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Housekeeping

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

Workflow toolUsed by institutionType of tasks / workflowsNotes
CamundaTAMU
  • back and forth between automated tasks and human tasks
  • creates workflows as JSON
  • workflow interacts with FOLIO and communicates via e-mail with user
  • Camunda uses BPMN to express it’s flows (Business process modelling and notation)
  • defines business processes
JIRALehigh
  • Purchase Request Platform (developed in free version)
  • use Kanban boards
  • JIRA ticket enrichment to get pricing by title via API
  • e.g. speed up decision making
PrefectCornell
  • prefect is a python based workflow engine
  • different workflows, such as:
    • Ordering
    • PDA
    • cataloguing metadata corrections in FOLIO
    • setting holdings in OCLC
  • more data oriented workflows
  • 2023-01-25 Meeting notes: workflow management with Prefect

  • recording
  • use cloud based free version |  good accessibility
  • not plug and play; everything has python script behind it
  • python scripts are shareable
  • Similarity with Airflow: Prefect and Airflow both use DAGs and have a great deal of overlap in their functionality
  • needs upskilling people
AirflowStanford
  • bibliographic workflows
  • data loading
  • consists of DAGs → DAG: Directed Acyclic Graph (one direction)
    • each for separate workflow; different DAGs can be connected for migration
  • more data oriented workflows
  • different problem solved (rather migration)
  • manage loads of data efficiently
  • 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

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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 (tick)
      • 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 (tick)
      • Jenn Colt on using Prefect (tick)
      • 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

Present

Name

Home Organization


Brooks Travis

EBSCO


Charlotte Whitt

Index Data


Dennis Bridges

EBSCO

xDung-Lan ChenSkidmore College

Erin NettifeeDuke

Gill Osguthorpe

UX/UI Designer - K-Int

x

Heather McMillan Thoele

TAMU


Ian Ibbotson

Developer Lead - K-Int


Jag GorayaK-Int
regrets

Jana Freytag

VZG, Göttingen

xJenn ColtCornell

Khalilah Gambrell

EBSCO


Kimberly PamplinTAMU

Kirstin Kemner-Heek  

VZG, Göttingen

x

Kristin Martin

Chicago


Laura Daniels

Cornell


Lloyd Chittenden

Marmot Library Network


Marc JohnsonK-Int
x

Martina Schildt

VZG, Göttingen


Martina Tumulla

hbz, Cologne

x

Maura Byrne

Chicago


Mike Gorrell

Index Data

x

Owen Stephens

Product Owner -  Owen Stephens Consulting


Patty Wanninger

Product owner Users app


Rachel A SneedTAMU

Sara ColglazierFive Colleges / Mount Holyoke College Library
xSusanne SchusterBSZ Konstanz

John CoburnEBSCO

Zak BurkeEBSCO

Daniel HuangLehigh

Maccabee LevineLehigh

Robert ScheierHoly Cross

Jeremy NelsonStanford

Ingolf Kusshbz

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