2022-07-25 Reporting SIG Meeting notes

Attendance & Notes

• Today's attendance-taker: Linda (or substitute)
• Today's note-takers:  Team Leads for project updates

Reporting SIG hiatus: August 1 to 12

• All SIG and development meetings are going to be canceled during this period
• We'll start back up on Wednesday, August 17 (development) and Thursday, August 18 (SIG)

FOLIO Analytics 1.4.0 is in pre-release!

• The FOLIO Analytics release associated with Morning Glory is now in feature freeze/pre-release
• Thanks so much to Nassib and our query developers and reviewers 
• We have added or changed 51 files since the previous release, including 25! new files in the metadb/derived_tables folder

Reporting Documentation Subgroup needs new leader

• We are bidding a fond farewell to Eric Pennington, who has done a wonderful job on our query development teams as well as our documentation team. Thank you, Eric!
• The documentation team now needs a new leader. This is generally one meeting a month with the FOLIO-wide Documentation Working Group, plus additional time coordinating with the Reporting SIG subgroup members. (The documentation is at a relatively stable state now, with minor updates needed for each new FOLIO release.)
• Also subteam meetings every other week.
• Documentation is written to conform to the Google Developer Style Guide.
• No need to have extensive experience with the SIG or the FOLIO reporting systems at this time! This is a great way to learn about everything!
• Please reach out to Axel Dörrer or Sharon Markus if you might be interested.

Using new Slack space for LDP questions

• There are questions related to LDP projects (e.g., LDP-1, Metadb, LDLite, LDP query builder app) that cut across FOLIO and ReShare
• Nassib is trying out a dedicated LDP Slack space for questions/support
• Can use this invitation to add yourself

Want to join Development Team meetings?

• These meetings have been happening on Wednesdays, 9am Eastern, every two weeks
• Last week we filled out a scheduling poll to find a new time that is more convenient for Pacific coast
• The new time will be: 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 11am Eastern
• Let Angela Zoss (Old)  know if you would like to start coming to the meetings
• Angela Zoss (Old) will add a wiki page to explain about this group and where to find meeting notes/recordings

WOLFCon 2022

• Aug 31-Sep 2; Hamburg, Germany
• Registration Open
  • Early registration for in person is a $50 savings, extended to June 3 
  • Virtual attendance: $15, already open
• Current planned sessions
• Two reporting-related sessions planned:
  • SIG organized: Reporting Lessons from Implementers (Panel, Standard (50 min), Hall (up to 250 people), Live presentation)
  • LDP/Nassib organized:
    • Introduction to LDP
  • Could also ask Cornell/Chicago to share some talking points that could be shared in person!

How to find our latest recordings

• Separate folders right now: January/February recordings, recordings from March and onward
• New problem with recordings: now need a password. Use the same password from our Zoom meetings. 

(Always) Recruiting New Query Developers

• The Reporting SIG is always on the look-out for new query developers. Please let us know if you are interested in doing query development or if there are others at your institution who might be a good fit.

Reporting SIG Roadmap

Project updates

Reporting development is using small subgroups to address priorities and complete work on report queries.  Each week, these groups will share reports/queries with the Reporting SIG.  Reporting development team leads are encouraged to enter a summary of their work group activities below.

RA/UM Working Group

• Meetings have become more of a lab session, working through specific problems
• Angela has been attending RA SIG meetings to open the lines of communication, now once a month
• Contact Angela if you would like to join these meetings; second Wednesdays at 1pm Eastern
• Context
  • Meeting notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UnzG64tl917LOH2FtWhCEPlSOsnJWKL-0eu88Ouo1DU/edit
  • Current status of RA/UM issues: https://github.com/folio-org/folio-analytics/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+RA%2FUM
  • Status of LDP → Metadb querying porting: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1efLc6QMJyGuXyQM26pZbti-B6wFhJuZt7s7FJbhdXYo/edit#gid=0

MM Working Group

• Meetings are 1st Tuesday of the month, 12-1pm ET via zoom using the usual FOLIO password. Our lab sessions are open to everyone. Please bring your questions, examples, and comments about reporting and metadata.
• We are still looking for reviewers. Please contact MM reports working group.
• We have completed pull requests for all but 1 derived table for metadb.

ERM Working Group

• ERM Prototype and Query Development Status
  • folio-analytics version 1.5:
    • add comments to columns in all derived tables
    • We will revise the directory structure for report queries within erm on GitHub (metadb) to be consistent with the repository rules.
• eUsage
  • First overview of what to expect.
  • We'd like to create a derived table.
  • The development requires time and expertise from SME.
    • We're going to take it in phases:
      1. Get test data and enter it into our test environment.
         
      2. Analyze data structure.
      3. Invite SME and have data explained.
      4. Creation of derived tables
• Topics for the future
  • Open Access
• Meetings are bi-weekly on tuesdays 11am ET alternating with RM Working Group
  • Next meeting will be at 16th, Aug
    
  • Contact Axel Dörrer or Stefan Dombek if you would like to get a calendar invitation.