2023-08-10 Meeting Notes

Welcome

•  Susannah Broyles has been appointed to join the group for the coming term

• Meeting time to be adjusted to monthly on second Thursday at 2 PM ET

2023-2024 Work Plan

• Reviewed previous year’s work plan to identify ongoing projects to be addressed

• Issues for the coming year included:

  • Multilingual description/display

  • Streamlining chronology/index field data entry and updates

  • Reviewing entry and revision of restriction fields

• Continue to work with Development Prioritization on assigned tickets

• Continue to review “More Information Needed” tickets in the Jira queue

Restriction fields review

• Document created for gathering information on usability issues (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YRECmrgiTR4xnUGzy-QfyeldXde7Z6KGgMzWA__FNaA/edit?usp=sharing )

• Currently includes list of fields, but information needed on issues or use cases for data entry and updating

• Subteam members to add information during the coming month for discussion in September

Multilingual description review

• Document created for gathering information on data entry and display issues (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zw7hcSO07asrk6x7u353UnjPm4zoI6Xl2Vj1BkW6WzE/edit?usp=sharing )

• Original reporting ticket from Christine Di Bella (ANW-957)

• Subteam members felt that additional community feedback is needed to develop a specification

  • Will reach out to Christine Di Bella to identify interested parties

  • Could put out call to the community as well to identify archivists interested in participating in a group

    • Call should not be limited to the ArchivesSpace listserv to engage wider community

  • All subteam members present indicated interest in participating in these meetings