We want Samvera Community to be a fun, informative, engaging event for all our partners and participants. We've got a few strategies to help make this happen:
We encourage everyone to apply the Samvera community principles of openness, inquiry, and respect in their interactions at the event.
Shea van Schuyver from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary will join us to show their new archives site which employs a timeline in addition to a conventional search mechanism.
timeline on the front page is an iframe that is run by a google sheet so the archivists can run it.
featured collections section rather than featured researchers
using a blacklight gem to do a year created facet
pdf.js embedded for pdf viewing
QUESTION: how did they come across this hyrax/hyku? they were using islandora and had a security breach that required them to rebuild the whole thing. they took the opportunity to reconsider all the options, they evaluated the different options. they like the development, liked the community, and it seemed to be customizable. they also have a partnership with ATLA which influenced their decision
QUESTION: how do you send information to ATLA? they are working on OAI PMH harvesting between ATLA and their repository. they currently have OAI-PMH support in the repository using the blacklight gem. they had to do some customization but it was simple enough to do
COMMENT:Stuart Kenny at DRI has a timeline plugin that he could spin off if people are interested in see it.
Next f2f Partner Meeting: Emory University, Atlanta - Monday April 27th and Tuesday 28th (to lunchtime). Hotel suggestions and unordered list of discussion topics on themeeting wiki page. Please feel free to add items for discussion. Maria Whitaker and Richard Green are co-chairing and will draw up a timed agenda in early March. Remote participation will be possible.