2020-July-09 Visioning Entity Management in FOLIO (Jason Kovari)
Channel: LD4
Date: 2020-07-02

2020 LD4 Conference, Infrastructure track

FOLIO (https://www.folio.org/) represents a group of libraries, vendors and other stakeholders joining forces to develop an open-source library management system from the ground-up. The project is driven by subject matter expects (i.e., library staff) and has at its development core real-life library needs and aspirations. To set a vision for Entity Management within the FOLIO environment, the Entity Management Working Group (EM-WG) is developing use cases, identifying gaps in the software and defining potential short-and-medium term projects to begin work toward this vision. Entity Management in this context is both the traditional authority management libraries have performed for decades but expands to that which libraries cannot currently do with authority/entity data their ILSs as well as the management of entity-based data models, such as BIBFRAME. This lightning talk will provide a very brief overview of FOLIO's structure to ensure shared foundation knowledge among the audience. The bulk of the presentation will focus on work underway in the EM-WG, such as use cases and other aforementioned outputs. The target audience is composed of both metadata and IT professionals who are concerned about how different projects intend to conduct in-production entity management.