Meeting Minutes for 04.02.2019

Discovery Committee Meeting
April 02, 2019
Minutes

Discussion topics

• Status of Ticket Prioritization
  • Marmot has gotten everyone’s feedback
  • Marmot has taken the favorites and requested tickets and put them into a spreadsheet
  • The Software Development team will meet with the Executive Director in April to discuss detailed decisions on the requests
• Hoopla Integration Review
  • Patron Interactions
    • Checkout Hoopla button in place of ‘Access Online’
    • Checkout titles directly from catalog
    • Hoopla titles will display in checkouts and reading history
  • Questions from the Group:
    • Q: Hoopla will still be "under" any matching OverDrive records (even if OverDrive is not immediately available), and you would have to expand to see the Hoopla button?
    • A: For now.  Part of the integration will be to decide by source you want displayed, and that will show in the primary button.
    • Q: The OverDrive integration has the ability to download a checkout, will Hoopla have the download option down the road, or does their API even allow it?
    • A: Hoopla download is not in their existing API.
  • Notes on Hoopla Data Extract
    • Will continue to use traditional MARC records from Hoopla that are delivered once a month
      • There is no real-time connectivity to Hoopla’s holdings
    • Hoopla integration will display additional information in records
      • ‘Hoopla Extract Information’
    • Suppression by price is available with this release but will be applied to all material types (kind)
      • There will be additional suppression options offered by type (kind) and price

Demo of new features, bug fixes, and documentation for upcoming release
Release Notes    

Discussion of development priorities for the next release
Road Map

Current Release

• Aurora Implementation
  • The team has a site visit with them next week
  • Top priority for the team
• Integrate Hoopla API
  • Working with the Hoopla API as discussed during the meeting
• Sacramento Discovery Partner Implementation
  • Reading history issues

Next Release

• Sierra API Patron Integration
  • Chris will be working on this project
  • This will replace the screen scraping  of the Classic OPAC for patron interactions
  • It will replace it with proper calls to the API that are more reliable
  • This will not be new functionality, it will be more reliable functionality
• Horizon ROA Driver
  • Work still needs to be done on self registration and reading history

Next Quarter

• Sierra API Extract
  • This is the real-time indexing of bib records that LION has been beta testing for Marmot for over a year
  • Need to fix a technical obstacle that exists for using this for Marmot

Short Term

• Near future is planned out well

Long Term

• Going through the prioritization process will help to clean up or specify projects
• Longer term projects will change in some fashion

Reports from libraries on special projects

• Nashville Odilo Sideloading
  • The MARC records have language that is not appropriate for the schools
  • James created a process that cleans up the MARC for sideloading
  • Sideload audience determination using crosswalking from 521 field to 006
  • MarcEdit task
  • James will make this process available to anyone else who would like to sideload Odilo

Other Topics

Discovery attendees asked about the following sideload possibilities

• Creativebug - Ashley is waiting for MARC records
• Acorn via RBdigital
• myTurn
• This would be an API connection rather than a sideload
• The Software Development team will try to sideload any eContent collection
• The basic requirement for a sideloaded collection is MARC records

Next Meeting is Tuesday, May 7th