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5 min

Attendance ice breaker

Austin Munsell

🧊 Icebreaker: What was your best/most memorable costume?

5 minutes

Program Update

Christine Di Bella

• Thanks to testing team for 4.0. In progress, almost done. Picking out final issues for 4.0, announcement soon for RC.

10 min

Sub-team Updates

Development Prioritization:
Matt Strauss

Metadata Standards:
Diane Biunno

Technical Documentation:
Bonnie Gordon

Testing:
Michelle Paquette

• Development Prioritization:

  • Reviewed 12 tickets at Oct. meeting

  • Developing standardized procedure for Dev Pri members to edit Jira tickets

  • Sent ticket to list for community feedback

• Metadata Standards:

  • Reviewed and discussed the results of the community survey.

  • Prioritize tickets based on survey results: For example, less emphasis on MARC importer and more emphasis on EAD, etc.Need in the community to maintain compatibility with EAD 2.0for this transition period, but make sure we’re moving forward as EAD evolves

    • What are people importing and exporting?

      • Using mostly spreadsheets for imports. MARC less used for imports.

• Technical Documentation:

  • Support transition to new platform from GitHub pages Jekyll for Tech Docs

  • Improve API documentation starting with jobs, search, and agents endpoints, and any changes from recent releases

• Testing:

  • Completed regression testing for version 4.0.0.

  • Identified Vice Lead: Mary Kidd

  • Will be organizing a post-testing debrief both solely as the committee and also with Christine to see what worked well and what needs improvement

10 min

TAC Business

Austin Munsell

• 👏 Thanks to Kevin and Regine for reponding responding to a number of questions over the last month in the ArchivesSpace Google Group!

• Recent/Upcoming webinars:

  • How to write successful feature requests for ArchivesSpace - Thimios Dimopulos

  • Proactive Change Management for Plugins in ArchivesSpace - Valerie Addonizio

  • Community-wide training: Data Cleanup and Maintenance for Long-Time ArchivesSpace Users

• Sub-Team vice-leads - If your team does not yet have a vice-lead, now is a good time to set that up

• Cancelling the December 23 TAC meeting

20 min

EAD 4.0

Alexander Duryee

Presentation Notes:

Anticipated release of EAD4 in 2025/early 2026. Shown info-graphic for Benefits of EAD 4.0:

• Unifying EAD and EAC-CPF 2.0. to ease maintenance and interoperability (moving data between the two)

• Make it more sustainable - more supportive of linked data, vocab source URI and support for other URIs. Linking between elements using target attribute. Developing with eye toward RIC.

• Exchangeable - data format for data exchange between systems/institutions. Removing print-focused markup. Shrinking size of tag library. No more runners! Expands <control> element.

• Extensible - removing lots of mixed content to three built-in elements (<p> tag child elements being reduced). Clarifying ambiguities between elements.

• Example of EAD4 work: <relations> element - narrowed scope to archival instantiations - relationships of materials to description.

• Jump from EAD2002 to EAD4 - more structure, being in ASpace helps since data is already structured.

  • No unitdates within unittitles, mixed content changes - all things to anticipate data cleanup for practitioners.

Questions for discussion:

• Would you be interested in using the new features of EAD4 (such as EAD/EAC-CPF crosswalking) and support for EAD3 features (such as finding aid maintenance notes) in ASpace?

  • Connection between lack of EAD adoption and use of ASpace + lack of support from aggregators (still using EAD2002). Moving entire ASpace environment to EAD4 is a big task and need support from each other to work.

• Are there any features you'd like to see in EAD4?

  • N/A

• Based on what you've seen so far, do you see EAD4 as a priority for support in ASpace?

  • N/A

3 min

Open Mic

Suggestions from open mic:

• N/A

2 min

Closing Notes

Austin Munsell

• Next TAC meeting: Monday, November 25, 2024 at 12pm EST/9am PST/7pm EEST/9:30pm IST

  • Brian Zelip will join us to give a more in depth technical update on ArchivesSpace 4.0