2025-02-13 Partner Call

Facilitator: Heather Greer Klein

Note Taker:

Attendees

• Robin Lindley Ruggaber

• John Weise

• Dona from Library Host

• Alberto Martinez

• Nicholas Mark Homenda

• Rob Kaufman

• Kirsten Leonard

• Glen Horton Rob Kaufman (Rob Kaufman)

• Jill Morris

• Paul Walk

• Chris Awre

• Nick Steinwachs

• Margaret Mellinger

• Karen Cariani

• Christine Peterson

• Chrissy Rissmeyer (she/her)

• Emily Lynema

• dmoles

Agenda & Notes

1. New attendee intros

   1. Nick Steinwachs (Notch8)

   2. David Moles (UC Santa Barbara)

   3. Dona (LibraryHost)

2. Hyrax Development update (Nick Homenda - Tufts - new Hyrax PO)

   1. Finished Hyrax maintenance sprint in Jan

      1. next maintenance sprint Mid Feb

   2. Goal: Release candidate for upgrade Ruby + Rails version (Hyrax v5.1)

      1. Currently in QA / Testing, and fixing bugs

   3. Looking at 1 more sprint before release

   4. Joining forces with Hyku group

3. Hyku Sustainability Grant update (Kirsten, Jill - PALs, Rob Kaufman)

   1. Introducing Nic Don - PO for Hyku

   2. Will be announcing (soon) a funded community developer role!

   3. Rob: Likely two releases in the next week or two (by end of Feb)

      1. 6.1:

      2. 6.2: Flexible Metadata

      3. Then bring in latest Hyrax w/ upgraded Ruby/Rails

4. Tracking Samvera technology adoption/implementations - presentation and discussion

   1. What we know about implementations; how other communities collect/share this data (Heather)

      1. Dataverse

      2. DSpace

      3. Fedora

      4. Invenio

   2. Discussion: how best to share this information; other steps for collecting it

   3. Main list of implementations (in production and development) - please add

      1. We’d like to present the implementations in some manner, much like the communities above

         1. Internal facing

            1. Finding / looking at peer institutions, how they’ve done things, getting help, and other parts they’re using

         2. External facing

            1. Attracting others to our community

            2. Fostering greater adoption

   4. Paul Walk

      1. COAR IRD

         1. ind.antleaf.com

      2. Full international repositories directory, with metadata for each repository, but it needs work!

      3. Wants to delegate responsibility for managing the directory to COAR members

      4. Currently ~7k repository records, with many defunct, bringing the total to ~5,800

      5. DEMO

         1. Faceted search
            

            

      6. Really centralizes metadata for all kinds of repositories

      7. Presenting at Open Repositories Conference in Chicago this year

      8. Buy in from

5. Developer training Request for Information draft

7. Research data survey

   1. Survey we used last time - suggestions for additions/changes?

      1. Want to collect information on features that would further support this use case

8. Spring 2025 Partner meeting agenda planning - please RSVP, if you haven’t already, through March 7th

   1. RSVP so far -

   2. Looking for a volunteer online facilitator to support virtual attendees

   3. Draft agenda

9. Other Updates: 

   1. Sign up to present or facilitate a topic (5 - 30 minutes) at a 2025 Partner call - see list of ideas on the page

   2. Still looking for a Hyrax Tech Lead for 2026

   3. Samvera Virtual Connect 2025

   4. Samvera Connect 2025 Mexico City

   5. Invoicing confirmations to Partners

Anything for the Samvera Board? (Standing item) 

Date of next call: Spring Partner hybrid meeting, March 19-20

Notetaker: Nick Steinwachs