Dear colleagues,



Please join me in extending congratulations to the ArcLight MVP project
team. We have completed our eight-week work cycle to develop a minimum
viable product to support discovery and delivery of archival materials
using Blacklight, and have released ArcLight 0.1.1.



Our final, full demo video (~30 minutes) can be seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdNjEMOotRw



Our wind-down deck can be viewed here: https://docs.google.com/
presentation/d/1hqPn49-k4Q-8yiGRec09--LJ2OHoKbzUvba__2QNxwA/edit



The code for ArcLight, as well as documentation on how to get started can
be found on GitHub: https://github.com/sul-dlss/arclight


Please join me in extending thanks to each of the team members:

· Product owner: Mark Matienzo (Stanford)
· Tech Lead: Jessie Keck (Stanford)
· Developers: Darren Hardy (Stanford), Jessie Keck (Stanford),
Gordon Leacock (University of Michigan), Jack Reed (Stanford), Camille
Villa (Stanford)
· UX Designers: Gary Geisler (Stanford), Jennifer Vine (Stanford)
· DevOps Liaison: Erin Fahy (Stanford)
· Management Liaisons: Tom Cramer (Stanford, DLSS Direct rep);
Nabeela Jaffer (University of Michigan)

In addition, please extend your gratitude to our great stakeholder team for
their participation in the work cycle:

· Stanford University: Frank Ferko (Archive of Recorded Sound),
Charles Fosselman (East Asia Library), Jenny Johnson (University Archives),
Michelle Paquette (Special Collections), Sarah Patton (Hoover Institution
Archives), Stu Snydman (DLSS), Laura Wilsey (DLSS)
· University of Michigan: Tom Burton-West (Digital Library Platform
and Services), Max Eckard (Bentley Historical Library), Roger Espinosa
(Digital Library Platform and Services), Dallas Pillen (Bentley Historical
Library), Chris Powell (Digital Library Platform and Services), Mike
Shallcross (Bentley Historical Library)
· Georgia Tech Library: Wendy Hagenmaier
· National Library of Medicine: John Rees
· Rockefeller Archives Center: Hillel Arnold, Patrick Galligan,
Bonnie Gordon

High-level features completed this sprint include:



· Repositories and collections navigation
· Searching: keyword and fielded searches; autocomplete; hit
highlighting; facets; sorting; pagination
· Default and compact search results
· Collection-level and component-level detail views
· Digital object linking and embedding using oEmbed and
configurable viewers
· Request management proof of concept integration


Future areas of work include:


· Accessibility testing and user testing, and subsequent
improvements
· Further testing of indexing by the community
· Full evaluation and refactoring of the indexing code
· Determining integration requirements for indexing directly from
ArchivesSpace
· In-depth integration of request management systems (e.g. SUL
Requests and Aeon)
· A plan for Stanford-specific rollout and integration



We encourage you to continue testing ArcLight, either in a local install or
using the demo site (https://arclight-demo.projectblacklight.org/), and to
ask us questions or report any bugs as they arise. We appreciate any and
all feedback you might have on the work we’ve completed during this work
cycle as it will inform the future direction of our work on ArcLight.



Best,

Mark



*Mark A. MATIENZO* | [log in to unmask]
Collaboration & Interoperability Architect

Digital Library Systems and Services, Stanford University Libraries

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