ArcLight MVP

Overview

The ArcLight MVP work cycle is a focused, eight week effort (April 10-June 2, 2017) to prototype some of the features and designs identified during the  ArcLight Design Process. Like the design process, the MVP work cycle is a community-based project. Stanford’s overall goal is to build a compelling minimum viable product informing future work on future versions of ArcLight and as an early prototype for a Stanford-focused environment to support discovery of archival materials. Michigan’s overall goal is to develop a successor to their current DLXS-based platform for finding aids. For broader context, please review the work cycle's inception deck.

Timeline and Milestones

The three major milestones identified for this work cycle so far are:

• April 7: Stanford kickoff meeting

• April 10: Start of first sprint

• June 2: End date of eighth and final sprint

Meeting schedule and communication channels

Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are held on BlueJeans: https://bluejeans.com/921938965 

• Sprint planning meeting: Mondays, 10:00-11:30 AM PDT (GMT-7)
• Standup: Tuesdays-Fridays, 10:15-10:30 AM
• Sprint close (demos, retrospective, and standup): at the start of Sprint planning starting on Week 2

The primary communication channels for the MVP across partners and the community are the #arclight channel on Code4lib Slack and the arclight-community Google Group.

Links

• GitHub repository
• Project board (for sprint planning)
• Work cycle plan document
• Google Drive folder
• YouTube channel for sprint demos
• Demo site

Contributors

• Core team
  
  • Mark Matienzo (Stanford), as Product Owner (~80%)
  • Jessie Keck (Stanford), as Technical Lead and Developer (100%)
  • Darren Hardy (Stanford, as Developer (100%)
  • Gordon Leacock (Michigan), as Developer (80%)
  • Jack Reed (Stanford), as Developer (100%)

  • Gary Geisler (Stanford), as UX Designer (~50%)

  • Jennifer Vine (Stanford), as UX Designer (~50%)

  • Erin Fahy (Stanford), as DevOps Liaison
  • Tom Cramer (Stanford), as Management Liaison
  • Nabeela Jaffer (Michigan), as Management Liaison
• Stakeholder representatives
  
  • Stanford
    
    • Stu Snydman, Digital Library Systems and Services
    • Laura Wilsey, Digital Library Systems and Services
    • Jenny Johnson, Special Collections and University Archives
    • Michelle Paquette, Special Collections and University Archives
    • Frank Ferko, Archive of Recorded Sound
    • Charles Fosselman, East Asia Library
    • Sarah Patton, Hoover Institution Archives
  • University of Michigan
    • Mike Shallcross, Bentley Historical Library
    • Max Eckard, Bentley Historical Library
    • Dallas Pillen, Bentley Historical Library
    • Roger Espinosa, Digital Library Platform & Services
    • Tom Burton-West, Digital Library Platform & Services
    • Chris Powell, Digital Library Platform & Services
  • Rockefeller Archives Center
    • Hillel Arnold
    • Bonnie Gordon
    • Patrick Galligan
  • National Library of Medicine
    • John Rees
  • Georgia Tech
    • Wendy Hagenmaier