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As of June 2022, the Sinopia User Group is on hiatus. If you're interested in re-starting the group as a facilitator or co-facilitator, please get in touch with the LD4 Community Steering Group at ld4-steering@googlegroups.com, which provides support for LD4 Affinity Groups. |
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
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
- 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 For users and Sinopia team to share information about:- what's coming/changing in Sinopia
- questions about using Sinopia and cataloging in Sinopia
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- 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
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
About the 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 user 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 Sinopia roll-out.
- Calls were every 4 weeks (formerly every other week), see Running meeting notes.
- (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.)
Architectural documentation: https://ld4p.github.io/sinopia/
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/
Development team running meeting notes