2021-11-10 Data Import Subgroup meeting

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Attendees: Ann-Marie Breaux (Deactivated) Timothy Watters leeda.adkins@duke.edu Jennifer Eustis Nick Cappadona Christie Thomas Dung-Lan Chen Jenn Colt Lloyd Chittenden Lisa McColl Monica Arnold Raegan Wiechert 

Development update: 

Agenda topics: 

  • Lotus Feature Prep: Update Inventory records based on POL/VRN matches
  • Having two 856 fields in 1 MARC Bib that can create or update a holdings
    • 2 scenarios
      • Multiple 856s all importing to the same holdings record (e.g. 3 volumes on the same platform)
      • Used to be able to change an 856 to another field (e.g. 857), and then import both to the same holdings, so that you can assign different relationship values
    • If you want to update multiple holdings from 1 MARC  Bib, have to repeat that MARC bib as many times as there are holdings to update
    • Follow-up steps
      • A-M: Check to see if there is a TestRail
      • Jennifer will send a couple records to A-M
      • Add an Inventory or DI wiki page for electronic access in holdings and items
    • Can you update a holdings based on a URI match? Yes
  • What should be the next topic? See the list of future topics here. A-M is keeping them roughly in the order that they will be discussed.
    • Prep for Creating orders from MARC Bib records
    • Prep for Creating invoices from MARC Bib records
    • New feature for deleting import jobs from the log?
      • Per Jenn, will wait and see how the updated query helps
    • Importing Authority records for updates (with Khalilah)
    • Something else?
    • Data Import documentation
      • A-M to make sure that all of them are in the current sprint, and that links to the documentation are in place
    • Other high priorities
      • More complete logs and more performance logs are a priority for Jenn, Christie, Lloyd, Nick
      • Closing the loop on Inventory Single Record Import problems (is it Inventory, Data Import, or both?); big issue for the Cornell catalogers
    • Per Christie, will probably only use FOLIO data import for imports of 1000 or fewer, and then building their own loaders for larger, more complex imports, because of the fact that the logs are not detailed enough. Need to understand what did or did not happen for each record. Jenn, Christie - the Lehigh app is working well enough so that they don't see a high priority need for Order/Invoice creation from MARC data
  • Next meeting: brainstorm on log improvements