Date
Monday, May 16
3:00 - 4:00 PM ET, 2:00 - 3:00 PM CT, 1:00 - 2:00 PM MT, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM PT
Call-in info is:
Number: 888-354-0094
Access code: 731627
Notetaker: Former user (Deleted) Sally Vermaaten
Attendees:
Not able to attend:
Goals:
- Update from sub-teams on work underway
- Update from Program Manager on program activities
Agenda items:
Time | Item | Who | Notes |
5 min | Roll call and actions from previous meetings | All | - Follow up issue of call schedule via email - Sally
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| 5 min | Thanks to TAC members for recent listserv contributions: - Answering questions on the listserv
- Code, documentation and bug reporting contributions
| | - Thanks to TAC members who have helped colleagues asking questions on the listservs:
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| 5 min | Program update | | - 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:
- Conferences / Presentations:
- New England Archivists
- Society of California Archivists
- Midwest Archivists
- Northwest Archivists
- Upcoming:
- Society of Southwestern Archivists
- SAA
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| 15 min | Committer Oversight sub-team update | | - 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
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| Technical documentation sub-team update | | - 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
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| 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.
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| Testing sub-team update | Ed Busch | - Haven't met due to lack of development work happening.
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| Migration sub-team update | | - 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 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.
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| Bug Wrangler sub-team update | | - Hasn't met, waiting for stable v.1.5 release to come out.
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| Integrations sub-team update | | - 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.
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| 5 | Shifting general TAC calls to every 2 months | | 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 | - |
| | Next meeting time - | - | June 20th - Ann Cooper (Unlicensed) on deck for notes |
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