2019-12-16 Reporting SIG Meeting notes

Date

16 Dec 2019

Attendees

Present?	Name	Organization	Present?	Name	Organization
x	Sharon Beltaine	Cornell University		Sara Colglazier	Mount Holyoke College/Five Colleges
	Elizabeth Berney	Duke University		Erin Nettifee	Duke University
	Joyce Chapman	Duke University		Karen Newbery	Duke University
x	Jean Pajerek	Cornell University	x	Tod Olson	University of Chicago
x	Claudius Herkt-Januschek	SUB Hamburg	x	Scott Perry	University of Chicago
x	Doreen Herold	Lehigh University		Stefan Stadtherr	MPIL Heidelberg
	Anne L. Highsmith	Texas A&M	x	Simona Tabacaru	Texas A&M
	Harry Kaplanian	EBSCO		Kevin Walker	The University of Alabama
x	Ingolf Kuss	hbz		Charlotte Whitt	Index Data
	Lina Lakhia	SOAS		Andi Bihler	Munich Technical University Library
	Joanne Leary	Cornell University		Uschi Klute	GBV
x	Michael Patrick	The University of Alabama		Vandana Shah	Cornell University
	Nassib Nassar	Index Data	x	Angela Zoss	Duke University
x	Veit Köppen	University Magdeburg		Lisa DeCarolis	Smith College/Five Colleges
x	Linda Miller	Cornell University	x	Elena O'Malley	Emerson
x	Matt Harrington	Duke University		Holly Mistlebauer	Cornell University
	Jean Pajerek	Cornell University	x	Nancy Bolduc	Cornell University
x	Margaret Briand Wolfe	Boston College		Eric Pennington	Texas A&M
x	Sarah Park	Duke University	x	Christie Thomas	University of Chicago
x	Clint Bellanger

Discussion Items

Item	Who	Notes
Attendance	Sharon	Today's Attendance Taker: Linda Miller Today's notetaker: Last week's notetaker: Vandana Shah
Reporting SIG Meetings around Winter Break	Sharon	Our meeting today, Monday, December 16, will be Reporting SIG's last meeting of 2019. The Reporting SIG meetings for 2020 will start back up again on Monday, January 6, still at 9am ET. Enjoy your winter break!
Updates from Various Reporting Related Groups and Efforts	Various	The Reporting SIG is using small work groups to address priorities and complete our work. Each week, we will provide updates to the Reporting SIG from these various reporting-related groups and efforts: Community and coordination we are preparing a presentation LDP Data Privacy Working Group LDP SysOps Working Group Software development issue with DBeaver and timezones; we'll send updates soon Report Prototypes a small group will discuss ERM reports during the Report Prototype "Open" time at 10am ET today
Review of LDP Table Names	Angela	Nassib has requested community feedback on the naming of tables in the LDP database: At present, some table names use prefixes to remove ambiguity, e.g. /finance-storage/groups is mapped to finance_groups, while others do not use a prefix, e.g. loans, users, and groups, as they are considered to have a more general application. In other cases, it may not be obvious whether a prefix should be used, e.g. requests. The advantages of using a prefix are clarity and leaving "room" in the namespace for more similarly named concepts in the future to co-exist with the current tables. The disadvantage is longer and more complex table names. Now that queries are being developed, there will be an increasing number of dependencies on table names, and it is a good time to pause and give some thought to whether some of them should be changed, because it will be increasingly difficult to change them later without having to modify existing queries. A spreadsheet with the table mappings and naming is linked here, and I would appreciate input from the Reporting SIG: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19iP5hnUHqCuGMM5OQKdUWMNCT75ZK3EDa0Vx8LgUZ24/edit?usp=sharing Notes: questions about plurals in table names, which are not used consistently why are some finance table names preceded by finance, and others not? repeatable fields will be served to the LDP as arrays in the data column that preserves the original Javascript object in FOLIO; a JSON extract path is used to extract this data; we will review this to discuss possible alternate ways to show this information in the LDP in a future Reporting SIG meeting rename instance type tables to UI resource types
New LDP Channels on Slack	Sharon	Three new Slack channels are now available on the Library Data Platform: #ldp-announce - Announcements for the LDP software (low volume of posts) #ldp-users - Querying and general usage of the LDP #ldp-sysadmin - System administration of the LDP
Reporting Prototypes and Queries	All	Let's review our Report Prototype and Query Development Project List Report Prototype and Query Development Project List Meeting Notes: See notes in the list (column "status").
Thanks and Kudos for 2019	All	It is our tradition to end the year with a round of thanks and kudos for everyone's participation in reporting efforts this past year. Good job, everyone!
Additional Topics?	All
Topics for Future Meetings	All	Review and update Topics for Future Reporting SIG Meetings

Action items

Community and Coordination group to discuss how to maintain GDPR compliance for REP 147 and REP 148
Vandana Shahto follow up on notes for changes to JIRA tickets for MM Reports and Report Clusters
Angela Zoss (Old) work with Nassib Nassar to go over names list, create final proposal
Angela Zoss (Old) (?) to share proposed list with POs of SIGs to make sure changed names still make sense
Angela Zoss (Old) to follow up on concerns from Christie Thomas about developing queries using json_extract_path_text; does allow for joins on individual elements in an array, doesn't work on all reporting systems