, 31st and Jan. 3rd (holiday break)
• Discussed Implementers Topics (Jan. 7th & Jan. 14th)
• A recap of what's coming with Sunflower release (Jan. 14th, Dennis B.)
• A quick demo of upcoming Claiming App UAT & Q&A (Jan. 17th, Joe R.)

App Interaction SIG

Consortia SIG

Documentation Working Group

Documentation for Ramsons was written and released.

Documentation WG discussed how to adjust the order of the left menu and how to set up links correctly. In addition attendees shared experiences around Co-writing with several writers for a larger topic.

Meeting time of Documentation WG will slightly change and will be one hour earlier from January on. (Second Wednesday of the month, 9 am-10am EST/15-16 CET)

ERM SIG

Metadata Management

Prioritization Process

• We've started work on implementing a prioritization process for MM, as requested by PC: Prioritization.
• We did look at the Jira voting that the ACQ SIG has piloted.
• We agreed that the voting process can help with identifying features and issues that are needed by many libraries and have encouraged SIG members to vote on primarily features, but also stories, if neccessary.
• Jennifer Eustis has added a new column to our Metadata Management Road Map and Metadata Management Bug Tracker Jira Dashboards. This enables us to sort by vote to identify the most relevant (open) tickets.
• We're also adding the label metadatamanagement to features where this label is currently missing.
• For an upcoming meeting we want to revisit our MM SIG Parking Lot.

Folijet's Ramsons features PO presentation

• Ryan Taylor presented on new Ramsons features for Data Import and Inventory. A slide deck can be found on the agenda page: 2024-11-21 Metadata Management Meeting notes.

Reordering of Holdings and Items

• Results of a small working group have been presented by Laura E Daniels using this slide deck.

• The current system for sorting and reordering items and holdings has several limitations:

  • Item Records: Persistent default sort by barcode; enumeration sorting does not work as expected.
  • Holdings Records: Sorting is based on database sequence, and the order changes on updates with no UI-based sorting.
  • Holdings Statements: Fixed in creation order, no reordering or saving options.

• This leads to confusion and frustration for staff and users.

• Next steps are to prioritize improvements by voting on related JIRA issues:
  • Sorting Items: UIIN-2688, MODINVSTOR-1142.
  • Reordering: UXPROD-1625 (items), UXPROD-1635 (holdings), UXPROD-3178 (holdings statements).

Open Access SIG

Privacy SIG

January meeting was skipped due to illness. Subjects on the (skipped meeting) agenda:

• Follow up to [UXPROD-5117] TLR: Move page request when item is not found
• FAQs - Public Library SIG is a collection of questions prospective libraries might have and is open to anyone to edit and answer. 
• Review a proposal for an effective way to track and follow-up on topics brought to the SIG. 

Reporting SIG

The Reporting SIG topics:

• Index Data will end support for LDP software in May, 2025
  • see Mike Gorrell at Index Data for questions
  • institutions running LDP are encouraged to move to Metadb on their reporting databases ASAP
• Development work on data array extraction to unpack more JSON data arrays into columns for easier reporting with the upcoming release of Metadb software version 1.4. 
• Analysis to improve derived table functionality and reduce number of derived tables
• Explore report automation tools and use cases (e.g, Python use)
• Reporting Tools Analysis (e.g., Reporting App, Lists App, PowerBI, Tableau)

Resource Access

User Management