Day 1
We got Zoom set-up AND with a polycom!
Opening - Tom
Intros
Project board - https://github.com/orgs/samvera/projects/5
Why people are here:
Tom - Accomplish moving forward Valkyrie native model questions
Aaron - Looking for how we could use Valkyrie and contribute
Mike - Looking to be productive
Bess - Starting a new project that may use Valkyrie
Max - Putting some faces with names. How Active Fedora/Valkyrie works
Thor - Infrastructure. Get a feel for the people and what's being worked on.
Nikitas - Use Valkyrie and interested to see how other people are using it.
Julie - Get back up to speed. Work types and models on the metadata side. Roadmap council hat (FEDORA! LOL) how to better resource this.
Jeremy - Placing a bet where we are moving our repository. Come and say what do we need to do and what does a Valkyrie system look like. Working on the Samvera Permissions group.
Longshou - Participated in Wings work - see what I can learn and contribute.
Brandon - Work with Hyrax tech primarily. Keep up to date and figure out the migration path. Hyrax into Kubernettes.
Randall - A lot of vul-de-sac applications and want to move to a large Hyrax install. Get some traction with wings. Blocker for wings with extracted text that doesn't copy to the repository.
Rob - 8 Fedora instances - can't be clustered. Scaling issues that we want to solve. New projects on the horizon that are Valkyrie or bust. Dynamic metadata. Permissions work. Optimizing ingest.
Jessica - Here to help.
Kate - Wants to know what the community needs are, shore up documentation.
Chris - Interested In non-local, non-avalon, permissions discussions, rails 6, blacklight 7. Transition from direct transactions. But open.
Brian - Randall's team. Half time on the hyrax maintenance working group. Learning whatever I can.
Lynette - Hyrax/Valkyrie - Files and file sets. Still work to be done in Active Fedora and needs help with that. Pretty much done but needs help. Put a bunch of links in Slack.
Rachel - Trying to get oriented to the community.
PR Checklist: https://samvera.github.io/pr-checklist.html
Plenary - Overview
Active Fedora is an under-maintained abstraction in Hyrax.
Hyrax to Valkyrie - Last January effort - Penn State - Polar Vortex
Build an adaptor for Valkyrie that would persist data for Active Fedora
Rather than rippin gup the world and replace the code base. Pick off little bits to use Valkyrie. And then Active Fedora is gone. And then you can switch backends! Valkyrie adaptor is called WINGS.
There are pieces that are in progress. Metadata object layer, the ability to create a Valkrie resource and have it behave, exists.
Since Oct:
How do I get those models in place
Edges of indexing, protopattern but not a complete implementation
Forms, Hyrax has a prior form pattern in place.
Can I put Valkyrie native model behind controllers and have them interact.
Look at outstanding pull requests.
Putting ideas on the project board. https://github.com/orgs/samvera/projects/5#card-32013076
https://github.com/orgs/samvera/projects/5
Report Back for Day 1
- Rails 6 preparation - preparing for work in Blacklight
- Indexers - Reviewing architecture of Indexers. Indexing partial amounts of the metadata (keyword and subject IDX). Next, need to dive into how the rules are expressed in the schema.
- Documenting Dive into Valkyrie - Current working document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VeLPU3gIrKt6BkSqGBz3ZFlMPCwWtCuG_ZRj95N5DPY/edit# (got to the validator part of the tutorial)
- Tidying up some stale hyrax PRs to get those in place
- Spinning up a Hyrax application with Postgresql to see what’s broken
- Refactoring jobs - worked through jobs that handled a repository object, created several new issues on the SOLAR Vortex board (@rdfloyd can you provide the grounding link). Working on characterizing jobs, there is an existing blocker. This also blocks on the job authorization.
- File related issues #4055 works on round-trips on files. Needs to be applied to the other files. Adding file to fileset would sometimes lose the context of the file (due to not rewinding) (“Be kind, rewind!“)
- Working on making progress on Valkyrie native forms. Pushed this morning’s PR through. Worked on the view, found that routes were breaking, needed to do some customization for ActiveFedora style routes and new Valkyrie style routes. We’ll now need to do the work on form objects.