2022-10-04 Meeting notes

@Tom Steele

1. https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-1583

2. https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-1597

1. Pass, if a link exists it should be published. Ticket even explains how.

2. Merits discussion before we summarily dismiss is but I hate this. Undifferentiated headings are something standards have moved away from. This person needs to learn how to qualify headings Untitled (Work by John Smith). Untitled (Work by John Doe), etc.

3. This indeed is a problem. I did test out of curiosity if merging records can also duplicate subjects/agents (merging two agents attached to a resource did not create two identical links). Merits further discussion about the application of the uniqueness constraint.

1. Pass

2. Close. Suggestions to be added in comments.

3. Pass

@Keli Schmid

1. Aside from accidental deletion when selecting multiple events, I don’t see a reason this request shouldn’t move forward. Perhaps though, the problem lies more with why erroneous events are being created rather than how they can easily be deleted.

2. It sounds like Benn Joseph has identified the issue (see comment on August 22, 2022 at 12:45 PM). Certain UTF-8 diacritics are not accepted by the import mechanism, even though those UTF-8 diacritics were generated by a database query. However, I am not sure he and Trevor Thornton (March 11, 2022) are experiencing the same problem. It does seem to warrant further testing.

3. I’m not sure the Repository Profile report (as suggested) would fulfill the original request of Chris Fitzpatrick, but both reports seem useful.

@Daniel Michelson

1. At a recent meeting, we’d decided to close this ticket as being resolved by ANW-1095, but Kevin Schlottmann pointed out that ANW-1095 does not address the MARC compatibility issue. I recommend passing this ticket as allowing the agent link for creators to be designated as primary to support MARC import/export. Also, as either part of this ticket or as a separate ticket, the EAD export should be changed to have all creators included in the origination field in line with ANW-1095.

2. This ticket wants agents and subjects alphabetized in the PUI and in exports. This seems helpful, but it is necessary to implement ANW-504 first to avoid breaking MARC compatibility.

3. This ticket wants to limit the ability to share certain information between repositories designated repositories to support multi-institution installations. In this (now outdated) example, an installation with five repositories would have three of the repositories sharing certain portions of agent records (such as contacts), but the others would not share that information (except under certain unclear circumstances). The complexities of attempting such work seem quite daunting and the original authors of the request (Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges) are no longer planning a multi-institution installation, so I recommend closing the ticket.

1. Pass

2. Pass

3. Close

@Matthew Neely

1. Ticket requesting functionality for admin user to be able to suppress fields in the SUI not included in an institution’s metadata schema. This ticket was previously discussed at Dev Pri in 2020. I think there is merit in this but I recall that discussions at the time suggested that this could be addressed by training and metadata documentation. I do think there would be usability benefits in being able to customise fields to only those required by an institution.

2. This ticket is seeking a report to be generated on all imported record types (EAD, MARC etc). The report would indicate which elements, with their values, have been imported. Ticket was created by Metadata Standards who have also offered to provide further examples and input. Suggest asking Metadata Standards for a specification?

3. Ticket requesting ability for the Digital Object template to have multiple agents/subujects imported with a DO. Currently only does 1. Comments have suggested other paths for importing DOs with multiple subjects. Suggest community development?

1. Pass. Will write specification for Finding Aid Data tab fields.

2. Awaiting more information

3. Pass for community development.

@Randy Kuehn

1. Attempted to reproduce using instructions but unable due to sandbox error. Attempting to edit default values returns a record not found error.
   https://sandbox.archivesspace.org/staff/resources/defaults

2. Pass - Please free us from this fatal favicon error torture

3. Close Complete (see )

1. Pass

2. Pass

3.  

@Matt Strauss

1.Workaround: increase the amount of search results that will display by modifying the config file.  That said, the ability to increase the search results to different predefined amounts (30, 50, 100, etc.) directly from the staff interface would be useful.

2. Issue seems to be resolved with the updated Bulk Import AO XLSX available through ArchivesSpace 3.3.0

3. Replicated - pass

@Althea Topek

1. Can the hover text move up or down?

2. Could not replicate

3. Replicated - pass