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 every 4 weeks (formerly every other week), see meeting notes for date of next meeting and Zoom join link
  • Running meeting notes
• Slack channel (public) in LD4 workspace– #sinopia (join LD4 public Slack). For quick informal questions and troubleshooting.
• Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/sinopia-users. (Note that the former PCCTG1 list was used for the Sinopia user group only for the duration of LD4P2, ending June 2020, and is no longer used for Sinopia)
  The list is for users and Sinopia team to share information about:
  • what's coming/changing in Sinopia

Useful links for Sinopia users

• LD4P3 Sinopia Project Plan

• Project Plan for Stakeholders (Work Cycle 1)

• Technical Project Plan (development milestones) 

• Architecture Components by Milestone

• 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)

• UI Designs and Research

• YouTube playlist of development team demos

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/

  • Work Cycle 3 (August - September 2020): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iPs8u3-hxBJHVUCSclkQJrkb_ZKQ27SGWRI9Ojoyb9g/