2019-03-08 Report Prototype WG Notes

Starting March 18, meeting will take place weekly at 10am EST

*Kevin and Michael out next week for spring break

Nassib suggests these focus areas for the working group this week...

• Working through the data specification for the Circulation Item Detail report. It's probably close to being ready, but I think it should be actively vetted by this group. Then it can be used to guide the database/software development.

• Planning an update for the next Reporting SIG meeting to provide an update/demo/discussion on this group's activities so far

Review page outlining the Report Prototype Update for March 11 and 18 Reporting SIG meetings

NOTES

-U of A has LDP up and running

Circ Item Detail Report Review Notes

-Kevin updated attributes to point to mod inventory storage (moving away from business logic modules and focusing on the storage logic modules)

-need to update Loan Date element path to come from mod circulation storage (done during meeting)

-location is comprised of institution, campus, library id, and service point

-could use this report as template to start to develop circulation loan transaction report as next type of circ report

Please take a look at the documentation for API data elements from the eUsage app development team.

eUsage API data elements documentation: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CViG0LzMPpN2IVm1EM6vSEzVWnZvUJ0C61YbNP5vexA/edit?usp=sharing

• the "counter-reports" worksheet shows the metadata for the harvested reports.
• for eUsage, we do not actually save the single data fields of each report, but the monthly reports as a whole, with metadata to identify them

eUsage UI presentation:
The eUsage UI design includes a statistics previews backend that queries specific reports (identified by provider, date range, metric type etc.) and then processes the full report

Here is a presentation explaining this design with an example: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r9KWetrYpQFd79j9uDRZkKEbigGp4mOqkh-a3nXJkq0/edit?usp=sharing

Careful walkthrough of Circ Item Detail report - final check before development of the report data model - important to get this right before development

Review eUsage data element documentation and UI links above, along with related reports the Reporting SIG Master Spreadsheet list of reporting requirements, then bring your suggestions on our first eUsage report data model to our next meeting

Next meeting of the Report Prototype WG is schedule for Fri March 8, 10-11 am EST