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From: [email protected] 
<[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Christine Di Bella
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2019 11:31 AM
To: Archivesspace Users Group 
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Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] release candidate available - 
ArchivesSpace v2.7.0-RC1

Hello ArchivesSpace members,

The ArchivesSpace team is pleased to announce a release candidate, v2.7.0-RC1. 
You can download it at 
https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.7.0-RC1<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Farchivesspace%2Farchivesspace%2Freleases%2Ftag%2Fv2.7.0-RC1&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C823b9fd1e40d4063d1fa08d7435fb809%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637051950694488963&sdata=STH48b5KTldBp20tIkvyP9NnaSNLCoBjqwNDcHQ9m44%3D&reserved=0>
 or test it out without downloading at 
http://test.archivesspace.org/staff<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftest.archivesspace.org%2Fstaff&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C823b9fd1e40d4063d1fa08d7435fb809%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637051950694498955&sdata=6YqDpPd7DgYbZoH8Q%2FH%2B62AWHEj8SWS8k1S0h29xhE8%3D&reserved=0>
 (username admin /password admin). We encourage you to download and try it out 
with your own local setup and/or data if you can for the most accurate results.

This release candidate contains program-led and community pull requests that 
provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation updates, as well as 
a number of infrastructure improvements, which were a significant focus of this 
release. When testing, we highly encourage you to not only check out the new 
changes, but also to make sure that features you already use are working as 
intended.

In addition to small interface and functionality changes, this release 
candidate contains two larger areas of feature enhancement. One relates to 
recording information about language of description and materials. These 
changes were made to facilitate better standards compliance in these areas. For 
language of description language and script can now be recorded using 
controlled values as well as notes. For language of materials multiple 
languages and scripts can now be recorded using controlled values and notes. 
Some information about the new languages functionality is available at 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14UlJseFzGhsoEkiSVTidJMQXizFLPjXr2fuf2Pa5iGQ/edit?usp=sharing<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F14UlJseFzGhsoEkiSVTidJMQXizFLPjXr2fuf2Pa5iGQ%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C823b9fd1e40d4063d1fa08d7435fb809%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637051950694498955&sdata=C1UjNHHkLYB6XknAUVDM7%2F4Sd0Nhdic6ujTIOVpfgs4%3D&reserved=0>.
 We encourage you to read through the documentation and make comments. This 
information will be incorporated into the user manual once the production 
release of 2.7.0 is available.

Existing language information in records has been migrated to the new or newly 
structured fields. While some ways of recording information could be easily 
accommodated in this migration, because there are so many different ways 
language information could have been recorded previously some situations will 
require data cleanup. As you look at language information in your records, if 
you see patterns in your data, please let us know. (An example might be that 
all of your description is in one language, but you never or only rarely 
recorded that language in the Language of Description field in Finding Aid 
Data.) We would like to help by creating some plugins that could be run to do 
bulk cleanup work in this area.

The second major feature enhancement, made to accommodate requests to use 
persistent identifiers in OAI-PMH harvests and exports, is that resources and 
archival objects can now be represented by Archival Resource Keys (ARKs). ARKs 
can either be generated by ArchivesSpace or created outside the application. 
Some information on the new ARKs functionality is available at 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0K2ZsSqWPxtKifCa_-ZyhAdyDJcJR0tA3S-N3X3FGU/edit?usp=sharing<https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1e0K2ZsSqWPxtKifCa_-ZyhAdyDJcJR0tA3S-N3X3FGU%2Fedit%3Fusp%3Dsharing&data=02%7C01%7Cbob.swanson%40uconn.edu%7C823b9fd1e40d4063d1fa08d7435fb809%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C0%7C637051950694508953&sdata=7IYV54RAUhuHX726iYvYPwDxQA4h5I6rz9rO9Hllzx4%3D&reserved=0>.
 This information will also be incorporated into the user manual.

Thanks to the many community members who made contributions to the work 
reflected in this release candidate, including individual archives staff and 
developers, our Development Prioritization sub-team, Testing sub-team, and the 
Core Committers Group.

We'll be collecting feedback through Monday, October 7. Please let us know at 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> if you 
notice any problems with the specific areas addressed in this release, or if 
anything that was working before no longer is. Barring major issues, we expect 
to release v2.7.0 by mid-October.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905
cdibella13 (Skype)

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