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Facilitator: Heather Greer Klein

Note Taker: Emily Lynema

Attendees

• Jon Dunn

• Stuart Kenny

• Kirsten Leonard

• Paul Walk

• Karen Cariani

• david.schober

• Kate Lynch

• Esmé Cowles

• Alicia Morris

• Nicholas Mark Homenda

• Rob Kaufman

• Emily Lynema

• Jim Halliday

• Glen Horton

• Chris Awre

• Robin Lindley Ruggaber

Agenda & Notes

1. Any other items for the agenda?
   

2. Discussion: Research data services for ingestion, identity management, and storage (Kate Lynch)

   1. see slides

   2. Research Data Services @ Princeton

      1. Princeton Data Commons (ingestion)

         1. submission and review of research data (https://datacommons.princeton.edu/describe). DOIs and DateCite integrations. Researchers make submissions and team of curators review submissions. Includes change history. https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_describe

         2. PDC Discovery makes submissions available to public (https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery). Open source application based on Blacklight (https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery). Integration with Globus. Analytics collection with Plausible.io (focus on privacy). Presented at Open Repositories 2024.

      2. TigerData

         1. support for Research Data storage use and project creation; developed in collaboration with campus research computing. Learn more: https://tigerdata.princeton.edu

         2. Active development, soft launch with actual users soon

      3. ORCID@Princeton

         1. Encourage researchers to create link from Princeton ID to ORCID. https://orcid.princeton.edu. Open source: https://github.com/pulibrary/orcid_princeton

         2. Launched recently.

   3. How handling issues of scale? ex: instrumentation datasets, not tabular data

   4. What do others have in common with Princeton services?

      1. Northwestern: trying to tackle all these same problems currently.

   5. What areas for Research Data support is your institution focusing on?

      1. PALNI is trying to figure out how to move into research support. Health Sciences generating lots of research data; want to find researchers working in common.

   6. Are you collaborating outside the Libraries?
      

3. Hyku for Consortia Sustaining the Hyku Repository Platform IMLS grant

   1. As part of the Sustaining the Hyku Repository Platform IMLS grant, our team is researching previous practices in open source collaboration, and we'd love some community feedback! We are aware of It Takes a Village: Open Source Software Sustainability and Community Cultivation: A Field Guide. Are there other open-source community-building resources/tools? What are some successful models for open source collaboration to look at?
      

4. Partner call annual check-up - quick Partner call survey

   1. Are we meeting at the right time and frequency?

      1. A number of people can’t attend at this time, or on Fridays. What we tried Thursdays at 12pm ET/9am PT/5pm GMT for 2025?

   2. What is most valuable and what doesn’t work well on this call; what would you like more of and/or less of

   3. Please complete by October 1, and share with your colleagues.
      

5. Community metrics

   1. Question that came up from COLMEX about how to provide data that will reflect community health over time

   2. For a community like Samvera with multiple platforms and tools, what metrics should we track to monitor community sustainability, growth, participation, etc?

   3. Will take this to the next Board meeting for continued discussion
      

6. Hyrax/Hyku Community Sprints for critical dependencies and accessibility - please pledge hours

   1. September 30th - October 11th: critical Hyrax dependency discussions and upgrade work (Bootstrap 4 is EOL and has a security concern; Rails upgrade and dependancies are also a concern to get ahead of). This work will be important for the accessibility sprint as well.

   2. October 28-November 8: Accessibility

      Goal to address all reported WCAG 2.0 A and AA accessibility issues. We’re feeling ambitious and need your help!
      

7. Regional Meetings - updates and planning needs

   1. Midwest (9/25-9/26)

   2. West Coast (10/9-10/10)

   3. Northeast (10/14-10/15)

   4. Europe (10/22)
      

8. Other Updates: 

   1. Nominations opening soon for the fall Samvera Board elections

   2. Sign up to present or facilitate a topic (5 - 30 minutes) at a future Partner call

      1. Potential idea related to the challenge of campus v library IT

   3. Documentation Interest Group proposed charter and September 17th kick-off

   4. Nominations open for the Julie Allinson Award 2024 open through Monday!

   5. Hyrax and Hyku development updates
      

Anything for the Samvera Board? (Standing item) 

Date of next call: October 11th

Notetaker: