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I remember Geac. :)

Hi everyone! Please drop your questions in the chat and we will get to them after all the 3 presentations. If you could indicate which speaker the question is for, that would be super helpful. Thanks!

Yes, totally agree with Wayne - MARC can be a useful format, but it should not be the required format, especially as libraries try to break out of our metadata silo and join our data with the larger non-library online community.

Kyle's presentation seems far too optimistic to me. FOLIO does make it possible to build your own migration tool, but that doesn't mean migration is easy. You still have to build your own migration tool, and most libraries do not have the ability to do that at all. Maybe you can do it with skills that are common in the tech world, but those skills are not so common in the library world.

I think with open source ILS, one key concept is realizing that open source =/= "free." There are still costs associated, whether it's payi­ng for hosting and/or migration, or paying for internal skilled staff to manage the migration, system, and data

Did Wayne really just say "To the vector go the spoils"?!?

He did.

How great is it to have story time in a library presentation??!!

The Dot and the Line story is just what I needed this afternoon -- a perfect metaphor. Thanks, Wayne!

I really enjoyed that!

Ooof--that hit my geeky funny bone hard on a Friday afternoon.

My math major self was thinking I need to get a copy of "The Dot And The Line" till you hit us with that pun. (Now I KNOW I need it, haha)

RIP Norton Juster (also author of The Phantom Tollbooth)

Ooh - just was rushing here to type that - The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my favorite books of all time!

See the Vision, Strategic Directives, and Initiatives document for a sense of where the FOLIO project is going: https://wiki.folio.org/display/COMMUNITY/FOLIO+Vision%2C+Strategic+Objectives+and+Initiatives

Laura, I was running late today, sorry. Might you talk about some of the other values you think are cool about disconnecting the source data from the FOLIO Instance, as one of the ways its really being developed for the future? thanks

@Lloyd, "easy" is probably not the operative word for most libraries.Even if you have an ace tech team, figuring out exactly what to do is tricky since a deep understanding of existing services as well as the workflows and people who support them is essential to planning the migration even before the tech stuff gets added to the picture.But having tech possibilities that can be fulfilled using the community, "normal" tech skills, and the like is a big deal. It means that even if your library doesn't have the skills to do it, it's easy to find someone who does -- and it's easy to know who to look for

"Free like a puppy not like beer"

Even free beer has a cost -- at least that was my experience back in college

Can we have another story :-)

+1

Thanks Wayne

But we only have 1 minute

Can someone explain how FOLIO and Sinopia differ or are similar?

thank you

Thanks. That’s great

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Thank you!

Thanks!

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Thank you. Very interesting session

Very interesting

Thank you!

Thank you!

cheers all