Samvera Connect 2017 Schedule - program descriptions, times, rooms, and map in Sessionizer

Monday, Nov 6

See Workshops and Orientation Sessions - Sign-up for workshops

Tuesday, Nov 7

Plenary Presentations

• Welcome, Sarah Pritchard, Dean of Northwestern University Libraries
• Announcements & Logistics, Evviva Weinraub, Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies at Northwestern University Libraries
• Code of Conduct and Samvera Community Participation Guide, Mark Bussey, Managing Director at Data Curation Experts
• State of Samvera Community, Chris Awre, Head of Information Services at University of Hull
• Hydra-in-Box Final Project Update
  Hannah Frost, Stanford University
  Michael Giarlo, Stanford University
• A Vision of Hyrax
  Michael Giarlo, Stanford University, Julie Rudder, University of North Carolina, and Steven Van Tuyl, Oregon State University
• The path to Avalon 7; or, how we stopped worrying and learned to love Hyrax
  Chris Colvard, Indiana University, Jon Cameron, Indiana University, David Schober, Northwestern University

• Accessibility and Samvera
  Michael Tribone, Penn State University and Katherine Lynch, University of Pennsylvania, Tracy MacMath, Yale University

Working Group and Interest Group Lightning Updates

• Analytics IG
  Steven Van Tuyl, Oregon State University
• Data Mapper  (Valkyrie) WG
  Trey Pendragon, Princeton University
• GeoPredicates WG
  Darren Hardy, Stanford University
• Metadata IG
  Ruth Tillman, Penn State University
• Plugins WG
  
• Newspaper IG
  Eben English, Boston Public Library
• User Experience IG
  Jenn Colt, Cornell University

Partners' Poster Session

Sign-up to bring a poster

Wednesday, Nov 8

Parallel Presentations (30 min)

• ArcLight
  Darren Hardy, Stanford University
• Collections Extensions and Admin Sets: Flexible approaches to grouping things in the repository
  E. Lynette Rayle, Cornell University
• Community models and authorities for Hyrax applications
  Julie Allinson, CoSector at the University of London and Julie Hardesty, Indiana University
• Developing a Staff-Only Samvera Application: Struggles and Successes
  Trey Pendragon, Princeton University and James R. Griffin III, Princeton University
• Documenting our Metadata Application Profiles (MAPS) Before Migration
  Julie Hardesty, Indiana University and Ruth Tillman, Penn State University
• How are people using workflows and Admin Sets in production Hyrax systems? bleep bloop
  Steven Van Tuyl, Oregon State University and friends
  
• Hyrax for Research Data: Deep Blue Data
  Susan Borda, University of Michigan and Nabeela Jaffer, University of Michigan
  
• Institution-specific Front-end Implementations of Hyrax
  Adam Arling, Northwestern, Chris Diaz, Northwestern, and Nabeela Jaffer, University of Michigan
• Intro to Terraform by building a Samvera stack
  Kieran Etienne, Penn State University, and Erin Fahy, Stanford University
• Lessons Learned From 100 Releases
  Carolyn Cole, Penn State University
• Lookup with Context to select metadata values from a controlled vocabulary
  E. Lynette Rayle, Cornell University
  
• Metadata management and batch ingest automation with Git/GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, and JIRA
  Alex Dunn, University of California, Santa Barbara and Chrissy Rissmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Our Journey from Sufia 7 to Hyrax
  Sean Crowe, University of Cincinnati, Glen Horton, University of Cincinnati, and Thomas Scherz, University of Cincinnati,
• Samvera/Blacklight UX benchmarks
  Nik Dragovic, Emory University
• Upcoming changes in the architecture of Samvera
  Justin Coyne, Stanford
  
  

Panel Presentations (60 min)

• APIs, Sharing Work, Specifications and Alternative Data Stores
  Benjamin Armintor, Columbia University and Trey Pendragon, Princeton University
• Distributed Usability Research Team Retrospective
  Jenn Colt, Cornell University, Nik Dragovic, Emory University and David McCallum, University of Oregon
• Fedora project and community update
  David Wilcox, DuraSpace and Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
• Hyrax for Scanned Resources
  Jenn Colt, Cornell University and Trey Pendragon, Princeton University
• Moving to AWS
  Don Brower, Notre Dame, Carolyn Caizzi, Northwestern University, Erin Fahy, Stanford University, Hannah Frost, Stanford University, Michael Klein, Northwestern University, and David Schober, Northwestern University 
• Samvera and Digital Preservation
  Laura Alagna, Northwestern University, Linda Newman, University of Cincinnati, and David Wilcox, DuraSpace
• Samvera and Fedora 4 Performance
  Yinlin Chen, Virginia Tech and Adam Wead, Penn State University
• Samvera stack in production the DevOps way
  Rob Kaufman, Notch8
• Samvera Stack Overview
  Rob Kaufman, Notch8
  
• So how's your migration going?
  Aaron Collier, Stanford University, Jeremy Friesen, Notre Dame, Josh Gum, Oregon State University, Julie Hardesty, Indiana University, and Steven Van Tuyl,Oregon State University
  
• What should we be testing? Features, Views, Models, Controllers?
  Jeremey Friesen, Notre Dame and friends

Lightning Talks

• Sign-up list

• Additional opportunities to sign-up at Connect

Thursday, Nov 9

• Unconference and Breakouts
  • Governance Community Discussion, Evviva Weinraub, Associate University Librarian of Digital Strategies at Northwestern University
  • Imposter Syndrome Workshop, Bess Sadler, Data Curation Experts
  • Additional opportunities to suggest at Connect
• WG and IG meetings
  • Analytics IG
  • Data Mapper  (Valkyrie) WG
  • Geospatial IG
  • GeoPredicates WG
  • Metadata IG
  • Newspaper IG
  • Repository Managers IG
  • Samvera Migrations IG
  • User Experience IG
• Partners Meeting at Northwestern

Friday, Nov 10

• Partners Meeting at Northwestern