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2025-10-21 UAC Meeting agenda and notes

2025-10-21 UAC Meeting agenda and notes

Oct 21, 2025 12pm ET/ 11am CT/ 10am MT/ 9am PT

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@Dalton Alves

@Joanne Archer (regrets)

@Susannah Broyles (regrets)

@Mattie Clear (regrets)

@Christine Di Bella (Ex-Officio, Program Manager)

@Elizabeth Delmage (regrets)

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster (Chair)

@Bo Doub

@Kelly.Francis (regrets)

@Matthew Gorham

@Amanda Greenwood (regrets)

@Regine Heberlein (Ex-Officio, TAC Chair) (regrets)

@Barbara Ilie

@Mary Kidd (regrets)

@David Krah

@Kelly Kress (regrets)

@Noah Lasley (regrets)

@Ryan Lee

@Heather Lember (Vice-Chair)

@Christine Liebson

@Jaime Margalotti

@Brianna McLaughlin (regrets)

@Michelle Paquette (Ex-Officio, TAC Vice-Chair)

@Nick Pavlik

@Kolbe Resnick

@Evalyn Stow

@Karen Trop

@Lindsay Wittwer (regrets)

@Stacy Haponik

Goals

  • Update members on UAC activities including activities of sub-teams

  • Discussion: Digital Objects module

Notetaker

  • Update members on UAC activities including activities of sub-teams

Time

Item

Presenter/Facilitator

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter/Facilitator

Notes

10 mins

Attendance ice breaker

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

Icebreaker: Favorite board / card game

2 mins

UAC Updates

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

  • November 5: Second quarter board report due

  • Monthly featured module list

    • October: Digital Objects

    • November: Classifications

    • January: Location manager

    • February: Accessioning

    • March: Assessments

    • April: Events

    • May: Top containers

    • June: Reports

8 mins

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

  • Martha Tenney hired as the new Standards and Testing Archivist, starting in early November.

  • Hiring process for Junior Developer new position almost completed

  • Next Virtual Forum: March 25-26, 2026. Many thanks to volunteers. Subteams encouraged to participate and share your work with the wider community

  • Google Drive issues: Reach out to Christin if you're missing currently that you really, need or have questions

10 mins

Sub-team Reports

 

 

 

Development Prioritization

@Dalton Alves

  • handled about 30 tickets since August

  • got feedback on a feature request from the community listserv

  • working on broadening the scope of community feedback

 

Member Engagement

@Christine Liebson

  • quarterly mixer for the member match cohort in September: tips and tricks in ArchivesSpace

  • ongoing First Friday events

  • New: new match confirmation process

  • next: quarterly mixer, co-hosted with UserDocs in December

 

Testing

@Stacy Haponik

  • wrapping up conditional statements

  • testing Jira issues--due 3rd week of Nov.

 

Usability

@Nick Pavlik

  •   Identifying highest priority and feasibility of backend configuration settings in PUI and SUI to make available for users to configure themselves

 

Users Documentation

@Matthew Gorham

  • sections for review this year: managing repositories, using reports and managing locations

  • December collaboration with Member Engagement Forum

15 mins

Discussion: Digital Objects module

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

  1. Do you use this module in your institution? 

  2. How do you use it? 

  3. What do you like about it? 

  4. What would make it better?

2 mins

Next Steps

 

  • Next meeting: November 18, 2025 at 12pm ET/9am PT/10am MT/11am CT

    • Featured module: Classifications