2019-07-01 RPWG Meeting notes

Vandana and the group will discuss building a data dictionary and glossary for reporting.

Notes:

• There is a need to clarify in the case of some terminology (e.g., "effective location")
• Factual vs. conceptional descriptions
• Vandana shares some preliminary documentation: Library Data Documentation
• Element pathways will be included in the LDP schema, so it may not be necessary to include it in the Data Dictionary
• It's important to be mindful of the role of developers in creating documentation like this.
  • Developers have more information than Reporting SIG members.
• Kevin: Should this idea be taken to someone who is helping to organize the overall FOLIO development workflows (e.g., Mark Veksler)?
  • Complete a solid proof of concept, share the idea, and ask for feedback as to how to bring the idea to fruition
• Kevin: Could element names be improved in some cases (e.g., "userGroup" instead of "group" in the User Groups API pathway of the Users module

-Nassib and Roman implementing this data model in the shared LDP data warehouse

-Latest update on progress from Nassib

Notes:

• Generated test data for the current report.
• Probably have to scale back our approach to generating test data (dynamically) because it takes too long. Instead might create a static test data set.
• Working on factoring the ETL process to make it easier to have developers contribute code
• Doing some prototyping on eUsage use case
• Prototyping a FOLIO server-side module to provide LDP data to FOLIO apps

-Angela shares notes from F2F meeting in DC: FOLIO Face-to-Face DC Conference Reporting Session Notes

Notes:

• Differentiation between "report" and "query" 
• Names for reports focus on how the resulting data will be used
• Names for queries focus on how the data is retrieved from the LDP
• Umbrella categories for reports will map to the FOLIO modules and API pathways (e.g., users, circulation, inventory, finance and orders, and resource management)
• Sharon: We should push F2F meeting notes out as documentation

Next Topics:

• Sharon to check in with RPWG members mid-week to get ideas on next topics

Next meeting of the Report Prototype WG is scheduled for Monday, July 9 at 10:00am EST