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Working Group / Interest Group Updates
In past years annual Working and Interest Group updates have been given at the plenary. This year we are planning to make space in the schedule for these updates in the primary day for presentations and panels. Groups will be free to decide whether or not they wish to give an update which will be optional.
- Core Components Maintenance WG
- Geopredicates WG
- Geospatial IG
- CONTENTdm Migration WG
- Hyrax Batch Import-Export WG
Speaker: WG/IG representatives
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Room: Gould Auditorum (1st)
Available slides are linked from the title line above each synopsis
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
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, 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)
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
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
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
Suggested audience: Developers, Metadata people, 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)
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
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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.
Speaker: Anna Headleyoutreach, 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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