2026-02-19 TAC/UAC Joint Meeting

2026-02-19 TAC/UAC Joint Meeting

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Participants

TAC

@Regine Heberlein (Chair)
@Michelle Paquette (Vice Chair) - regrets
@Michael Andrec
@Diane Biunno (regrets)
@Zhimin Chen (Jimmy) (regrets)
@Jacqueline Asaro
@Alexander Duryee (regrets)
@Frank Violette Foss
@Bonnie Gordon
@Stacy Haponik (regrets)
@Ojas Kadu (regrets)
@Mary Kidd
@Beth.Mawhinney
@Colleen McFarland Rademaker
@Brianna McLaughlin (on leave)
@Elizabeth Peters
@Schmidt, Corey
@Laura Schroffel
@Dustin Stokes(regrets)
@Dalton Alves
@Paul Sutherland
@Wiedeman, Gregory (regrets)

Mary Mellon

Ex officio:

@Blake Carver(regrets)
@Jen Cwiok

UAC

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster (Chair)
@Heather Lember (Vice-Chair)
@Dalton Alves
@Joanne Archer (will join late)
@Susannah Broyles
@Elizabeth Delmage
@Bo Doub(regrets)
@Kelly.Francis
@Matthew Gorham
@Greenwood, Amanda Lynn (qkv8sr)(regrets)
@Barbara Ilie
@David Krah
@Kelly Kress
@Noah Lasley
@Ryan Lee
@Christine Liebson
@Jaime Margalotti
@Nick Pavlik(regrets)
@Kolbe Resnick
@Evalyn Stow
@Karen Trop
@Lindsay Wittwer

ArchivesSpace Program/Board

@Christine Di Bella (Ex-Officio, Program Manager)
@Thimios Dimopulos ASpace Development Team

 

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

10 min

Roll Call - Introductions

@Regine Heberlein @Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

Name, Where you work, What sub-team(s) you are on

Icebreaker: Fasching, Purim, Mardis Gras… (how) do you celebrate the end of winter?

5 min

Program Update

@Christine Di Bella

 

 

6 min

TAC sub-team updates
(3 minutes each)

Metadata Standards: @Frank Violette Foss

  • Fresh Jira board and workflows for the new year 🧹✨

  • Drafting a statement of principles to clarify and guide standards adoption

  • Submitting the Principles of Standards Adoption as our proposal for the ArchivesSpace Member Virtual Forum

Tech Docs:

@Schmidt, Corey

  • Work drafting a changelog to be included in the TechDocs website

  • Adding contributing documentation to TechDocs, also building materials for onboarding new members

  • Reaching out to plugin owners to update awesome-archivesspace

  • Met with User Docs in January

  • Preparing proposal for discussion session for Virtual Member Forum

9 min

UAC sub-team updates

(3 minutes each)

Member Engagement: @Christine Liebson

 

Usability:

@Noah Lasley

  • Continuing work on documentation for configuration settings for the SUI.

  • Drafting proposal for Virtual Member Forum session

User Docs:

@Elizabeth Delmage

  • Will meet with Martha Tenney at next meeting to discuss ways to collaborate to improve the User Manual

  • Continue review of Help Center pages, focusing on Using Reports and Managing Locations sections

6 min

Cross Council sub-team updates

(3 minutes each)

Dev Pri:

@Dalton Alves

  • Reviewed 8 tickets; 4 bug reports and 4 feature requests. Passed 3 of these tickets and have followed up on the other 5 tickets.

Testing:

@Mary Kidd

 

20 min

Discussion

Themed discussions: Plugins and Modules

 

  • We had some discussions around modules and plug-ins. What have you gained and what is missing from these discussions?

  • Is there an overarching direction, and are we interested in rolling that over to next term?

  • We still have 3 months, what should we change or keep?

 

1 min

Upcoming

@Regine Heberlein

@Aikaterini Dimitriadou-Shuster

  • ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum, March 25-26, 2026

  • Next Council Meetings:

    • Next TAC Meeting: March 23, 2026 at 12pm EST/9am PST/7pm EEST/9:30pm IST

    • Next UAC Meeting: March 17, 2026 at 12pm EST(9am PT/10am MT/11am CT)