June 6, 2016

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017

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.