FY2016/17 Call for TAC Nominations

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Last updated: Apr 29, 2016
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Nominations Requested for ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council

No nominations for TAC were called for FY2016/2017 due to a fully staffed council.

The ArchivesSpace Governance Board is seeking nominations for the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council (TAC). Nominations may be made only by ArchivesSpace member representatives. Member representatives are encouraged to nominate persons from their institution or from other institutions, including Registered Service Providers, (please see the lists at http://archivesspace.org/members) who are experienced with some of the activities assigned to TAC and who are capable of participating on a regular basis throughout the term of service of July 1, 2016-June 30, 2018. 

TAC (http://www.archivesspace.org/technicaladvisory) is a critical part of the ArchivesSpace community, having responsibility for providing technical guidance to individuals or organizations contributing to application development, to the User Advisory Council, and to the ArchivesSpace Governance Board. TAC's current activities include: 

  • developing a community of code committers, including helping to establish guidelines for contributing code and reviewing contributions,
  • reviewing enhancements and priorities and testing in collaboration with the User Advisory Council,
  • providing support for migrating data to ArchivesSpace from other systems and support for importing and exporting data such as EAD, MARCXML, CSV
  • documenting and assisting with resolving bugs identified in the application,
  • identifying integration points for ArchivesSpace with other systems (e.g. digital asset management systems, patron and request management systems, etc.), creating resources to assist the community with integration work and, for specific integrations, developing technical requirements, and
  • updating technical documentation.

Sub-teams will be established within TAC to address the areas identified above, as well other activity areas identified subsequently. Nominees must have sufficient knowledge of application development methods, architectures and coding practices to participate in and lead some of the identified activities. Nominees with experience in open source projects, developing web applications (particularly using Ruby on Rails and Sinatra), software testing, or interest in those areas, are especially welcome.

The anticipated time commitment for each appointee is expected to be two hours per week on average. 

The term of service for these appointments will be July 1, 2016-June 30, 2018. We expect making up to ??? appointments, and each new appointee will be eligible to have her/his appointment renewed for an additional two-year term, i.e., July 1, 2018-June 30, 2020.

To nominate a candidate for the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council, please identify the person and her/his organization in the form below, indicate the areas of activity to which the nominee is prepared to contribute. Return the completed form via email to ArchivesSpace Program Manager Bradley Westbrook (brad.westbrook@lyrasis.org),  who will collect nominations on behalf of the ArchivesSpace Nominations Committee. Self-nominations are encouraged. All nominations must be submitted by 9:00 p.m. EDT Friday, April 29.  

 

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Nominee’s Name:                          ______________________________________________ 

 

Nominee’s Organization:             ______________________________________________

 

Indicate all areas to which the nominee might contribute: 

___Managing/endorsing/eliciting code contributions

___Bug fixes

___Technical documentation 

___Program architecture and integrations with other software 

___Migration issues, including import/exports and API design and implementation 

___Application testing