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Contributed by: Marcella Huggard, Manuscripts Coordinator, University of Kansas Everything’s Up-to-Date at the Kansas City Regional Forum The Kansas City Regional Forum took place on November 30, 2018 at the Midwest Genealogy Center in Independence, Missouri. Program information is available on the wiki program page. Hosting a regional forum As soon as Christine Kim mentioned … Read More

Contributed by: Brittany Newberry, Processing Archivist, Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Overview The Testing sub-team is charged with the testing of features and bug fixes of the ArchivesSpace application prior to new releases of ArchivesSpace. The sub-team is a cross-council sub-team that is made up of members of the ArchivesSpace User Advisory and Technical … Read More

Contributed by: John Zarrillo, Senior Archivist, New York University The Documentation sub-team of the ArchivesSpace Users Advisory Council is charged with writing and updating documentation to assist users of the ArchivesSpace application. This includes the online User Manual, screencasts, and video tutorials. Our goal is to assist all ArchivesSpace users, regardless of technical expertise. The … Read More

Contributed by: Maggie Hughes, Collections Data Archivist, UCLA Earlier this month, we announced a new resource for the ASpace community: Awesome ArchivesSpace https://github.com/archivesspace/awesome-archivesspace. Awesome ArchivesSpace is an awesome list. It points to resources (code, blog posts, slide decks, journal articles — anything with a URL, really) regarding ArchivesSpace created by the community that are dispersed around the … Read More

Contributed by: Scott Hanrath, Assistant Dean for Digital Initiatives and Discovery Services, University of Kansas Libraries The Technical Documentation sub-team of the ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council (TAC) seeks to make sure that the technical documentation for ArchivesSpace meets the needs of the community. The technical documentation is intended to help developers and IT staff install, … Read More

Contributed by: Patrick Galligan, Digital Archivist, Rockefeller Archive Center The ArchivesSpace Integrations sub-team supports the ArchivesSpace community by taking a transparent approach to documenting the integration of outside systems with the ArchivesSpace application. The sub-team meets once a month and we make our meeting notes and 2017-2018 work plan publicly available. We work with the … Read More

Contributed by: Laney McGlohon, Technical Lead, ArchivesSpace The Core Committers Group is a sub-team of the Technical Advisory Council for ArchivesSpace. The inaugural group convened in July 2017 to encourage code and documentation contributions to ArchivesSpace from the community, as well as to provide support to community members who would like to contribute to the … Read More

Contributed by: Max Eckard, Archivist for Digital Curation, University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library The ArchivesSpace Technical Advisory Council provides technical guidance and engages the community to encourage an active community of developers. According to the bylaws, the purpose of the Council includes: providing overall technical guidance and reviewing external contributions to the code base … Read More