2020-1-22 Meeting notes

Let’s talk about:

The new ArchivesSpace Help Center and user manual

User Documentation Sub-team

The results of the Development Prioritization survey

Lydia Tang, Development Prioritization sub-team

Yale’s approach to the PUI, specifically the collection organization tab which resolves some accessibility and usability challenges with the PUI

Eve Neiger, Yale University

Can you help me with:

Multi-repository set ups in AS. There's a lot of sharing between repositories (eg agent records) which is really helpful, but some seems less so (eg location records, container profile records, location profile records). I'm worried about scaling up here- will it be feasible to use AS for location management by 30 separate repositories if each repository can see each other's location records?

Natalie Adams, Cambridge

User accounts and changing passwords: we're setting up around 80-100 new users on AS and are finding it challenging because the users can't change their passwords.

Natalie Adams, Cambridge

How do people work with vendors to customize AS? Any tips of those who have gone through the process be it vendor selection, requirement prep, relationship management etc would be of interest to me.

Mary Haberle, Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

What do you wish you had known before importing legacy data? What setup issues MUST I do?

VivianLea Solek, Knights of Columbus Supreme Council Archives

I have an idea:

Wouldn't it be great if assessment records included action/trigger dates? Meaning that you could check when an assessment needed review.

Natalie Adams, Cambridge

We think it would be helpful if assessment records included 'external documents' so that we could link assessments directly to more detailed records. Would this be useful to anyone else?

Natalie Adams, Cambridge

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