2023-02-13 Meeting notes: Workflow tools | next steps

Date

13 Feb 2023

Housekeeping

• Convener and notes: Martina Schildt
• Next meeting: 22 Feb 2023

Discussion items

1. Workflow tools
   1. What are the differences and what are the similarities
   2. How can we make the solutions more adoptable?
   3. Next steps: e.g. create a Slack channel wehre people can share tools and experiences
2. AI SIG survey

Minutes

Workflows

• Next steps: e.g. create a Slack channel wehre people can share tools and experiences
• Questions 
  • could the work that has been done for FOLIO to work with Camunda be used for Prefect or Airflow as well?
  • the closer tools are tied to FOLIO the more accessible?
  • will hosts support it?
    • for Elastic Search/Open Search they did
    • not for LDP
  • FOLIO internal vs. external solution for workflows - is there a preference - what are the thoughts of the TC?
  • How progress workflow discussion → PC?
    • would need PO and dev team to make progress
    • Heather will reach out to TAMU on their plans on Camunda

AI SIG survey

• to improve the overall experience I would ask you to answer the linked survey, that will only take a few minutes
• the survey will be open until Feb 22nd

Chat

Transcript

Future topics

• Topic proposal by Owen Stephens for October:
  • Use of shortcut keys and macros for more effective cross-app working  - it also be good to have UX and Stripes/dev knowledge for this discussion I think. I know @Laura (she/they) uses macros so might have insights into the potential for cross-app working
  • Potential for external 'workflow' solutions for cross-app interactions
    • I think 'workflow' is a dangerous term here - in this context it's more about automation than user workflows, although I think there is overlap
    • I was particularly struck by the solution in production at TAMU (Jeremy Huff and Sebastian Hammer presented, the recording is at https://prod-zoom-recordings-openlibraryfoundation-org.s3.amazonaws.com/50dc6c87-3912-43fa-8287-56ec73b12bbb%2Fshared_screen_with_speaker_view%28CC%29.mp4 starting at 3 hrs, 14 min) - I think getting someone from TAMU to talk about how this is used would be v interesting
    • There was also a presentation on the use of a tool called Airflow at Stanford for "bibliographic workflow" but I've not watched that yet so not 100% sure if it is completely applicable - I think the core use case there was systems migration but it may go beyond that
    • Jenn Colt on using Prefect
    • does not need to be workflow across apps
• UX/UI and implementers topics
  • should be Wednesdays
• Comprehensive look at where data is copied and stored as opposed to live data | how it is represented
• Date filters and how they work in different apps

Attendees

Action items