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With the recent transition of ArchivesSpace to new infrastructure and the ongoing upgrade to a new container management plugin scheduled for the remainder of the week, I have not provided an update since late last week. There are several updates to provide
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<b>ArchivesSpace Core Code Review</b></div>
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Hudson Molonglo completed work related to a second engagement with Yale that furthered the investigation into performance problems in both the core application code and our local environment. The work is complete and they have reported to have
<b>found the causes of the significant performance problems we have been experiencing</b>. Our local environment has been discounted as contributing to poor performance. The performance problems we have been experiencing
<b>result from Yale’s data exceeding the design parameters of ArchivesSpace</b>, most particularly regarding the number of linked Agents and Subjects on larger Resource records. Hudson Molonglo has provided a series of recommendations to remediate these issues
that can be found in the report linked to below. Given that this is a community supported open source project, Maureen Callahan has been working with others in the community to determine a best course of action through which to address these concerns and
implement the proposed recommendations. Many of the other institutions that form this collective have expressed a strong willingness and desire to see the product improved for current and prospective users. More to come on this front in the coming weeks.</div>
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The full report from the second engagement with Hudson Molonglo can be found here -
<a href="https://yale.box.com/s/t8pfllrfyqpnkqfprd78mn9otn05c9tz">https://yale.box.com/s/t8pfllrfyqpnkqfprd78mn9otn05c9tz</a></div>
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<b>Infrastructure</b></div>
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<div>Library IT has received little in the way of feedback from users since moving ArchivesSpace to new infrastructure. Based on our internal tests and survey results it would appear that performance is improved, but I would invite you to provide us with any
and all feedback you may have. Please send comments to Melissa Wisner (melissa.wisner@yale.edu). Going forward we anticipate purchasing and deploying a new set of dedicated hardware for the ArchivesSpace test and production instances from Dell and are in
the process of finalizing the order details with the vendor.</div>
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Percona is scheduled to begin performance analysis of the underlying ArchivesSpace database starting Monday, August 17. There are some potential outcomes from the engagement that we may be able to act upon in the short term at Yale. We may also decide to
share the report with the ArchivesSpace community in the event there are opportunities for improvement that should be considered for inclusion in the core ArchivesSpace product.</div>
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<div><b>Hosting</b></div>
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Lyrasis has turned around a preliminary hosting/proof of concept project outline and has asked us to respond with comments. Maureen Callahan, Melissa Wisner, and I responded with comments and we have received a response that will need to be discussed further
with key stakeholders across Library IT and special collections departments on Tuesday, August 25.</div>
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<div><b>Data Integrity </b></div>
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Based on the outcomes from the ArchivesSpace core code review and conversations with Hudson Molonglo and Lyrasis, we will defer further investigation into this area.</div>
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<b>Future Work</b></div>
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As a potential next step once this phase of work is complete, discussions are underway to consider an upgrade of ArchivesSpace from the current custom release we are running locally to version 1.3. Maureen Callahan has provided the following information about
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<div><i>"Some of you have noticed problems when components transfer from one resource to another — they sometimes become unavailable for editing. This is a problem that has been reported as greatly improved in version 1.3 of ArchivesSpace. Version 1.3 also
allows for much more robust reporting, the option for default values in various fields, the ability to save a rapid data entry template, and a number of other features: <a href="https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v1.3.0" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14px;">https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v1.3.0</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;">.</span>”</i></div>
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Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Also, be on the look-out giving the all clear tomorrow that the reindex of ArchivesSpace completed in the overnight.</div>
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