Meeting Minutes for 01/03/2019

Discovery Committee Meeting
January 3, 2019
Minutes

New Discovery Committee Chair 

• Sean Crow is the new Discovery Committee Chair 
• He worked for Englewood Public Library for five years, and was part of Englewood’s move to Marmot
• He works for the Boulder Public Library that is part of the Flatirons Consortium
• Sean works on the computers and the technology at the Boulder Public Library

New R&D Department Manager

• JB Wiese has worked for Marmot for three years
• Before Marmot, JB worked for international companies
• He has his MCSD certification for Microsoft , and he used to be a programmer
• He has worked closely with the R&D department for the last three years

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

• Addison Implementation
  • Addison is live 
  • The implementation is complete
• AspenCat Migration
  • The current patron interaction behavior that R&D developed for their current system did  not work for the new system
  • R&D rebuilt that integration for their new system
  • Still in progress
  • They will go live at the end of January or beginning of February on the new hosted system
  • In January getting the Pika integration working with their new hosted system is the R&D top priority
• New Team Member Onboard
  • The team is still showing Chris new things and giving him more capabilities
  • This project will be left for a couple more months
• Sacramento Discovery Partner Implementation
  • Will go live in January

Next Release 

• Aurora Implementation
  • Is the last new Discovery Partner that was schedule in 2018
  • Kickoff call with them in January
  • Work on their Pika site starting in February

Next Quarter 

• Bemis Library Marmot Implementation
  • Joining Marmot at the end of February
• Sierra API Extract
  • This work allows all of Marmot and Discovery Partners with Sierra to use this extract for real time updates of all aspects of a bibliographic record throughout the day 
  • This extract will also work great to change the MARC records and upload the file for a custom covers that will display in a few minutes in search results
• Integrate Hoopla APIs
  • This started last January and was nearly complete
  • R&D would like to finish this to have complete patron integration like OverDrive

Short Term

• Record Grouping Adjustments
  • R&D would like to do a second round on record grouping 
  • They will address the shortfalls  of record grouping 

Discussion Topics
Marmot Digital Archive issues

• Islandora instance had a hiccup that R&D had not seen before
• It took about a week to resolve with help from several Marmot teams and outside Islandora experts
  • There are two indexes in Islandora (Triplestore index) 
    • One index  is a search engine to do regular searching 
    • The other index is linking metadata together 
• Our Triplestore index had gotten corrupted enough that Islandora could no longer tell what things were a member of a collection
• The corruption also affected Pika and Islandora’s ability to tell what constitute pieces were members of compound objects, so this is why only parts of compound objects were displaying