2023-02-21 TAC/UAC Joint Meeting

5 min

Welcome--

Ice-Breaker/Zoom poll

@Regina Carra @Valerie Addonizio

Which artwork best depicts how I feel right now? (choices on screen)

All pieces from art collection of American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York.

For more info:

A – “Untitled,” Minnie Evans

B – “Porcupine,” David Alvarez

C – “Untitled (Extraordinary Soldiers series)” Daldo Marte

D – “Crouching Man,” Milton Moore

E – “Star Variation Quilt,” Leola Pettway

F – “Ostrich,” Felipe Benito Archuleta

5 min

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

• Submissions welcome for the Virtual Member Forum April 4th-5th

• Virtual Member Forum info/registration page: ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum 2023

• Working on the next release, currently focused on the Make Representative button for DOs

25 min

(max 3 mins/sub-team)

Sub-team Reports

Outline:

• Your sub-team’s work this term

• Any notable accomplishments/goals reached

• Goal(s) for remainder of the term

TAC sub-team work plans

Integrations: @Sarit Hand @Elizabeth Dunham

• Link to workplan: 2022-2023 Integrations Work Plan

Metadata Standards: @Regine Heberlein @Kevin Schlottmann

• Link to workplan: 2022-2023 Metadata Sub-team Work Plan

• working towards comprehensive field-by-field import mapping for EAD2002 ( )

• finished prioritization of DACS and (nearly, at time of writing) ISAD-G entities

• identified formatting tags/attributes

• currently reviewing testbed

Tech Docs: @Rachel Searcy

• Link to workplan:

• Completed!

  • Clarified access to tech-docs GitHub repository and documented processes for adding new contributors at different permissions levels.

  • Identified and documented who on the sub-team is responsible for reviewing and merging pull requests.

  • Documented information about the purpose and composition of the sub-team.

• In progress!

  • Documentation about how to review and merge pull requests

  • Collaboration with User Docs (UAC) sub-team about our respective documentation

  • Monitoring and engagement with email lists

• Upcoming!

  • Comprehensive improvement of TechDocs with ArchivesSpace developers (included in 2023 roadmap)

  • Present at April TAC meeting

UAC sub-team work plans

Member Engagement: @Bailey Hoffner @Patrick Milhoan

• Link to workplan:

• Member Match quarterly events going well

  • Upcoming 3rd event with Dan Michelson joining for a discussion of Jira ticketing

• Surveys continue to show that finding/making time to “get together” is the biggest challenge for matches

• Blog Post

Usability: @Cory Nimer

• Link to workplan:

• Reviewed two assigned Jira tickets, as well as the community-developed bulk updater plugin

• Currently reviewing workplan for the remainder of the term

User Docs: @Margaret Kidd @Rebecca Baugnon

• Link to workplan:

• Accomplishments

  • Completed work on Digital Object pages

  • Meeting with Tech Docs to discuss documentation and access

  • Led discussion at UAC meeting in January

• In Progress

  • Wrapping up review of Managing User Accounts and User Permissions

  • Working on comprehensive list of fields that publish/don’t publish to PUI

  • Creating and updating pages for new functionality that is rolling out (e.g, import subject headings, spawing digital objects, etc.)

Cross Council sub-team work plans

Dev Pri: @Daniel Michelson @Matthew Neely

• Link to workplan:

• Accomplishments to date

  • Reviewed 90 tickets (53 passed for implementation, 3 passed for community development, 20 closed, 14 awaiting more information)

  • Began sharing meeting agendas with TAC/UAC ahead of time and issue standing invitation (several people have taken advantage)

• Still to come

  • More tickets

  • Improve documentation of the process of consulting with other subteams on certain tickets.

  • Dan presenting at March Member Match event

Testing: @Cory Nimer @Austin Munsell

• Link to workplan:

• Reviewed batches of Jira feature requests and bug reports in October (14 tickets) and December (27 tickets)

• Currently working on regression testing for upcoming release, with an additional seven tickets

25 min

Sub-team Discussion and Presentation

Development Prioritization: @Daniel Michelson

• Overview of Dev/Pri and ticketing process

• Tickets to talk about: