From christine.dibella at lyrasis.org Tue Jan 15 11:48:31 2019 From: christine.dibella at lyrasis.org (Christine Di Bella) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:48:31 +0000 Subject: [Archivesspace_tac] announcing the first ArchivesSpace Online Forum - March 18 beginning at 5:00 p.m. UTC Message-ID: Please join your fellow ArchivesSpace users on March 18 beginning at 5:00 p.m. UTC* for our first ever Online Forum. Our first event to specifically aim to span the many timezones of our community, this 11-hour ArchivesSpace extravaganza will be divided into three blocks of 3 hours each, with a 1-hour break between each block. As with our in-person forums, our Online Forum will include a mix of opportunities to share and learn from each other about many different aspects of ArchivesSpace. As our first online forum, this event will be an experiment and a chance for us to try out some different ways for our community to engage and interact. We anticipate recording many parts of the forum, but for it to be a success we will also need as many live participants as possible. We encourage you to dip in and out of the live program as you much as you can. You will no doubt "meet" a different set of colleagues each time. We are now accepting both session proposals and ideas for topics via our online form at https://goo.gl/forms/olTRwsxOkGwkXJAs2. We highly encourage you to submit your proposals and ideas by February 18 so that we can get the program squared away as early as possible. Information about how to register for the event will be released closer to March. A special thanks to our international working group, featuring ArchivesSpace users from Brooklyn to Bangalore. Feel free to reach out to any of us with ideas and questions: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/802127927/ASpace+Online+Forum+2019. We're looking forward to a great event, with your help! Christine * That means Honolulu 7 am | Los Angeles 10 am | Dallas noon | New York 1 pm | London 5 pm | Bangalore 10:30 pm | Auckland 6 am (following morning) - see https://goo.gl/sCKvA9 to find your local time Christine Di Bella ArchivesSpace Program Manager christine.dibella at lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x2905 678-235-2905 cdibella13 (Skype) [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 6608 bytes Desc: image003.jpg URL: From christine.dibella at lyrasis.org Tue Jan 15 15:00:22 2019 From: christine.dibella at lyrasis.org (Christine Di Bella) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:00:22 +0000 Subject: [Archivesspace_tac] ArchivesSpace v2.5.2 now available Message-ID: ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v2.5.2. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.5.2. This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. In addition to more accessibility improvements, the release fixes an issue that those with Windows servers were experiencing when producing a PDF from the staff interface. The release also includes an enhanced agent merge function and more options for configuring OAI-PMH harvesting. There is a short video demonstration of the new agent merging functionality on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkOhCkUPJic. This release coincides with a substantial restructuring of the technical documentation, including an improved table of contents, led by our Technical Documentation sub-team. The site to find our static documentation is still the same: http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/, but you can submit suggested edits or additions by visiting the tech-docs repository at https://github.com/archivesspace/tech-docs. Thanks very much to community members James Bullen, Blake Carver, Mark Cooper, Chris Fitzpatrick, Dave Mayo, Trevor Thornton, Mark Triggs, and Lora Woodford for their code contributions to this release. Thanks also to the contract developers we were able to hire through member funds, Alyx Rossetti and Manny Rodriguez (via LibraryHost). Thanks as always to LYRASIS Digital Technical Services for their technical support. And last, but certainly very far from least, we greatly appreciate the efforts of our Development Prioritization sub-team, Core Committers Group and Testing sub-team, as well as individual ArchivesSpace users like Miloche Kottman, Nancy Kennedy, and Cory Nimer, who identified and helped us work through particular bugs and new features that are addressed in this release. Information on upgrading to a new version of ArchivesSpace is available at http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/upgrading-to-a-new-release-of-archivesspace/. If you have not yet upgraded to a recent version, we recommend going directly to 2.5.2. If you have any questions or need help upgrading - or deciding whether to upgrade - please let us know. Christine Christine Di Bella ArchivesSpace Program Manager christine.dibella at lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x2905 678-235-2905 cdibella13 (Skype) [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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While there are still a number of details to be worked out, I think the potential to have the community supported programs of LYRASIS, including ArchivesSpace, and the projects of Duraspace, including DSpace and Fedora, under one organizational umbrella is very exciting and potentially opens up a number of avenues for collaboration for our community and others. Also, please know that there are no changes imminent for ArchivesSpace itself. We?ll continue to be the strong community we?ve all built that?s guided first and foremost by your needs and interests. I hope this helps place this news in context. Though we likely won?t have all the answers at this time, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. Christine Christine Di Bella ArchivesSpace Program Manager christine.dibella at lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x2905 678-235-2905 cdibella13 (Skype) [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] [https://mlsvc01-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/df76fc97001/ffab4da9-b360-4a2d-83f9-345b25dd09fb.jpg] [Divider Small] PRESS RELEASE Contact: Meg Blum Associate Director of Marketing & Communications 800.999.8558, ext. 2951 meg.blum at lyrasis.org LYRASIS and DuraSpace Announce Intent to Merge Atlanta, GA - January 24, 2019 - LYRASIS and DuraSpace announce their intent to merge, forming a robust new home for Community-Supported Programs and Services. LYRASIS, an innovative full-service technology and services nonprofit, and DuraSpace, which specializes in open source technologies, plan to join their world-class 501(c)(3) nonprofit teams in 2019. LYRASIS is a recognized leader in building and delivering solutions to academic and public libraries, museums, and archives. DuraSpace is a best of class team providing leadership and innovation for open technologies used by academic, scientific, cultural, technology and research communities. The combined organization will serve over 1,200 members and 3,500 organizational users across the globe. With a vision of leading community focused innovation, the increased scale and sustainability of a combined organization will provide better value and benefits to members of LYRASIS and DuraSpace. A new division of LYRASIS, the DuraSpace Community Supported Programs Division, will be formed to accelerate the pace of development for a combined 8 global open source technology communities, including DSpace, Fedora, VIVO, DuraCloud, ArchivesSpace, CollectionSpace, SimplyE public, and SimplyE academic. DuraSpace hosted services, DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect, and ArchivesDirect, will also transition to LYRASIS. In addition, a thought leadership division will be created that will combine the rich and diverse memberships of both organizations to collaboratively design and develop next generation solutions that include migration, integration, analytics, and hosting. Robert Miller, LYRASIS CEO says "The DuraSpace contribution and commitment to openness as it applies to academic communities has always stood out to me. They have built a phenomenal team, attracted a blue ribbon board, and earned the support and trust of their prestigious members. We are honored to join together with DuraSpace. Our collective memberships will benefit from increased economies of scale and having a bigger seat at the table as we work together to design and build better end-to-end solutions. We are eager to add DuraSpace's voice to ours." Erin Tripp, DuraSpace's Executive Director explains that "While DuraSpace is in its strongest financial position ever, the synergies of joining our two organizations will allow us to leverage a larger organization and member base to amplify our voice. Our missions and memberships are already converging. Taking this next step to merge our organizations will provide access to staff and investment dollars to accelerate the pace of global, community-supported open source software development. Together, we can steward viable alternatives to proprietary products." Following a brief period to complete due diligence, the Boards of the two non-profit organizations will hold a merger vote. If affirmed, the merger will proceed at a pace to ensure minimal disruption to members and customers. In the proposed merger between DuraSpace and LYRASIS, LYRASIS will remain the parent organization and legal entity. The DuraSpace brand, stewardship of DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO, and fiscal sponsorship supports will transition to the new DuraSpace Community Supported Programs Division of LYRASIS. DuraSpace hosted services (DuraCloud, DSpaceDirect, and ArchivesDirect) will also transition to LYRASIS. For more information, please see the Frequently Asked Questions documentation. About LYRASIS LYRASIS, a nonprofit membership organization of more than 1,000 libraries, museums, and archives supports enduring access to our shared academic, scientific and cultural heritage through leadership in open technologies, content services, digital solutions and collaboration with archives, libraries, museums and knowledge communities worldwide. STAY CONNECTED [Like us on Facebook] [Follow us on Twitter] [http://img.constantcontact.com/letters/images/1101116784221/PM_B2BC_BottomShadow.png] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is not a presentation but a facilitated discussion designed to better understand the high-level interests and concerns of our members. Examples of areas to consider could include integrations, engagement strategies or future proofing. Board members Gordon Daines (Brigham Young University), Kat Stefko (Bowdoin College) and Robert Miller (LYRASIS) will join the discussion. Community Discussion When: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST (Noon. - 1:00 p.m. PST) Where: https://zoom.us/j/123795032 Dial by your location +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 123 795 032 No registration is required, though the session is limited to the first 100 participants. Please feel free to bring together your colleagues to participate as a group. This discussion will be recorded and available for viewing at a later date. Please note: We are using Zoom Video Communications to host this discussion. If this is your first time using Zoom, please join this Test meeting to make sure you are all set up: https://zoom.us/test We hope to see you there! Laurie Gemmill Arp Director, Collections Services & Community Supported Software laurie.arp at lyrasis.org 800.999.8558 x 2908 laurie.gemmill1 Skype [cid:image002.png at 01D39036.091DD4A0] Applications for the 2019 Catalyst Fund opened January 7! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 7845 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From eckardm at umich.edu Tue Jan 29 18:03:18 2019 From: eckardm at umich.edu (Max Eckard) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:03:18 -0500 Subject: [Archivesspace_tac] Fwd: TAC/UAC Joint meeting January 30th In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, *Just in case* you didn't get this, here's the call in info for tomorrow's joint TAC/UAC meeting. Thanks! Max ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Knox, Ashley M. Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:48 PM Subject: TAC/UAC Joint meeting January 30th To: Laney McGlohon , Christine Di Bella < christine.dibella at lyrasis.org>, archivesspace_tac_uac at lyralists.lyrasis.org Cc: Tang, Lydia , mhughes at huntington.org < mhughes at huntington.org>, Max Eckard , Gordon Daines < gordon_daines at byu.edu> Hi everyone, We look forward to seeing you at tomorrow?s TAC/UAC joint meeting at: *11:00 a.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Central / 9:00 a.m. Mountain/ 8:00 a.m. Pacific* Here is a link to the agenda: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/804257797/2019-01-30+TAC+UAC+Joint+Meeting Let us know if you have any questions. We will see you there! *Call In:* Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/480879807 Or iPhone one-tap : US: +14086380968,,480879807# or +16468769923,,480879807# Or Telephone: Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 408 638 0968 or +1 646 876 9923 or +1 669 900 6833 Meeting ID: 480 879 807 International numbers available: https://zoom.us/zoomconference?m=84TFS7JsXMfyDTGBEmbXOm0WHlAnv3Zp Thank you, Ashley Knox (knoxa at uncw.edu), Lydia Tang (ltang5 at lib.msu.edu), Max Eckerd ( eckardm at umich.edu), and Maggie Hughes (mhughes at huntington.org) *From:* Knox, Ashley M. *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2018 11:50 AM *To:* 'Laney McGlohon' ; 'Christine Di Bella' < christine.dibella at lyrasis.org>; 'archivesspace_uac at lyralists.lyrasis.org' < archivesspace_uac at lyralists.lyrasis.org>; 'Gordon Daines' < gordon_daines at byu.edu> *Cc:* 'Tang, Lydia' ; 'mhughes at huntington.org' < mhughes at huntington.org>; Max Eckard *Subject:* TAC/UAC Joint meeting January 30th Hi everyone, The joint TAC/UAC meeting will be January 30th, 2019 (11:00 a.m. Eastern/9:00 a.m. Central/8:00 a.m. Pacific). Here?s a starting point for an agenda. Please add any additional topics or reach out to any of us for questions or suggestions. Agenda: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/AC/pages/804257797/2019-01-30+TAC+UAC+Joint+Meeting Ashley will also send out a calendar invite shortly to UAC and the ASpace gmail calendar. Thank you, Ashley Knox (knoxa at uncw.edu), Lydia Tang (ltang5 at lib.msu.edu), Max Eckerd ( eckardm at umich.edu), and Maggie Hughes (mhughes at huntington.org) Ashley Knox Digital Initiatives Librarian William M. Randall Library University of North Carolina Wilmington 601 South College Road Wilmington, NC 28403-5616 910-962-7996 knoxa at uncw.edu http://library.uncw.edu http://digitalcollections.uncw.edu -- *Max Eckard* Lead Archivist for Digital Initiatives 1150 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 *(734) 763-7518* *http://bentley.umich.edu/ * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christine.dibella at lyrasis.org Wed Jan 30 13:36:54 2019 From: christine.dibella at lyrasis.org (Christine Di Bella) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:36:54 +0000 Subject: [Archivesspace_tac] ArchivesSpace Update - January 2019 Message-ID: [ASpaceOrgHome.jpg] January 2019 Update Welcome to the first ArchivesSpace update of 2019! We're looking forward to another great year, and especially excited about our first ever Online Forum. Read on for more news! Development ArchivesSpace v2.5.2 was released earlier this month. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.5.2. This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. In addition to more accessibility improvements, the release fixes an issue that those with Windows servers were experiencing when producing a PDF from the staff interface. The release also includes an enhanced agent merge function and more options for configuring OAI-PMH harvesting. There is a short video demonstration of the new agent merging functionality on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkOhCkUPJic. This release coincides with a substantial restructuring of the technical documentation, including an improved table of contents, led by our Technical Documentation sub-team. The site to find our static documentation is still the same: http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/, but you can submit suggested edits or additions by visiting the tech-docs repository at https://github.com/archivesspace/tech-docs. Thanks very much to community members James Bullen, Blake Carver, Mark Cooper, Chris Fitzpatrick, Dave Mayo, Trevor Thornton, Mark Triggs, and Lora Woodford for their code contributions to this release. Thanks also to the contract developers we were able to hire through member funds, Alyx Rossetti and Manny Rodriguez (via LibraryHost). Thanks as always to LYRASIS Digital Technical Services for their technical support. And last, but certainly very far from least, we greatly appreciate the efforts of our Development Prioritization sub-team, Core Committers Group and Testing sub-team, as well as individual ArchivesSpace users like Miloche Kottman, Nancy Kennedy, and Cory Nimer, who identified and helped us work through particular bugs and new features that are addressed in this release. Information on upgrading to a new version of ArchivesSpace is available at http://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/user/upgrading-to-a-new-release-of-archivesspace/. If you have not yet upgraded to a recent version, we recommend going directly to 2.5.2. ArchivesSpace is always interested in more development help. Depending on your interest and availability, we have lots of suggestions for projects small and big that developers and tech-savvy archivists of all experience levels could help with to make ArchivesSpace better for everyone. If you're interested in writing code and helping with ArchivesSpace development, or if you know someone who might be, please contact Program Manager Christine Di Bella (christine.dibella at lyrasis.org) or Tech Lead Laney McGlohon (laney.mcglohon at lyrasis.org) for more details. Community Discussion About Strategic Directions - February 26 At the last ArchivesSpace Governance Board meeting, we discussed options for doing more tactical strategic planning that incorporates member feedback. We'd now like to gather input from the membership via a real-time discussion on strategic topics that are of interest to you. We'd love to have members from as many of our different membership levels and types of organizations as possible represented. This is not a presentation but a facilitated discussion designed to better understand the high-level interests and concerns of our members. Examples of areas to consider could include integrations, engagement strategies or future proofing. Board members Gordon Daines (Brigham Young University), Kat Stefko (Bowdoin College) and Robert Miller (LYRASIS) will join the discussion, which will be moderated by Laurie Gemmill Arp, Director of Collections Services & Community Supported Software, at LYRASIS. When: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. EST (noon - 1:00 p.m. PST) Where: https://zoom.us/j/123795032 Dial by your location +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 123 795 032 No registration is required, though the session is limited to the first 100 participants. Please feel free to bring together your colleagues to participate as a group. This discussion will be recorded and available for viewing at a later date. ArchivesSpace Online Forum - March 18 Mark your calendars for our first ever Online Forum, beginning at March 18 at 5:00 p.m. UTC*. Our first event to specifically aim to span the many time zones of our community, this 11-hour ArchivesSpace extravaganza will be divided into three blocks of 3 hours each, with a 1-hour break between each block. As with our in-person forums, our Online Forum will include a mix of opportunities to share and learn from each other about many different aspects of ArchivesSpace. As our first online forum, this event will be an experiment and a chance for us to try out some different ways for our community to engage and interact. We anticipate recording many parts of the forum, but for it to be a success we will also need as many live participants as possible. We encourage you to dip in and out of the live program as you much as you can. You will no doubt "meet" a different set of colleagues each time. We are now accepting both session proposals and ideas for topics via our online form at https://goo.gl/forms/olTRwsxOkGwkXJAs2. We highly encourage you to submit your proposals and ideas by February 18 so that we can get the program squared away as early as possible. Information about how to register for the event will be released closer to March. Anyone who uses ArchivesSpace or is interested in ArchivesSpace is welcome to attend. A special thanks to our international working group, featuring ArchivesSpace users from Brooklyn to Bangalore. Feel free to reach out to any of us with ideas and questions: https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ADC/pages/802127927/ASpace+Online+Forum+2019. We're looking forward to a great event, with your help! * That means Honolulu 7 am | Los Angeles 10 am | Dallas noon | New York 1 pm | London 5 pm | Bangalore 10:30 pm | Auckland 6 am (following morning) - see https://goo.gl/sCKvA9 to find your local time LYRASIS and Duraspace announce Intent to Merge LYRASIS, the organizational home for ArchivesSpace, and Duraspace recently announced an Intent to Merge. After a period of further investigation by the governing boards of the two organizations, the merger vote is expected to happen later this winter. While there are still a number of details to be worked out, the potential to have the community supported programs of LYRASIS, including ArchivesSpace, and the projects of Duraspace, including DSpace and Fedora, under one organizational umbrella is very exciting and opens up a number of possibilities for collaboration for our community and others. There are no changes imminent for ArchivesSpace itself, but we look forward to participating in this process and the opportunities it brings. LYRASIS and Duraspace expect to hold some town hall-style webinars in February, but also feel free to reach out to Christine Di Bella (christine.dibella at lyrasis.org) if you have comments or questions. Membership Update We are excited to welcome our newest members to our community! Our new members since December 20 include: * Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums * Davis County Clerk/Auditor (Farmington, Utah) * Interlochen Center for the Arts (Interlochen, Michigan) * New Mexico Military Institute * Queensland State Archives As of January 30, we have 371 General members, 19 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 Tools 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 cdibella13 (Skype) [ASpaceOrgHomeMedium] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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