Kristin Martin out today, so Ann-Marie is convening.
The Codex WG continues to meet during the MM SIG meeting time on Thursdays. 2 hour meeting yesterday, and likely a 2 hour meeting next week. Any RM SIG people interested in the Codex can attend the meetings or keep up with the notes. See the 7-13 and 7-20 MM SIG meeting notes at Meeting Minutes for Metadata Management
Next week's agenda:
Harry Kaplanian will go over the acquisitions deliverables for v1. (insert link for the Excel file after PC meeting)
Stacks will provide a list of workflows that will be developed for v1
Even before the video is out, you can click the “Comment” button on the link above to add comments / ideas / advice on the concept
Workflow steps could be things like
Fill out forms
Rudimentary programming/querying
Keyboard shortcuts
Alert a person to do something
The workflows app may start fairly simple (moving some task along a workflow, and telling people about work they need to do) and then become more automated and more complex as time goes on.
A lot of workflows that are a culmination of automated steps and then stops for a person to have to do something. There’s value in starting to codify those steps, with an eye toward more automation down the line.
Workflow app will have lots of uses in acquisitions. Maybe start with some of the easy parts of acq workflow, e.g. statuses
Other Acq-related workflow ideas
FTP invoice file and park it in a holding area, then alert someone in the library that it’s ready for action
Keep track of the licensing steps and be able to push a license along a flow of people/departments, but not until certain steps/criteria have been fulfilled
60 min
Order Physical Monographs - Happy Path Work Package Review
Previous weeks' work packages will be PDF'd with their comments included. Current work packages will be open for comments.
Please be sure to read the Document Overview section of the work packet, since it will change from week to week. The newest packet's Document Overview will include not only context for this week's work, but also feedback on how previous comments have influenced the latest work.
Last week Stacks presented a first look at a first order workflow and outlined a work process for moving forward. Each week, they’ll deliver a work packet by Friday evening that iterates on the previous week. The RM SIG members (and other FOLIO folks) will have time to comment and ask questions on the document in Google Docs. Any comments added by Wednesday will be addressed and incorporated into the next iteration which comes out the following Friday.
First work packet from Stacks was released end of last week and reviewed this week:
Folks definitely made comments. Ca. 30 comments received on the first packet. No significant dissension, so all was reviewed by Stacks and incorporated.
It looks like the comments disappeared. That happened when Stacks turned off the commenting at the end of the commenting period. They will make sure that comments are still visible even after commenting is disabled, and all work packets with comments will be archived and accessible.
If feedback is clear and no point of contention, no need to discuss; will just be incorporated
If contentious, then will aim to discuss those during the SIG meetings
Would be nice to be able to print the Google Doc so that it can be reviewed offline (Martina):
Stacks will check on that and respond.
Stacks will make sure that anything that needs clarification is discussed in the work package, in the notes
Make sure feedback is specific to an item seen in the workflow
Important to look at the text and the diagram together, to make sure you're understanding the flow. Each element in the diagram has a number that corresponds to a number in the text.
More general comments:
Kristin Martin and Leah will look at more general comments and work on how to gather those for future discussion/review in the SIG
Maybe use Discuss for those more general discussions
Mike Winkler
Would be good to have a summary recap of the discussions in the weekly SIG meeting
Also set the context, e.g. we’re in week 2 of an x week process; this is what we expect to cover and what we expect to get to at the end point
If there’s something you would like to discuss in the meeting, then note that in the Google Doc comment, Stacks will make sure to address in the following week’s meeting
If there’s a SME you want to be included in the discussion, mention them in the notes, and it will send them an e-mail (@name/e-mail)
First packet also posted on Discuss, but no comments there
We'll keep posting on Discuss the next few weeks and see whether any comments happen there.
VERY CRITICAL TO COMMENT ON THE WORK PACKET AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. WORK WILL MOVE FOWARD REGARDLESS, SO IF YOU WANT YOU COMMENTS INCORPORATED, BE SURE TO REVIEW THE WEEKLY WORK PACKETS.
Library is ready to order items, and need to create the order
Still working on ordering physical monographs, but this portion is smaller and more focused
Start with PO having been created or not, and whether that PO needs to be sent to the vendor or not
No swimlanes this week; just focusing on the end user tasks, and just a very specific one this week
No “happy path” designation this time; now including more options/decision points
Miscellaneous
Vendor file & Fund accounting will be part of the Stacks work
Stacks will not be done after v1; will be planning for additional versions
Martina: workflows are very complex and different from library to library, workflows need to be linked with each other where it is necessary and convenient to use
Stacks will provide a list of the workflows that will be covered during development