2020-02-03 Reporting SIG Meeting notes

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Last updated: Jan 12, 2022 by Angela Zoss (Old)
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Date

Attendees

Present?

Name

Organization

Present?

Name

Organization

XSharon BeltaineCornell University
Sara ColglazierMount Holyoke College/Five Colleges

Elizabeth BerneyDuke University
Erin NettifeeDuke University

Joyce ChapmanDuke University
Karen NewberyDuke University

Jean PajerekCornell UniversityXTod OlsonUniversity of Chicago

Claudius Herkt-JanuschekSUB HamburgXScott PerryUniversity of Chicago

X

Doreen HeroldLehigh University
Stefan StadtherrMPIL Heidelberg

Sarah ParkDuke UniversityXSimona TabacaruTexas A&M
XClint BellangerAuburn UniversityXKevin WalkerThe University of Alabama
XIngolf Kusshbz
Christie ThomasUniversity of Chicago
XJoshua LambertMissouri State

Andi Bihler

Munich Technical University Library

Joanne LearyCornell University
Cheryl MalmborgUniversity of Chicago
XMichael PatrickThe University of AlabamaXVandana ShahCornell University
XNassib NassarIndex DataXAngela Zoss

Duke University

XVeit KöppenUniversity Magdeburg
Lisa DeCarolisSmith College/Five Colleges
XLinda MillerCornell UniversityXElena O'Malley

Emerson


Matt HarringtonDuke University     Holly MistlebauerCornell University
XJean PajerekCornell UniversityXNancy BolducCornell University
XCathy TuohyEmmanuel College (FLO)XEric PenningtonTexas A&M
XShirley MoentnishMissouri State



Discussion Items

Item

Who

Notes

AttendanceSharon

Today's Attendance Taker: Linda Miller

Today's notetaker:  Michael Patrick

Last week's notetaker: Scott Perry

Updates from Various Reporting Related Groups and EffortsVarious

The Reporting SIG is using small work groups to address priorities and complete our work. Each week, we will provide updates to the Reporting SIG from these various reporting-related groups and efforts:

  • Community and coordination
    1. Working on getting cluster teams setup.
  • LDP Data Privacy Working Group
  • LDP SysOps Working Group
  • Software development
    1. New version of LDP released, version 0.4
  • Other efforts?


LDP Table Naming Nassib 

Nassib has asked that we review a few more LDP table mappings and naming. 

(Explanation from a previous meeting)

At present, some table names use prefixes to remove ambiguity, e.g. /finance-storage/groups is mapped to finance_groups, while others do not use a prefix, e.g. loans, users, and groups, as they are considered to have a more general application.  In other cases, it may not be obvious whether a prefix should be used, e.g. requests.

The advantages of using a prefix are clarity and leaving "room" in the namespace for more similarly named concepts in the future to co-exist with the current tables.  The disadvantage is longer and more complex table names.

Now that queries are being developed, there will be an increasing number of dependencies on table names, and it is a good time to pause and give some thought to whether some of them should be changed, because it will be increasingly difficult to change them later without having to modify existing queries.

A spreadsheet with the table mappings and naming is linked here, and I would appreciate input from the Reporting SIG:

  • LDP Table Naming
    1. Add table spaces to LDP tables by including prefixes in table names.  i.e. prefix would match module name? 


  • Time to Rank your Reporting Clusters

Reminder: The MVP project managers are interested in getting all the MVP tickets ranked by each institution. If your institution has still not ranked the reporting clusters, please urge them to do so soon. We need this for both MVP and prioritization for what reports to build next within the Reporting SIG. Thank you!


Organizing work in the Reporting SIGAll

Let's discuss some ideas for dividing our work into functional area report development teams:

  • How to update your entry on the Reporting SIG Home Page to reflect our new subteam structure
  • Reporting SIG now has 3 subteams to work on report prototype/query/testing: RA/UM Team, RM/ERM Team, and MM Team
  • Team leads for each functional area stay on top of JIRA tickets/report development and communicate about progress
    • RA/UM: Vandana Shah is lead
    • MM: Kevin Walker is lead
    • RM/ERM: Sharon Beltaine and Scott Perry are leads
  • use Reporting SIG home page to describe role for each Reporting SIG member in doing this work


  1. Added the "consult" role to the Work Team Activity column.
Additional Topics?All 
Topics for Future MeetingsAll

Review and update Topics for Future Reporting SIG Meetings 


Action items

  •  Community and Coordination group to discuss how to maintain GDPR compliance for REP 147 and REP 148
  • Angela Zoss (Old) work with Nassib Nassar to go over names list, create final proposal
  • Angela Zoss (Old)  (?) to share proposed list with POs of SIGs to make sure changed names still make sense