2021 Samvera Connect : Program
Slides can be found in the Samvera Community Repository, and recordings can be viewed on the Samvera Connect 2021 playlist.
Day 1 - Monday, October 18, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) |
11:10am - 11:30am | The New Samvera Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment policy | A review of the Samvera Code of Conduct & Anti-Harassment policy. | Hannah Frost (Stanford University Libraries) |
11:30am - 11:50am | State of the Samvera Community | Our annual roundup of all that has happened in the Community this year and where we're headed next. | Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern University Libraries) |
11:50am - 12:00pm | Break |
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12:00pm - 12:30pm | Academic Equity through Trauma-Informed Practices: Making Repositories Sustainable for Researchers with Lived Experience | Across the humanities and social sciences, impacted communities have criticized researchers for producing literature that reinscribes stereotypes, myths, and misinformation through academic practices that view marginalized communities as inherently outside of academia. There has been movement in recent years to course-correct through centering the scholarship of people with lived experience, and yet many of the systems researchers rely on remain unchanged -- systems that were not created to support the scholarship of impacted people. People from marginalized communities have higher statistical rates of trauma, making trauma-informed practices across academia an issue of equity and sustainability. Institutions that do not prioritize trauma-informed practice will not be able to recruit, educate, or retain students and researchers who have lived experience. Libraries form a part of these structures that can either further alienate already marginalized researchers, or facilitate their work. Metadata librarians are already working on projects such as updating subject headings and using conscious editing to update descriptions. In order to continue to foster scholarship that is meaningful and relevant, digital repositories can build on and extend this work to make the materials they contain more accessible to researchers from impacted communities through trauma-informed equity practices. | Max Kadel (Data Curation Experts) and Chris Ash (Independent Consultant) |
12:30pm - 1:00pm | What are Samvera Design Principles? | The UX Interest Group will present on new Samvera Design Principles, which have been developed this past year with input from various application stakeholders. These principles are intended to support developers, administrators and end users during product design, development and evaluation of current applications. The group will also discuss next steps in adoption and how you can get involved. | Adam J. Arling (Northwestern University) and Carla Arton (University of Virginia Library) |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | Updates from the Component Maintenance Working Group; Marketing Working Group; Repository Management Interest Group; and UX Interest Group. | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera), |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break |
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1:30pm - 2:00pm | Story Mapping to align and prioritize your team’s feature development | Story mapping is a great way to engage teams to align and prioritize the features they want to build or enhance. During a story mapping exercise the team goes through the process of brainstorming and documenting the many possible user stories associated with a feature or set of features. With the focus on business and user value, each story is then prioritized to ensure the team builds the right things - at the right time - and for the right reasons. Team members gain perspective and shared context while working in both the problem and solution spaces. In this session, we’ll walk through a story mapping exercise using Miro, one of our favorite virtual whiteboarding and visual collaboration tools. | Rachel Lynn |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | Lightning Talks Author Profile Synching with ORCID in Hyku Doxxing: Prevention and Recovery IIIF React Media Player: A Component Library | We would like to play a short demo of the integration between the Author profile (in Hyku) and ORCID we developed as part of the Advancing Hyku project. The integration allows repository depositors and authors to establish and control synchronization of works between the repository and ORCID. Based on the chosen settings within the author profile (always synch, ask before manually synching individual works, do not synch), when a work is deposited using the ORCID metadata field all relevant creators can have their ORCID account updated with that work. Conversely, the Author profile in Hyku can be updated, depending on the chosen settings, with info and work DOIs available in ORCID. Doxxing is a particularly nasty form of online abuse where someone's personal information is shared on the Internet without their permission, often in a way calculated to hurt a person's career, relationships, and self-image. Doxxing happens most often to people with marginalized identities (race, gender, sexuality, etc). This talk will discuss some of the ways to protect yourself, and even more importantly, some of the ways that institutions and communities can offer protection, so that targeted colleagues can more fully participate in online culture. IIIF React media player is a component library, which can be integrated into an application via NPM. It consumes a 3.0 presentation manifest and renders a media player, a structured navigation component, and a transcript component. The latest addition is the transcript component, which can render a set of transcript data alongside the media player. | Elisa Pettinelli Barrett (Ubiquity Press) Bess Sadler (Princeton University Library) Dananji Withana (Indiana University Libraries) |
Day 2 - Tuesday, October 19, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Ilkay Holt (The British Library) |
11:10am - 12:10pm | Technology Updates: Avalon, Hyrax, Hyku, Valkyrie |
| Jon Cameron (Indiana University) Julie Hardesty (Indiana University) Kevin Kochanski Trey Pendragon |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break |
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12:20pm - 1:00pm | Hyku Projects Panel: In the Community and In the Wild | Join leads from Hyku projects in various stages (active implementation, nearing launch, and ramping up) for a lively session. We will start with brief updates on work done this past year across our projects on prioritizing community features. Included will be discussion about what works in local installations, what works (and doesn’t) when contributing code back to the community core, and how we collaborate across projects in formal (shared Hyku Roadmap, meetings, documentation) and informal (Slack, email, telepathy?!?) ways. We will end the panel with an open call for community input on future community Hyku development priorities. | Ellen Catz Ramsey (University of Virginia) Ilkay Holt (The British Library) Jenny Basford (The British Library) Sara Gould (The British Library) Amanda Hurford (PALNI) |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | Updates from the Roadmaps Alignment Group; Metadata Interest Group; and Branch Renaming Working Group. | Jen Young (Northwestern University Libraries) Kate Lynch (Princeton University Library) Nora Zimmerman (Lafayette College) |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break |
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1:30pm - 2:00pm | Chugging Along - Surfliner 3 years later | The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library is still going strong. Find out what’s changed after sharing resources and product development goals over the last year. What needs more work, where are we finding our strengths, and how haven’t we run out of train puns yet? The two campus project leads will walk you through sharing teams and having a stakeholder base that is across two campuses! If you’re looking to learn how to collaborate with another university, this is the session for you. | Chrissy Rissmeyer Jessica Hilt |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | At the Station: Building the Surfliner Architecture | The collaborative effort between the UC San Diego Library and the UC Santa Barbara Library (called Project Surfliner, after the train that connects the two cities) to share development teams to work on a common digital library platform is going strong after almost three years. Building from Samvera core components and taking a radically iterative, requirements driven approach, our team has slowly articulated a new architecture. This talk will focus on how our services fit together and how we've made our choices so far. Particular attention will be paid to how our collaborative practices and commitment to cross campus deployment have influenced our technical direction. | Alexandra Dunn (UCSB Library) Tamsin Johnson (University of California, Santa Barbara) Matt Critchlow |
2:40pm - 3:15pm | Poster Q&A: Avalon IIIF Player Transcript Support | Join us for a discussion around Avalon and transcript handling using our Avalon IIIF Player. Anyone interested in discussing the player, streaming media or IIIF more generally is welcome to join. | Jon Cameron Dananji Withana |
Day 3 - Wednesday, October 20, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Kevin Kochanski |
11:10am - 11:40am | Tuning IIIF Image Performance in Hyrax and Cantaloupe | It's pretty easy to get Hyrax up and running with Cantaloupe as your IIIF server. However, using both applications’ default configurations typically results in really disappointing image load times for anything but the simplest and smallest images. DCE has helped a number of clients tune their implementations based on specific local constraints and infrastructure. Based on this work, we wanted to find some patterns that would be reusable in future projects. We recently invested two internal sprints toward figuring out the most impactful changes that could be made to the default configurations in the two applications. In this talk, we’ll walk through a number of experiments we ran, and highlight which yielded improved performance for initial image loading, as well as which improved interactive viewing including paging, panning, and zooming. | Mark Bussey |
11:40am - 12:10pm | Final Draft: A Tour of the New Hyrax Analytics Features | Join the team behind the new Hyrax Analytics features for a sneak peek at the nearly-final interface for the analytics dashboard for collections and works, as well new reporting functionality! We'll show you exports, show pages, and graphs galore for Google Analytics and open source provider Matomo. | April Rieger (Notch8) Sara Gharacheh (Notch8) Franny Gaede Margaret Mellinger (Oregon State University & Pres) |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break |
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12:20pm - 1:00pm | Hyrax Maintenance Working Group Storytime | Join current and former members of the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group as we share stories and successes and other things that have happened while participating in this ever-present but sometimes invisible working group. How has it changed over the years and what are we up to these days? What is it like to participate in a working group sprint? Do you have to be a developer to be part of the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group? A lot, it’s great, and no are the short answers - join us and we’ll tell you all about it! | Jessica Hilt Jose Blanco Daniel Pierce Rebekah Kati (University of North Carolina) Dananji Withana |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | Updates from the Hyrax Developer Support and Engagement Working Group; Hyrax Interest Group; and Hyrax Maintenance Working Group. | Julie Hardesty Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break |
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1:30pm - 2:00pm | Bulkrax: Getting Data In and Out of Repositories | Import and Export are vital parts of our repositories. Getting data in can be time consuming and error prone and getting it back out again is often left as a future activity. Bulkrax provides a framework to quickly and easily build import and export in various formats. We'll go over the basics of using Bulkrax and talk briefly about what goes in to setting up a new format, then touch on future plans. | Rob Kaufman (Notch8) |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | All Aboard for Fedora 6.0: Release, Updates & The Road Ahead | Our presentation will focus on the latest version of Fedora, Fedora 6.0, how we got there, and specific areas of interest for those in the Samvera Community. We will highlight the most important features available in 6.0 and share migration progress reports and successes from community members. Much of the work done was supported by an IMLS grant-funded project to pilot upgrades to Fedora 6.0 and create a toolkit for others in the community to use in their efforts to adopt and migrate to the latest version of the software and we will share the Grant progress and what this means for Fedora 6.0 users. We will also talk about our plans for the future of the Fedora program and how we plan to utilize community input to focus our efforts. | Daniel Bernstein Arran Griffith (LYRASIS) |
Day 4 - Thursday, October 21, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Rick Johnson |
11:10am - 11:40am | serverless-iiif: Putting the SAM in Samvera | serverless-iiif started as a small proof of concept and has since grown to be a reliable, fast, streamlined, and cost-effective way to serve IIIF resources at scale. This presentation will discuss the transition of serverless-iiif from a bespoke Northwestern project to a Samvera Labs project with multiple contributors. It will also cover work towards flexibility and ease of install as well as future plans for the project. | Michael B. Klein (Northwestern University) |
11:40am - 12:10pm | The Long and Winding Road: Transitioning from IIIF Presentation 2.0 to 3.0 | Recently our dev team began the process of generating IIIF Presentation 3.0 Manifests to represent digitized Collection items. An ongoing discussion throughout the years of how, when and why to plunge into IIIF Presentation 3.0 took a turn towards action within the past month. During project planning for new, NPM delivered repository UI multimedia features, we reasoned building from a defined spec (IIIF manifest structure), saved UI developers from attempting to define ad hoc APIs specific to Northwestern Libraries needs. This presentation will tell our story (which many of you may share?) of why our team decided against generating 3.0 IIIF manifests in the past, what changed our minds, and our very recent initial steps and processes put in place moving from IIIF Presentation 2.0 to 3.0. By no means a right way necessarily, just our experiences we strive to learn from week to week, shared with anyone interested or encountering a similar scenario. | Karen Shaw Adam J. Arling Mat Jordan |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break |
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12:20pm - 12:50pm | How to set your developers up for success (and grow your team in the process) | My team has a long time strategy of hiring less experienced developers from unique backgrounds and successfully growing these developers for long term success. We have been evolving our approach over time, and this talk is about the strategies that we are using now. After this session, you will come away with a strategy to open your hiring to a wider variety of developers and grow them into confident and dedicated senior developers. | Lea Ann Bradford (Notch8) |
12:50pm - 1:00pm | Working & Interest Group Updates | An invitation to form a new Developer Onboarding Working Group. | Maria Whitaker (Indiana University) |
1:00pm - 1:20pm | Lightning Talks Security, Monitoring, and Auditing Hyrax App Reflections on our First Year with a Community Manager | The purpose of this lightning talk is to share some of the tools and strategies we use to secure (Rapid7/Brakeman), monitor (AWS Cloudwatch/X-Ray), and audit (bundler-audit) our Hyrax application. It will also include a brief survey and explanation of our change management policies here at the University of Cincinnati, then ending with a possible discussion around Security and Accessibility in our Samvera community. The conference marks my first year as Samvera Community Manager, and my interview presentation for the position asked me to describe what I hoped to accomplish in my first year in the role. I'll revisit that presentation to reflect on the past year and look to what I hope to help the Community accomplish in the next 12 months. |
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1:30pm - 2:00pm | Integrating undergraduate students into a development team | We will present the process we’ve implemented at Princeton University Library to bring undergraduate students onto our team as fully-contributing, issue-closing developers. Hear from one full-time developer and 3 part-time (undergraduate) developers about the origin of this project and how we’ve done hiring, training, mentoring, and onboarding. | Eliot Jordan
Thanya Begum Anna Headley |
Day 5 - Friday, October 22, 11am - 2pm Eastern Daylight Time
Time | Title | Abstract | Presenters |
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11:00-11:10 | Welcome and Housekeeping | Welcome | Heather Greer Klein (Samvera) |
11:10am - 12:10pm | Keynote: Digital Archiving-in-Process as Reparative Practice | Why archive in real time? Digital objects are highly ephemeral, subject to changes to platform technologies, creator resources and physical infrastructure (hard drives, computers, servers, etc.). Many view native-digital objects as disposable, given the immense volume produced and "amateur" or low-budget production value. Yet digital technologies have also expanded who gets to tell stories and the diversity of stories we see. Preserving these artifacts are critical to our understanding of rapidly shifting and expanding cultural discourses in the 21st century. Digital archiving-in-process offers opportunities for community engagement and restorative justice in media and culture. By engaging artists in creating and distributing digital artifacts, we can support the training and development of communities that have been historically excluded from existing archives due to the marginalization in cultural systems. Positioning the OTV | Open Television platform as a living digital archive through its support of the development and distribution of low-budget film, television and video showcasing intersectionality, I show the value of expanding archival practice to include the active creation of new work and preservation of digital objects as they are made. This practice repairs the historical exclusion of cultural productions by artists marginalized because of their race, gender, sexuality, religion, disability and citizenship status. | Aymar Jean Christian |
12:10pm - 12:20pm | Break |
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12:20pm - 12:50pm | Meeting Collaborators Wherever They Are: Figgy’s role in democratizing access and facilitating global contributions to Ephemera Collections at Princeton University Library | The development of Princeton University Library’s digital repository (Figgy) and the associated workflows for item-level description of the Latin American Ephemera Collection lay the foundation for a growing number of geographically and linguistically diverse digital ephemera collections at PUL. With the addition of each new collection, comes new questions and use cases that drive how PUL prioritizes enhancements for Figgy. User needs for one particular area - South Asia - introduced new and exciting use cases that guided both repository feature enhancements and innovative new workflows to support collaborators overseas and the description needs for the ephemera materials that they contributed to the repository. | Ellen Ambrosone Kim Leaman |
12:50pm - 1:20pm | Background Jobs - Sidekiq Pro & You | We'll step through a few use cases for why you might be using background jobs, some common pitfalls and patterns, and how Princeton's begun to solve them by using features available in Sidekiq Pro. | Trey Pendragon |
1:20pm - 1:30pm | Break |
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1:30pm - 2:30pm | Lightning Talks Jen Young -- Changing the subject: thinking globally, acting locally Andrew Myers -- Hyrax Developer Support & Engagement w/ Plugins ames Halliday, Adam Ploshay, and Daniel Pierce -- Collections at IU: AllinsonFlex, Bulkrax and digital workflows James Griffin -- Ouranos: Automating Deployment with Capistrano Brendan Quinn -- Using mocks to test external dependencies in an Elixir application Chris Colvard -- Pulling weeds and plating seeds: tending the Samvera ecosystem through pull requests | Changing the subject: thinking globally, acting locally Hyrax Developer Support & Engagement w/ Plugins Collections at IU: AllinsonFlex, Bulkrax and digital workflows Ouranos: Automating Deployment with Capistrano Using mocks to test external dependencies in an Elixir application Pulling weeds and plating seeds: tending the Samvera ecosystem through pull requests | Daniel Pierce James Halliday
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