FOLIO timeline

The FOLIO Implementation Team met with the leads of the Five College Libraries working groups and representatives from FCLC earlier this week.   We discussed the current FOLIO software development plan released by the FOLIO Product Council at the end of September and what we perceived as gaps in software functionality.   Based on the pace of the software development and the set of features that will be available in early 2020 the Five College FOLIO Implementation Team has decided to focus our efforts on Electronic Resources Management and Acquisitions.  The new plan we are developing will propose implementing parts of Electronic Resource Management and Acquisitions in FOLIO during the summer of 2020.

The plan is to continue work on implementing the other modules with the goal of having all modules live by the summer of 2021.  The FOLIO community will simultaneously continue to complete and add new features which we think are important for our implementation as a consortium.

 

We plan on presenting a detailed project plan that reflects these changes later this fall.

Chalmers University is up and running on FOLIO!

A message From FOLIO Product Manager Harry Kaplanian of EBSCO Information Services:

As of Monday, Chalmers University is up and running on FOLIO!

Thank you all in the FOLIO community for all your hard work and effort over the last 3 (or more) years to make FOLIO real. You have volunteered your knowledge and experience of libraries, workflows and defined the key problems that needed to be solved in order to make FOLIO viable.   This first “go live” milestone is the result of all your hard work, and the entire community has participated in this achievement.

Chalmers University is actively fulfilling loans, requests, adding and updating users while maintaining physical inventory and maintaining e-resources with the following applications:

FOLIO applications running at Chalmers FOLIO integrations to
Check in, Check out & Requests EBSCO Holdings IQ
Users OpenAthens
Orders GOBI
Inventory Bibliotheca selfcheck machines
Orders The union catalog of Sweden
Organizations EBSCO Discovery Service
Agreements
Licenses
eholdings
SIP2

In return, this has provided the community valuable feedback for FOLIO which will make FOLIO substantially better for the next round of early adopters in the following areas:

  • Critical performance & reliability issues
  • UI concerns and improvements
  • Critical security defects
  • General defects and feature “misses”

I would also like to specifically call out and thank:

  • The FOLIO POs and UI designers who ensured that FOLIO features were prioritized, defined and ready for development and tested
  • The hours of testing from staff librarians from the community libraries and at Chalmers
  • Special thanks to Holly for her tireless efforts in helping organize priorities to get FOLIO into a usable state

I would also like to thank the community developers for helping to accelerate FOLIO feature development by:

  • Being active participants in the community with quality code
  • By adapting industry standard best practices
  • For unblocking releases in a timely manner so that the release timeline was not impacted
  • For being on call when needed to investigate and fix problems often going above and beyond in solving key performance, security and stability issues

I would also like to thank the PC for it’s hard work in providing oversight in community process, roadmap alignment and organization of SIG structures and governance to define the requirements critical for FOLIO and the community developers to build the features needed by the greater FOLIO community.

Everyone who worked on this project in big and small ways please take a moment and celebrate, you are a part of academic library automation history.

For a bit fun, Chalmers took some time this weekend and created this fun video https://chalmersuniversity.box.com/s/rhjyvoci0up40kxfcqgltccbm68wy4z2.

If I’ve missed anyone, please forward.

Thank you!

Harry Kaplanian

 

Sprint Review 70-71

  • 0:00 – Teams
    • Mariia Aloshyna new to Folijet
    • Roman Barannyk new to Vega
  • 1:05 – Daisy Release (Q3.2) public on 2019-09-30
    • Elderflower (Q4) public on 2019-12-20
    • Definition of Done updates from last sprint are now operational
  • 5:49 – Sprint highlights
    • Backend searching (SQL searches that can span multiple indexes)
    • CI/CD architecture
    • Skipping team highlights, as most teams are doing demos later in the recording
  • 11:18 – Vega: Dmytro Tur
    • Multiple item patron notices
    • 16:46 fee fine charge
  • 20:20 – Thunderjet (Acq): Ann-Marie Breaux, Aliaksei Chumakou, Yury Aniskou, Mikita Siadykh, Andrei Shumski
    • Organization permissions
    • 25:59 approval step before opening order
    • 29:08 invoice and voucher updates
  • 38:39 – Folijet: Ann-Marie Breaux, Sasha Yehorov, Igor Gorchakov, Oleksii Kuzminov
    • Choose jobs
    • 42:07 instance mapping
    • 48:37 Status of pub/sub work
  • 53:31 – Concorde: Sergiy Sergiyenko, Yevhenii Maltsev
    • Circulation rules editor
    • 1:00:04 Normalization of locations for rules
  • 1:06:04 – Library Data Platform: Roman Ruiz-Esparza
    • Test data generator
  • 1:09:14 – Stripes-force: John Coburn
    • MCL – “listing” component – column sizing and scrolling improved
  • 1:15:35 – Core Functional: Charlotte Whitt
    • Copy barcode – click the icon to copy to clipboard
    • Item condition status
    • Copy number no longer repeatable
  • 1:21:29 – QA Update: Anton Emelianov
    • Opening more bugs than we are closing – tighten up development to reduce bugs
    • Bugfest – 64 people, no POs – real users! Stressful exercise, but helpful to have unbiased feedback

Bibliographic Record Merge — Updates

The 5C Record Merge Working Group is currently working on a match profile, which we sometimes refer to as a mapping. This match profile will include all the MARC fields in our bibliographic records that are part of the merge and notes on what to do on merge. In short, these notes will be the decisions that we make for each field. For example, for 590 field, do we map this to a 500 note and add a subfield 5 with the code for the owning institution? The merge profile will also add comments on the type of behavior we’d like to see on merge, whether certain fields need to be normalized, what to do with like or exact matches, etc. 

One of our first steps towards this match profile is to look at our collection codes. Our decisions are not based solely on location. However, this first entry will help us see what collections and/or locations we have across the 5C and ask questions as to what should be included and excluded. This process is just fine tuning what we recommended in our Recommendations Document.

Alongside this work, the members of the group will be doing small tests with Backstage to tease out more questions and start forming a decision narrative for the merge profile. You can follow our tests from our Sample Tests with Backstage spreadsheet.

FOLIO sprint 67,68,69

  • 1:19 – Q3.1 and Q3.2 release discussion; important “Definition of Done” change
    • Not many team changes – Anatolii switched from folijet to EPAM, Bohdan joined EPAM
    • Q3.1 bugfix update done on time
    • Q3.2 module release (Daisy) public by 2019-09-25
    • Q4 (Elderflower) public by 2019-12-20
    • Expanded Definition of Done to include proper documentation of APIs, use pull request guidelines
  • 10:43 – Acquisitions
    • Thunderjet (Acq): Dennis Bridges, Aliaksei Chumakou, Andrei Shumski, Mikita Siadykh
    • Password management 12:43
    • Linking orders to invoices 16:44
    • Assigning acquisitions units to orders 19:18
    • Templates 26:08
  • 31:37 – eHoldings app and tags
    • Spitfire: Maksym Dryha
    • Filtering note types 31:37
    • Searching by tags 33:21
    •  Adding/deleting notes 34:45
  •  40:11 – Data Import (Bib/Acq), File Upload
    • Folijet: Ann-Marie Breaux, Sasha Yehorov, Taras Tkachenko
    • field mapping profiles for Data Import app 40:11
    • refined integration between SRS and Inventory: suppress-from-discovery option 43:39
  •  48:43 – Patron notices, staff slips and other core features
    • Vega: Maxim Didenko and Oleksandr Antonenko
    • Users app password reset 48:43
    • Circulation staff slips; checkout notes 50:26
  • 52:59 – Anonymizing loans, circ rules and other core features
    • Concorde: Viktor Soroka, Dmytro Popov
    • improvements to locations display in Settings app; location code validation; new cancel/save button demoed in Users app 52:59
    • saving patron group for anonymized loans 58:32
  •  1:01:11 – Stripes, UX, Accessibility
    • Stripes-force: Ryan Berger and Rasmus Wølk
    • UI app template for developers 1:01:11
    • overall UI improvements 1:08:00
  •  1:10:25 – Resource access (loans, requests etc), inventory and other core features
    • Core Functional: Zak Burke, Michal Kuklis, Magda Zacharska
    • Inventory app: new lookup tables; improvements to search. Fix “add all permissions” button in Users app 1:10:25
    • Requests app move request to another item; improvements to search/filter widget; improvements to UI connections to back end 1:15:33
    •  title-level requests 1:19:45
  • 1:25:25 – FOLIO Platform, CI/CD
    • Core Platform: Eric Valuk
    • CQL array modifiers; CQL query across tables 1:25:25
  • 1:28:40 – QA update
    • QA Update: Anton Emelianov

– Sprint breakdown by Colin Van Alstine

Inventory Working Group progress

The Five College Inventory Working Group is picking up steam. We started back at the beginning of June, with the task to review the MARC to Inventory instance record mappings. Our goal is to decide if the standard FOLIO mapping will work for what we want and need to see in our Inventory instance records.

Members have been reading through MARC mapping suggestions, searching for records in our Five College FOLIO instance and testing if we have what we think staff will need when using Inventory. Stay tuned! We’ll be reaching out to colleagues in each of the colleges to view and test sample Inventory records soon!

Five College Record Merge working group update

The Five College Record Merge Working Group submitted its Recommendations report to FIT and FCLC in June of this year. If you remember, the charge of this working group has multiple phases. The first was to create a recommendations document on how to merge bibliographic records in preparation for the migration to a single tenant FOLIO. The second phase is to act on those recommendations to deduplicate bibliographic records. 

FCLC endorsed the decision to use Backstage Library Works (BSLW) as our vendor to help us deduplicate bibliographic records within the scope of the record merge. Because of the number of bibliographic records involved, approximately 5 million, FIT and FCLC have decided to forgo authority control loads until this can be handled by FOLIO. The entire file will be reset at that time.

The group has a number of items to address in these early stages to prepare for deduplicating bibliographic records. We will be working with BSLW  on refining the contract, timeline of events, algorithm used for deduplication, and testing samples. The working group is also beginning to work on a testing procedure and mapping document.

FOLIO Sprint Review 60-61

  1. 0:00 Welcome, new team coming in Sprint 64: Concorde (members currently on Foliojet and Core Functional); focus coming soon.
  2. 1:43 new team members on Core Functional:  
    1. Volodymyr Rohach -EPAM (Concorde)
    2. Dmytro Popov – EPAM (Concorde)
  3. 2:00 new team member on Stripes Force: Ryan Berger (EBSCO)
  4. 2:20 new team members on Thunderjet:
    1. Andrei (Anddrews) Kandratsenka – JS Developer
    2. Mikita Siadykh – JS Developer
  5. 2:40 new team members on Folijet:
    1. Anatolii Starkov – BE Developer
    2. Taras Tkachenko – FE Developer
    3. Viktor Soroka – FE Developer (Concorde team)
    4. Sergiy Sergienko – FE Developer (Concorde team)
  6. 3:03 All Concorde Team members:
    1. Viktor Soroka
    2. Oleksii Popov
    3. Dmytro Popov
    4. Sergiy Sergienko
    5. Volodymyr Rohach
  7. 3:19 Q2 2019 Release details
    1. Interim release (Q2.1) May 17th
    2. Q2 release July 1st
  8. 5:16 Definition of done (no change)
  9. 5:24 slides for team highlights of last couple of sprints
  10. 6:14 Thunderjet/Acquisitions demo: organizations (formerly vendors) module; serials check-in; interaction between check-in and inventory
  11. 20:50 Folijet demo: backend infrastructure — source record storage, connecting to inventory and marccat, data import UI/job profiles
  12. 30:00 Vega demo: requests
  13. 33:50 @Cult demo: editing, cataloging workflow
  14. 40:00 ERM demo: integration of agreements app and eholdings app
  15. 47:45 Core Functional demo: requests and locations, check-in/out notes
  16. 1:01:40 FOLIO Quality Dashboard highlights
  17. 1:06 next up:
    1. Sprint 62 (April 22nd-May3rd)
    2. Sprint 63 (May 6th-17th)
    3. Interim Q2.1 Release May 17th
  18. 1:06:14 Plans for coming sprints
    1. Core Platform
    2. Core Functional
    3. Stripes Force
    4. UNAM
    5. @Cult
    6. Acquistions
    7. ERM
    8. Folijet (Data Import)
    9. Spitfire
    10. Vega
    11. Concorde

FOLIO Sprint Review 58-59

0:00 Welcome; only a couple of team changes for Core Functional
1:06 Q1 2019 Release details
3:04 Definition of Done
4:49 Sprint Highlights for the various groups
5:55 Thunderjet/Acquisitions demo; purchase orders
17:08 Folijet demo; file extensions, uploading marc records
28:45 Vega demo; notice templates, request expiration feature
37:45 Spitfire demo; eholdings application
44:00 Stripes Force demo; UI menus
48:15 Core Functionality demo; requests, item missing, circulation rules editor
1:06:30 Core Platform demo; developer utility for parsing log files, response time improvements, utilities, edge modules
1:20 QA Update Q1 2018 Bug Fest Report; Bug Triage Process, bug priority

Records Merge Working Group Invites you to 2 Open Discussions

The last records merge open discussion focused on special collections, analyzed sets, bound-with, and  electronic resources. A recording, summary, and images of notes can be found in the FIT Documents folder for the Record Merge Working Group. A word of warning about the recording – we broke out into groups which didn’t translate to the recording. The beginning and end was captured. If you were unable to attend or have more you’d like to contribute, post your comments to this form which is anonymous and only for internal use.

We are in the process of scheduling two additional open discussions. Save the date for these upcoming events:

  • April 30, 2019, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, The Annex: Open Discussion on (Not) Merging Suppressed Records
  • May 10, 2019, 9:30 am – 11:00 am, Mt. Holyoke: Open Discussion on Merging and What steps should be taken to prepare to Merge (or Not) on: Special Collections, Analyzed/Bound-withs/Cat Seps/etc., a third topic to be announced

We encourage everyone to continue the discussions on merging and how to prepare for the merge with their colleagues. If you have a group and a topic for the May 10th discussion that isn’t special collections or the analyzed/etc, let us know via the form, by email (jeustis@umass.edu) or Slack #5crmwg.