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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear ArchivesSpace members,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The ArchivesSpace team has been working earnestly to resolve three performance problems reported by users of the application. They are:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A problem with rendering of large, multi-part records, which is described more fully in Jira
<span style="color:#333333"><a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1311"><span style="color:#3B73AF">AR-1311</span></a></span>, was reported by Yale University a few weeks ago. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A problem with unintentional re-ordering of components in resource record trees has been reported by The Ohio State University and other members. The work history for that problem is documented
in Jira <span style="color:#333333"><a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1183"><span style="color:#3B73AF">AR-1183</span></a>,
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Since these two problems potentially affect all implementations of ArchivesSpace, the ArchivesSpace development team has been addressing them outside of the prioritization process the ArchivesSpace
community implemented last spring. The results of their efforts are present in a new version of the ArchivesSpace application that can be downloaded from
<a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases">https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases</a> (select the zip file for the release labeled “ui-changes-0.0.1”). Also, a screencast illustrating the solutions to these two problems
is available at <span style="color:black"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRF7huQ7tqKaEQ3VTBmYnJIU28/view?usp=sharing" title="Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRF7huQ7tqKaEQ3VTBmYnJIU28/view?usp=sharing</a>.
We invite everybody to test these fixes and report their results to the corresponding Jiras indicated above. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A third performance problem area is the ArchivesSpace public interface, which, since the release of version 1.0 in September 2013, many ArchivesSpace members have described as being
inadequate to support public service in their repositories. These inadequacies are being addressed by a team established this past spring and led by LYRASIS’s Angela
<span style="color:#333333;background:white">Spinazzč and Yale University’s Mark Custer. Progress reports on that work are available on the ArchivesSpace wiki at
<a href="https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ADC/Public+Interface+Enhancement+Project">
https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ADC/Public+Interface+Enhancement+Project</a>.
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";background:white">Collectively, the surfacing of these problems, and their eventual resolution, represents a new stage in the ongoing maturation and refinement of the ArchivesSpace application. Our
overall goal remains to provide an archives information management application that accelerates processing of archival materials, supports effective collection management, and can be used to support discovery and access among the research community. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white">Thank you to all ArchivesSpace members for your continuing support and involvement. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#333333;background:white">Brad W</span><span style="color:#333333;background:white">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bradley D. Westbrook<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:brad@archivesspace.org"><span style="color:#1F497D">brad.westbrook@lyrasis.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">800.999.8558 x2910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">678.235.2910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">bradley_d_westbrook (Skype) </span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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