About the group
This group is for anyone using Sinopia, the cloud-based cooperative cataloging tool developed by LD4P, to:
- learn about the latest Sinopia developments
- surface common challenges and needs for Sinopia
- provide real-life use cases and scenarios for Sinopia UX, and respond to potential designs
- give input to the Sinopia development team on questions around understanding user requirements, and prioritizing requirements
- plan user aspects of Sinopia roll-out
- have a mechanism to act on feedback from users
Logistics
- Coordinated by Michelle Futornick
- Calls monthly (formerly every other week), see meeting notes for date of next meeting
- Slack channel (public) in LD4 workspace– #sinopia (join LD4 public Slack)
- Mailing list specifically for catalogers working in Sinopia to share tips, post questions, and offer answers
- To subscribe to the list, send email to PCCTG1-request@LISTSERV.LOC.GOV and include the words “Subscribe PCCTG1” in the subject line. Or visit the listserv page on LC’s listserv site https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A0=PCCTG1 (You will need to create an account there if you don’t have one if you want to subscribe via the listserv site, view the list archives, or manage your preferences.)
Useful links for Sinopia users
Project Plan for Stakeholders (Work Cycle 1)
Technical Project Plan (development milestones)
Issues: in the LD4P Github organization, see the following issue lists:
- Sinopia Editor
- Sinopia Exporter
- Sinopia Profile Editor
- Sinopia Indexing Pipeline
- Sinopia general (issues identified early in project)
- Requirements (very early requirements gathering based on analysis of other editing tools)
Technical documentation links
Architectural documentation: https://ld4p.github.io/sinopia/
Development team running meeting notes
Work Cycle 1 (August 2018 - August 2019): http://bit.ly/sinopia_running1
Work Cycle 2 (September - December 2019): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sDmhYFXjoHuODJx8B3jBthoF9Rl1qbnDs6z4UYXUGCU/
