2018-10-17 - Consortia SIG Notes

Housekeeping

10/24 meeting - Sebastian Hammer will meet with us about Project ReShare

OAI-PMH, Project dashboard: https://folio-org.atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=75&projectKey=MODOAIPMH&view=detail

• assumed primary use case is for discovery services
• building the harvesting service, not the OAI harvester (i.e. FOLIO is source of harvested data)
• benefit: provides a standard that abstracts out ILS for retrieving data
• Harvesting will happen on mod-marc-storage (as opposed to Inventory module); long term functionality (native data stores vs. inventory harvesting is TBD)
• Harry is working as product owner, Craig McNally as tech lead
• JIRA dashboard for the project is available; Harry will send link
• questions/discussion
  • upper limit to number of harvesting sources (OHIOlink has 53)?
    • no software limit; might be performance/storage issue
    • initial harvest might be more resource-intensive, but subsequent update harvests will be less so
  • anybody relying on OAI-PMH for any consortial services?
    • none known (for ILS at least)
  • union catalog as patron-facing user interface vs. central repository of records that is exposed through a discovery interface
    • harvesting could be either directly to the discovery layer (i.e. patron-facing UI) or to a central repository of records, depending on the goals of the union catalog
  • bi-directional requirements for union catalog data flow
    • this project would enable one direction (local ILS to union catalog)