2021-12-14 Meeting

Owned by Kate Lynch
Last updated: Dec 14, 2021 by Esmé Cowles
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Agenda and Notes:

  • (Kate) Microsoft Access alternatives
    • LibreOffice and OpenOffice look like options here
    • Goal is to write up docs for how to do this and setup JDBC drivers
    • Seems like a good way to share a read-only database
  • (Esmé) PUDL sunsetting
  • (Kevin) At the end of the year and Voyager is still up
    • Mark will meet with Joan this week on bursar update. Have a workaround, but it's pretty cumbersome. Hope to transition in January.
    • Mark needs to spend some time archiving data from Voyager database.
    • SFX: still being used for reference (would like to keep until end of fiscal year), should be restricted to campus
    • Meridian: can be retired now
    • Should retire these systems by end of January
  • (Esmé) PULFA 2 is still running — still used for comparison and understanding some old features
    • Find to leave it up and running for now, but may not be able to restore it
  • (Kevin) Video Database used by Barbara McLoughlin — need to retire this at some point
    • Currently using Wowza with good support from OIT, etc.
    • Need Figgy video support or another option to replace Wowza
    • Might be able to use ARes instead of PHP catalog, but can't print pullslips from ARes
    • Kate will follow up with Barbara to work through the printing issues and see what we can do here