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Date

25 May 2016

Attendees
 

Not Present

 

Goals
 

Update members on ArchivesSpace program activities including activities of sub-teams

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2:00 p.m. 

Roll CallGordon Daines 
 Program UpdateBrad Westbrook

Since last UAC meeting of 3/30/2016:

  • Staffing - decision about staffing likely to occur after June 6
    • Chris F. has departed
    • Brian H. reduced time to 10 hrs / week
    • In the process of restoring development resources
      • Discussing contract with Hudson Molonglo
      • Written job description for use if necessary
  • Development:  
    • Container Management: Update - data for 70 institutions tested
    • Inclusion of Location enhancements funded by NYU
    • Harvard / Yale / HM / Lyrasis meeting re. Public UI development push

  •  Training and Consulting: 
    • University of Arizona, 3-day workshop, May 2-4
    • KLN webinars completed on May 6
      • 7 sessions and 1 wrap up
      • Carved up into 32 individual recordings and under review
    • Conferences / Presentations:
      • New England Archivists (NEA)
      • Northwest Archivists (NWA)
      • Midwest Archivists (MAC)
      • Southwestern Archivists (SSA)

  • Nominations Committee is constituted and will start its work next week
    • Wrapping up this year's work.
    • Elections for Gov Board
      • Very Large
      • Small
    • Appointments to UAC (2-3)

  • Program communications:
    • Support philosophy
    • Communications and engagement plan
    • Web redesign
 Sub-team Reports  
 Development PrioritizationJulie PattonHave been holding extensive meetings to prioritize the tickets in JIRA; they have also been identifying tickets that will need additional specifications; and will be working on how to involve the community.
 DocumentationLinda Hocking

The documentation team worked to edit documentation for managing containers. It is now available in the online help.

Chad began work on additional screencasts, but ran into a problem with the trial version of Camtasia adding watermarks. He and Christine were working on a resolution for this.

 ReportsCarolyn RunyonThe reports team is recommending that ArchivesSpace remove Jasper reports in favor of the CSV downloads; they are looking at how to clean up those reports (remove extraneous fields, etc.)
 TestingMiloche KottmanThey did their last test in March and have been working on testing version 1.5; will start again when the programming needs are addressed; Brad indicated that there is some work that can be tested; Mark Custer is running the test of the public user interface and this effort is parallel to what the testing subteam is doing

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