Convened beginning in July 2017, this working group is evaluating and making recommendations to enhance, streamline, and make the staff interface of the ArchivesSpace software application more accessible.
Initial charge
- Review, in order to de-dupe and enhance where necessary, outstanding JIRA issues submitted by the community over the years regarding the staff interface.
- Identify areas of interest not covered by existing JIRA issues.
- Identify accessibility gaps in the current staff interface.
- Based on the group's research and member feedback, develop organized recommendations for staff interface improvements.
- Recommendations should address comprehensively and holistically the experience of the staff interface, taking into consideration the diverse experience levels and needs of staff, student, and volunteers who interact with the program
- Recommendations should consider both small and major improvements, from changing the size of labels to exploring major revisions to increase the ease and efficiency of use.
- Once finalized, work with the ArchivesSpace Program team and others to use the recommendations as the basis for a comprehensive specification for the look and feel of the next version of the staff interface.
Get Involved:
- Volunteer survey
- Contribute ideas via JIRA or Google form
- Google drive for drafting specifications (note: this link is for viewing the Drive. Please contact Lydia Tang for edit access)
This group will convene in video/telephone conferencing calls every two weeks. During the hour-long conference calls, the meetings will review specifications drafted and uploaded to the Google drive by individual members during that time period, refine scope and direction for the project, and discuss subjective decisions about Staff Interface recommendations (such as layout and organization). Throughout this process, the Working Group will communicate with the ArchivesSpace member community by issuing calls for comments for various in-progress recommendations.
The end product of this Working Group will be a comprehensive document of recommendations and wireframes addressing the look and feel of the next version of the staff interface in a Google doc first circulated for commentary, with a final draft posted on Confluence for future action by ArchivesSpace.
Members
Lydia Tang, Michigan State University, chair