Available slides are linked from the title line above each synopsis
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Room: Gould Auditorum (1st)
A Year of Hyrax in Production
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Speaker: Mark Bussey
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Gould Auditorum (1st)
Approaching MVP(squared): Minimum Viable Product-Suite and Preservation
The Emory Digital Library Program team will share a retrospective of their Discovery and Technical Design process for determining MVP2: Minimum Viable Product-Suite and Minimum Viable Preservation features in a new Samvera platform migration
Speakers: Emily Porter, Rosalyn Metz, Collin Brittle, Nik Dragovic
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Gould Auditorum (1st)
Archiving Hull City of Culture : linking Hyrax and Archivematica
This talk will present a project at the University of Hull, working with CoSector and Cottage Labs, to create a permanent digital archive of the Hull City of Culture. Hull was awarded UK City of Culture for 2017 and, throughout the year, generated a wealth of digital material documenting the events and activities celebrating the city, as well as archives from the organization and evaluation of the event. The University of Hull, already an active user of Samvera technologies, wanted to build on the work done for the Jisc ‘Filling the Digital Preservation Gap’ by using Archivematica for the digital archives preservation pipeline and Hyrax as a showcase for the City of Culture. We will also talk about how the project was originally conceived, and how that has changed through active and engaged project meetings to reflect ongoing service needs for the management of digital archives, of which the City of Culture archive forms a part. Integration with CALM (archives management solution ) and the existing Hull History Centre Blacklight catalogue (developed by DCE) is being explored to create a fully integrated digital archiving solution.
Speakers: Julie Allinson, Chris Awre
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Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks of 5-7 minutes each will be going on all day Thursday in room 1715. To see the line up of speakers, or sign up to speak, visit the wiki page.
- Hyrax usage - Steve van Tuyl
- Sparkplug - Linda Sato
- What we get out of DLXS - John Weise
Speakers: Various
Suggested audience: Various
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Room: 1715 (1st)
A Year of Hyrax in Production
Despite widespread interest in Hyrax, Samvera’s new flagship repository solution, there is a dearth of documentation about how to run a production instance. We’ll cover the lessons we’ve learned from a year of building and hosting Hyrax, including our new project checklist, logging and monitoring practices, and data migration paths.
DCE has been hosting a Hyrax based ETD repository for Emory University for 12 months. We've made a lot of discoveries and improvements since we launched. We'll be sharing our learnings and best practices for running Samvera Based repositories including:
* Infrastructure as code (esp. ansible for configuration management)
* Monitoring using open-source and commercial tools (nagios, ok computer, splunk, pingdom, honeybadger)
* Maintenance, Upgrades, and Testing
Speaker: Mark Bussey
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: Gould Auditorum (1st)
Approaching MVP(squared): Minimum Viable Product-Suite and Preservation
The Emory Digital Library Program team will share a retrospective of their Discovery and Technical Design process for determining MVP2: Minimum Viable Product-Suite and Minimum Viable Preservation features in a new Samvera platform migration
Speakers: Emily Porter, Rosalyn Metz, Collin Brittle, Nik Dragovic
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people, Digital Archivists and others involved in Digital PreservationTime
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 1170 Gould Auditorum (1st)
Avalon and IIIF for Audio and Video (a talk and demonstration)
For the past year, Avalon Media System has worked alongside members of the IIIF Community to co-develop the specifications for IIIF Presentation API version 3. This version moves beyond the two-dimensional image plane to include audio and video within the scope of media which can utilize IIIF to describe and manage content for use and re-use both with Avalon and by any viewer capable of presenting an object with a IIIF manifest. Avalon is excited about the possibilities for incorporating shareable structural metadata, as well as the ability to incorporate metadata along the timeline of time-based media. We will provide an overview of IIIF and the application of IIIF to AV content, including structural metadata and other features derived from the IIIF API.
Speakers: Chris Colvard, Adam Arling, Maria Whitaker, Brian KeeseArchiving Hull City of Culture : linking Hyrax and Archivematica
This talk will present a project at the University of Hull, working with CoSector and Cottage Labs, to create a permanent digital archive of the Hull City of Culture. Hull was awarded UK City of Culture for 2017 and, throughout the year, generated a wealth of digital material documenting the events and activities celebrating the city, as well as archives from the organization and evaluation of the event. The University of Hull, already an active user of Samvera technologies, wanted to build on the work done for the Jisc ‘Filling the Digital Preservation Gap’ by using Archivematica for the digital archives preservation pipeline and Hyrax as a showcase for the City of Culture. We will also talk about how the project was originally conceived, and how that has changed through active and engaged project meetings to reflect ongoing service needs for the management of digital archives, of which the City of Culture archive forms a part. Integration with CALM (archives management solution ) and the existing Hull History Centre Blacklight catalogue (developed by DCE) is being explored to create a fully integrated digital archiving solution.
Speakers: Julie Allinson, Chris Awre
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, General audience
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Avalon's Audiovisual Work Type: Incorporating Metadata Changes for Hyrax
Avalon has developed an audiovisual work type that will be available for use in Hyrax. This work type will keep all descriptive metadata fields currently available for Avalon and include the use of rightsstatements.org declarations. This presentation will discuss moving from a MODSXML-based work type to a RDF based work type and how that will impact other activities in Avalon such as batch ingest.
Speaker: Jen Young
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people, Digital Archivists and others involved in Digital Preservation
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 1170 (1st)
Avalon and IIIF for Audio and Video (a talk and demonstration)
For the past year, Avalon Media System has worked alongside members of the IIIF Community to co-develop the specifications for IIIF Presentation API version 3. This version moves beyond the two-dimensional image plane to include audio and video within the scope of media which can utilize IIIF to describe and manage content for use and re-use both with Avalon and by any viewer capable of presenting an object with a IIIF manifest. Avalon is excited about the possibilities for incorporating shareable structural metadata, as well as the ability to incorporate metadata along the timeline of time-based media. We will provide an overview of IIIF and the application of IIIF to AV content, including structural metadata and other features derived from the IIIF API.
Speakers: Chris Colvard, Adam Arling, Maria Whitaker, Brian Keese
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, General audience
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Building a Better Repository: The Fedora API Specification and Implementations
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Speaker: David Wilcox
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, General audience
Time: 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Building a performant and accessible replacement for ContentDM using Valkyrie
A presentation about Penn State's new Valkyrie project that will replace ContentDM. I will discuss our progress thus far, with particular attention to accessibility and performance, two of the principle concerns in our development process. Additional topics will include issues with Valkyrie and the importing process we are using with data from ContentDM.
Speaker: Adam Wead
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Building a Ruby GraphQL API: Awesome, Easy, Fast
We will present our use case for and development of a GraphQL API in Figgy, our Valkyrie-based digital collections management application. We'll give a brief summary of GraphQL itself, demo an in-broswer query tool called graphiql, and show how we used the graphql gem to quickly develop and deploy a GraphQL API endpoint.
Speakers: Anna Headley, Trey Pendragon
Suggested audience: Developers
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Building on Hyrax and Avalon for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
This presentation will provide an overview of the needs of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, challenges and successes of building a custom application based on Hyrax and Avalon, features developed both within the application and as re-usable components, and how to represent PBCore metadata in a Samvera application.
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), founded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is currently a joint venture between WGBH and the Library of Congress. It is a collection of digital audiovisual content created for public media distribution, requiring an adaptable technical infrastructure that can support close collaborations with organizations of varying technical and institutional capacity. The critical component for this is the Archival Management System (AMS), the entry point through which contributors’ descriptive, technical, and preservation metadata is ingested into the AAPB collection and where all metadata is managed and improved through cataloging by AAPB staff and interns.
With plans of moving to a new system, hopefully one with a more active opensource community around it, the AAPB determined that the best path forward was to build the tool on Avalon and within the Samvera community. In 2017, the AAPB was awarded a grant by the Mellon Foundation to do just this, and the AMS 2.0 development project began in December of 2017 and is slated for completion by the beginning of 2019. AAPB is working with AVP and Indiana University as part of the development team.
At the same time the project was starting, Avalon made the decision to move to Hyrax for Avalon 7. That changed the starting point and scope for the AMS 2.0 development plan, which is now to build a custom application on a Hyrax base creating features in tandem with the Avalon team.
Speakers: Sadie Roosa, Casey Davis-Kaufman, Jason Corum, Andrew Myers
Suggested audience: Metadata people, General audience
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Case Studies in Samvera Integration Approaches with OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer)
A discussion of different approaches to integrating the standard tools or approaches of a digital scholarship community (the OHMS tool developed by the Nunn Center at University of Kentucky) with existing Samvera digital repository management & publication systems developed by Indiana and Columbia Universities. Presentations will also touch on data serialization, APIs, and external/new developer teams as integration considerations.
Speakers: Benjamin Armintor, Jon Cameron,
Suggested audience: General audience
Time: 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Deployment with Elastic Container Service
At Stanford libraries we've run hundreds of virtual machines to support dozens of applications. We've found the cost and complexity of patching and maintaining these machines to be untenable. We believe that a serverless infrastructure is our future and so we are using AWS Fargate (Elastic Container Services) and Lambda architecture to reduce our maintenance burden. We will explain the AWS offerings in this space, explain how we can set up a simple distributed system, and point out pitfalls that we've experienced.
Speaker: Justin Coyne
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Digital Publishing and Samvera
This presentation will feature three perspectives on using Samvera technologies to support digital publishing initiatives: Jeremy Morse from the University of Michigan will present an update on new features in the Fulcrum platform for monographs, Sean Crowe will discuss how the digital repositories team is supporting the development of the University of Cincinnati Press, and Chris Diaz will share use cases for supporting non-traditional scholarly publications with an institutional repository.
Speakers: Chris Diaz, Jeremy Morse, Sean Crowe
Suggested audience: Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Distributed Usability Research Testing - Round 2
The Samvera User Experience Interest Group will discuss plans for an upcoming user test initiative for Hyrax.
Speaker: Nik Dragovic
Suggested audience: Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 1170 (1st)
Hyrax for Research Data Repository
Panelists from Duke University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan will share their experience of developing a Research Data Repository based on Hyrax 2. They will discuss what worked out-of-the-box, what was customized, future directions, lessons learned to date from working together, and contributing back to the Hyrax community. Institutions’ efforts include data migration, accessibility testing, branding, community outreach, curation workflows, and overcoming the challenges associated with large datasets.
Speakers: Nabeela Jaffer, Fritz Freiheit, Jon Dunn, Will Sexton, Moira Downey
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers, General audience
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Gould Auditorum (1st)
Implementing an archival A/V ingest workflow
A project description of adding our first A/V materials to Princeton's repository management software, Figgy. I'll briefly describe the project history, the collections in question, and project management strategies. Will demo the resulting ingest workflow.
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Avalon's Audiovisual Work Type: Incorporating Metadata Changes for Hyrax
Avalon has developed an audiovisual work type that will be available for use in Hyrax. This work type will keep all descriptive metadata fields currently available for Avalon and include the use of rightsstatements.org declarations. This presentation will discuss moving from a MODSXML-based work type to a RDF based work type and how that will impact other activities in Avalon such as batch ingest.
Speaker: Jen Young
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people
Time: 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Building a Better Repository: The Fedora API Specification and Implementations
Fedora, the flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for managing, preserving, and providing access to digital content, is a key component of most Samvera implementations. Fedora 4.x, the latest version of Fedora, has been in production since 2015, and since then the real-world experience of the community’s use cases has clarified Fedora’s role in supporting preservation and access in the context of large collections and performance at scale. This understanding led to an effort to formally specify the Fedora application programming interface (API) that provides a stable layer of abstraction between clients and repository instances. In this way, alternate back-end implementations suited for specific user cases can all expose the same core services to repository clients. This initiative will allow the Fedora project to adapt to technological change more easily over time while insulating clients from changes in the underlying implementation.
This presentation will provide an overview of the the API specification effort, including current status, motivations, and benefits, with a particular focus on the relevance to Samvera. A brief survey of alternate implementations will provide context for the different use cases that will be enabled by the specification. This will be of interest to current and future Fedora implementers looking for an update on the current status and technical roadmap of the project.
Speaker: David Wilcox
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, General audience
Time: 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Building a performant and accessible replacement for ContentDM using Valkyrie
A presentation about Penn State's new Valkyrie project that will replace ContentDM. I will discuss our progress thus far, with particular attention to accessibility and performance, two of the principle concerns in our development process. Additional topics will include issues with Valkyrie and the importing process we are using with data from ContentDM.
Speaker: Adam Wead
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Building a Ruby GraphQL API: Awesome, Easy, Fast
We will present our use case for and development of a GraphQL API in Figgy, our Valkyrie-based digital collections management application. We'll give a brief summary of GraphQL itself, demo an in-broswer query tool called graphiql, and show how we used the graphql gem to quickly develop and deploy a GraphQL API endpoint.
Speakers: Anna Headley, Trey Pendragon
Suggested audience: Developers
Time: 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Building on Hyrax and Avalon for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
This presentation will provide an overview of the needs of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, challenges and successes of building a custom application based on Hyrax and Avalon, features developed both within the application and as re-usable components, and how to represent PBCore metadata in a Samvera application.
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB), founded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, is currently a joint venture between WGBH and the Library of Congress. It is a collection of digital audiovisual content created for public media distribution, requiring an adaptable technical infrastructure that can support close collaborations with organizations of varying technical and institutional capacity. The critical component for this is the Archival Management System (AMS), the entry point through which contributors’ descriptive, technical, and preservation metadata is ingested into the AAPB collection and where all metadata is managed and improved through cataloging by AAPB staff and interns.
With plans of moving to a new system, hopefully one with a more active opensource community around it, the AAPB determined that the best path forward was to build the tool on Avalon and within the Samvera community. In 2017, the AAPB was awarded a grant by the Mellon Foundation to do just this, and the AMS 2.0 development project began in December of 2017 and is slated for completion by the beginning of 2019. AAPB is working with AVP and Indiana University as part of the development team.
At the same time the project was starting, Avalon made the decision to move to Hyrax for Avalon 7. That changed the starting point and scope for the AMS 2.0 development plan, which is now to build a custom application on a Hyrax base creating features in tandem with the Avalon team.
Speakers: Sadie Roosa, Casey Davis-Kaufman, Jason Corum, Andrew Myers
Suggested audience: Metadata people, General audience
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Case Studies in Samvera Integration Approaches with OHMS (Oral History Metadata Synchronizer)
A discussion of different approaches to integrating the standard tools or approaches of a digital scholarship community (the OHMS tool developed by the Nunn Center at University of Kentucky) with existing Samvera digital repository management & publication systems developed by Indiana and Columbia Universities. Presentations will also touch on data serialization, APIs, and external/new developer teams as integration considerations.
Speakers: Benjamin Armintor, Jon Cameron,
Suggested audience: General audience
Time: 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Deployment with Elastic Container Service
At Stanford libraries we've run hundreds of virtual machines to support dozens of applications. We've found the cost and complexity of patching and maintaining these machines to be untenable. We believe that a serverless infrastructure is our future and so we are using AWS Fargate (Elastic Container Services) and Lambda architecture to reduce our maintenance burden. We will explain the AWS offerings in this space, explain how we can set up a simple distributed system, and point out pitfalls that we've experienced.
Speaker: Justin Coyne
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Digital Publishing and Samvera
This presentation will feature three perspectives on using Samvera technologies to support digital publishing initiatives: Jeremy Morse from the University of Michigan will present an update on new features in the Fulcrum platform for monographs, Sean Crowe will discuss how the digital repositories team is supporting the development of the University of Cincinnati Press, and Chris Diaz will share use cases for supporting non-traditional scholarly publications with an institutional repository.
Speakers: Chris Diaz, Jeremy Morse, Sean Crowe
Suggested audience: Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 3:10 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: 1130 (1st)
Distributed Usability Research Testing - Round 2
The Samvera User Experience Interest Group will discuss plans for an upcoming user test initiative for Hyrax.
Speaker: Nik Dragovic
Suggested audience: Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people
Time: 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 1170 (1st)
Hyrax for Research Data Repository
Panelists from Duke University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan will share their experience of developing a Research Data Repository based on Hyrax 2. They will discuss what worked out-of-the-box, what was customized, future directions, lessons learned to date from working together, and contributing back to the Hyrax community. Institutions’ efforts include data migration, accessibility testing, branding, community outreach, curation workflows, and overcoming the challenges associated with large datasets.
Speakers: Nabeela Jaffer, Fritz Freiheit, Jon Dunn, Will Sexton, Moira Downey
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people, Archivists
Time: 11 2:10 AM 00 PM - 113:40 AM 00 PM
Room: 1150 Gould Auditorum (1st)
Lightning Talks
Lightning Talks of 5-7 minutes each will be going on all day Thursday in room 1715. To see the line up of speakers, or sign up to speak, visit the wiki page.
- Hyrax usage - Steve van Tuyl
- Sparkplug - Linda Sato
- What we get out of DLXS - John Weise
Speakers: Various
Suggested audience: Various
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Room: 1715
Implementing an archival A/V ingest workflow
A project description of adding our first A/V materials to Princeton's repository management software, Figgy. I'll briefly describe the project history, the collections in question, and project management strategies. Will demo the resulting ingest workflow.
Speaker: Anna Headley
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people, Archivists
Time: 11:10 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: 1150 (1st)
Making TACOs for Hydras
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UI JavaScript Component Architecture for Consistency and Reusability
An overview of modern front-end UI component architecture and patterns. Will showcase case studies in development and implementation decisions in Avalon Media System (platform: Hyrax/Webpacker/React) and Northwestern University's Digital Collections application (platform: React/Redux application built on top of Hyrax in AWS). Will make a case for why UI component architecture is important in community-driven, open-source development, how it can directly benefit the Samvera community moving forward.
Speaker: Adam Arling
Suggested audience: Developers, Managers, General audience, New or potential Samvera people
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