Meeting Minutes for 03/02/2021

Discovery Committee Meeting
March 2, 2021
Minutes

Welcoming Northern Waters Library Service as a Discovery Partner (Minute 00:31)

• Consortium located in northern Wisconsin
• Pika go-live on 04.20.21

Demo of new features, bug fixes, and documentation for the upcoming release (Minute 2:47)

• Release Notes

Priority Value Survey (Minute 30:41)

• None for this March release 
• Will resume value and priority ranking with June release

Discussion of development priorities for the next release - Road Map (Minute 37:13)

• The roadmap has information for the four quarters of 2021
• When possible it may include an additional two quarters in the future 
• Some of the roadmap may not be about Pika development but is related to Marmot as a whole
  • Q4 will look at potential work between Pika and Folio (an open-source ILS)
  • Q1 & 2 will have new member implementations
• Search Improvements project is in progress
  • Upgrading search engine (Solr) currently underway
  • Pascal is nearly ready to upgrade all the test servers
  • Once the search engines are updated on the test servers he will be able to get into all the search enhancements listed in the tickets that have been on hold for awhile 
  • At the end of Q2, you will see search improvements
• Q3 will be the series enhancements
  • Many tickets dealing with Novelist issues and series confusions
  • Series enhancements will be a priority project once the search enhancements are largely completed because they related to each other 

Other discussion topics

• RBdigital to Overdrive process (Minute 42:26)
  • All libraries have now migrated holdings/collections from RBdigital to OverDrive
  • Deleting obsolete indexing profiles from Pika
  • Cleaning up directories on FTP server
  • Contact Ashley at pika@marmot.org if you do not want your indexing profiles removed
• Lynda.com > LinkedIn Learning (Minute 44:52)
  • If you have Lynda/LinkedIn Learning please let Ashley know at pika@marmot.org 
    • She would like to know more about what is happening with your vendor subscription
    • The old system where Marmot was fetching records from Lynda is now obsolete
    • If your library is going to maintain a LinkedIn Learning subscription you have the ability to download records from a portal 
    • The Pika team will need to set up unique sideloads for that collection as opposed to the automatic process they had set up when fetching the records from Lynda.com 
    • You will have to manage your own records 
• Linking User List Guide to My Lists page for patrons (Minute 46:50)
  • Ashley asked the group if they want this document linked on the My Lists page for their patrons 
  • The people who attended the meeting voted to have the documentation linked on the My Lists page 
• ​Adam asked if the priority value survey, the roadmap, and quarterly meeting are working for everyone (Minute 53:50)
  • People responded that they like the quarterly release meetings and that the process is equitable
  • Adam let the group know that with the quarterly meetings the team is able to grab a lot of the feature requests and tickets associated with a larger theme, and get into those much deeper and comprehensively than with the monthly release

The next meeting is Tuesday, June 1, 2021