Samvera Tech Call 2021-08-04

Meeting Logistics:

• Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT

• ZOOM connection: https://notredame.zoom.us/j/94030214208
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Agenda

(meeting notes below)

• Review Hyrax Valkyrization PRs (requested by @Lynette Rayle)

  • PR #5042 - allow Valkyrie::Resource collections to be members of other collections 

  • PR #5057 - deprecate CollectionBehavior #add_member_objects and replace with CollectionMemberService.add_members 

  • PR #5059 - test all action values for accessible_by 

• Review Data Seeds DRAFT PR (requested by @Michael Johnson)

  • PR #5056 (draft) - data seeds improvements, some issues and caveats -  seeking feedback

• Request for this maintenance hour recruitment plan for 2022; feedback will be requested at the August Partner call as well: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bwJO9dl4x8oLpQ-NoDNoV9xDW9YK3gGw6-3saviHjYU/edit?usp=sharing

Moderator: @James Griffin (Princeton University Library)

Notetaker: @James Griffin (Princeton University Library)

Attendees:

• @Lynette Rayle (Cornell University)

• @Michael Johnson (Indiana University)

• @Heather Greer Klein (Samvera Community)

Meeting Process

Notes

• (James needs to request Zoom permissions for screen sharing and granting host status to others)

• Hyrax Pull Requests from Lynette

  • PR #5042 and PR #5057 require additional reviews from Tamsin Johnson before they can be advanced by others

  • PR #5059 some actions weren't tested, James can review this

• Hyrax PR 5056 from Michael

  • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/5056

  • Came out of the last Dev Congress

  • Using ActiveFedora with Valkyrie for using data seeding

  • Request for feedback given some obstacles

    • Trying to set the permissions, doesn't seem to do anything

    • 02-valkyrie.rb

      • All Collections remain "private" when the seeds are run

      • In the past, there was an approach to removing the "private" visibility on the Collection

        • col.visibility = Hydra::AccessControls::AccessRight::VISIBILITY_TEXT_VALUE_PUBLIC

    • Documentation challenges are there, there was a Documentation IG

      • Perhaps we should explore whether or not documentation should be considered equal in value to code work for community labor resource planning

    • Recommended page for outlining development patterns for Hyrax

  • Tamsin had recommended that the Monograph Class be used in creating the seed Works

    • Encountered issues in which Collection membership and display logic behaved slightly inconsistently

    • Much better luck in creating a new GenericWork and retrieved the Valkyrie::Resource from this

    • Lynette's two PRs start to advance improved Collection membership relationship behavior

      • CollectionsMemberService offers a series of methods which add members to Collections

        • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/pull/5057

      • This is going to be the preferred approach for setting membership

  • There were also difficulties encountered in file attachments

    • These cases are not currently seeded in the PR

    • Transactions for Hyrax has steps for adding FileSets, and this is one recommended approach

      • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/tree/main/lib/hyrax/transactions

      • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/blob/main/lib/hyrax/transactions/steps/add_file_sets.rb

• Developer maintenance hour drive 2022 (Heather)

  • Going to be presented to the Partners Meeting

  • James will individually e-mail the CCMWG individually

    • Heather will be notified when James is finished

• Next Scheduled Samvera Tech. Call

  • Moderator: Lynette

  • Notetaker: James

Meeting adjourned at 09:24 PDT/12:24 EDT