Organized technical documentation by role/job function, in order to improve discovery of information relevant to different types of users
Worked with Lyrasis developers to begin implementation of Jekyll to build Tech Docs site from source files in Github repo, providing easier maintenance and improved user experience
Led a discussion session at the 2021 Online Forum covering the scope of available technical documentation resources and ways that the community can help improve and expand upon them
Began identifying areas of insufficient documentation and creating placeholders/stubs for them in the documentation Github repository
Facilitated incremental improvements to documentation through pull requests, issues and other input from the community and development team
While the team had a lot of good ideas for how to improve documentation, many remained unrealized simply because the work wasn’t properly delegated. It could work better if tasks were regularly assigned at each meeting.
It’s difficult to lead the meeting and also take notes, and the notes suffer. Note-taking responsibility should be delegated to the vice-lead.
Solicit contributions to technical documentation from the ArchivesSpace community, prioritizing areas where placeholders have already been created
Complete implementation of Jekyll for technical documentation site
Take on administrative responsibilities for the API Documentation Ad Hoc Working Group, which will work in cooperation with the ArchivesSpace development team to improve API endpoint documentation
Co-Leads: Alicia Detelich, Dave Mayo
Vice-lead: Rachel Searcy