Scope & Objectives

• Overlapping roles of service manager, product owner, repo and project manager

• Moving from project management to sustaining services

• Discuss best practices in repository management and operations

• Serve as a liaison between developers and repository managers/users

• Coordinate with other Samvera community Interest and Working Groups

• Provide a support network and sounding board for repo-managers to ask questions and to share implementation details

• Share locally implemented features, customizations, and workflows outside vanilla product(s)

• Provide collective input on the Hyrax and other Samvera products' roadmaps and feature development, providing use cases, proposals, and providing real-time input on implementation of features.

• Initiate working groups/sub-groups as needed to produce deliverables related to the scope of the group

Regular Meeting Times: 
Monthly: Monday at 3pm Eastern (to be scheduled each month)

Connection Details: 

See standing meeting agenda notes  

Communication Channels: 

Samvera mailing list (Samvera-community)

Samvera Slack Channel: #repository-management

Sunsetting

This Interest Group will be ongoing based upon having active membership from 3 organizations.

Current Members

• Emily Porter, chair (Emory University)
• Veronica Robinson, Northwestern University
• Amanda Hurford, PALNI
• Juliet Hardesty, Indiana University
• Jon Cameron, Indiana University
• Rebekah Kati, UNC Chapel Hill
• Nora Zimmerman, Lafayette College

Meetings

• Meeting Notes and Agendas (2023–)

Archived Meeting Notes

• Samvera Connect 2022 Birds of a Feather session
• November 2, 2020
• August 10, 2020
• June 1, 2020
• February 3, 2020
• January 6, 2020
• November 4, 2019
• October 7, 2019
• August 5, 2019
• July 1, 2019
• June 3, 2019
• May 6, 2019
• Apr 1, 2019
• Mar 5, 2019
• Feb 4, 2019
• Jan 7, 2019
• Dec 3, 2018
• Nov 5, 2018
• Oct 10, 2018 (Samvera Connect in-person meeting)
• April 25, 2018
• Feb 18, 2018
• Jan 24, 2018
• Dec 6, 2017
• Nov 9,2017
• Oct 25,2017
• Sept 27,2017
• Aug 23, 2017
• July 26, 2017 
  
• June 8, 2017
  • Agenda : 
    • Update on Hydra Governance WG;  Working with  repository managers   Leah
    • add topic....
• May 11, 2017 (note: cancelled due to low attendance!)  
  • Is defining roles and responsibilities with tools like RACI matrix useful for the project teams?
  • add topic ....
• April 13th, 2017 
  
  • share project management tools such as JIRA, Kanban, Waffle Board, and more. Come prepared to share and learn. 
    
• March 9th, 2017

• possible agenda topic: managing the service while keeping development in sync with the community. 

Prior Members

• Nabeela Jaffer (co-chair), University of Michigan
• Moira Downey (Deactivated) (co-chair), Duke University Libraries
• jrudder , UNC, Chapel Hill
  
• Jon Cameron, Indiana University
• Ellen Ramsey, University of Virginia
• Gabriela Montoya, UC San Diego
• Sherry Lake, University of Virginia
• sally.rumsey, University of Oxford
• Sheila Rabun, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium (iiif.io)
• trisha.wilson, Emory University
• Chris Diaz, Northwestern University
• Jenn Colt, Cornell University
• Hannah Frost, Stanford University
• Harsh Parekh, University of Notre Dame
• Steve Van Tuyl, Oregon State
• Brian McBride, University of Utah
• Jonathan Petters, Virginia Tech
• Emily Stenberg, Washington U. in St. Louis
• Chris Awre, University of Hull