2025-04-28 TAC meeting notes

5 min

Attendance ice breaker

@Regine Heberlein

Icebreaker: What’s your favorite knick-knack?

5 minutes

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

10 min

Sub-team Updates

Development Prioritization:
@Matt Strauss

Metadata Standards:
@Diane Biunno

Technical Documentation:
@Bonnie Gordon

Testing:
@Michelle Paquette

• Development Prioritization:

  • Reviewed 11 tickets

  • Presented Development and prioritization sub team–Ask us anything! at Virtual Member Forum

  • Dalton Alves serving as Vice Lead for 2025/2026 term

• Metadata Standards:

  • Presented at the Virtual Member Forum in March

  • Continued commenting on Jira tickets

  • Invited members of TS-EAS to speak at our June meeting on EAD 4

  • Diane and Frank meeting to discuss smooth transition for the new term

• Technical Documentation:

  • Continuing to work through issues in https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/jira/software/projects/TD/boards/57

  • Issues in-progress include adding frontmatter description metadata to each docs page that get picked up by search engines and in social media previews, and adding a code of conduct to the GitHub repository

• Testing:

  • March Development Batch

    Our group was assigned a set of tickets from Christine for March, with priority given to those targeted for the 4.0.1 patch release. Two dedicated working sessions helped move things forward.

  • All 15 tickets in the batch have now been tested. Thank you to everyone, especially the testing group, and anyone else who contributed, provided support, or answered our questions.

  • Before the March ticket assignments, our group began revising the testing documentation to express testing conditions using structured conditional statements. Each test is now being framed to clearly describe both the action and expected outcome. Team members have been assigned various functional areas to work through. We made good progress on this and are aiming to wrap this up shortly.

  • Michelle and Mary will also be updating the TAC Wiki to better define the roles and responsibilities of the Test Lead and Vice Lead.

10 min

TAC Business

@Regine Heberlein

• Thanks to everyone who responded to questions over the last two months on the ArchivesSpace Member List

• Thank you subteam leads and subteam members for compiling the quarterly reports

• Recent/Upcoming webinars and meetings:

  • Virtual Member Forum, March 26-27

    • videos available on YouTube

  • Using Bulk Edit and Import Templates in ArchivesSpace Training- April 17, 2025

  • Usability Subteam Community Discussion with Brian Zelip about configuring the ArchivesSpace application from within the staff user interface, April 23, 2025.

• Annual Member Forum on August 24 in Anaheim, CA

  • If you would like to serve on the Planning Team for the Annual Member Forum, please email Jessica Crouch at jessica.crouch@lyrasis.org by May 5, 2025!

• Nomination season is in full swing! Please consider suggesting colleagues submit a nomination for service on TAC, UAC or the governance board (mid-level rep).

  • All nominations must be submitted by 9:00 p.m. EDT, May 3, 2025

15 min

Next year’s theme: plugins

@Regine Heberlein

Poll:

Discussion:

3 min

Open Mic

Suggestions from open mic:

2 min

Closing Notes

@Regine Heberlein

Thank you Austin for your leadership!!!

Next TAC meeting: Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12pm EST/9am PST/7pm EEST/9:30pm IST