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Available Sinopia Resources

Although the Sinopia User Group is on hiatus, there are several ways to get help with Sinopia and engage with other users:

Communication channels and related groups

• 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 For users and Sinopia team to share information about:
  • what's coming/changing in Sinopia
  • questions about using Sinopia and cataloging in Sinopia
• PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group For Sinopia users cataloging resources in the PCC context.

Sinopia documentation

• Sinopia User Group's past running meeting notes
• Sinopa help site
• LD4P3 Sinopia Project Plan
• Release Notes
• YouTube playlist of development team demos
• UI Designs and Research

About the group

This group The Sinopia User Group is for anyone using Sinopia, the cloud-based cooperative cataloging tool developed by LD4P, to allow Sinopia users to:

• learn about the latest Sinopia developments
• surface common challenges and needs for Sinopia
• provide real-life use cases and scenarios for Sinopia UXuser interaction, and respond to potential designs
• give input to the Sinopia development team on questions around understanding user requirements, and prioritizing requirements
• have a feedback channel in addition to the Sinopia ticketing system 

Group history

• The group began in August 2018. Early in the group's history, the group informed  planning of user aspects of the original plan user aspects of Sinopia roll-out
• have a mechanism to act on feedback from users 

Logistics

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• Calls were every 4 weeks
• Coordinated by Michelle Futornick
• Calls monthly (formerly every other week), see meeting notes for date of next meetingsee Running meeting notesZoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/553209232
• 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) 

• 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/
• (Side note: 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.)