June 6, 2016

Attendees:

Eira, Nathan, Kayla and the UMichers, Ben, Gary, Lora, Adrienne, Hillel, Farrell, Wendy, Erin and the Cornellians, Brad

Minutes: 

• IG Business - Ben stepping down as Chair. Someone volunteer!
• ArcLight – Stanford
  • Started almost two years ago
  • Completed Phase 1 of design process – community shared goals for what they thought ArcLight could be.
  • Revisiting ArcLight design plans, want to jump start the process
  • Updates to ArcLight Design Process at:  ArcLight Design Process
  • Will start up again in mid-June
  • Start with interview analysis – ~1 month
  • Then information architecture – Turning all this into personas and user stories, requirements, prioritizations – About mid-August
  • Wireframes and mocking up planned design of ArcLight – August and September
  • Development to hopefully start in October
  • Michigan and National Library of Medicine working with Stanford on this.
  • How can HAIG help?
    • They still have the old mailing list, ~40 people
    • There's a project on Box with documents related to design process
    • Plan is to distribute deliverables for review by the members of the ArcLight mailing list
  • Will compatibility with ASpace and Hydra be part of this?
    • Stanford still thinking about Hypatia –  Home
    • Gary's thinking – more of a discovery layer, not necessarily too much integration with ArchivesSpace – similar to Spotlight for exhibits
  • Brad's question: what about ASpace Public Interface? Any overlap?
  • Kayla, Mike, on Michigan's interest:
    
    • They've been interested in contributing to some kind of archival access systems that includes born-digital materials.
    • Presenting archival description for both physical and digital objects, pointing to content in a Hydra repository
    • Interested in exploring possibilities for integrating with ASpace (eventually)
    • Not related to current Mellon grant
• ArchivesSpace
  • Brief history of ASpace
  • Some integrations that have been discussed:
    • Hydra (see this wiki)
    • Aeon (discussions at Aeon user forum)
    • Focus on workflows (UMich grant)
    • Rights metadata
    • Preservica (though only a witness, not a participant)
    • SNAC - project with National Archives to stand up an EAC/archival authority database
  • ASpace Integrations Team
    • Charged with setting up policies and working guidelines 
    • Examine examples of integrations
    • Determining what they mean by integrations
    • Figuring out additional resources about integrations for the community
    • Is it time to revisit Hydra/ASpace integrations?
    • What ideas do people have?
      • Cincinatti is starting to work on a hydra head for born-digital, but not close enough to look at how might integrate with ASpace
  • Question for Brad re: Public Interface
    • What is the status of ASpace software dev resources?
      
      • Negotiating with Hudson Molonglo to be the 'primary developer' on ASpace
      • In addition to working on PI, also working on all their user stories
      • Also want to have them working on Rights Management module
      • Also want to make the Agents module fully compliant with EAC
      • Maybe also implementing EAD3
      • Implementing a functional reports module
      • Pending board budget approval
• SAA Update
  • The group expressed an interest in talking about user stories at the in-person SAA meeting, but Ben has had no luck locating a person to introduce the topic. 
  • Ben asked that those who remain interested, please contact him directly. If enough people still maintain interest, we'll run with it.