2020-07-15 TAC orientation meeting notes

5 mins

Introductions

5 mins

ArchivesSpace program and governance

@Trevor Thornton @Christine Di Bella

• Governance Board

  • Kat Stefko - Board liaison to Councils

• User Advisory Council (UAC)

  • Brittany Newberry - UAC Chair

• Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

• Program staff (LYRASIS)

5 mins

TAC responsibilities and Expectations

@Trevor Thornton

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/705331207/Responsibilities+and+Expectations?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiNjM4YTQ5MmNlYTVkNDhiYWI2NTk4ZmEzYWYzMjJhMjgiLCJwIjoiYyJ9

Meetings:

• Monthly for first half of term, bimonthly for second half

• Joint meetings with UAC twice per year (probably September and February)

• Last meeting is retrospective of activity for the term

• Members each take a turn as note-taker

Leading by example when possible:

• Answering questions on AS lists (members and Google group)

• Commenting/voting on JIRA tickets

• Code contributions

10 mins

TAC Subteams and working groups

@Trevor Thornton

• Integrations sub-team

  • Documents the integration of systems with ArchivesSpace

  • Integrations list: Integrations  

• Metadata Standards sub-team

  • Documents the metadata standards used by ArchivesSpace  and monitoring the standards landscape

  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jU6MYF7UI7a-UKdd5XhYCV6W1UyrMMCzYDFlgb8iNW8/edit#gid=1527709562

• Technical Documentation sub-team

  • Maintains and enhances all ArchivesSpace technical documentation

  • Tech Docs Github repo: GitHub - archivesspace/tech-docs: Technical documentation for ArchivesSpace

• API Documentation Ad Hoc Working Group

  • Coordinating enhancements to API documentation, including more detailed descriptions and examples

  • While most of the work is very technical (coding required) we’re looking for someone to lead the coordination, which could be someone who doesn’t want to write code

5 mins

Cross-council teams (with UAC)

@Trevor Thornton @Randy Kuehn @Brittany Newberry (Unlicensed)

• Development Prioritization

  • Prioritizes feature requests and bug reports for developers working on future releases of ArchivesSpace

• Testing

  • Tests features and bug fixes during the first three weeks of a sprint

  • Coordinates work via email and only holds meetings when necessary

5 mins

UAC subteams

@Brittany Newberry (Unlicensed)
or
@Trevor Thornton

• User documentation

  • Maintains user documentation in Help Center and Confluence

• Usability

  • Develop functional and practical recommendations to improve usability/accessibility of ArchivesSpace

  • Works closely with Development Prioritization

• Member engagement

  • Focuses on providing outreach and community support for the ArchivesSpace membership

  • Maintain liaisons with national and regional archives organizations

15 mins

Communication & collaboration tools

@Trevor Thornton
@Christine Di Bella

• Atlassian accounts

  • Same account for JIRA (issue tracking) and Confluence (wiki, meeting notes)

  • New members should all have accounts (confirm with CDB)

• JIRA

  • https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/secure/Dashboard.jspa

  • Comment or contribute to tickets as you can

• Confluence

  • Technical Advisory Council

  • Brief tutorial on creating pages

• Google Drive

  • ArchivesSpace Councils - Google Drive

• TAC email list

  • archivesspace_tac@lyralists.lyrasis.org

10 mins

Questions