2016-05-16

Time

Item

Who

Notes

5 min

Roll call and actions from previous meetings

All

5 min

Thanks to TAC members for recent listserv contributions:

• Answering questions on the listserv

• Code, documentation and bug reporting contributions

@Sally Vermaaten (Unlicensed), all

• Thanks to TAC members who have helped colleagues asking questions on the listservs:

  • @Noah Huffman

  • @Patrick Galligan (Unlicensed)

  • @Phillip Suda (Unlicensed)

5 min

Program update

@BradleyW (Unlicensed)

• Staffing - decision about staffing likely to occur after June 6

  • Chris F. has departed

  • Brian H. reduced time to 10 hrs / week

• Development:  

  • Discussing contract with Hudson Molonglo

  • Written job description for use if necessary

  • Container Management: Update - data for 70 institutions tested

  • Harvard / Yale / HM / Lyrasis meeting re. Public UI development push
     

•   Training: 

  • Completed KLN webinar series - aim is to edit and make available on docs.archivesspace.org

  • 3-day workshop at University of Arizona

  • Upcoming:

    • Vassar College

    • Hong Kong University

  • Tentaive:

    • Santa Clara University

• Conferences / Presentations:

  • New England Archivists

  • Society of California Archivists

  • Midwest Archivists

  • Northwest Archivists

  • Upcoming:

    • Society of Southwestern Archivists

    • SAA

15 min

Committer Oversight sub-team update

@Terry Reese (Unlicensed)

• Committer Oversight reviewed locations management code developed by Hudson Molonglo

• Sally confirmed HM found the feedback very useful and incorporated suggested changes into their code

• It is unclear whether the location management changes will be merged / made available in v.1.5 or in a later release

Technical documentation sub-team update

@Ann Cooper (Unlicensed)

• FAQ - potential topics list created and available on sub-team's wiki page

• Feedback is welcome on the topics

• Next step is to create the FAQ

Features Prioritization sub-team update

@Sally Vermaaten (Unlicensed)

• Group is meeting 3 times in May to do backlog grooming. They are going epic by epic, starting with Accessions and Resources, reviewing each story and adding clarifying details in comments and/or deciding where further detail is required from requestor.

Testing sub-team update

@Ed Busch

• Haven't met due to lack of development work happening.

Migration sub-team update

@Noah Huffman

• Group has continued to provide assistance on listservs and in individual peer-to-peer conversations. Have recently helped the Smithsonian. @Phillip Suda (Unlicensed) has provided a lot of assistance.

• @Mark Custer (Unlicensed) has spec-ed some EAD importer changes to the default publication status logic, group reviewed those.

• @Former user (Deleted) has developed a schematron for import validation, they are testing that and will work on a spec to include in core application.

• Group has also brainstormed what is likely to be required to support EAD 3 - this will be a focus for the next several months.

Bug Wrangler sub-team update

@Rachel Maderik (Unlicensed)

• Hasn't met, waiting for stable v.1.5 release to come out.

Integrations sub-team update

@Max Eckard (Unlicensed)

• Received information about 2 new ArchivesSpace integrations; one from CalTech for a ArchivesSpace wrapper and one from Hillel Arnold for StaticAid. Group will update integrations page and communicate about the additions soon.

• Have reviewed at integration use cases for Hydra and plan to collaborate with Hydra Archivists Interest Group to work though what a couple of concrete integration points may be.

• University of Michigan holding an Aeon Users Group meeting in June, where ArchivesSpace integrations will be discussed

• NYU is formulating tentative plans to create a link from Internet Archive to related archival via ASpace API as part of its Archiving the websites of Contemporary Composers Project - early design discussions are underway so details tbc.

5

Shifting general TAC calls to every 2 months

@Sally Vermaaten (Unlicensed)

14 out of 18 responses received to date; preference appears to be for bi-monthly meetings

5 min

Open floor announcements / questions

Anyone with a discussion item or question

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Next meeting time -

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June 20th - @Ann Cooper (Unlicensed) on deck for notes