Jump to: Morning Sessions - Afternoon Sessions
Workshops will be helped 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)
Half Day Sessions
Morning Sessions
Workshop 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):
- what tests are
- why they're used
- how they're used
- what types of tests exist
- what types of frameworks exist
- some additional concepts in testing such as doubles, stubs, spies, and Webmock
- how to write tests
- how to break tests
- how to fix tests
Presenter(s): Carolyn Cole
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Development environment (provided).
Room: 1009
Workshop 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
Audience: Repository Managers
Equipment: N/A
Room: 1110
Workshop 3: Keeping your Samvera application up to date
Description:
Presenter(s): Rob Kaufman
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Development environment (provided).
Room: 1160
Workshop 4: Enhanced media playback in a Hyrax app using Avalon components
Description:
Presenter(s): Chris Colvard & Brian Keese
Audience: Developers
Equipment: Development environment (provided).
Room: 1735
Afternoon Sessions
Workshop 5: Collection extensions workshop
Description:
Presenter(s): Lynette Rayle
Audience: Managers
Equipment:
Workshop 6: Introduction to Fedora
Description: Fedora is the flexible, extensible, open source repository platform that stores and preserves linked data resources, and is used as the underlying platform by Hydra for managing content. Fedora is used in a wide variety of institutions including libraries, museums, archives, and government organizations. Fedora 4 includes native linked data capabilities and a modular architecture based on well-documented APIs and ease of integration with existing applications.
Presenter(s): David Wilcox
Audience:
Equipment:
Workshop 7: Introduction to Samvera
Description:
- Doing things the Samvera way
- Possible demonstrations of existing Samvera applications
- Getting involved with the Samvera community
Presenter(s): Richard Green (and others)
Audience: Anyone new to Samvera–Managers, Developers, All
Equipment: N/A
Room: 1008
Workshop 8: Introduction to Valkyrie
Description:
Presenter(s): Adam Wead & Esmé Cowles
Audience: Developers
Equipment:
Workshop 9: Samvera as an API
Description:
Presenter(s): Rob Kaufman
Audience:
Equipment: