Meeting Time

Monday, October 9th at 1 PM EDT

Zoom Link

https://iu.zoom.us/j/84620830059?pwd=bWo3R081M3BtaytFMjZnS0FzQkd2dz09

Agenda/Notes

• Avalon user survey

  • Please fill out by October 16!

  • Avalon Media System Survey 2023

  • roadmap items can be left blank or marked “not sure” as needed

• Avalon 7.7 development updates

  • coming along with bringing Ramp onto media object page and getting started with playlist page

  • should be able to demo media object page at next roundtable

  • user testing planned for early November (hopefully)

• Other updates

  • Avalon running in test on Fedora 6 with ActiveFedora and small dataset of several hundred items

  • Testing performance for items with many sections add/edit/delete

  • at Fedora virtual showcase, those working with Fedora 6 and Hyrax noted that they had a lot of OCFL objects created by ActiveFedora. We should check into that in Avalon; does the content migrated to OCFL make any sense

• Updates from other institutions

  • UMD OAI-PMH

    • for CLIR-funded grant - requirement that materials are able to be harvested

    • implemented for Fedora paged image repository and Avalon streaming media repository

    • talks to Solr in both cases and exposes metadata as DC

    • have to be able to support time-boxed harvest

    • Solr “system_modified_dtsi” is not updated when descriptive metadata is updated

    • What would actually trigger a change in the media object that would update this field?

    • right now, using the timestamp of the Solr document update date instead as the last modified date

    • Use case: harvest anything that has been updated within a certain point of time. This is a required part of OAI-PMH protocol.

    • What will happen to the timestamp field if have to re-index? Will all those records appear to have been updated? This is not ideal.

    • New items - expect these to show up as recently modified - will timestamp on the Solr record have create date for new items.

    • What types of changes would we want to trigger a modified date update?

      • for this particular implementation, they are only harvesting the resource description metadata

      • currently only exposing items that are public to OAI-PMH. If something becomes public, would want it to get picked up by of a date modified query - that would imply changes to access control changing the modified date.

    • is there some way to push out a date modified into Solr that covers resource description and access control?

    • Digitization period of grant is over; still finalizing OAI-PMH for Avalon. Hope to make this available soon.

    • Could OAI-PMH be contributed back to Avalon? Tried to follow the spec for OAI-PMH, so would probably be generalizable. They would be interested in contributing it back if there is interest.

• Future agenda items?

  • UMD OAI-PMH demo?

    • Harvested content will be available through Digital Library of Georgia; eventually DPLA. Labor and Civil Rights in the American South. UMD has AFL-CIO records.

Attendees

• Emily Lynema (Indiana)

• Josh Westgard (UMD)

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