2025-05-06 Meeting notes

2025-05-06 Meeting notes

 

 

May 6, 2025

12-1:30pm ET

Zoom link

 

 Participants

  • @Matt Strauss

  • @Alexander Duryee

  • @Christine Di Bella

  • @Mattie Clear

  • @Brianna McLaughlin

  • @Donald Smith

  • @Bonnie Gordon

  • @David Krah - regrets

  • @Regine Heberlein

  • @Elizabeth Peters

  • @Dalton Alves

  • @Dustin Stokes

  • @Thimios Dimopulos

  • @Jen Cwiok

 

 

 Goals

  • Prioritize new and awaiting more information tickets.

 

 

Links

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Link to ArchivesSpace test server: http://test.archivesspace.org/

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@Matt Strauss /all

Welcome

 

Dalton will be Vice Lead for 2025-2026 term. Yay!

 

 

 

 

@Mattie Clear

  1. ANW-2150: Agent and Subject sorting using the browse option on Resource/Accession/AO/DO does not workReady for Implementation

  2. ANW-2151: Digital Object Component Label Display InconsistencyReady for Implementation

  1. Confirmed Issue as it relates to sorting agents and subjects with resources, accessions, archival objects, and digital objects. The options to sort these agents and subjects appears, but after clicking the various options it continues to be sorted by relevance. Recommend passing.

  2. Confirmed issue as it relates to Digital Object component labeling. The label appears in the backend as well as in the side bar navigation on the public facing side but doesn’t appear in the title after a given item has been selected. Recommend passing.

  1. Pass

  2. Pass

 

 

 

@Dustin Stokes

1.ANW-1762: JRuby and Rails versions in ASpace are EOL and out of support.Ready for Implementation

2.ANW-2139: add barcode configuration option to location and child container barcodesReady for Implementation

  1. Recommend passing due to security implications.

  2. Recommend passing. This feature already exists but is not implemented for all barcode fields.

 

 

 

 

@Alexander Duryee

ANW-2210: Preventing users from exporting suppressed records in reportsReady for Implementation

ANW-2258: Further Customize staff and public faviconsReady for Implementation

  1. It doesn’t seem like reports support “include suppressed”. Do we want this to be narrowly scoped (e.g. include a “suppressed?” field in the report) or broadly (add “include suppressed” to all reports)?

  2. This seems like a great idea - recommend passing.

  1. Pass. Alexander will edit text of ticket to incorporate a wider toggle function to include/exclude suppressed records for all report types.

  2. Pass

 

 

 

@David Krah

1.ANW-2138: In a resource, the Publish All and Unpublish All bottons are active in View modeAwaiting Prioritization

2.ANW-2055: As a SUI user, I would like for the browse columns to be responsive to the width of the text in the columnAwaiting Prioritization

  1. This has of course been the case for a long time but I have to agree from a logical standpoint that controls that “change the record” should maybe only be visible after entering Edit mode. Some other functions are in this same category such as adding events, and !merging records. Pending discussion - will recommend passing.

 

 

 

 

@Elizabeth Peters

ANW-2050: As an Archivist, I would like the Digital Object CSV to allow for linking to archival objects.Ready for Implementation

ANW-2260: Template filenames to be version-specificReady for Implementation

  1. Based on email thread ("Adding more file versions to DO import templates?" May 28, 2024) sounds like the user would like the AO linking functionality of the Bulk Import spreadsheet with the full-field functionality of the DO Import CSV. Seems like a case of convergent evolution. We've had discussions before about why the spreadsheets shouldn't have a truncated number of fields compared to the manual entry. Would it make sense to pick which spreadsheet pathway we like better and deprecate the other?

  2. Related to ANW-1837 which we discussed (and closed) in October. This is a different framing of the same issue, but I think presents a less duplicative and more easily actionable solution. Other solutions are possible, though – If it is more likely that a staff user would remember the date of the last upgrade than what version of ASpace they’re on, the file date of the downloaded spreadsheet would be sufficient. If this is easy enough to implement, could be worth covering all bases in order to close the gap between best practice and actual practice.

  3. This ticket adds to ANW-1837 discussion of exported spreadsheets (Container labels, Container template, Digital object template). Since these include data from a specific resource, better to rely on the file date. Not sure why these would be saved and reused rather than redownloaded, though.

  1. Pass. Keep bulk DO import spreadsheet and make sure it has all of the possible fields from the other digital object import spreadsheet. Elizabeth will edit ticket to identify which spreadsheet should be deprecated.

  2. Pass

 

 

 

@Matt Strauss

ANW-2146: As an archivist, I would like Classifications to have the option to be unpublished or suppressed from the Public InterfaceClosed-Will Not Do

ANW-2267: Digital Object Thumbnails should have some kind of “Click Here To View” textReady for Implementation

1.The reporter clarified that this request came from a prospective Lyrasis hosting client seeking a way to group politically sensitive collections for internal reference. I don’t think this would be a common use case, and similar functionality could be provided through the use of user-defined controlled values. I recommend closing the ticket.

2.This would increase the accessibility of digital objects on the PUI. I would suggest more descriptive text (i.e. “View Full Item”). Suggest passing.

  1. Close

  2. Pass, but need more discussion about language of link

 

 

 

@Brianna McLaughlin

ANW-2227: Allow for weighting of results in a "filter" viewClosed-Will Not Do

ANW-2209: As an admin, I would like to sort users by privilege level or authentication methodReady for Implementation

  1. I was able to reproduce the issue on the reporter’s instance, but could not reproduce the issue on the test server. Need more information.

  2. This would definitely be a time saver. It’s possible to generate a report of all users and permissions, but you wouldn’t be able to deactivate at the same time like the reporter is requesting. Recommend passing.

  1. Close and suggest communication with Lyrasis

  2. Pass

 

 

 

@Dalton Alves

ANW-2275: Expanding the users and permissions module to have more granular permissions to use the Edit Default Values as part of Pre-Populate RecordsReady for Implementation

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-2253

  1. Use case makes sense to me. Users may want to configure default values in a repository, but must rely on repository manager or admin level user to make changes. This reminds me of some of the configurability of permissions for Rapid Data Entry templates, controlled value lists, ect.

  2. The location profile is part of the location record (which is linked to the top container). Some fields from the location record get concatenated (building, floor, room, coordinate, ect) and displayed within the top container module. I wonder if there’s some practical reason for not pulling in more data from the linked location record. This seems like a narrow use-case, could this be satisfied locally some other way?

  1. Pass

  2. Pass

 

 

 

@Bonnie Gordon

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-2233

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-2250

  1. This seems reasonable, but we do not use the PUI so I’m not sure if there are cases where this would be undesirable.

  2. Since this is visible in the PUI, this minimal formatting seems desirable. Recommend passing.

  1. Close. Bonnie will comment that there is a configurable setting that would accomplish what the reporter is requesting.

  2. Pass

 

 

 

@Regine Heberlein

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-1905

https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/ANW-2240

  1. This is a request to see Events associated with Top Containers from the top_container record. The reverse is already possible, i.e. one can see Top Containers associated with an Event from the event record. We had requested a use case, which they now provide (conservation). Another community member has chimed in to support the request. Recommend passing.

  2. This ticket has also been discussed at the Usability meeting (comment by Brian) as a candidate for adding a configuration option. Personally, it makes more sense to me to see names with added qualifiers as the sort name, so I would recommend getting input from more stakeholders on this one.

  1. Pass

  2. Ask for more information about which name type the reporter is referring to