2021-09-16 Meeting notes

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Last updated: Sept 16, 2021 by Andrew Morrison
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Date

Sep 16, 2021

Participants

  • Kate Blalack

  • James Griffin

  • Andrew Morrison

  • Sarit Hand

  • Elizabeth Dunham

  • Mark Chalmers

Discussion topics

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5 min

Roll call

 

 







20 min

Mark Chalmers presents project proposal draft

 

Mark is on a fellowship with Lyrasis, working on integrations with ArchivesSpace, Islandora, DSpace, CollectionsSpace.

Goal is to better articulate vision what roles archivists can play in integrations, not necessarily coding plug-ins.

Mark met with Seth Shaw (UNLV) who have integrated ArchivesSpace with Islandora, with the latter providing the public user interface. Archivists provided expertise on treatment of fields. Mark would like to explore this sort of interaction.

Sarit agrees archivists have a role to play in technical projects.

Elizabeth thinks there is a split between technical staff and archivists, and few of both.

15 min

Discuss 2021-2022 workplan

 

Hacking fields to get records to display how the archivists want causes problems.

The PUI doesn’t look like a traditional finding aid.

Kate proposed Mark create a lists of questions that archivists and developers should ask each other.

Another proposal was to update “How to Integrate” guide to be better for archivists, particularly those starting out. A guide to the jargon (e.g. what is an API).

Add links to training courses in the skills needed (e.g. do you need to know Python? Figure out how to use GitHub?)

 

10-15 min

Discussion and wrap up

 

General agreement that updating the “How to Integrate” guide would be the main aim for the year.