2021-07-21 TAC/UAC New Member Orientation

5 mins

Introductions

 https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/2769846273

5 mins

ArchivesSpace program and governance

@Christine Di Bella

• Governance

• Program staff (LYRASIS)

• TAC/UAC Coordinating Committee

• Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

• User Advisory Council (UAC)

15 mins

Communication & collaboration tools

@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

  • Brief tutorial on Jira and Confluence

• Google Drive

• Email lists

  • TAC: archivesspace_tac@lyralists.lyrasis.org

  • UAC archivesspace_uac@lyralists.lyrasis.org

5 mins

Responsibilities and Expectations

@Randy Kuehn @Daniel Michelson

Meetings:

• Meetings occur monthly
  (TAC - bimonthly for second half of the term)

• Joint TAC/UAC meetings are held twice a year, one early in the year and one towards the end of the year

• Members each take a turn as note-taker

• Last meeting is retrospective of activity for the term

Leading by example when possible:

• Answering questions on AS lists

• Commenting/voting on JIRA tickets

• Code contributions

5 mins

TAC Subteams and working groups

@Randy Kuehn

• Integrations sub-team
  

  • Documents the integration of systems with ArchivesSpace

  • Integrations list:  

• Metadata Standards sub-team
  

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

• Technical Documentation sub-team
  

  • Maintains and enhances all ArchivesSpace technical documentation

  • Tech Docs Github repo:

  • API Documentation Ad Hoc Working Group
    

5 mins

UAC subteams

@Daniel Michelson

• User Documentation sub-team

  • Maintains user documentation in Help Center and Confluence

• Usability sub-team

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

  • Works closely with Development Prioritization

• Member Engagement sub-team

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

  • Maintain liaisons with national and regional archives organizations

5 mins

Cross-council teams

@Randy Kuehn @Daniel Michelson

• Development Prioritization sub-team

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

• Testing sub-team

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

  • Unlike other sub-teams, coordinates work via email and only holds meetings when necessary

10 mins

Questions