2021-2022 Integrations Work Plan

The 2021-2022 Integrations sub-team plans to build on work that was completed during its 2020-2021 year by focusing specifically in one area: usability of integrations-related user help-documents. This will increase the feasibility of ArchivesSpace related integrations projects by providing a less intimidating, more understandable user navigation track. A guide which will be helpful to all archivists regardless of their technical expertise.

Our main goals are to:

Review user analytics for the How to Integrate with ArchivesSpace
Increase visibility to How to Integrate with ArchivesSpace by adding it as a subdivision under the overall Archives Space “How To” central site/navigation page.
Updating the How to Integrate with ArchivesSpace page, clarifying language, increasing transparency of processes, and condensing information to outside sources.

Due to limitations surrounding COVID we are keeping our goals succinct and small this year, but below are the additional goals for this group which may be picked up at a later date.

Outreach:

Reach out to specific institutions for follow up information about integrations they had been interested in or were working on

Advertise the sub-team more generally through the ArchivesSpace users list

Have a bigger presence in the “Integrations with ArchivesSpace” webinar series, perhaps by leading a discussion about the work of the sub-team and integrations that the community is interested in

Communication:

Communicate with the developers of specific applications about integration opportunities

Work with the ArchivesSpace program team and other council sub-teams (e.g., dev. pri.) to communicate more concrete use cases/functional requirements for integrations

Integrations Wiki Pages:

Continue to update information about existing integrations, in particular by identifying integrations that are not already being tracked by the Integrations sub-team

Update the “What are Integrations?” page to account for methods and types of integrations that are not currently accounted for