From Jessica.Crouch at lyrasis.org Mon Nov 2 10:56:23 2020 From: Jessica.Crouch at lyrasis.org (Jessica Crouch) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 15:56:23 +0000 Subject: [Archivesspace_small_archives_users_group] =?utf-8?q?ArchivesSpac?= =?utf-8?q?e_Open_Community_Call_=E2=80=93_November_11_at_2pm_ET_=2811am_P?= =?utf-8?q?T=29?= Message-ID: <83020A12-07D9-46F0-89C6-03E23024BD3D@lyrasis.org> Dear ArchivesSpace Members, Please join us for our next community Zoom call on November 11, 2020 at 2-3pm ET (11-noon PT). This is an opportunity to hear updates from each other and encourage group discussion. This is a space to surface news, ideas, and challenges. This might be an especially good chance to talk about non-technical questions or ideas that you weren?t quite sure about posting on the Users Group listserv but really would like help with from us or your peers. Please register in advance at: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdOGrrTwrEtSEV7bbUTXlp1KbAOHkdnaO After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the call. If you have a question or topic you'd like to have addressed in the call, you can submit it when you register or email Jessica Crouch at jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org by November 10 at 5pm ET. Jessica Dowd Crouch Community Engagement Coordinator for ArchivesSpace jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org [page1image482511520] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Included within these are a number of performance, indexer, and small backend and staff interface improvements courtesy of work Hudson Molonglo developers James Bullen, Mark Triggs, and Payten Giles did for Queensland State Archives as part of a larger project. For spreadsheet importer fans: Some changes have been made to the spreadsheet importer in this release candidate to extend its functionality and improve its performance, especially with large spreadsheets. Of particular note: there is now a validation option so that a user can do a test run with a file, providing the opportunity to clean up any errors outside ArchivesSpace before doing the actual import; the importer now accepts either Excel spreadsheets or CSV files that use the templates at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/templates; and, while it is accessed from a resource record or resource component as before, the import now runs as a background job so that it can more easily handle large files and to make the log file downloadable and saved within ArchivesSpace. Also, a number of bugs that were introduced with the conversion of the spreadsheet from a plugin to ArchivesSpace have been fixed for this release. We encourage you to test these improvements, especially for the spreadsheet importer, with your own data if you can. (Hey, there are worse ways to pass time this week than importing a few gnarly spreadsheets!) Every bit of testing and feedback helps us ensure that the changes are doing what they should and improves the release. Thanks to the many community members who made contributions to this release, including both individual archives staff and developers, as well as our Development Prioritization sub-team, Testing sub-team, and Core Committers Group. It also benefitted from some friendly Hacktoberfest competition among the ArchivesSpace and extended LYRASIS team. Please try this release candidate out over the next few days and let us know at ArchivesSpaceHome at lyrasis.org by November 9 if you notice any problems with the specific areas addressed in this release, or if anything that was working before no longer is. Assuming good testing results we're aiming to put out the release itself next week. Please get in touch if you have any questions. Thanks as always for your feedback and support. 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This is an opportunity to hear updates from each other and encourage group discussion. This is a space to surface news, ideas, and challenges. This might be an especially good chance to talk about non-technical questions or ideas that you weren?t quite sure about posting on the Users Group listserv but really would like help with from us or your peers. The current agenda for this call is at https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/1796440074/2020-11-11+Meeting+notes. Please register in advance at: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsdOGrrTwrEtSEV7bbUTXlp1KbAOHkdnaO After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about how to join the call. If you have a question or topic you'd like to have addressed in the call, you can submit it when you register or email Jessica Crouch at jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org by November 10 at 5pm ET. Jessica Dowd Crouch Community Engagement Coordinator for ArchivesSpace jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org [page1image482511520] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 8549 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From christine.dibella at lyrasis.org Wed Nov 11 15:47:28 2020 From: christine.dibella at lyrasis.org (Christine Di Bella) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 20:47:28 +0000 Subject: [Archivesspace_small_archives_users_group] ArchivesSpace v2.8.1 now available Message-ID: ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v2.8.1. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.8.1. This release includes improvements to the spreadsheet importer, additional settable record type preferences, some bug fixes and small feature improvements, and a number of infrastructure upgrades. Included among these are some performance, indexer, and small backend and staff interface improvements courtesy of work Hudson Molonglo did for ArchivesSpace member institution Queensland State Archives as part of a larger project. For spreadsheet importer fans: Some changes have been made to the spreadsheet importer in this release to extend its functionality and improve its performance, especially with large spreadsheets. Of particular note: there is now a validation option so that a user can do a test run with a file, providing the opportunity to clean up any errors outside ArchivesSpace before doing the actual import; the importer now accepts either Excel spreadsheets or CSV files that use the templates at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/templates; and, while it is accessed from a resource record or resource component as before, the import now runs as a background job so that it can more easily handle large files and to make the log file downloadable and saved within ArchivesSpace. Also, a number of bugs that were introduced with the conversion of the spreadsheet from a plugin to ArchivesSpace have been fixed for this release. Thanks very much to community members Andrew Morrison, Blake Carver, Brian Harrington, Dee Dee Crema, Douglas Simon, Greg Wiedeman, James Bullen, Jeremy Markowitz, Joshua Shaw, Mark Triggs, Noah Geraci, Payten Giles, and Steve Majewski for their code contributions to this release. Program team members Lora Woodford and Mark Cooper wrote and reviewed code and supervised the work of Bobbi Fox and Brian Zelip, who worked with us as contractors on this release. This release would, of course, not have been possible without the hard work of so many of our community groups, including our Development Prioritization, Testing, Technical Documentation, and User Documentation sub-teams, and Core Committers Group. Information on upgrading to a new version of ArchivesSpace is available at https://archivesspace.github.io/tech-docs/administration/upgrading.html. If you have any difficulties, please let us know. Thanks to all for their help and support. We are expecting to put out one more release in 2020, which will be almost exclusively focused on changes to the Agents module. You will hear more from us about that in the weeks to come. Christine Christine Di Bella ArchivesSpace Program Manager christine.dibella at lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x2905 678-235-2905 [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We expect to offer a variety of activities aimed at building community connections and contacts among our users. All ideas are welcome! All community members are welcome to volunteer for this working group. We especially encourage our Small and Very Small members as well as non-U.S. members to join in envisioning the next iteration of this event. We will schedule meetings and the forum itself in ways that allow for participation across time zones. If you would like to volunteer, please respond by November 30, 2020. And if you have any questions, contact Jessica at jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org. Jessica Dowd Crouch Community Engagement Coordinator for ArchivesSpace jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org [page1image482511520] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You can access the draft document and provide feedback at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQ5l8djzhvYeJVxZ4sbt_h2nL-O9h9DllRVLcVZh533v_JeA/viewform. Please submit any comments by Friday, December 11th, at noon ET via the feedback form. Jessica Dowd Crouch Community Engagement Coordinator for ArchivesSpace jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org [page1image482511520] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 29061 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From christine.dibella at lyrasis.org Mon Nov 30 13:22:49 2020 From: christine.dibella at lyrasis.org (Christine Di Bella) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:22:49 +0000 Subject: [Archivesspace_small_archives_users_group] ArchivesSpace Update - November 2020 Message-ID: [cid:image005.jpg at 01D6C71B.E56BF3F0] ArchivesSpace Update - November 2020 Development ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v2.8.1. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.8.1. This release includes improvements to the spreadsheet importer, additional settable record type preferences, some bug fixes and small feature improvements, and a number of infrastructure upgrades. Included among these are some performance, indexer, and small backend and staff interface improvements courtesy of work Hudson Molonglo did for ArchivesSpace member institution Queensland State Archives as part of a larger project. For spreadsheet importer fans: Some changes have been made to the spreadsheet importer in this release to extend its functionality and improve its performance, especially with large spreadsheets. Of particular note: there is now a validation option so that a user can do a test run with a file, providing the opportunity to clean up any errors outside ArchivesSpace before doing the actual import; the importer now accepts either Excel spreadsheets or CSV files that use the templates at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/tree/master/templates; and, while it is accessed from a resource record or resource component as before, the import now runs as a background job so that it can more easily handle large files and to make the log file downloadable and saved within ArchivesSpace. Also, a number of bugs that were introduced with the conversion of the spreadsheet from a plugin to ArchivesSpace have been fixed for this release. Thanks very much to community members Andrew Morrison, Blake Carver, Brian Harrington, Dee Dee Crema, Douglas Simon, Greg Wiedeman, James Bullen, Jeremy Markowitz, Joshua Shaw, Mark Triggs, Noah Geraci, Payten Giles, and Steve Majewski for their code contributions to this release. Program team members Lora Woodford and Mark Cooper wrote and reviewed code and supervised the work of Bobbi Fox and Brian Zelip, who worked with us as contractors on this release. This release would, of course, not have been possible without the hard work of so many of our community groups, including our Development Prioritization, Testing, Technical Documentation, and User Documentation sub-teams, and Core Committers Group. Information on upgrading to a new version of ArchivesSpace is available at https://archivesspace.github.io/tech-docs/administration/upgrading.html. If you have any difficulties, please let us know. We expect to put out one more release in 2020, which will be almost exclusively focused on changes to the Agents module. You will hear more from us about that in December. Position Announcement: ArchivesSpace Technical Lead We are still accepting applications to be the next Technical Lead for ArchivesSpace. The Technical Lead works with a wide-ranging group of community stakeholders and is responsible for the overall development of the software application and management of the community-based code contribution process. The Technical Lead works to engage a broad set of developers to participate in the project, providing technical guidance, support and leadership to maintain a robust developer community. This position is part of a geographically distributed team, and, as such, applications from candidates interested in telecommuting are very welcome. To learn more, or to submit your resume and cover letter, please visit https://lyrasis.isolvedhire.com/jobs/145014.html. If you know of someone who may be interested, or if you are interested yourself, please feel free to reach out to Christine Di Bella at christine.dibella at lyrasis.org with any questions. Volunteer for the Next Online Forum Planning Team We are currently looking for volunteers for the working group for our third annual ArchivesSpace Online Forum! Planned for March 2021, this event will build on the success of the 2020 Online Forum, which had over 500 registrants, participating from 15 different countries. We would love this event to highlight the work institutions near and far are doing to integrate ArchivesSpace into their systems and workflows, especially as they've adapted to working from home throughout the past year. We expect to offer a variety of activities aimed at building community connections and contacts among our users. All ideas are welcome! All community members are welcome to volunteer for this working group. We especially encourage those from our Small and Very Small member institutions as well as non-U.S. members to join in envisioning the next iteration of this event. We will schedule meetings and the forum itself in ways that allow for participation across time zones. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Jessica Crouch at jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org by December 15, 2020. We look forward to working together for another successful Online Forum. Community Feedback Requested on the ArchivesSpace Code of Conduct The ArchivesSpace Member Engagement sub-team of the User Advisory Council has drafted a new ArchivesSpace Code of Conduct and seeks input from all ArchivesSpace users. This Code of Conduct will apply to all participants in ArchivesSpace-supported activities, including events, meetings, listservs and other communication channels, and our GitHub repositories. It will be implemented beginning in the 2021 calendar year. You can access the draft document and provide feedback at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQ5l8djzhvYeJVxZ4sbt_h2nL-O9h9DllRVLcVZh533v_JeA/viewform. Please submit any comments by Friday, December 11th, at noon ET via the feedback form. Notes Available from November 11 Community Open Call Our most recent community Open Call took place on November 11. The notes are available at https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/1796440074/2020-11-11+Meeting+notes. If you have a question or topic you'd like to have addressed in a future call, please email Jessica at jessica.crouch at lyrasis.org. Membership Update As of November 30, we have 413 General members, 21 Educational Program members, and 3 Registered Service Providers. If you are interested in your institution becoming a member of ArchivesSpace, please email us at ArchivesSpaceHome at lyrasis.org for more information. ________________________________ ArchivesSpace monthly updates provide news about ArchivesSpace community and program activities and are sent to our member listservs, the ArchivesSpace Google Group, and SAA's Collection Management Section listserv, as well as being posted on the ArchivesSpace website. Please feel free to share this update with people you know who have an interest in ArchivesSpace but may not be on one of these lists. Christine Di Bella ArchivesSpace Program Manager christine.dibella at lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x2905 678-235-2905 [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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