The ArchivesSpace Language Support Taskforce is the result of ArchivesSpace’s commitment to increased accessibility and usability of the application. Based on feedback from the ArchivesSpace member community gathered by the ArchivesSpace Usability sub-team and presented to the community at the 2024 ArchivesSpace virtual member forum, the ArchivesSpace Language Support Taskforce was convened with the purpose of developing a specification for the development of multi-lingual description in the application.

This working group’s mission has expanded to identify needed improvement to language support within the ArchivesSpace application, develop use cases specific to these needs, and develop feature requests for the ArchivesSpace application to improve multi-lingual description and Right to Left text support the application.

Initial Charge:

• Develop use cases that identify the primary areas of the application users require the ability to provide description in multiple languages

• Develop behavior scenarios that describe the expected behavior within this application based on these use cases

• Create actionable tickets that specify the specific changes within the application necessary to facilitate multi-lingual description

• Develop use cases and behavior scenarios to enable better usability for those describing materials in Right to Left scripts

• Create actionable tickets to facilitate better support to RtL scripts in the application

• Test all new features related to multi-lingual description and RtL scripts in the application

• Work with the ArchivesSpace development team to develop these new features in an iterative process, providing active feedback to the development team throughout the life cycle of the working group

• Test new features related to multi-lingual description

• Liaise with the Usability and Metadata Standards sub-teams of the ArchivesSpace Advisory Councils

Community Taskforce Members

• Susannah Broyles, Usability Sub-team liaison

• Kevin Clair, Pennsylvania State University, Metadata Standards Sub-team liaison

• Alison Clemens, Yale University

• Sandrine Guérin, Yale University

• Cory Nimer, Brigham Young University, Team lead

ArchivesSpace Program Team Taskforce Members

• Jessica Crouch, ArchivesSpace Community Engagement Lead

• Thimios Dimopulos, ArchivesSpace Technical Lead

• Don Smith, ArchivesSpace Developer