2018-10-10 - Consortia SIG Notes

Recently submitted "union catalog" app idea

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 Peter Murray

 Background

• PC effort to collect ideas for apps on FOLIO platform
• FOLIO App Ideas
• workflow for submitted ideas
  • review in PC
  • assign to SIG for review
    • engage with idea submitter (flesh out details, etc.)
    • SIG can choose to move idea forward for development or put it on hold if other dependencies need to come into play first
• PC thought Consortia SIG should do first review (though it touches on other areas too)

Discussion

• patron-facing user interface is no longer an important part of the "union catalog" concept; we may want to rethink the naming of this so as not to give the impression that we are creating a UI
• interest in the states as well to have both push and pull from a union catalog (without human intervention); in Germany, currently there is the ability to pull from the union catalog but not to push back up
• there is probably some design overlap between this feature and the idea of exposing records/inventories for sharing between libraries (i.e. peer-to-peer)
• this also might overlap with a conversation that Sebastian Hammer would like to have with Consortia SIG about a hierarchical/clustering model for bib records

Next steps

• David Dahl and Peter Murray will work on making sure these new ideas/comments are reflected in JIRA
• David Dahl will track down notes from previous Union Catalog discussion(s)