Reports Subteam and HM Developers Meeting Minutes, 2017/01/05

Present

Minutes

  • Representatives from Hudson Molonglo (HM), LYRASIS, and the Archives Space UAC Reports Subteam met to discuss the draft ArchivesSpace Reports Module Requirements published in the Reports Subteam Meeting Minutes, 2016/12/13 and establish next steps.
  • Concerns expressed by HM including the ability to support the definition of reports by non-technical users and addressing the licensing issues of Jasper, the software that powers the current reports module.
  • HM established the following priorities for the March 2017 release of ArchivesSpace:
    • Repair the broken Jasper Reports (reported here).
    • Remove Jasper.
  • HM also suggested the need to research and create recommendations for robust standalone reporting tools that would work well with ArchivesSpace.
  • The group agreed that strategic next steps for the Reports Subteam includes defining the predefined reports library.
  • The ability to plug in reports to the new module for repositories with more technical proficiency was also discussed.
  • Finally, the group discussed the need to cull the current offering of reports in Archives to identify those reports that are critically important. They also discusses the addition of a limited number of new reports to the library to address some of the new functionalities related to locations and top containers.