2022-10-06 Reporting SIG Meeting notes

2022-10-06 Reporting SIG Meeting notes

Date

Oct 6, 2022

Attendees

 Present?

Name

Organization

Present?

Name

Organization

 Present?

Name

Organization

Present?

Name

Organization

 

Arthur Aguilera

University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Eric Luhrs

Lehigh University

x

Sharon Beltaine

Cornell University

x

Linda Miller

Cornell University

 

Erin Block

University of Colorado, Boulder

 

Nassib Nassar

Index Data

 

Nancy Bolduc

Cornell University

x

Elena O'Malley

Emerson

 

Shannon Burke

Texas A&M

 

Tod Olson

University of Chicago

x

Suzette Caneda

Stanford University

x

Jean Pajerek

Cornell University

 

Lloyd Chittenden

Marmot

 

Michael Patrick

The University of Alabama

 

Tim Dannay

Mount Holyoke College

 

Eric Pennington

Texas A&M

 

Axel Doerrer

University Mainz

x

Scott Perry

University of Chicago

 

Shelley Doljack

Stanford University

 

Natalya Pikulik

Cornell University

 

Stefan Dombek

Leipzig University

 

Vandana Shah

Cornell University

 

Jennifer Eustis

U. Massachusetts Amherst / Five College

x

Linnea Shieh

Stanford University

       

Lisa Furubotten

Texas A&M

 

Clare Spitzer

Stanford University

x

Alissa Hafele

Stanford University

 

Amelia Sutton

U. Massachusetts

x

Jeanette Kalchik

Stanford University

 

Simona Tabacaru

Texas A&M

x

Kevin Kishimoto

Stanford University

 

Huey-Ning Tan

Stanford University

 

Ingolf Kuss

hbz

 

Vitus Tang

Stanford University

 

Joanne Leary

Cornell University

x

Irina Trapido

Stanford University

x

Eliana Lima

Fenway Library Organization

 

Kevin Walker

The University of Alabama

 

Alexander Lao

Stanford University

x

Angela Zoss

Duke University

Discussion Items

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Who

Notes

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Who

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Attendance & Notes

Angela

Attendance & Notes

  • Today's attendance-taker: Linda (or substitute)

  • Today's note-takers:  Team Leads for project updates

Announcements /
Reminders

Angela

Hoping to put together a FOLIO Forum 

  • FOLIO Forums are a great outreach opportunity - a way to share work with a large community and support the 100% open-source LDP project

  • Nassib is interested in putting together a panel for something soon

  • Could be a general reporting topic, or something more specific (e.g., LDLite, using LDP for inventory clean up)

  • Anyone interested? Message Nassib or comment on LDP Slack

 

Request for review: FOLIO Implementers and their hosting solutions

  • Angela come up with a start of a comprehensive table of FOLIO implementers and their hosting solutions, plans for LDP/Metadb, and representation in the Reporting SIG

  • Please review and propose edits by Monday, October 10

 

How to find our latest recordings

 

(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 project work

Angela

  • There is a new section in our SIG wiki: Reporting SIG Projects

  • Trying to start keeping track of proposals that have come up for projects to be making progress on our FOLIO Reporting Roadmap

  • We will be using the roadmap to help set priorities for projects

  • Can only focus on so many efforts at the same time, so need to be careful about coming up with new ideas and shifting our attention to them right away

  • New project ideas can get listed under planned projects, but won't necessarily try to spin them up right away

Training topic; Using FOLIO APIs (Postman, LDLite)

Angela

Quick demonstration of using Postman and LDLite to pull data from FOLIO via APIs, continued

 (slides)

 

Updates and Query Demonstrations from Various Reporting Related Groups and Efforts

Community & Coordination, Reporting Subgroup Leads

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

 

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 and testers for ldpmarc. Please contact MM reports working group.

  • ldpmarc: Cornell noticed an issue with ldpmarc. Nassib is aware of this and coming up with a fix which will be tested.

 

ERM Working Group

  • FOLIO Data Model Training

  • ERM Query Development Status

    • folio-analytics version 1.5:

      • Add comments to columns in all derived tables

      • Fixes

  • Meetings are bi-weekly on tuesdays 11am ET alternating with RM Working Group

    • Next meeting will be at 11th, Oct

    • Contact @Stefan Dombek if you would like to get a calendar invitation

 

RM Working Group

 

Reporting SIG Documentation Subgroup

  • Lotus documentation is live on https://docs.folio.org/docs/

  • Morning Glory documentation is complete and submitted

  • Nolana documentation will be in progress soon

  • Additional Context

    • The Reporting SIG has representation on the Documentation Working Group, which is building end-user documentation for https://docs.folio.org/docs/ (mostly linking to existing documentation over on GitHub)

 

External Statistics Working Group

  • no updates currently

  • new organizational/tracking scheme for JIRA, with pointers to queries in folio-analytics repository

  • New organizational structure for External Statistics reports

    • external statistics reports (e.g., ACRL) typically require running queries from different functional reporting areas

    • these reports will be captured in JIRA under one UXPROD-XXXX report cluster issue, then the descriptions will point to each of the queries required to run them on the folio-analytics repository

    • institutions will need to rank each of these 8 new UXPROD-XXXX report cluster issues

    • each reporting development team will take responsibility for the queries in their area for the external statistics clusters

 

Product Council

 

 

For all recent work on FOLIO Reporting SQL development:

 

Topics for Future Meetings

All

  • How to deal with External Stats reports?

    • maybe subteam leads check in about that

    • probably wait until after Metadb conversion is more complete

  • ask for presenters: hosting experiences from implementers

  • Annual Reporting Goals

    • (in progress) Support the transition from LDP to Metadb (e.g., update derived table and report queries, update documentation, outreach, new training)

    • (ready to start) Developing training/onboarding for new SIG members/report users (esp. FOLIO-specific data model and transformation stuff)

    • Improve communication between SIG and developers of apps so we hear about data model changes in advance

    • continued advocacy on part of the SIG to governance groups

    • (ready to start) Review JIRA issues, clean up, revisit strategy for JIRA

  • Regular review of Milestones

  • Exploring new recruitment/onboarding strategies (e.g., buddy system)

  • Guest presentations: Foliage (Mike Hucka and Laurel Narizny from CalTech)

  • Demo latest version of LDP app, any new features?

  • Training: Using APIs

  • More work on asynchronous collaboration, how to engage in discussions and question answering more broadly

    • consider connecting discuss.folio.org with a Slack channel, to make sure any forum topics get highlighted on Slack as well?

 

Review and update Topics for Future Reporting SIG Meetings 

 

 

 

 

A test Action Item (Ingolf)