| 5 min | Program update | | Staffing - Recruitments underway for Program Manager (5 candidates thus far) and Technical Lead (2 candidates interviewed)
Development Restoration of Development - Hudson Molongo started to provide development in November and is expected to continue doing so through June 2017. Emphasis this month has been on bug fixes prioritized by the Prioritization sub-team, as well as approval of submitted pull requests.
PUI enhancement - A version of the enhanced public interface is available at http://pui.hudmol.com/. This will change as enhancements are implemented.
- Expectation is that all targeted enhancements will be completed and a tested and finished public interface will be ready for release at the end of March. However, a test candidate may not be ready until mid-January, instead of the previously stated date of mid-December.
Specifications - Agents: a new data model and wire frames have been drafted. Export maps and objects for MARC and EAC authority records are being drafted.
- Reports: the specification--including requirement, examples of definitions, and a list of report targets–is in a final phase of review and should be delivered for community review before the end of the year.
- OAI-PMH responder: waiting on a some minor revisions before being shared with the community for comment
- Rights Management: Consisting of an enhanced data model, wire frames, and migration requirements, this specification is completed and has been shared for community review. The community review resulted in request for user stories clarifying how organizations would use the rights module, especially in comparison to use and access notes in the resource module.
Membership - 308 total members (48 very large, 35 large, 60 medium, 54 small, and 111 very small)
Training - Basics and Digital Objects, Five Colleges (Northampton, MA, Oct. 10-11), Christine Di Bella, Rachel Onuf, presenters; Stacie Williams, trainer-in-training
- Basics, Tufts University (Medford, MA, Oct. 25-26), Christine Di Bella and Brad Westbrook, presenters, Miloche Kottman, trainer-in-training
- Basics and Digital Objects, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA, Oct. 31-Nov 2), Mark Custer and Noah Huffman, presenters
- Basics, George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY, Nov. 1-2), Brad Westbrook, presenter
- Basics and Digital Objects, Hong Kong University (Nov. 14-16), Nancy Enneking and Brad Westbrook, presenters
Upcoming: - Basics, University of North Texas (Dallas / Fort Worth, TX, Dec. 1-2) Noah Huffman and Miloche Kottman, presenters
- Basics, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, Jan. 9-10 (Lisa Calahan and Stacie Williams, presenters
Conferences - Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (Oct. 10-13, Phoenix, AZ)
- Joint Meeting of the Society of Georgia and Society of Florida Archivists (Oct. 13-14, Savannah, GA)
- LYRASIS Member Summit and All Staff meeting (Oct. 17-21, Atlanta, GA)
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (Nov. 3-5, Annapolis, MD)
- New England Museums Association (Nov. 11, Mystic, CT)
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| 15 min | 3 discussion questions: - Request to re-think Instance types
- Should we propose a by-law change?
- Performance when working with AOs with large numbers of direct children
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- Request to re-think Instance types
- We've received a request to re-think how ArchivesSpace handles Instance Types. The rationale is that Instance Types are semantically meaningless (e.g. exports as a top container "label") but potentially misleads users into thinking this it's a place to record format/genre information.
- Would any sub-teams have interest in looking into this issue further?
- Should we propose a by-law change?
The Technical Advisory Council also partners and with other community members to help with TAC initiatives. The roles of these other contributors include: - Invited affiliate contributors - External contributor with expertise relevant to particular TAC topic and/or task. These members are asked join a particular TAC sub-team for a period of time to help with a specific task, project or work area. These members are added by the Technical Advisory Council Chair and relevant subteam Lead.
- Program liaison - ArchivesSpace Program staff who work is funded by Membership Fees are encouraged to collaborate with the Councils and join relevant sub-team meetings as a means of ensuring the work of the Program, Council, and community align and are mutually supportive and beneficial.
- defining process for handling out of cycle vacancies (in Article V Section 2)
- Also potentially the bullet in Article V Section 4 that calls out the responsibility of TAC to "review functional enhancements and priorities identified by the Users’ Advisory Council." → but maybe we leave this one for further reflection
- Listserv discussion re. application performance when working with AOs with large numbers of direct children
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