2021-01-13 Meeting notes

Owned by Jessica Crouch
Last updated: Jan 27, 2021
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Date

Jan 13, 2021

Attendees:

  • Nora Blackman, Case Western Reserve

  • Marcella Huggard, University of Kansas Libraries

  • Jonathan Lawler, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

  • Corey Schmidt, University of Georgia

  • Emily Somach, Maryland Center for History and Culture

  • Mariella Soprano, California Institute of Technology

  • Jessica Crouch, ArchivesSpace

 

Unable to attend:

 

Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

Time

Item

Who

Notes

10 min

Re-Introductions

All

 

15 min

Major goals of this forum / Quick brainstorming session for potential topics

All

This topic and the topic below blurred into an overall productive conversation about the structure of the online forum and content goals.

Overall themes the team would like to address at the forum:

  • Using ArchivesSpace at an under resourced institution

  • Using ArchivesSpace at a small archive or as a lone arranger

  • Using ArchivesSpace while working remotely

Presentations/sessions the team would like to develop or help develop:

  • Presentation about managing paraprofessionals, students and volunteers in ArchivesSpace

  • Workshops related to using the ArchivesSpace API (both intro and more advanced use, like ArchivesSnake)

  • Checking broken URLs with ASpace and Python: workshop/presentation

  • Building ASpace from the ground up - step by step on how to get ASpace going and make it work for a 1-person job: workshop (could this also be useful for individuals looking to set up their own test instance of ArchivesSpace apart from their production instance that may be hosted or managed outside of their control?)

  • Exploring the ASpace database - what does it look like and what can you do with it?: workshop/presentation

  • Workshops highlighting more “basic” ArchivesSpace features like creating, editing and spawning resources and accessions

  • Digital Object workshop/session

  • Agent module demo (lite mode vs. full mode)

  • Discussion about re-description and anti-racist/anti-colonial work in ArchivesSpace

  • Discussion about the ongoing anti-racism and inclusion initiatives in ArchivesSpace

  • Discussions lead by members of different advisory council groups to highlight the important role of the community and the work they accomplish.

  • ArchivesSpace trivia! Either for fun or prizes

 

15 min

Discuss potential forum structure and what has/hasn’t worked in the past

All

The team identified 9amPT/12pmET/5pmUTC as the ideal start time for the forum. The first day of the forum will ideally have about 4-5 hours of content with days 2 and 3 potentially being held at more flexible or different times and focusing on workshops and discussion.

10 min

Review of documents sent before meeting and confirm forum dates and confirm call for participation.

All

We’ll review this call for presentations and submit comment by this Friday, January 15.

5 min

Meeting frequencies, times

All

We will meet every two weeks on Wednesday at 12pm ET.

Jessica will send a new calendar appointment with zoom info.