Discuss the Codex document and feedback from the TC and community (summary documented before the meeting as an aide to the discussion) Notes: Laura & Christie request/suggest RM Sig review these docs. Discussion around Codex vs Inventory (Instance) UI-Inventory conflates managing "Inventory" and managing Holdings and Items. The APIs are already separated. Vince points out that Codex is a broker in that it knows enough about each of the different sets of data it represents. Whereas a "Universal model" that satisfies everyone's needs. Laura feels the instances model is already lean/striped down - not bloated - many fields not required. Tod's suggested that FOLIO search service could perhaps provide services to many modules; maybe the search portion of Inventory could be decoupled and extended to serve searching in other contexts. Recently completed interaction between Acquisitions and Inventory referencing identifiers, not copying data Points made about the need to have further discussion around authority management. Vince and Christie made the point that there is no equivalent "Inventory" Vision Discussion around the use case of "bringing in Archive Space" and how that might work and which direction(s) should be chosen Perhaps we start to think about Inventory as a Staff Discovery tool
Vince notes the use cases should/can be used to drive the conversation Vince encouraged by some of the discussion -specifically about how we focus on breaking things into smaller pieces. The end users (Librarians) won't care so much about how the data is organized/managed on the back end.
General conclusion: There are too many open questions and concerns to agree that this document represents the direction we want to head. As written it doesn't. More discussion is needed. Next Steps: Is there anything that's being delivered for Chalmers that is impacted by this discussion. There may be some ERM related work that extends Codex Search's capability - No need to change direction for this - proceed as planned. Having a clear problem statement would be very helpful. Would be helpful to have a documented responsibility for Inventory
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