Day 1 - Tuesday, April 20, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
| Time | Title | Abstract | Suggested Audience | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-11:10 | Welcome! | Welcome and Housekeeping from the Virtual Connect Committee! | Everyone | Program Committee |
| 11:10-11:30 | It's Alive: Building a preservation-first repository | On St. Patrick's Day NU went live with our new digital collection repository and asset management tool prioritizing speed of ingestion and metadata updates. We reframed the problem by working with end-users to look closely at workflows and prioritize solutions rather than any specific technology. The resulting application ecosystem is extremely budget friendly and the architecture supports: - Large ingestion of 4 gig tifs with derivates and preservation checks (10k works) in ~ 1 hour This presentation will discuss the process, what we learned, and how it relates to the Samvera community at large. | Developers & Managers | Michael B. Klein (Northwestern University) |
| 11:30-11:40 | Linking Hyrax with a people and organisation referential | The EHESS is a university dedicated to social and economical sciences in Paris. Many of our metadata are names of people (researchers, authors, photographers, politicians, musicians, etc.) or organisations (universities and schools, libraries, museums, laboratories, etc.). In order to provide the highest level of accuracy during the data description, we decided to integrate an Identification Referential called IdRef. This powerful tool, created by the ABES (the French librarians), is an ever-growing database made up of descriptions of people and institutions, to which French librarians are constantly adding. The implementation of IdRef into Hyrax is a good example of what can be done to reach a higher quality of data description. | Developers, Managers, Librarians, Repository Managers | Maxence Gevaudan (EHESS Paris) |
| 11:40-11:50 | IIIF React Media Player (a component library) | IIIF React media player is an exportable collection of components. This component library is based on one of the previous implementations for a media player using a IIIF manifest(3.0 spec). The previous implementation was restructured and refactored in order to build a package, which exports multiple components instead of one single component. This gives a user the ability to use only the components providing the required functionality in their application. | Developers, Managers | Dananji Withana (Indiana University Libraries) |
| 11:50 -12:00 | Tales of a New Service Manager | New to academic libraries, new to development, and new to service management - right after joining the Northwestern University Libraries Repository and Digital Curation team, the move to remote work afforded new opportunities to engage directly with the digital repository development process. I'll share some experiences and practices that are helping me grow into my role as a digital repository service manager. | Service Owners/Managers, Project Managers | Veronica Robinson (Northwestern University) |
| 12:00-12:10 | Break | |||
| 12:10-12:30 | Features for Oral Histories in a Digital Collections app | The Science History institute has prepared hundreds of oral histories of scientists over several decades, comprising a valuable collection unique to us. To support this collection in a high-quality way, we developed custom features for housing transcripts and audio files in our Digital Collections. These features include: a bespoke custom front end for features from Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) audio-synchronized transcripts; custom oral-history-specific metadata on the interviewee; and an integrated request workflow for the subset of content whose donor permissions don't allow entirely free access. This development has allowed us to retire a separate duplicative vendor-developed front-end application, for cost efficiencies. I'll give an overview of our custom developed features and the reasons we decided this approach made sense for us. | Developers, Product Owners | Jonathan Rochkind (Science History Institute) |
| 12:30-12:55 | Working & Interest Group Updates | Controlled Vocabularies Decision Tree Working Group Hyrax Development Support & Engagement Working Group Samvera Metadata Interest Group Samvera Roadmaps Alignment Group Samvera User Experience Interest Group | Everyone | Working & Interest Group Representatives |
| 12:55-1:00 | Break | |||
| 1:00-1:20 | Samvera Community Safety: An Update | Over the past year, there has been a concerted effort to formally review the Samvera Code of Conduct and the related policies and procedures in place to support community safety. We contracted with two independent third-party experts, Sage Sharp and Annalee Flower Horne, to train community members, to revise the Code of Conduct, and advise us on how best respond to reported incidents. This presentation will provide an overview of the outcomes of this work to date, including: Take-aways from the incident response training; Proposed changes to the Code of Conduct; Emerging process for incident response; Proposed changes to how community safety is supported by volunteers, including but not limited to the Samvera Helpers. | Everyone | Hannah Frost, Jessica Hilt, Simeon Warner |
| 1:20 - 1:30 | User-first development with Usability Tests | While re-imagining a user-first development process and workflow, our team for the first time, incorporated Usability Tests into the development process. We experimented with conducting multiple rounds of Usability Tests in collaboration with our Library's User Experience Librarian. The experience was incredibly educational and made a substantial impact on our application's recent launch. We'd like to share some "how tos" in taking the first steps forward with Usability Testing in your development workflow. | Managers, Developers, Designers, UX, General | Adam J. Arling & Frank Sweis (Northwestern University) |
| 1:30-1:50 | Serverless Functions: How a tiny experiment became our best work | Karen Shaw | ||
| 1:40-2:00 | Fedora 6.0: Bringing the Community Forward | Fedora 6.0, the next major version of Fedora, is rapidly approaching full production release. The design and development of Fedora 6.0 has been guided by three principles: improve the digital preservation feature set, support migrations from all previous versions of the software, and improve performance and scale. This new version of the software will include a number of benefits and improvements that would be of interest to those within the Samvera community including things like enhanced performance and scale (including metrics gathering and reporting capabilities), Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) transparent persistence, and a simple search API. Much of the work being done is also 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.This presentation will provide a brief overview of the features outlined above, along with an update on the release timeline and ways to test the software. | Everyone | David Wilcox, Arran Griffith (Fedora) |
Day 2 - Wednesday, April 21, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
| Time | Description | Suggested Audience | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping from the Virtual Connect Committee! | Everyone | Program Committee |
| 11:10-11:30 | Over the course of hiring several different people, I've iterated on a set of tools and processes for facilitating decision making. Other people have used this process, but it hasn't been circulated as best as it could. In this presentation, I'll share the tools, documentation, and additional ways I've used this collaborative decision making tool and process. * - One colleague commented that the deliberate approach of this process made a meeting fun. Some restrictions may apply. Your mileage may vary. | Managers, Contributors, People who Make Decisions | Jeremy Friesen (University of Notre Dame) |
| 11:30-11:40 | The Community’s existing fiscal sponsorship agreement was set to expire in mid-2021, and could not be renewed without a change to both the terms of the agreement and the rate charged for services. The Samvera Community recognized an opportunity to critically evaluate the Community’s fiscal and organizational needs, and to explore the options available in both the library open infrastructure community as well as the wider open source software landscape. This presentation will review the critical role of fiscal sustainability in open infrastructure communities; common models for this relationship; and the process Samvera used to evaluate fiscal and administrative needs against those options available in the open market. | Everyone | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) Rosalyn Metz (Emory University) |
| 11:40-11:50 | The objective of this presentation is to describe a prototype of a "single-page application" that allows information to be gathered from a repository based on Samvera technology. It begins by detailing the process currently being carried out in the Daniel Cosío Villegas Library for the creation and display of its digital exhibits, based on the Omeka platform, emphasizing the disadvantages that it presents, subsequently, it is briefly detailed what the Samvera technology consists of and how it interacts with the prototype. one of the disadvantages of the previous process, as well as the advantages it represents in terms of computing resources. | Developers | Rodrigo Cuéllar Hidalgo & Eime Javier Cisneros Brito (El Colegio de México A.C.) |
| 11:50-12:00 | Break | ||
| 12:00-12:20 | In the summer of 2020, Princeton University Library IT's highest priority was restoring "in-person" access critical to teaching and learning through nontraditional online access for items such as course reserves of in-copyright items, and group access to donor-restricted special collections. We initially conflated these two scenarios, but then realized they had different workflows, user management, and restriction types. This talk will detail the controlled digital lending and virtual reading room functionality we added to our Samvera repository, how we integrated restricted content in our discovery apps with IIIF, and the lessons we learned building and deploying these services. | Managers, Repository Managers, Anyone interested in increasing access to online resources | Kate Lynch and Esmé Cowles (Princeton University) |
| 12:20-12:30 | An update on all things Hyrax, including the Hyrax Interest Group and Hyrax Maintenance Working Group. | Everyone | Julie Hardesty (Indiana University Libraries) |
| 12:30-12:40 | 2121 Brought us Hyku 3.0 Grant projects progress There's so much to be said about what's going on with Hyku that 17 syllables just isn't enough! Tune in here for the other several hundred. | Everyone | Kevin Kochanski (Notch8) |
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| 12:50-1:20 | Samvera Marketing Working Group – Chris Awre (Univeristy of Hull) Samvera Branch Renaming Working Group Hyrax-Valkyrie Development Working Group | Everyone | Working Group Representatives |
| 1:20-1:40 | Lea Ann Bradford and April Rieger | ||
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| 1:50-2:00 | Brendan Quinn | ||