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Registration for Workshops is now Open - Register Here!
Jump to: Morning Sessions - Afternoon Sessions
Workshops will be held on Tuesday October 9, 2018. Information below is subject to change. All workshops are half-day sessions.
Workshop registration is now part of Samvera Connect conference registration. (link to registration when open)
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Experience: Some scripting experience; Some experience with containerization.
Room: TBD
Half Day Sessions
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1120
Morning
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Sessions (9AM-12PM)
1) Rails Testing Featuring RailsBridge
Description: Increase the stability of your Rails app by learning about tests: what they are, why they're used, and how to use them! Goals (from RailsBridge):
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Audience: Developers
Equipment: Development environment.Personal Laptop (with development environment)
- Items to install: http://docsinstallfest.railsbridge.org/installfest/
- Jumpstart code and answers: https://github.com/cam156/rails_bridge_samvera_2018/blob/master/README.md
Room: 1009
2) Managing Samvera-based Projects and Services
Description: This hands-on workshop will cover tools and techniques to help managers keeping in sync with community development efforts while managing the user expectations and needs. We will cover the dynamics of dedicating responsibilities at the institution and the community level.
Presenter(s): Nabeela Jaffer Hannah Frost Steve Van Tuyl
Audience: Managers, Repository Managers
Equipment: N/A
Room: 1110
3) Keeping your Samvera application up to date
Description: This workshop will discuss upgrade strategies, workflows, best practices and common pitfalls.
Presenter(s): Rob Kaufman
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Development environment
Room: 1160
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Laptop will be helpful, but not required
Slides: http://bit.ly/managers-SC2018
Room: 1110
3) Enhanced media playback in a Hyrax app using Avalon components
Description: The Avalon Media System is a Samvera-based system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. Through version 6, Avalon was known as an independent Samvera solution bundle. In Hyrax-based Avalon 7, the previous monolithic codebase has been broken down into components available for use outside of the solution bundle. These components enhance media playback in Hyrax through robust derivative generation, streaming server support, adaptive bitrate streaming, a IIIF Presentation 3.0 consuming player, and a scriptable embedded player. This workshop will include:
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Equipment: Development environment (Hyrax 2.1)
Room: 1735 1008
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4) Dive
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into Hyrax for new developers
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(Canceled)
Description: TBD
Presenter(s): Mark Bussey& tamsin woo
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Personal Laptop (development environment instructions)
Room: 1170
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5) Hop, Skip, & a Jump: Sufia to Hyrax (Canceled)
Description: Currently on Sufia and interested in getting on the Hyrax bus? In this workshop, we will take a Sufia app that has some basic customizations and data and walk through some options for getting it successfully to Hyrax 2.1.
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Equipment: Personal Laptop (development environment instructions will be provided)
Room: 1140
6) Introduction to Valkyrie
Description: Valkyrie is a new persistence layer for Samvera, supporting multiple backends for storing files and metadata. Currently supported backends include Fedora, PostgreSQL and Solr for metadata, and Fedora and local disk for files. Valkyrie provides an abstraction layer over file and metadata persistence, allowing an application to be configured to use different backends without code changes. This workshop will include:
- An overview of Valkyrie's design, including why the Data Mapper pattern was used, and how Valkyrie addresses sustainability issues with ActiveFedora
- Status updates on current Valkyrie development, including applications built using Valkyrie, and efforts to use Valkyrie in Hyrax
- Hands-on exercises to give attendees first-hand experience working with Valkyrie and demonstrate how concepts from Samvera applications work with Valkyrie
Presenter(s): Adam Wead Esmé Cowles
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Ruby/Rails development environment
Room: 1160
7) Keeping your Samvera application up to date (NOTE: Changed to morning)
Description: This workshop will discuss upgrade strategies, workflows, best practices and common pitfalls. Some familiarity with either Rails or Samvera applications is recommended. We'll go in depth on how we evaluate an application for upgrade, different strategies we recommend and when to use them, and walk through a couple scenarios in depth.
Presenter(s): Rob Kaufman & George Wheeler
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Personal Laptop (development environment instructions)
Room: TBD 1735
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Afternoon Sessions (2PM-5PM)
1) Architecting repository infrastructure with Collection Types, Admin Sets, and Collections
Description: This Have you ever wondered when to use admin sets vs collections, what this new collection type is all about, or how many work types you should have? This workshop will focus on designing approaches for best practices on using admin sets and collections in structuring a repository in Hyrax. We will talk about the basic building blocks available in Hyrax from collecting items to controlling visibility to work types and files. Consideration will be given to various uses cases, from single-use case systems to complex multi-use case systems. There will be time for hands on design in groups of use cases brought by participants. (syllabus)
Presenter(s): Lynette Rayle jrudder
Audience: Managers, Repository Managers, Software Architects
Equipment: N/ALaptops will be helpful, but not required (will access google docs)
Room: 1110
2) Introduction to Fedora 5.0 and Alternate Implementations
Description: Fedora is the flexible, extensible, open source repository platform that stores, preserves and serves linked data resources, and is used as the underlying platform by Samvera for managing content. The next major release of Fedora represents the publication and implementation of the API specification. This specification aligns Fedora with a set of modern web standards, and provides an opportunity for emerging implementations of the specification to service evolving use cases. This workshop will provide an overview of the API specification, including information on the updates clients will need to make in response to API changes. It will also introduce some of the other API implementations that have been developed by the Fedora community.
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Audience: Repository Managers and Developers
Equipment: Fedora Personal Laptop (Fedora virtual machine (will be provided by instructor in advance)
Room: 1735
3) Introduction to Samvera
Description:
- What is Samvera?
- Community structure and resources
- Hands-on: examples and exploration
- Technical overview and resourcing
- Getting started with Samvera
- How to pitch Samvera back home: Benefits
- Q&A
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Audience: Anyone new or newish to Samvera – Managers, General
Equipment: N/A
Room: 1008
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Description: Valkyrie is a new persistence layer for Samvera, supporting multiple backends for storing files and metadata. Currently supported backends include Fedora, PostgreSQL and Solr for metadata, and Fedora and local disk for files. Valkyrie provides an abstraction layer over file and metadata persistence, allowing an application to be configured to use different backends without code changes. This workshop will include:
- An overview of Valkyrie's design, including why the Data Mapper pattern was used, and how Valkyrie addresses sustainability issues with ActiveFedora
- Status updates on current Valkyrie development, including applications built using Valkyrie, and efforts to use Valkyrie in Hyrax
- Hands-on exercises to give attendees first-hand experience working with Valkyrie and demonstrate how concepts from Samvera applications work with Valkyrie
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Audience: Developers
Equipment: Ruby/Rails development environment
Room: 1160
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Samvera as an API
Description: This workshop will discuss will discuss tools and capabilities capacities for building external interfaces (React apps, mobile apps) that use Samvera as an API and data source. We recommend some familiarity with developing Samvera or Rails applications as a pre-req to this workshop. Presenter(s): Rob KaufmanWe'll go over API design, look at authentication gotchas and walk away with a solid understanding of what it would take to build external tools that connect to your Samvera instance.
Presenter: Rob Kaufman & George Wheeler
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Development environment Personal Laptop (development environment instructions)
Room: 1009
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5) Testing your Samvera Application - hands-on workshop
Description: TBDThis workshop builds on basic RSpec testing skills to help developers build robust test suites for Samvera applications. What should you test? How can you DRY up your test suite to streamline test development and maintenance? Developers will leave with an expanded sense of advanced testing tools and how to effectively use them in Samvera development.
Presenter(s): Mark Bussey& tamsin woo
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Personal Laptop (development environment instructions)
Room: 1170
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6) Static Websites and Community Documentation with Jekyll
Description: This half-day workshop will orient participants with the Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) static website generator. Jekyll is an open source command-line tool for transforming plain text into modern websites. Samvera uses Jekyll to develop and maintain our community documentation, samvera.github.io, but Jekyll can be used for several digital library projects, including scholarly publications and digital exhibits. We will provide a basic overview of the Jekyll development environment, introduce participants to helpful resources for customizing Jekyll websites, and cover our GitHub-based workflow for editing and maintaining samvera.github.io. Basic HTML, Markdown, and command-line experience is helpful but not required. Beginners are welcome!
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Equipment: Personal Laptop and Jekyll (installation instructions)
Room: TBD 1140
7) Hands-on with the Bridge2Hyku Toolkit (NOTE: Changed to afternoon)
Description:
The University of Houston (UH) Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an IMLS National Leadership/Project Grant (LG-70-17-0217-17) to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. As part of this toolkit, University of Houston is developing several applications to assist in the migration of data from CONTENTdm to Hyku. The workshop will cover two important tools:
CDM Bridge: a stand alone electron-based tool that easily pulls metadata and files out of any CONTENTdm instance for migration and metadata remediation.
HyBridge: a importer gem that would allow Hyku providers an easy insert into their stack for users to migrate with.
This workshop will have attendees work with these applications and the B2H Toolkit to cover the basics in metadata migration. Learn how to use CDM Bridge to get your data out of CONTENTdm, allowing you to assess, reconcile and prepare your data for Hyku. See how using HyBridge can ingest your data into Hyku and learn how to evaluate that data in its new home.
Presenter(s): tcrocken Sean Watkins
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Personal Laptop (development environment instructions will be provided)
Room: 1160