At Meeting

2024 Discovery API Improvements 

• WolfCon 2024 presentations

  • Sched is being updated as we speak! keep looking for updates

  • Single Satisfying API for Availability Information. (A highly configurable alternative to edge_rtac)

    • Uwe sent in revisions

  • Discussion on APIs for Discovery Front End Systems

    • Nicole will create a rough draft of slides using our survey/FOLIO template and the below presentation outline

    • Uwe will check for acceptance email and abstract

    • Updated presentation name and abstract

    • This year's presentation

      • Presentation outline

        • Slide about the survey work

        • slide about apis/middleware/discovery systems

        • Things improved/fixed since survey

          • EBSCO's fixes done since survey?

          • VuFind done since survey. (Poppy authentication)

          • none EBSCO/VuFind implementations (Stanford, Cornell/Blacklight)

      • Top things we'd like to still see improved

      • How to follow/advocate for your top improvements

        • roadmaps

        • Product Owners and SIGs. (How do you find the correct PO? SIG? What about going to Vendors/vendor improvements?)

    • Two questions:

      • Do we want to include local (non-FOLIO api) improvements?

        • Yes, we want different viewpoints/application examples to share.

      • What date would the slides be due by?

        • 1st week of September

Meetings on Tuesday at 10:00 am EST, dates TBD by #discovery Slack channel and posted here.

Next meeting is August 6, 2024