Meeting Recording for 10/23/2024

Marmot Union Cataloging Committee
Wednesday, Oct 23, 2024
Agenda

Announcements

• What about November and December UCC?
  • Skip Nov., meet Dec 11.
• Re-inserted 998 fields in MLN2 records
• Nina- new library standard. To remove all fines charges associated with Juv, YA materials.

 Discussion Topics

• Authority situation
• New load profile and Ingram cataloging problems

FOLIO Updates

• WolfCon
• NL Australia
  • Migration is really hard
  • Spent 2 years preparing for migration, with help from EBSCO, they still had problems.
• NL Finland
  • They were able to go with FOLIO because their government has codified a preference for open source.
• LDP session
  • LDP is the project name
  • MetaDB is the software name
  • Stanford is using MetaDB hosted by Index Data while their FOLIO is self-hosted
    • Actually on AWS, but managed by Index Data
  • MetaDB does not need as much server power as the previous version    
• Stanford's self-hosting migration
  • 3 developers
  • 3 Sys-ops
  • 1.75 business analysts
  • 1 project manager
  • They ran out of time and had to bring in Index Data to help finish the migration in time
  • Migrated from two different systems
  • They tried to do a single-server install, but it was too complex, so they switched to Kubernetes
  • The hardware they bought was not optimized for Kubernetes, so it does not work as well as it could
  • They use Helm (Maybe HLM??) for deployments
  • It took months to set up the test server
  • They are bailing on MARC holdings in favor of Folio holdings
  • Use something called Airflow Apache for open workflow management
  • UUID is not random. It is determined by existing data. The same data will create the same UUID, which sounds like the Gold Rush key.
  • Everything took twice as long
  • They wished they had a second test server
• BELA working group
  • New in Poppy
  • FOLIO query language created for lists app
  • ECS - Cross tenant queries from central office app
• ECS migration session
  • Mostly about problems with ERM
  • We don't care because we are all using Gold Rush
  • We should check with Boulder about how Folio is working with Gold Rush
• New ECS functions
  • "Permission sets" are now called "Roles"
  • Roles can be created in central office and pushed out to tenants
  • Local roles can also be created
  • Sunflower will have Direct Consortial Borrowing
    • Title and Item level
    • Also mediated requesting
  • Private request function being developed for LoC, specifically for Members of Congress.
  • You can create what is called a secure tenant
  • You can't have any duplicate user names in the system. This is only FOLIO logins, not patrons
• Eureka
  • This is a new structure replacing OKAPI
  • Makes upgrades easier
  • It will be possible to upgrade modules separately
  • Different modules could have different release schedules
• OpenRS
  • Mobius is live on ORS now.
• Do not make any assumptions about what FOLIO does
  • There are weird holes in it's abilities
  • It can't print spine labels
  • No authority function
• ECS circulation and shared cataloging
  • DCB between tenants within FOLIO
  • Mobius has been doing this with OpenRS, but now can do it within FOLIO
  • You can now move holdings from one tenant to another
  • I think item-level requests have to be mediated.

Next UCC meeting: December 11, 2024