2019-10-21 Reporting SIG Meeting notes

Reporting SIG members are invited to update the LDP First Implementers Grid on behalf of their institutions. Identifying when each institution plans to implement the LDP will help us prioritize report prototypes and query work in the Report Prototype Working Group.

• for reference, see Planned MVP Implementations Grid
• LDP First Implementers Grid
• who is your rep, when will you implement?
• any questions or concerns about implementing the LDP at your institution?

This is what they've been using to prioritize their reporting tasks, was basis of what Sharon used to put together grid. Everyone on call needs to complete this as homework this week. Please work with your institution to take a look at the info, give Sharon feedback (more columns needed?), and fill out. If your institution is missing from the list, please add it. Make sure to put in a contact person: this person will be looped in to the sys-ops group for conversations. "Still deciding" is perfectly acceptable but we need to know where everyone is. 

Group goes down the "first implementers" list through each institution. Wentworth and Simmons are the two early implementers from , Elena reports, she is not from those institutions though. No one from Five Colleges is on the call today.

Vandana has some questions about MM clusters for the group. (MM = Metadata management)

Todd and Christy will take the lead on talking about this today. 

Todd: Main thing we talked about was looking at the first four tickets on the master spreadsheet (Metadata_Management_clusters) UXPROD 898, 896, 895, 893. They are all related. They need a highly granular access to items in holdings and MARC data. They think the indexing on the JSON structures currently just won't support it. These would require a query that bring back the whole of the database, basically. So these really argue for a different kind of access to the data. Maybe having the MARC data broken out into a table that we could somehow do ad hoc reporting against. Christy has been in contact with Dale and Nassib about what's been done locally but they believe this requires a new approach that can support fine grained analysis of MARC data. Query would have to move into the EPL mechanism.

Vandana: These don't cluster together in terms of we can't write one query that's going to address them all. Just want to make sure people are onboard with the inability to cluster these. Sharon: that's fine.

Sharon to Todd: Put together a ticket if that's what you want to do. That's bigger than just a report. Specialized data set.

Nassib will be providing an update about what's happening to the MARC data. He knows it's a high priority and that we need to test against it.

Sharon, Scott, and Doreen will continue to walk us through their analysis of Resource Management reports to create clusters.

• cluster reports in the External Statistics functional area
• review the RA-to-RM cluster list 

See the lists at:

Resource Management Clusters

RA-to-RM Clusters

External Statistics

Sharon: Shows the group a second set of reports on Resource Access reports that are left to review, not yet clustered. Google doc: "RA reports to review." Starting with line 38, we are looking at whether it's resource usage, ERM, or something else I missed. REP-118: looks like ERM and it's a count cluster? Ingolf: yes.

Group edits spreadsheet together.

Review and update Topics for Future Reporting SIG Meetings