2022-04-05 Meeting Notes and Agenda

Date

Apr 5, 2022

Zoom Link

https://zoom.us/j/93115408034?pwd=clZGWGM0RkN3UUZPMUloU2xHVFdXQT09

Participants

• @James Griffin

• @Heather Greer Klein

• @Annamarie Klose

• @Juliet Hardesty

• @Nabeela Jaffer

Discussion topics

Notes

• Updates for Hyrax

  • Establishing the status of Valkyrized Hyrax

    • Lynette and Julie are working through the featured test cases

      • There are still some blocking issues

      • There is a sub-group of the Board meeting with Lynette in order to try and find resources to provide assistance for these efforts

  • Blacklight 7 Bootstrap Work

    • James should verify this, but there shouldn’t be anything outstanding for core components

    • Otherwise, this is just focused upon Hyrax

• Component Maintenance

  • (James will complete this)

• SMIG

  • OAI-PMH and Hyrax/Hyku integration is going to be addressed by the SMIG

  • This will not warrant a new WG

• Upgrade to Rails 6

  • Is this dependent upon Valkyrie?

    • Valkyrie does test against Rails 5.2: https://github.com/samvera/valkyrie/blob/main/.circleci/config.yml

  • It is separate, Valkyrie does not depend upon Rails 6

    • Blacklight is more impacted by the Rails 6 upgrade

• Newsletter Update

  • This is actively being developed by Heather

  • There are sections within this which are going to detail in-person events (e. g. presence at conferences)

  • Is Samvera Connect going to have any virtual options for attendance?

    • Perhaps, but it should be recalled that there is going to be Virtual Connect for those who need to attend exclusively virtually

• SMIG Updates

  • Besides OAI-PMH, there was a discussion for Hyrax supporting ResourceSync

    • Is DPLA actively using this? It is currently supported

  • Accessibility

    • There is a desire to have alt text values

    • Within the system, there is no solution for supporting this currently

    • Outside of the main source code base, how might this be supported?

  • Virtual Connect 2022

    • Should there be a separate presentation addressing specific Hyrax topics of interest?

    • Accessibility doesn’t necessarily fall within the scope of the SMIG (it isn’t necessarily metadata)

      • Perhaps a lightning talk?

    • The call for proposals can be found here: Samvera Virtual Connect 2022

• Supporting Hyrax Releases

  • Once 4.0 is released, will there be any adjustments made to the release policies?

  • Maintenance plan for 2.x and 3.x releases need to be explicitly clarified

  • There was a discussion here:

  • As this was discussed during a tech. call, the next appropriate meeting would be to draft a proposal detailing the preferred approach, and then shared with the next Partner Meeting for 05/02/2022

Meeting adjourned at 09:30 AM PDT/12:30 EDT PM

Action items

Decisions