2024-10-31 Meeting Notes

Welcome

Agents in the PUI Review

• Reviewed existing tickets related to usability of agents in the Public User Interface

  • Name usage dates (ANW-1811). Example: https://archivesspace.mit.edu/agents/people/975

    • This ticket has been marked as Ready for Implementation as of February 14, 2024 - will this be on 4.0?

  • Open date spans (ANW-1862) review identified additional issues:

    • Open spans are also present in sidebar display, and fix should also address these

    • Need to consider the impact of open spans on date-based searching in PUI

    • Some questions about whether single dates should be separate from open date spans, best practice for encoding standards

      • DevPri recommended closing this ticket in their October 4, 2024 meeting

  • Sources display (ANW-1962)

    • Passed at the DevPri June 7, 2024 meeting

  • Outline issues (ANW-2118). Example: https://archivesspace.mit.edu/agents/corporate_entities/1400

    • Chris will update this ticket with more information

  • Other issues identified in agent review included:

    • Understandability of default relationship labels in the application--may need updates

    • Imported relationships from LC plug-in should also be reviewed

    • Display differences when using line breaks in notes as compared to <p> tags

    • Spacing issues in chronologies, citations

    • More documentation may be needed for the outline feature

Other projects?

Noah will begin a Jira ticket draft for the View button functionality in the SUI

Open

Susannah will create a draft for accidental clicking of the Help Center button

Other topics

Discussed spell-check issues and EAD tags in title fields but awaiting the release of 4.0 to investigate.