New England Museums Association (Nov. 11, Mystic, CT)
Membership Update
301 members, 10 Educational members, 3 RSPs
New members
Earlham College
Greenwich Historical Society
Heritage Park Museum
Mars Hill University
Palos Verdes Library District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Sacramento Public Library
Saint Mary's College of California
SUNY Downstate
SUNY Maritime College
The University of Texas at Dallas
University of Connecticut
Wayne State University Libraries
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
TAC:
Next general TAC meeting is Monday, Sept 19th
Sub-team updates:
Special group composed of two members of committer's oversight and two members of integration subteams are fleshing out proposal to re-organize ASpace Github, clarify who can contribute to which Github spaces, and define guidelines for contributions.
Integrations subteam also continues to update the Integrations & Community Projects page on the wiki and two members have contributed to the rights management spec recently developed. Adding guidance for new integration projects to wiki. Have two new members
Migrations subteam starting work on EAD3 implementation plan. Also continuing to provide support to users on list via referrals from program staff.
Technical documentation - compiling answer to identified FAQs
Dev Prioritization - Survey is out, had discussion about role while there is no development happening. Group was of the opinion there was still work that could be done - ideas discussed included more firmly communicating about / establishing a process for seeking ongoing community feedback so users will know when the community will they will be consulted; improving and/or clarifying the process of feature and bug request submission (e.g. only via JIRA?); backlog grooming and identifying where further specs are needed.
Testing - nothing to test at the moment.
UAC:
Next general UAC meeting is Friday September 23
Sub-team updates:
Development Prioritization: survey is out to get community feedback; continue prioritization work
Documentation: updated documentation for 1.5.1; working on a comparative glossary of terminology across AT, Archon, and ArchivesSpace
Reports: ongoing work on developing specifications for reports
Testing: testing for 1.5.1
15 min
X-council teams
All
Group discussed and decided that cross-council teams are established when there is a clear and ongoing need for contributions from both the user perspective and a technical perspective.
If an individual member of TAC or UAC is interested in helping with the work of a sub-team from the other council (e.g. Jason L. with the Integrations subteam), that is fine and will be treated in a manner similar to external expert / affiliate members (i.e. who are not Council members) who can join in the work of TAC or UAC teams for a period of time or to assist with specific pieces of work.
5 - 10 min
Proposed process for filling TAC/UAC vacancies
Sally
Alston and Brad will bring this matter to the attention of the Governance Board at its 9/19 meeting and will note that UAC needs one appointee and has one nominee, and that TAC needs 1-2 appointees but has only one nominee.
Background to this is the fact that TAC did not solicit nominations for this year due to having a full roster in April when the call for nominations went out.
Further note from Sally: The one nominee TAC has from spring was put forward due to a organization misunderstanding of the original call for UAC and Board candidates. More individuals would have almost certainly put their names forward if TAC had put out a call. In fact, another individual approached Sally at SAA in August and expressed interest in joining TAC and I have told him I will update him once I have confirmed the process.