WOLFcon 2020

Welcome - David Carlson;
Overview of the Open Library Foundation & WOLFcon Housekeeping - Ginny Boyer;
Good Intentions: Forging a Pathway off the Road of Insanity - Evviva Lajoie
Library based Open Source Software communities often discuss their desires to be more inclusive and to bring diverse voices to the table, but what is actually stopping us from doing so? In this talk, Evviva will outline barriers to adoption and community building, identify some of the systemic structures that are holding us back and explore pathways forward that could, through collective action, save us from being forced to live within walled gardens of national boundaries and proprietary systems.

What does it take to make sure programs are sustainable? In 2017, IMLS funded a LYRASIS project to assess how open source software applications serving cultural and scientific heritage organizations attain long-term sustainability, known now as "It Takes a Village" (ITAV). The ITAV Guidebook can act as a roadmap for all types of programs, not only open source software. Using the four facets outlined in the Guidebook - Technology, Governance, Resources and Community Engagement, ITAV can be a tangible tool for ensuring sustainability, regardless of where a program currently sits within its life cycle.  The framework can also help those working with or evaluating whether to use and/or support open source and other programs based on their sustainability efforts.  The session will include an overview of the framework, how it is being used by programs and time for questions.

Presentation on the status of V3 of the SWORD protocol that brings it up to date with current RESTful API standards and includes new features for data and large files. Will include an overview of the specification and current implementation activities.

Project participants share how each community manages community/governance, and how each community generally manages project development.

The presenters will share some of the history and background of Project ReShare and how they have informed the formation of the project's governance structure, inspired by FOLIO and conversations with the OLF.
Project ReShare can potentially be a valuable model for how projects can coexist and support each other on the FOLIO core platform. We hope to inspire a lively discussion.

Agenda or outcome: This session is a general session track with an open meeting afterward. The session will be divided into two parts. The first part will be programming related to project management. We expect to have a panel to discuss a set of questions regarding the individual's institutional planning for FOLIO with a Q&A session. The second part minutes will allow the FOLIO Implementers Group to have a face to face discussion about any issues and help plan future meetings of the group.

Proposed moderator: TBD

Primary audience: Interested and committed FOLIO implementers

Required attendees: FOLIO Implementers Group members

Open or closed? Open

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/677950242 

Zoom notes: If you want the recording of this meeting uploaded to your SIG space, send the date, time, and Zoom account to Anne Highsmith hismith@email.tamu.edu or Peter Murray peter@indexdata.com.

We would like to share our work on Perpetua at WOLFcon, as the first non-core app to be integrated with FOLIO’s platform. We would like to present during a FOLIO plenary session. It would be a fantastic opportunity to introduce ourselves to the FOLIO community and begin to engage and collaborate. Perpetua is a software solution for safeguarding, preservation and providing access to a wide range of digital content types that are often part of the library remit. This includes scholarly outputs, research data, special collections and institutional records. Arkivum is integrating Perpetua as an app into the FOLIO ecosystem, which will provide support in FOLIO for preserving and safeguarding digital content for the long-term. Perpetua builds upon and integrates several community open source solutions including Archivematica for digital preservation and Access to Memory (AtoM) for archive information management and online access. Along with open specifications and APIs, Perpetua fits well with the FOLIO philosophy and fills a gap in FOLIO capabilities (e.g. as identified in the FOLIO working group whitepaper on special collections and archives). This includes the ability for libraries to use Perpetua within FOLIO to store, preserve, manage and access their special collections and archives using archival standards (ISADG etc.) and be able to describe both physical and digital content that they hold. Perpetua will integrate with the FOLIO codex and its Data Model. For example, this will ensure that special collections are discoverable alongside other resources in a uniform way. Users will be able to search for content through the codex and then be directed to Perpetua where they can view the full record for matching content. If items are in digital form (e.g. images, audio, video, documents etc.) then users will be able to view/play them directly in Perpetua. Likewise, for digital content that already exists in FOLIO, e.g. in repositories or other applications, we are looking at how this could be transferred into Perpetua for additional safeguarding and preservation.

Strive for Revive in the Frontier of a New Horizon: the Case of Shanghai Library
Members of the library will present a summary of the requirements for upgrading Shanghai Library’s platform. They will discuss the needs of needs of being a metropolitan public library, a research library, and the center of a whole-city library alliance. They will discuss the basic functional modules scheduled in the Shanghai Library's upgrades in 2021, as well as the aspects that need to be coordinated and supported by the international FOLIO community. They will also introduce considerations for the future of the FOLIO community in China, such as code contribution, an app store, compatibility evaluation, alliance service, etc.