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Project Scope

A process is underway to engage a third party design firm specializing in user experience and interaction design to provide assessment, project management, and design services to the ArchivesSpace program staff and community in support of enhancing the public interface of the ArchivesSpace software application.  As part of this effort, we are convening a members-only working group to work closely with the design firm and program staff to ensure that requirements, priorities, testing, and acceptance of the work product meets member needs and expectations. 

The primary deliverables of this project include:

• Establishment of an overall graphic style and interaction design for the public interface and definition of a set of supporting guidelines.
• Identification of areas and/or elements of the public interface that could be modified or enhanced in order to improve usability and provide greater ease of interaction for public users of the application
• Development of a set of enhancements to the core code base (based on #2 above and led by Brian Hoffman)
• Development of plugins (As possible and in collaboration with additional development partners to be determined)

Working Group Scope

The Public Interface Enhancements Working Group will:

• Review, in order to de-dupe and enhance where necessary, the sixty-three issues that have been submitted by the community since alpha testing of the ArchivesSpace application began and that now reside in JIRA. The goal of the review is to ensure that all of the issues are defined as clearly as possible, that they are organized into a cohesive narrative of requirements, and that they are prioritized based on member need and use within the coming six month period.
• Ensure that all reports submitted by members that specifically call out their concerns, needs, and desires with regard to the public interface are properly represented and integrated into the issues noted above.
• Ensure that a full set of user stories and use cases are provided within JIRA that represent the breadth and depth of member information ecologies and work environments.
• Work directly with the design firm for the duration of the project (June – December 2015 on a regular schedule to be determined in collaboration with the selected firm).
• Review and test interaction designs and provide feedback.
• Communicate with members and serve as advisors to the process on behalf of the full membership.

Working Group Members

Mark Custer, Chair

• Susan C. Pyzynski, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, Houghton Library, Harvard Universiy
• Cate Putrirskis, Special Collections Processing Coordinator, University Libraries - Special Collections Description & Access
• Linda Hocking, Curator of Library and Archives, Litchfield Historical Society
• Scott Schwartz, Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, Archivist for Music and Fine Arts and Associate Professor of Library and Archives Administration, University of Illinois
• Susan Luftschein, Archival and Metadata Librarian, USC Libraries and Special Collections, University of Southern California

• Cory Nimer, University Archivist, Brigham Young University

• Maura Carbone, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Brandeis University

• Krista Ferrante, MITRE Corporate Archivist

• Matt Francis, Archivist for Collection Management, Special Collections Library, Penn State University

• Claryn Spies, Public Services, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library

• Mariella Soprano, Senior Archivist for Collection Management, Calltech Archives & Special Collections
• Elisa Piccio, Caltech Archives & Special Collections
• Dara Flinn, Special Collections Librarian, Woodson Research Center, Rice University
• Brian Hoffman, ArchivesSpace Developer
• Angela Spinazze, Senior Director of Collaborative Programs, LYRASIS

Support Documents

Public Interface Specification 2011