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Friday 23rd and Monday 26th - Thursday 29th October, 2020
All times below are US Eastern Daylight time
Contents
Table of Contents maxLevel 3 minLevel 3 style circle
Presentations Friday 23rd October
These Friday presentations would normally have taken place on the conference "plenary day" and are aimed at a general audience.
Follow this link for the full recording of the first day (approx. 3 hours 25 minutes).
Follow the links below for the slide packs (where provided) and a link to the appropriate part of the recording.
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11:20am Code of Conduct - Jessica Hilt - Link
This session will go over the Samvera Community Code of Conduct.
11:30am Keynote Address - Torsten Reimer, Head of Research Services, British Library, UK - Link
On the verge of success – or failure? Reflections on repositories and the wider library knowledge infrastructure (and a bit about Hyku).
With the breakthrough of the open science and research information management agenda repositories appear to have succeeded. Libraries, declared dead by some in a digital information environment, see their role now increasingly as provider of services for open research. Yet not all is as well as it seems. On the one hand, many institutions struggle to properly maintain their infrastructure and provide a good user experience. On the other hand, closed commercial services dazzle users but are a risk to transparency and openness. In this presentation I want to discuss some of the wider challenges I see for knowledge infrastructure services and talk about some relevant activities I am currently involved in – including the experiences of the British Library with using the Samvera-based Hyku solution for a shared repository service.
12:10pm - 12:20pm Break
12:20pm Welcome to Samvera's new Community Manager - Carolyn Caizzi and Heather Greer Klein - Link
Carolyn Caizzi was Chair of the Search Committee formed to appoint Samvera's new Community Manager. Carolyn will introduce Heather, the new CM, who will tell us a little about herself and her plans in the new job.
12:30pm The State of the Samvera Community - Rosalyn Metz, Chair Samvera Steering Group - Link
The annual roundup of all that has happened and our exciting prospects for the next few years from Rosalyn Metz, Chair of the Samvera Steering Group.
12:50pm Work on Hyrax, an update - Juliet Hardesty, incoming Product Owner - Link
Update on recent and coming work for the Hyrax repository-building engine.
1:10pm - 1:20pm Break
1:20pm Work on Valkyrie, an update - Trey Pendragon, Technical Lead - Link
Update on recent and coming work for the Valkyrie gem.
1:40pm Work on Avalon, an update - Jon Cameron, Product Owner, Avalon Media System - Link
Update on recent and coming work for the Avalon solution bundle
2:00pm Work on Hyku, an update - Kevin Kochanski (Chair Hyku Interest Group) - Link
Update on recent and coming work for the Hyku solution bundle
2:20pm Close
Presentations Monday 26th - Thursday 29th October 11:00am - 2:30pm ET
Timetable
Full day recordings - links to individual presentations are to be found with their descriptions below
- Monday 10/26 full day recording
- Tuesday 10/27 full day recording
- Wednesday 10/28 full day recording
- Thursday 10/29 full day recording
Individual sessions
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A Samvera internship: New to coding, new to the Community - Link
Kevin Kochanski, Kiah Stroud, April Rieger, Jeremy Gabriel, Ruben Ramirez | Thursday 29th October 11:00am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, newcomers
What is it like to dive headlong into Samvera from the outside? Notch8 assigned three interns to work on the Bulkrax community gem in 2020. They were not only new to Samvera, they were brand new developers in training. This talk will address the success of using interns on a Samvera project, the hurdles of taking on Samvera development, and the challenge of understanding the community concepts. You'll have an opportunity to ask these incredible interns about their experiences as they do a brief demo of their work.
All the roads to Figgy: A tour of ingest workflows - Link
Anna Headley, Trey Pendragon | Tuesday 27th October 1:20pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, managers (repository)
Figgy is Princeton University Library’s staff-facing repository management application. This presentation will share screenshots, user stories, and technical overviews of all the forms, magic buttons, storage integrations, drag-and-drop targets, rake tasks, and directory watchers that Figgy provides to support the different workflows our users have for ingesting content.
Building a GLAM ecosystem: Human and machine collaborations for digitized collections - Link
Abigail E Shelton, Rob Fox | Monday 26th October 12:10pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, managers (general), metadata people, UI/UX people
The University of Notre Dame has taken a modular approach to building a new digital collections platform-integrating existing applications and connecting the people that manage and use them across the library, archives, and art museum. We began with two assumptions: one size would not fit all for our campus archives, library, and museum; and community needs above all. In this presentation, team members will talk about the past two years of experimentation, development, and conversation around how to connect our community to our cultural heritage collections through multiple integrations, both human and technological. At a high-level, we’ll discuss our technical architecture that uses legacy applications like ArchivesSpace, an aging Fedora repository, and a decades-old museum database together with the IIIF framework and open-source GatsbyJS. And perhaps more importantly, we’ll outline the cross-departmental team structure that has developers talking to museum curators, library cataloguers, archivists, and everyone in between.
Case study: Batch update - A user driven approach: What we talk about when we talk about design thinking - Link
Karen Shaw, Adam Arling | Monday 26th October 11:00am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, managers (general), metadata people, newcomers, UI/UX people
Over the past year, NUL dev team has implemented and refined a workflow for modular development of repository applications. It starts with addressing a specific user need or problem. Using design-thinking techniques, we next generate visual solutions through rudimentary wire framing, white boarding sessions and architecture discussions. We then move to API design and mocking before starting development with two teams working independently, from the API, outwards.
This presentation will demonstrate the iterative approach in action; using a recent major batch update feature as a case study. We’ll explore how our approach allowed us to stay connected to our users and helped keep our development team in sync. Finally, we’ll reflect on what we’ve found most successful in this approach as well as stumbling blocks we encountered along the way.
Cloud Storage Service Uploads for a Valkyrie Repository - Link
James Griffin | Monday 26th October 1:20pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, UI/UX people
This presentation aims to outline and discuss attempts throughout 2019 and 2020 to integrate an early pre-release of the BrowseEverything 2.0 component for supporting Google Drive file uploads into a Samvera repository. While this shall be restricted in scope for cases which were specific to the Princeton University Library and a Valkyrie-based repository Figgy, the hope is to encourage discussions regarding obstacles which were encountered and to aim to generalize the solutions which were discovered in this integration.
Dear Valkyrie, do I have to die to enter Hyrax-halla? A journey to valkyrizing our Hyrax models - Link
E Lynette Rayle | Thursday 29th October 11:30am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, managers (repository)
I will talk about the process I went through (and possibly am continuing to go through) to convert our Hyrax application’s ActiveFedora::Base object models to Valkyrie::Resource models. This will include information on the major changes that were made, descriptions of gotchas and workarounds, and a look at how close we are to being able to use any Valkyrie storage adapter. I’m hoping to include benchmark data as well to compare the various adapters.
Extending preservation functionality in Hyrax 3, Fedora 4, and AWS - Link
Emily Porter, Devanshu Matlawala | Thursday 29th October 1:20pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, managers (general), managers (repository), metadata people
The Emory Libraries implemented a second-generation preservation infrastructure in 2019 utilizing Hyrax 3, Fedora 4 and AWS, following a requirements gathering phase that included developing a preservation policy and a review of preservation community best practices. This presentation describes our solution design including locally-defined entities such as preservation workflows and events and FileSet expansion to support derivative files. We will also address implementation lessons learned while leveraging existing Samvera functionality and building new features to bridge gaps between existing framework components.
Hyraxes make their homes among the clouds - Link
Tom Johnson | Tuesday 27th October 11:30am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, devops, managers (repository), sysadmins
I know what you're asking: "what are we going to do about the cloud?" If only we had some kind of animal, recently retrofitted with Wings, that could live up there natively. Fear not: Hyraxes do that.
This presentation tackles the what, why, and how of cloud native Samvera. What is the community doing and what are solution bundles supporting? Why should you be interested? Why should you contribute? How can you (yes, i'm looking at you developers, operations folks, repository managers, bosses) benefit? How can your repository make its home among the clouds?
Meadow: An introduction to Northwestern University's new digital repository application built with Elixir, React, and GraphQL in the middle - Link
Brendan Quinn | Monday 26th October 11:30am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, managers (general), managers (repository), metadata people, newcomers, UI/UX people
Northwestern University Libraries has been building a "green field" digital repository application since June 2019, code-named "Meadow". Our goal in building Meadow is to provide an internal tool to ingest, modify and publish digital resources to an API that drives our user-facing digital collections frontend. Meadow's development roadmap has focused on complementing NUL's existing production workflows and implementing best practices in digital preservation in a cloud-based environment. Meadow is built with a several languages, tools, and frameworks including: Elixir, Phoenix, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Amazon Web Services, Docker and Terraform. This presentation will focus on describing why we chose this path and the decisions and tradeoffs we've made along the way, along with a brief demonstration of our current state.
Mono - the kissing repository - Link
Tom Johnson, Matt Critchlow | Tuesday 27th October 12:40pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following group: developers
This talk will outline the Surfliner code base, describe the GitLab monolithic source repository, and discuss the reasons behind choosing this model of source control management. It will include background on the systems and workflows used by the UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara teams that make managing and working productively with a single repository feasible, in addition to a psychomachia-style discussion of the advantages and trade-offs of this approach.
Samvera tech 101 - Link
Alisha Evans, Shana Moore | Tuesday 27th October 11:00am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation which is suited to all audience groups.
New to Samvera? Welcome! We understand how steep the learning curve may seem when getting started.
Samvera 101 is an introductory presentation that will cover fundamental principles with a sampling of common topics and definitions used within the Samvera stack and community.
Framework topics include discussions around: Rails, Sidekiq, Data Stores, Fedora, Solr, Blacklight, etc. While application level topics include discussions around: Avalon, Hyrax, Hyku, etc.
Like a prerequisite class, this talk is designed to prepare developers and community members for success! Attendees will leave having a greater understanding of Samvera's components and how they come together to create a Samvera application.
serverless-iiif: From flail to scale in a year or less - Link
Michael B Klein, Trey Pendragon, Edward Silverton | Tuesday 27th October 12:10pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, devops, managers (general), sysadmins
After trying to navigate deployment, configuration, performance, and scaling issues of several different image servers and support infrastructure (Cantaloupe, Aware, Riiif, nginx, and SquidCache, to name a few), we decided to see if we could build something less general/configurable but far more suited to our use case and runtime environment.
serverless-iiif started out as a bare bones, proof-of-concept demonstration of how a scalable, high-performance IIIF image server could be implemented in a small, inexpensive AWS Lambda function. Just over a year later, the project serves as the basis for high-volume IIIF services running in production at Northwestern University, Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, and the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Brighton & Hove. This presentation will cover the project from its beginnings (as a small demo repository carved out of Northwestern's cloud repository infrastructure), through a number of forks, merges, performance enhancements, deployment improvements, and into production. We will also include performance benchmarks, current production stats, and some thoughts on future work.
Shifting gears: What do digital projects look like when you can't digitize anything? - Link
Esmé Cowles, Kim Leaman | Monday 26th October 12:40pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, managers (repository), metadata people
Princeton University Library’s digital projects and initiatives were seriously disrupted by COVID-19. Digitization of materials for projects and forthcoming exhibitions came to an unexpected halt at the same time as patrons and staff were separated from physical objects and library spaces. Necessity, however, provided an opportunity to reassess digital projects and how staff members interact with and contribute to our repository (Figgy). We focused on the creation of workflows and documentation for new contributors who would be working in the repository, helping them enhance existing digital objects with OCR, item level organization, structural metadata, page labeling, and IIIF display attributes.
We describe how we were able to use Figgy and unexpectedly-available staff time to make more effective research tools and provide a better user experience for patrons and staff working with our digital collections. Such enhancements add immense value to our collections as well as to our applications, and the work can be done effectively by a wide range of staff from different departments with variable skill sets.
Supporting collaboration in Hyku: Workflows, tools, and design - Link
Gretchen Gueguen, Amanda Hurford | Wednesday 28th October 12:10pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, managers (general), managers (repository), metadata people, newcomers, UI/UX people
Collaboration is more than just sharing costs, and the PALCI and PALNI consortia are pushing that idea into our repository management. We want to create the flexibility for both IR workflows and more “traditional” library-owned content within the same instance of Hyku. We also want to enable libraries to collaborate and share work, not just with their consortial partners, but also among their own departments across campus. To us, this means enhancing the ability to manage user and tenant settings to enable different workflows.
By working with a number of libraries testing out the Hyku multi-tenant option, we realized that a robust dashboard for user/role assignment and the expansion of a few more roles would enable us to manage these flexible workflow options. PALNI and PALCI are working with Notch 8 to enhance the underlying “role” and “group” functionality in Hyku and develop a new administrative dashboard to control permissions across multiple tenants. We will also be expanding role and group functions within tenant management.
This presentation will discuss how we researched and developed our requirements as well as the plan and progress to date.
SWORDv3: Deposit protocol, from draft to reference implementation - Link
Richard Jones, Neil Jefferies | Thursday 29th October 12:40pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, devops, managers (repository), metadata people, sysadmins
Between 2018 and 2019, Jisc funded an effort to refresh the SWORD repository deposit protocol, with modern repository use cases in mind, especially around data repositories. As a result we produced a draft specification, extensively reviewed by a large number of the repositories community, including those from the Samvera and Fedora communities. In 2019, NII provided funding to produce a reference implementation, and we have been working to prove that the specification is implementable and viable. That work concluded in July 2020 with the release of a client library and a server library in Python. Now the SWORDv3 team is looking outward to the rest of the repositories community, looking to engage them in development for their platforms, and to enable novel integrations.
This presentation will introduce the spec for those that are not familiar, and describe the technical and community-building work that is ongoing, and call for engagement by the Samvera technical community in working with SWORDv3.
https://swordapp.github.io/swordv3/swordv3.html
Ubiquity repositories architecture: Highly scalable Hyku in the cloud - Link
Francesco De Virgilio, Chris Colvard | Thursday 29th October 12:10pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: developers, devops, sysadmins
Ubiquity repositories, which are based on Hyku, are designed to be highly scalable, highly reliable and quick to deploy in the cloud. In this presentation we will outline the technical architecture we have implemented, along with the challenges faced. These include scalability, security, cost-efficiency, performance, reliability, resilience, portability, delivery pipelines for code deployment, error reporting, testing and localization. We will also discuss our approach ensuring we remain on the most recent stable branch of the platform and contributing our code back to the community.
What’s in a name?: The Samvera Branch Renaming Working Group in action - Link
Kate Lynch, Lynette Rayle, Chris Colvard, Collin Brittle, Alexandra Dunn, Jeremy Friesen | Wednesday 28th October 1:20pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, devops, managers (general), newcomers, sysadmins
The Samvera Branch Renaming Working Group formed in August 2020 to create a recommendation, plan, and timeline for our community to stop using long-practiced "master/slave" coding jargon that perpetuates racist systems and language, and instead embrace and implement positive change, leading by example. This presentation will detail the work of this group; the guiding morals and philosophy for undertaking this work, where and why we prioritized change while some communities are left uncertain how to proceed with similar work, the challenges we have discovered along the way, our immediate future plans, and the forward-to-better model that we hope this group’s deliverables put forth for the Samvera Community and others in the Open Source world.
What to do when your repository enters middle age - Link
Mikala Narlock, Dan Brower | Wednesday 28th October 12:40pm
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following group: managers (repository)
Our Samvera-based institutional repository is nearing eight years old, and one can safely say it is middle aged-- and with middle age comes a mid-life crisis. Over the course of the past year, the current product owners have examined the role and vision of the repository and embraced the role of maintainers, advocating for critical external needs. Balancing the technical needs and costs of an aging system while providing new services to meet user needs with a limited technical staff has required being realistic about both available resources and institutional priorities. In this talk, we will discuss our experiences, our methods for refining the focus of a large project, focusing developer work to yield maximum payoffs, and centering the repository to be more useful to the campus community by meeting users where they are.
Why Hyku? A use case panel - Link
Kevin Kochanski, Amanda Hurford, Brian Hole, Gretchen Gueguen, Sara Gould | Wednesday 28th October 11:00am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, managers (general), managers (repository), metadata people, newcomers
Key voices from the Hyku community, including the British Library, Notch8, PALCI, PALNI, and Ubiquity Press, will discuss their perspective on what makes Hyku the solution for various use cases. This will not be a list of project updates, but instead be a dialogue about what makes Hyku a versatile platform and why it was chosen for our projects. Hyku users and potential adopters will benefit from the opportunity to ask questions and come away with a greater understanding of this continually evolving repository platform.
Your vote matters! Community input for Advancing Hyku feature prioritization - Link
Ilkay Holt, Ellen Ramsey, Brian Hole | Wednesday 28th October 11:30am
Everyone is welcome at this presentation but it may be particularly suited to those in the following groups: administrators, developers, managers (general), managers (repository), metadata people, UI/UX people
Advancing Hyku Project aims to support the growth of open access through institutional repositories by introducing significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community’s Hyku Institutional Repository. Features include full metrics and altmetrics, ORCiD profile sync, auto-population, in-browser viewing and annotation, and pathways to long-term preservation. The project partners are University of Virginia Library, Ubiquity Press and the British Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The project began October 2019 and is scheduled to conclude by August 2021.
This presentation will provide an update on the project which is coming to an end of its first year. Presenters will introduce the developments made so far, architectural review for structural improvements for the Hyku framework, collaborations to strengthen the project deliverables and the forthcoming plans for the coming year. The session also aims to receive feedback from the audience on the set of priorities within the project. This will kick off a wider community input opportunity following the event to leverage the outcome of the project. See https://advancinghyku.io/
Lightning talks
Lightning talks are seven minutes long. The links below give you access to the slide deck and video recording for each talk.
Tuesday 27th October 1:50pm
Hands-on With New Avalon Media System Developments | Jon Cameron - Link
A quick demo of the latest features and changes in Avalon Media System, showcasing developments across the application: UI, Structural Metadata Editor, Encode Settings and more.
Metadata Mess: Managing Errors in Vendor-Supplied Metadata | Rebekah Kati, Anna Goslen - Link
In May 2018, UNC Libraries purchased a report from 1Science which listed 47,000 articles authored by UNC researchers. Although the vendor characterized the report as an out-of-the-box tool designed to fill an institutional repository, we found that it would take significant work to make it usable for UNC’s Hyrax-based institutional repository, the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). In this presentation, we will discuss the issues that we identified, including scripting errors, inconsistent metadata and rights concerns. We will describe the plans and processes to fix these issues and to adapt the metadata for our repository. Additionally, we will address best practices for uploads and future plans.
Introducing the Controlled Vocabularies Decision Tree | Juliet Hardesty - Link
The Controlled Vocabulary (CV) Decision Tree is meant to provide guidance for selecting and using controlled vocabularies behind descriptive metadata fields. This guidance is useful within Hyrax and other software incorporating metadata fields that could benefit from controlled terms for consistency and accuracy. We will share the decision tree for selecting and modifying controlled vocabularies and the accompanying list of controlled vocabularies that we hope to collaboratively grow.
Staying Informed by Questioning COVID Authority | E Lynette Rayle - Link
How I used the Samvera Questioning Authority gem to create an app that shows graphs of our surrounding county COVID data?
Fedora 6.0: Impacts and Opportunities for the Samvera Community | David Wilcox - Link
The Fedora community has been making steady progress on Fedora 6.0, with a beta release anticipated in 2020 and a full release in early 2021. This new version of Fedora introduces a number of benefits and improvements that will be of interest to the Samvera community, including enhanced digital preservation capabilities via the Oxford Common File Layout and performance improvements that address specific issues identified by community members. This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of the Fedora 6.0 features and improvements that will be of most interest to the Samvera community, along with an update on development progress to date.
Wednesday 28th October 1:50pm
Ye Olde Tech Call | Jeremy Friesen - Link
A quick introduction to the Samvera Tech call to address what is it, who is it for, and how can I engage.
"Authoritex": Authority Alchemy in Elixir | Karen Shaw - Link
Heavily inspired by QA, "Authoritex" is a Hex package for querying any controlled vocabulary or set of authority terms that NUL developed for use within our Elixir ecosystem. We'll go through quick overview of Authoritex and how it fits into our repository ingest application "Meadow" and our broader strategy for handling controlled terms and authorities.
Work on Bulkrax, an update | Kiah Stroud - Link
Update on recent and coming work for the Bulkrax gem.
DOIng more with Hyrax | Chris Colvard - Link
Hyrax-doi is a new Hyrax plugin that provides tooling for working with DOIs including model attributes, minting, and fetching descriptive metadata. This presentation will give a quick tour of the features and how to use it in hopes of sparking conversation about how to improve it and its integration with Hyrax. This is part of the Advancing Hyku project's work on extracting and contributing back features from Ubiquity Press' Repositories platform originally developed for the British Library.
Working Group and Interest Group updates
WG/IG updates are five minutes long.
Monday 26th October 1:50pm
- Marketing Working Group | Chris Awre
- UX Interest Group | Adam Arling
- Metadata Interest Group | Anna Goslen
- Controlled Vocabulary Decision Tree Working Group | Juliet Hardesty
- Hyrax 3.0 Metadata Application Profile Documentation Working Group | Nora Egloff
- Repository Managers' Interest Group | Moira Downey
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Community Building (aka Social) events
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Slides can be found in the Samvera Community Repository, and recordings can be viewed on the Samvera Connect 2021 playlist.
Day 1 - Monday, October 18, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) |
11:10am - 11:30am | The New Samvera Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment policy | A review of the Samvera Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment policy. | Hannah Frost (Stanford University Libraries) |
11:30am - 11:50am | State of the Samvera Community | Our annual roundup of all that has happened in the Community this year and where we're headed next. | Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern University Libraries) |
11:50am - 12:00pm | Break | ||
12:00pm - 12:30pm | Academic Equity through Trauma-Informed Practices: Making Repositories Sustainable for Researchers with Lived Experience | Across the humanities and social sciences, impacted communities have criticized researchers for producing literature that reinscribes stereotypes, myths, and misinformation through academic practices that view marginalized communities as inherently outside of academia. There has been movement in recent years to course-correct through centering the scholarship of people with lived experience, and yet many of the systems researchers rely on remain unchanged -- systems that were not created to support the scholarship of impacted people. People from marginalized communities have higher statistical rates of trauma, making trauma-informed practices across academia an issue of equity and sustainability. Institutions that do not prioritize trauma-informed practice will not be able to recruit, educate, or retain students and researchers who have lived experience. Libraries form a part of these structures that can either further alienate already marginalized researchers, or facilitate their work. Metadata librarians are already working on projects such as updating subject headings and using conscious editing to update descriptions. In order to continue to foster scholarship that is meaningful and relevant, digital repositories can build on and extend this work to make the materials they contain more accessible to researchers from impacted communities through trauma-informed equity practices. | Max Kadel (Data Curation Experts) and Chris Ash (Independent Consultant) |
12:30pm - 1:00pm | What are Samvera Design Principles? | The UX Interest Group will present on new Samvera Design Principles, which have been developed this past year with input from various application stakeholders. These principles are intended to support developers, administrators and end users during product design, development and evaluation of current applications. The group will also discuss next steps in adoption and how you can get involved. | Adam J. Arling (Northwestern University) and Carla Arton (University of Virginia Library) |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | Updates from the Component Maintenance Working Group; Marketing Working Group; Repository Management Interest Group; and UX Interest Group. | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera), |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break | ||
1:30pm - 2:00pm | Story Mapping to align and prioritize your team’s feature development | Story mapping is a great way to engage teams to align and prioritize the features they want to build or enhance. During a story mapping exercise the team goes through the process of brainstorming and documenting the many possible user stories associated with a feature or set of features. With the focus on business and user value, each story is then prioritized to ensure the team builds the right things - at the right time - and for the right reasons. Team members gain perspective and shared context while working in both the problem and solution spaces. In this session, we’ll walk through a story mapping exercise using Miro, one of our favorite virtual whiteboarding and visual collaboration tools. | Rachel Lynn |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | Lightning Talks Author Profile Synching with ORCID in Hyku Doxxing: Prevention and Recovery IIIF React Media Player: A Component Library | We would like to play a short demo of the integration between the Author profile (in Hyku) and ORCID we developed as part of the Advancing Hyku project. The integration allows repository depositors and authors to establish and control synchronization of works between the repository and ORCID. Based on the chosen settings within the author profile (always synch, ask before manually synching individual works, do not synch), when a work is deposited using the ORCID metadata field all relevant creators can have their ORCID account updated with that work. Conversely, the Author profile in Hyku can be updated, depending on the chosen settings, with info and work DOIs available in ORCID. Doxxing is a particularly nasty form of online abuse where someone's personal information is shared on the Internet without their permission, often in a way calculated to hurt a person's career, relationships, and self-image. Doxxing happens most often to people with marginalized identities (race, gender, sexuality, etc). This talk will discuss some of the ways to protect yourself, and even more importantly, some of the ways that institutions and communities can offer protection, so that targeted colleagues can more fully participate in online culture. IIIF React media player is a component library, which can be integrated into an application via NPM. It consumes a 3.0 presentation manifest and renders a media player, a structured navigation component, and a transcript component. The latest addition is the transcript component, which can render a set of transcript data alongside the media player. | Elisa Pettinelli Barrett (Ubiquity Press) Bess Sadler (Princeton University Library) Dananji Withana (Indiana University Libraries) |
Day 2 - Tuesday, October 19, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Ilkay Holt (The British Library) |
11:10am - 12:10pm | Technology Updates: Avalon, Hyrax, Hyku, Valkyrie | Jon Cameron (Indiana University) Julie Hardesty (Indiana University) Kevin Kochanski Trey Pendragon | |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break | ||
12:20pm - 1:00pm | Hyku Projects Panel: In the Community and In the Wild | Join leads from Hyku projects in various stages (active implementation, nearing launch, and ramping up) for a lively session. We will start with brief updates on work done this past year across our projects on prioritizing community features. Included will be discussion about what works in local installations, what works (and doesn’t) when contributing code back to the community core, and how we collaborate across projects in formal (shared Hyku Roadmap, meetings, documentation) and informal (Slack, email, telepathy?!?) ways. We will end the panel with an open call for community input on future community Hyku development priorities. | Ellen Catz Ramsey (University of Virginia) Ilkay Holt (The British Library) Jenny Basford (The British Library) Sara Gould (The British Library) Amanda Hurford (PALNI) |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | Updates from the Roadmaps Alignment Group; Metadata Interest Group; and Branch Renaming Working Group. | Jen Young (Northwestern University Libraries) Kate Lynch (Princeton University Library) Nora Zimmerman (Lafayette College) |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break | ||
1:30pm - 2:00pm | Chugging Along - Surfliner 3 years later | The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library is still going strong. Find out what’s changed after sharing resources and product development goals over the last year. What needs more work, where are we finding our strengths, and how haven’t we run out of train puns yet? The two campus project leads will walk you through sharing teams and having a stakeholder base that is across two campuses! If you’re looking to learn how to collaborate with another university, this is the session for you. | Chrissy Rissmeyer Jessica Hilt |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | At the Station: Building the Surfliner Architecture | The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library (called Project Surfliner, after the train that connects the two cities) to share development teams to work on a common digital library platform is going strong after almost three years. Building from Samvera core components and taking a radically iterative, requirements driven approach, our team has slowly articulated a new architecture. This talk will focus on how our services fit together and how we've made our choices so far. Particular attention will be paid to how our collaborative practices and commitment to cross campus deployment have influenced our technical direction. | Alexandra Dunn (UCSB Library) Tamsin Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara) Matt Critchlow |
2:40pm - 3:15pm | Poster Q&A: Avalon IIIF Player Transcript Support | Join us for a discussion around Avalon and transcript handling using our Avalon IIIF Player. Anyone interested in discussing the player, streaming media or IIIF more generally is welcome to join. | Jon Cameron Dananji Withana |
Day 3 - Wednesday, October 20, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Kevin Kochanski |
11:10am - 11:40am | Tuning IIIF Image Performance in Hyrax and Cantaloupe | It's pretty easy to get Hyrax up and running with Cantaloupe as your IIIF server. However, using both applications’ default configurations typically results in really disappointing image load times for anything but the simplest and smallest images. DCE has helped a number of clients tune their implementations based on specific local constraints and infrastructure. Based on this work, we wanted to find some patterns that would be reusable in future projects. We recently invested two internal sprints toward figuring out the most impactful changes that could be made to the default configurations in the two applications. In this talk, we’ll walk through a number of experiments we ran, and highlight which yielded improved performance for initial image loading, as well as which improved interactive viewing including paging, panning, and zooming. | Mark Bussey |
11:40am - 12:10pm | Final Draft: A Tour of the New Hyrax Analytics Features | Join the team behind the new Hyrax Analytics features for a sneak peek at the nearly-final interface for the analytics dashboard for collections and works, as well new reporting functionality! We'll show you exports, show pages, and graphs galore for Google Analytics and open source provider Matomo. | April Rieger (Notch8) Sara Gharacheh (Notch8) Franny Gaede Margaret Mellinger (Oregon State University & Pres) |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break | ||
12:20pm - 1:00pm | Hyrax Maintenance Working Group Storytime | Join current and former members of the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group as we share stories and successes and other things that have happened while participating in this ever-present but sometimes invisible working group. How has it changed over the years and what are we up to these days? What is it like to participate in a working group sprint? Do you have to be a developer to be part of the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group? A lot, it’s great, and no are the short answers - join us and we’ll tell you all about it! | Jessica Hilt Jose Blanco Daniel Pierce Rebekah Kati (University of North Carolina) Dananji Withana |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | Updates from the Hyrax Developer Support and Engagement Working Group; Hyrax Interest Group; and Hyrax Maintenance Working Group. | Julie Hardesty Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break | ||
1:30pm - 2:00pm | Bulkrax: Getting Data In and Out of Repositories | Import and Export are vital parts of our repositories. Getting data in can be time consuming and error prone and getting it back out again is often left as a future activity. Bulkrax provides a framework to quickly and easily build import and export in various formats. We'll go over the basics of using Bulkrax and talk briefly about what goes in to setting up a new format, then touch on future plans. | Rob Kaufman (Notch8) |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | All Aboard for Fedora 6.0: Release, Updates & The Road Ahead | Our presentation will focus on the latest version of Fedora, Fedora 6.0, how we got there, and specific areas of interest for those in the Samvera Community. We will highlight the most important features available in 6.0 and share migration progress reports and successes from community members. Much of the work done was supported by an IMLS grant-funded project to pilot upgrades to Fedora 6.0 and create a toolkit for others in the community to use in their efforts to adopt and migrate to the latest version of the software and we will share the Grant progress and what this means for Fedora 6.0 users. We will also talk about our plans for the future of the Fedora program and how we plan to utilize community input to focus our efforts. | Daniel Bernstein Arran Griffith (LYRASIS) |
Day 4 - Thursday, October 21, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Rick Johnson |
11:10am - 11:40am | serverless-iiif: Putting the SAM in Samvera | serverless-iiif started as a small proof of concept and has since grown to be a reliable, fast, streamlined, and cost-effective way to serve IIIF resources at scale. This presentation will discuss the transition of serverless-iiif from a bespoke Northwestern project to a Samvera Labs project with multiple contributors. It will also cover work towards flexibility and ease of install as well as future plans for the project. | Michael B. Klein (Northwestern University) |
11:40am - 12:10pm | The Long and Winding Road: Transitioning from IIIF Presentation 2.0 to 3.0 | Recently our dev team began the process of generating IIIF Presentation 3.0 Manifests to represent digitized Collection items. An ongoing discussion throughout the years of how, when and why to plunge into IIIF Presentation 3.0 took a turn towards action within the past month. During project planning for new, NPM delivered repository UI multimedia features, we reasoned building from a defined spec (IIIF manifest structure), saved UI developers from attempting to define ad hoc APIs specific to Northwestern Libraries needs. This presentation will tell our story (which many of you may share?) of why our team decided against generating 3.0 IIIF manifests in the past, what changed our minds, and our very recent initial steps and processes put in place moving from IIIF Presentation 2.0 to 3.0. By no means a right way necessarily, just our experiences we strive to learn from week to week, shared with anyone interested or encountering a similar scenario. | Karen Shaw Adam J. Arling Mat Jordan |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break | ||
12:20pm - 12:50pm | How to set your developers up for success (and grow your team in the process) | My team has a long time strategy of hiring less experienced developers from unique backgrounds and successfully growing these developers for long term success. We have been evolving our approach over time, and this talk is about the strategies that we are using now. After this session, you will come away with a strategy to open your hiring to a wider variety of developers and grow them into confident and dedicated senior developers. | Lea Ann Bradford (Notch8) |
12:50pm - 1:00pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | An invitation to form a new Developer Onboarding Working Group. | Maria Whitaker (Indiana University) |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Lightning Talks Security, Monitoring, and Auditing Hyrax App Reflections on our First Year with a Community Manager | The purpose of this lightning talk is to share some of the tools and strategies we use to secure (Rapid7/Brakeman), monitor (AWS Cloudwatch/X-Ray), and audit (bundler-audit) our Hyrax application. It will also include a brief survey and explanation of our change management policies here at the University of Cincinnati, then ending with a possible discussion around Security and Accessibility in our Samvera community. The conference marks my first year as Samvera Community Manager, and my interview presentation for the position asked me to describe what I hoped to accomplish in my first year in the role. I'll revisit that presentation to reflect on the past year and look to what I hope to help the Community accomplish in the next 12 months. | |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break | ||
1:30pm - 2:00pm | Integrating undergraduate students into a development team | We will present the process we’ve implemented at Princeton University Library to bring undergraduate students onto our team as fully-contributing, issue-closing developers. Hear from one full-time developer and 3 part-time (undergraduate) developers about the origin of this project and how we’ve done hiring, training, mentoring, and onboarding. | Eliot Jordan
Thanya Begum Anna Headley |
Day 5 - Friday, October 22, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) |
11:10am - 12:10pm | Keynote: Digital Archiving-in-Process as Reparative Practice | Why archive in real time? Digital objects are highly ephemeral, subject to changes to platform technologies, creator resources and physical infrastructure (hard drives, computers, servers, etc.). Many view native-digital objects as disposable, given the immense volume produced and "amateur" or low-budget production value. Yet digital technologies have also expanded who gets to tell stories and the diversity of stories we see. Preserving these artifacts are critical to our understanding of rapidly shifting and expanding cultural discourses in the 21st century. Digital archiving-in-process offers opportunities for community engagement and restorative justice in media and culture. By engaging artists in creating and distributing digital artifacts, we can support the training and development of communities that have been historically excluded from existing archives due to the marginalization in cultural systems. Positioning the OTV | Open Television platform as a living digital archive through its support of the development and distribution of low-budget film, television and video showcasing intersectionality, I show the value of expanding archival practice to include the active creation of new work and preservation of digital objects as they are made. This practice repairs the historical exclusion of cultural productions by artists marginalized because of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability and citizenship status. | Aymar Jean Christian |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break | ||
12:20pm - 12:50pm | Meeting Collaborators Wherever They Are: Figgy’s role in democratizing access and facilitating global contributions to Ephemera Collections at Princeton University Library | The development of Princeton University Library’s digital repository (Figgy) and the associated workflows for item-level description of the Latin American Ephemera Collection lay the foundation for a growing number of geographically and linguistically diverse digital ephemera collections at PUL. With the addition of each new collection, comes new questions and use cases that drive how PUL prioritizes enhancements for Figgy. User needs for one particular area - South Asia - introduced new and exciting use cases that guided both repository feature enhancements and innovative new workflows to support collaborators overseas and the description needs for the ephemera materials that they contributed to the repository. | Ellen Ambrosone Kim Leaman |
12:50pm - 1:20pm | Background Jobs - Sidekiq Pro & You | We'll step through a few use cases for why you might be using background jobs, some common pitfalls and patterns, and how Princeton's begun to solve them by using features available in Sidekiq Pro. | Trey Pendragon |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break | ||
1:30pm - 2:30pm | Lightning Talks Jen Young -- Changing the subject: thinking globally, acting locally Andrew Myers -- Hyrax Developer Support & Engagement w/ Plugins ames Halliday, Adam Ploshay, and Daniel Pierce -- Collections at IU: AllinsonFlex, Bulkrax and digital workflows James Griffin -- Ouranos: Automating Deployment with Capistrano Brendan Quinn -- Using mocks to test external dependencies in an Elixir application Chris Colvard -- Pulling weeds and plating seeds: tending the Samvera ecosystem through pull requests | Changing the subject: thinking globally, acting locally Hyrax Developer Support & Engagement w/ Plugins Collections at IU: AllinsonFlex, Bulkrax and digital workflows Ouranos: Automating Deployment with Capistrano Using mocks to test external dependencies in an Elixir application Pulling weeds and plating seeds: tending the Samvera ecosystem through pull requests | Daniel Pierce James Halliday
Andrew Myers James Griffin Chris Colvard |