2018-05-15 Meeting notes

10 min

Introductions

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10 min

Goals/objectives of the forum

Survey: 

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• people talking at you, interacting with you, 

• workshops have been computer labs

• Code4Lib – liked that format, workshop in the morning, breakout session to interact in a more conversational setting. Probably hard to do that to squeeze that all in

  • Follow along or sit and watch

10 min

Discuss the general forum structure

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Announcements

• Announcement:

  • SIEWG

Lightning rounds

• lightning rounds: like them towards the beginning of the day. so that you can track people found them

  • boston forum, lightning round was early

Breakout sessions

• liked breakout sessions, but needed better coordination and structure

• breakout sessions, something specifically focused on lone arrangers, small institutions

  • maybe smaller rooms broken into thematic areas

Workshops

• API workshop – positive responses. Maybe a beginner or an intermediate/advanced workshop?

  • ArchivesSnake

  • API workshop is going to change/freshen up

• Help institutions transition in. Some people just need a refresher on best practices.

  • Workshop or writing of a plugin – that tooltips can be done in a form.

  • RDE, things that can make your ASpace lives easier

  • Can't really teach best practices/101. out of their scope

  • Bring a finding aid!

  • Break this down, where does this go? Where does this fit?

15 min

Quick brainstorming ideas for topics and/or themes

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• Lightning round ideas:

  • here's one thing I did to make my ASpace life easier

  • A-ha Moments I remember – what an api is – changed perspective on how to use ASpace

  • Big projects people are working on.

• Mentoring idea: could be a place to meet face to face, swap stories

• Breakout sessions/discussion opportunities:

  • Valerie happy to do something with people who are afraid.

  • Have an opportunity to submit anonymous questions beforehand

• Assessments breakout session

  • How people are using it? (Smithsonian)

• Speakers: survey that goes out inviting speakers

5 min

Chat about meeting frequencies

http://lyralists.lyrasis.org/mailman/htdig/archivesspace_users_group/2017-April/004706.html

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf0e8vqDddCbw6VRXbOPzGAUkMvgb-4iwuEKbXZN7-WeZ_msA/viewform

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• biweekly meetings

• doodle polls for 2, 4, 6 weeks