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Charlotte's notes/responses
Karen's responses
General
- What is Samvera?
-A community and a technology stack. or solution? for managing access to digital objects.
- What is Samvera being used for?
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-Until Hyku is a reliable, adoptable thing, we probably should be pretty up-front about the staff resources that an institution needs to build and maintain a Samvera-based repository--a designated developer at a minimum. Here at Lafayette we have a Digital Initiatives Developer and a Digital Repository Librarian who both spend a majority of their time working on the repository. That time distribution may or may not change once we get our repository up and running and our existing content migrated. I wonder if we might also mention consultation costs. Even with two designated staff members I'm not sure we could have effectively gotten going on our Samvera repo without our consultation engagement with Data Curation Experts. I agree
- How much work will it take us to implement Samvera?
-How do we want to break down this question? I have a handy "roadmap" from our consultation with DCE that details how to build a Samvera-based repository according to phases in a certain order. Do we want to get this granular? Or do we want to offer a general answer about how much designated staff time in what timeframe is necessary to get up, running, maintaining, and growing? I would say give a low range and high range and qualify. Say for a quick implementation with no customization it could take a knowledgeable Rails developer X amount of time. But depending on how complex a system you need and how much customization, it could also take months/years.
Content management
- Why don't we just put the content on a shared drive/webpage/SharePoint, etc.?
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-Samvera operates on the most updated versions of Fedora, Apache, etc.; other solutions operate on outdated dependencies. (I don't actually know if this is technically true-it's just something I've heard! Do others know?) Samvera gives you an open solution and a community work with to improve the code.
- I've heard people talk about Hyku, Hyrax, Sufia and more. What are they? What's the difference?
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