[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace Update - October 2020

[Jessica Crouch]

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ArchivesSpace Update – October 2020



Development


We're finishing up the next release and expect to have a release candidate by 
early next week. ArchivesSpace 2.8.1 will include improvements to the 
spreadsheet importer, additional settable record type preferences, bug fixes 
and small feature improvements, and infrastructure upgrades. It will also 
include some performance, indexer, and small backend and staff interface 
improvements courtesy of work Hudson Molonglo did for Queensland State 
Archives. Once the release candidate is available we'll have a small window for 
additional testing and then hope to have the release itself ready in early 
November.


You can preview these changes on our test server at 
http://test.archivesspace.org/staff (username admin/password admin). We 
encourage you to test these improvements, especially for the spreadsheet 
importer, with your own data if you can. Every bit of testing and feedback 
helps us ensure that the changes are doing what they should and improves the 
release.


Position Announcement: ArchivesSpace Technical Lead

We are still accepting applications for the opening on our team 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.dibe...@lyrasis.org with any 
questions.

Hacktoberfest 2020


Thank you to everyone who participated in 
Hacktoberfest this October. 
Contributors to the ArchivesSpace GitHub repository this month were Blake 
Carver, Mark Cooper, Alicia Detelich, Christine Di Bella, Bobbi Fox, Brian 
Harrington, Joshua Shaw, and Lora Woodford. Thank you all!


In addition to the official Hacktoberfest prize options, ArchivesSpace is 
awarding an ArchivesSpace swag bag to the community member who submitted the 
most pull requests in the month of October. And the winner of the ArchivesSpace 
swag bag is… Joshua Shaw!


Hacktoberfest may be over, but community code contributions to ArchivesSpace 
are always welcome! To learn more about submitting a pull request for 
ArchivesSpace, visit our 
wiki.


ArchivesSpace Anti-racism and Inclusion Initiatives Progress


Thank you to everyone who has participated in our ongoing discussions and 
feedback opportunities around anti-racism and inclusion. We have created a 
section of the ArchivesSpace wiki devoted to the community-supported 
initiatives that have come out of these discussions. It includes information 
about the initiatives themselves as well as links to resources and work in the 
wider archives and related communities.


We will be adding to these pages as the initiatives develop and grow, and there 
will be many different ways for community members to get involved. You can 
follow the progress 
here.


Please reach out to us if you have questions or feedback about any current 
ArchivesSpace anti-racism and inclusion initiatives or would like to suggest 
new work to be done. Our email is archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org or you can 
submit feedback anonymously 
here. Thank you for 
working with us to make ArchivesSpace – as an application, a community, and a 
program – a richer, more inclusive place.


Take a Break with ArchivesSpace is going on hiatus after October 30

We’ll be hosting our final casual open call via zoom at 12pm ET today before 
going on hiatus. We may revive the breaks in some form in the future, but until 
then we look forward to seeing you at this final call.


Thanks to everyone who has joined us since we started these calls in March. 
Whether you came to one call or more than 20, it’s been great getting to know 
so many of you better and sharing ArchivesSpace and non-ArchivesSpace thoughts.


With no set agenda or presentation for these calls, this forum is an 
opportunity to connect, chat and recharge. If you’d like to join us for today's 
call, you can find the connection 

[Archivesspace_Users_Group] A question about standardized rights statements in ASpace

[McElheny, Robin G.]

Hi there -

Here in the Harvard Library we are reviewing options for incorporating 
standardized rights statements such as the ones from 
rightsstatements.org and Creative 
Commons.

In reviewing ArchivesSpace options, we see no obvious place to put a URI to an 
external rights statement in  the ASpace rights statement module.  Has anyone 
has found a way to do this and if so, do you have documentation that you could 
share?

Regards,
Robin McElheny (she/her)
Associate University Archivist for Collections and Public Services
Harvard University 
Archives
robin_mcelh...@harvard.edu

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