Muscat i Blacklight

From: Ferran Jorba <Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat>
To: "info@rism-ch.org" <info@rism-ch.org>
CC: "Wagner, Alexander" <alexander.wagner@desy.de>, Katrin Große <k.grosse@gsi.de>, Tanya Zaikina <ztanya@jinr.ru>
Subject: Our international interest in Muscat
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:44:48 +0200

Dear Sirs,

you may have seen a few issues and messages about Muscat posted at
Github, and now we'd like to present more formally our current interest
in evaluating it.

You may already know Invenio (https://invenio-software.org/), the
software that CERN has been developing during the last 15 years or so.
This software has been adopted by a number of international research
institutions and universities to manage and publish the scientific
output, other bibliographic records, and the digital documents related
to them. One of the main reasons most of us we choose Invenio was that
the internal bibliographic was Marc21. Unfortunately, in the last few
years, CERN commitment to Marc21 has fallen and they are no longer
supporting it as first class citizen in future Invenio releases. We
may change this situation, but we think that, at the same time, we
should look at alternatives, and one of them is Muscat.

In that sense, and as agreed in the meeting we are currently having in
Hamburg, I'm writing you in behalf of a group of institutions that are
currently using Invenio. Some of them formaly belong to the Join2
consortium, with some of the largest Invenio installations out ouf CERN
(http://join2.de), and some others have intense but less formal
relation (like the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research,
http://jds.jinr.ru/) o Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with three
Invenio installations (https://ddd.uab.cat, https://ifmuc.uab.cat and
https://traces.uab.cat).

We are perfectly aware that Muscat is an specialized application for
music cataloging. But, at the same time, it is one of the few pieces
of free software that fully supports Marc21 natively and, from what we
have seen, in a very complete way. Moreover, we have seen that the
document types can be configured defining which Marc21 tags and
subfields are in use for this or that document types.

So, we are not asking you to move from your current music cataloging
goals. But we are interested in knowing whether you would be interested
in having users outside the music cataloging speciality, and if you
would accept external collaborations to make Muscat also fit our
needs. At this moment we are still in the exploration and evaluation
phase, nothing is decided yet, but your software has many of the
features we are looking for. At the same time, it lacks a few others.
But, if you welcome external users and collaborators, we can work
together to make a more general Muscat.

So that's the main goal of this mail: to know your predisposition to
welcome us to participate and improve it, as this seems to be the case
according to the your 2017 yearly report:

• http://docs.rism-ch.org/Jahresbericht-2017-d-web.pdf#page=4
• http://docs.rism-ch.org/Jahresbericht-2017-f-web.pdf#page=4

We have the goal to evaluate Invenio 3, Muscat and a few other
alternatives during the next months, so a final decission could be
made before the end of the year, but we could not decide for Muscat if
this conflicts with your interests or goals.

In that sense, one of the first questions we'd like to know is the
Muscat license, because we haven't found any, besides stating here and
there that it is open source.

A second question would be if we may have an email contact to deal with
those more formal questions, say to solve the less purely technical that
can be done via Github. Is this info@rism-ch.org the one?

Finally, I must say that I'm CCing this mail to just a few of the people
interested in having this mails personally, but of course we would
like your answers will be known, copied or re-send to a broader group of
people, because it will impact a larger community. May we have your
acknowledge on this?

With our best wishes, and in behalf of the Join2 Muscat working group,

Ferran Jorba

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Ferran Jorba
Administrador del https://ddd.uab.cat
Servei d'Informàtica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat
tel. +93.581.42.40

From: Laurent Pugin <laurent.pugin@rism-ch.org>
To: Ferran Jorba García <Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat>
Cc: "Wagner, Alexander" <alexander.wagner@desy.de>, Katrin Große <k.grosse@gsi.de>, Tanya Zaikina <ztanya@jinr.ru>, Cédric Güggi <cedric.gueggi@rism-ch.org>, Rodolfo Zitellini <Rodolfo.zitellini@rism-ch.org>
Subject: Re: Our international interest in Muscat
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 10:15:29 +0200

Dear all,

Many thanks for this email and for the inquiry. We are pleased to hear
about your interest in Muscat and about the possibility for you to
contribute to the project in the future.

There is, on principle, no reason why the Muscat project could not accept
external contributions. Of course, we need to make sure they would fit the
goals and the design of the project. On this topic, it would be interesting
for us to know what are for you the most important features that are
currently missing for your needs. Would it be possible to know more about
them?

Regarding the license, it was decided to go for AGPL (I will check why this
is not clearly mentioned in the repository).

Please do not hesitate to contact me via this email address for any further
questions and for any information you might need in the evaluation process.
Also, feel free to circulate our correspondence to a wider group of people
as needed - without making it openly accessible to the public, though.

Best wishes,
Laurent Pugin

From: Ferran Jorba García <Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat>
To: Laurent Pugin <laurent.pugin@rism-ch.org>
CC: "Wagner, Alexander" <alexander.wagner@desy.de>, Katrin Große <k.grosse@gsi.de>, Tanya Zaikina <ztanya@jinr.ru>, Cédric Güggi <cedric.gueggi@rism-ch.org>, Rodolfo Zitellini <Rodolfo.zitellini@rism-ch.org>
Subject: Re: Our international interest in Muscat
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:14:06 +0200

Dear Laurent,

thank you for your kind answer, that permits us to continue exploring
Muscat.

The list of things that we think Muscat misses is still preliminary,
for a couple of reasons: first, because we still don't know Muscat well
(there are things that we may not fully understand and they may be
there without us being aware or could be solved in another way); the
second and most important, is that not all our institutions have the
same needs. Due to each institution own workflow, some of them may need
some issues that are not listed here yet, because, again, we are still
in an preliminary phase.

So, based on a initial common requirement list that we have building
during the last weeks, there are some of them that we are sure going to
need and seem not to be in Muscat:

• OAI server.
• LDAP authentication.
• The ability to create and configure more user roles.
• More permission glanularity and flexibility, per roles, in a few
  areas:
  • Access to cataloging forms.
  • Access to bibliographic records or bibliographic record groups (what
    in Invenio are called collections, that is, records that have some
    common search pattern).
  • Access to their attached digital documents according to roles (and
    that would probably need more roles).
• Ability to handle all our records, sometimes them quite large, and in
  others huge.
• Author identification and importing based on standard scientific
  literature IDs, like Orcid.
• More translations (Russian and Catalan, for example). Obviously, that
  would be done by ourselves.

Some others fall into the nice-to-have, or with lesser priority because
can be solved indirectly:

• Keep our current Invenio urls for records (that is, that we may keep
  the /record/1234 instead of /catalog/1234).
• Keep the current Invenio collections, the concept and the urls.
• Integrated OAI client.

We do also the need to handle efficiently those really large authors
lists (2000+), with author guessing and using imported author IDs
(Inspire-id, Orcid), but of course that would belong more in our
implementation phase; it is not anything that we can ask Muscat
beforehand.

Our rough calendar would be, if Muscat is finally selected, to start
the migrations some time next year. Again, installations with less
requirements could start before, and the more complex later on.

Regarding our technical capabilities, most of us have been on the
Python camp during the last decade, due to Invenio being implemented in
Python. So, in general, we don't know Ruby nor Rails yet. From what we
have learned so far, Rails applications seem to integrate and combine
easily external pieces, so LDAP should be possible to integrate due that
Muscat uses Devise
(https://github.com/plataformatec/devise/wiki/How-To:-Authenticate-via-LDAP)
and there is a OAI Ruby gem (https://rubygems.org/gems/oai). If those
are not your priorities and we are not ready yet to contribute
ourselves, we may have to negociate with you if we can ask a third
party developer do it for us, for example.

Thanks for listening,

Ferran

From: Ferran Jorba García <Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat>
To: Laurent Pugin <laurent.pugin@rism-ch.org>
CC: "Wagner, Alexander" <alexander.wagner@desy.de>, Katrin Große <k.grosse@gsi.de>, Tanya Zaikina <ztanya@jinr.ru>, Cédric Güggi <cedric.gueggi@rism-ch.org>, Rodolfo Zitellini <Rodolfo.zitellini@rism-ch.org>
Subject: Re: Our international interest in Muscat
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:36:14 +0200

Hello again,

sorry, I forgot one obvious requirement: we would like to be able to
easily change 'Composer' for 'Author' in a clean and complete way, that
is, without leaving any hint left (this requirement is effectively
needed for all our Invenio instances, except one,
https://ifmuc.uab.cat/).

Somewhat, we envision that some of those Muse strings could be
parametrized and translated (like 'composer' for 'author', or 'catalog'
for 'record', to start with).

Thanks,

Ferran

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From: Ferran Jorba <Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat>
To: info@rism.digital
Cc: "Wagner, Alexander" <alexander.wagner@desy.de>, "Grosse, Katrin" <K.Grosse@gsi.de>, Tanya Zaikina <ztanya@jinr.ru>
Subject: Adding an external authentication system for Muscat
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:19:58 +0200

Dear Sirs,

it has been more than one year since we formally approached you explaining why some of the old Invenio users are interested in Muscat. Let me update a little bit the current status.

First, things are going slower that we hoped. Ongoing responsabilities and urgencies do not disappear just because we are exploring software alternatives.

Second, we continue to explore both Invenio 3 and Muscat. Myself, I'm more and more believer that Muscat suits us very well, specially when we discovered the publications bibliographic model (secondary literature), that fits our needs very well without having to force the sources (musical manuscripts) bibliographic. In that sense, I appreciate your willingness to do the modifications in Muscat adjusting names and parameters.

Before Easter at UAB we had a meeting between the Library and the Computing services, and there was a formal agreement to spend the rest of this 2021 learning about Muscat and adjusting it to our needs.

In that sense, as I'm slowly being more familiarised in Muscat, Ruby, Rails and Solr, I have the intention to contribute to make Muscat work well for us, and also teach it some Invenio features that we need. I've come to the conclusion that there changes are not big, but they have to be done.

At the same time, there is only one major feature that is not strictly bibliographic that we need to address: user authentication and account maintenance. Now, accounts are created and modified only by the administrator (https://github.com/rism-digital/muscat/issues/515). In a university or research center, where often there is a centralised identification system, Muscat should be able to use it, either using Signle Sign On or LDAP. We would also like to have more than one simultaneous identification system: in some of our installations, university personnel can use corporate identification system, but external accounts can create accounts on their own. Finally, we like to have the choices our current Invenio system provides in the configuration file (https://github.com/fjorba/invenio/blob/master/config/invenio.conf#L1016).

All of this, of course would be optional, and maintaning your default Muscat parameters.

At the UAB, we have decided to externalise this improvement to some external contractor with Ruby on Rails experience, so we can concentrate in our bibliographic speciality and let somebody else to work under our instructions. We have just started to contacte them to evaluate their proposals.

We would appreciate if you welcome those improvements to upstream muscat in the following months. Of course, our interest is not to disturb your primary purpose, and we will be responsible to test it locally, and to listen all parts so the integration runs as smooth as possible.

Best regards,

Ferran Jorba
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

PS Please CC your answer to whoever you consider. Since the change of rism-ch to rism-digital, I'm unsure about who should I write to.

--
Ferran Jorba
Administrador del https://ddd.uab.cat
Servei d'Informàtica
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat
tel. +93.581.42.40

From: Laurent Pugin <laurent.pugin@rism.digital>
To: Ferran Jorba <Ferran.Jorba@uab.cat>
Cc: "Wagner, Alexander" <alexander.wagner@desy.de>, "Grosse, Katrin" <K.Grosse@gsi.de>, Tanya Zaikina <ztanya@jinr.ru>, Rodolfo Zitellini <rodolfo.zitellini@rism.digital>, Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson@rism.digital>, Cédric Güggi <cedric.gueggi@rism.digital>
Subject: Re: Adding an external authentication system for Muscat
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:09:32 +0200

Dear Ferran,

Many thanks for your email and your interest in Muscat. I am replying from
my email address with additional CCs to make sure everybody is in the loop.
We will discuss it and be back to you.

Best wishes,
Laurent