2022-03-29 Meeting notes

5 mins

Roll Call/Icebreaker

@Daniel Michelson

5 mins

UAC Updates

@Daniel Michelson

• Updates on members

  • Regina, Bailey, Margaret, Matthew, and Cory have volunteered to serve another 2-year term (ending June 2024)

  • Kate Blalack has resigned

  • Liz, Joshua, and Angela will depart when their terms end in June

  • Anticipate four new members joining in July

• PSA: Please consider contributing to the Inclusive Examples Project. Project to collect ASpace records for User Docs. Reach out to Brittany Newberry for questions.

5 mins

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

• Thanks to everyone who participate in the Online Forum. Presentations and recordings are up: ArchivesSpace Online Forum 2022

  • Second day was especially great with sub-team presentations.

• Working toward the next release. Aiming for May.

• Nominating season is nearly upon us. Calls for people interested in open slots on UAC and TAC will be distributed soon.

  • Nominations committee meeting today.

  • Call will go out over the next few weeks.

10 mins

Sub-team Reports

Development Prioritization

@Angela White

• Evaluated 18 tickets in March

• Presented at the ASpace Online Forum to a crowd of nearly 100

Users Documentation

@Johanna Carll

• Continued working on updating Digital Object documentation

• Met with Brittany Newberry about the project to diversify the AS test and training data

Testing

@Joshua Shaw

• Currently testing 13 Jira issues.

• Team presented at ASpace Online Forum.

Usability

@Althea Topek

• Worked on recommendations for PDF improvements

• Finalized recommendation for spawning specifications.

Member Engagement

@Regina Carra

• Spent last month revising Member Match application and announcement text

• Launched application for second cohort of Member Match on March 28

• Working on “Making the Case for ArchivesSpace” info sheet – to be discussed at UAC next month

30 mins

Discussion: Usability

@Althea Topek

Currently sits at 3 people.

• Usability is relatively new and evolving. Decreased in size in recent years.

• Originally, usability was reviewing tickets sent by DevPri.

• What does UAC need from Usability? How we can be a better resource?

• Should usability create more tickets? Angela: Yes, please submit tickets.

• Question from Angela: does Usability submit tickets? Answer: Yes, tickets were submitted on behalf of usability.

• From Dan: There was a large accessibility audit recently completed.

• Primary responsibility of usability was to review tickets. Might be better if the usability team spends more time getting user feedback and soliciting input.

• Maybe creates one survey a year that usability would appreciate a lot of feedback on.

• From Johanna, can we increase communication b/w usability and UserDocs if the issue might be doc related?

• Are there any topics that we would like to solicit greater input?

  • Rights statements

  • Digital objects

• We can begin investigating what is valuable to the community.

• Spawning digital object record from a component record should be coming soon.

• Could post survey results for those who want to look into other examples.

• From Christine: Digital objects discussion should be happening in the next 6 months but it is still in development. From Althea, maybe we can submit a survey during this discussion?

• Question from Bailey: Do we have a place where the EAD map live? Metadata standards has this information. Lives in GitHub.

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5 mins

New Business

@Daniel Michelson

Next Meeting

@Daniel Michelson

• Next UAC meeting is April 26. Member Engagement will lead the discussion.