2023-02-06 Meeting Notes and Agenda

Component Maintenance update

• Components needing PO

• Next steps for Hyrax components

• Only questioning-authority requires a Product Owner

• James is going to be scheduling meetings in order to advance this

  • Hyrax maintenance and alignment

  • Meeting with Product Owners s being discussed

• Someone might be available for questioning-authority, but there is a real labor shortage

Cloud Deployment WG Charter

This is drafty; will send this week and discuss at Partners call

• Charter is planned to be sent out this week

• This (and other WGs) are going to be discussed during the Partner call scheduled for this Friday

• Amazon Web Services (specifically a representative specializing in higher education clients) was contacted in order to draft the charter for this WG

• The deliverables for this can be discussed during the kick-off of the meeting

• A chair will be required in order to direct the focused labor for this WG

• The timeline for the WG deliverables also will need to be determined once the WG has been chartered

• Avalon dependencies for AWS integration are slightly different

  • Matterhorn, along with other services for Docker, Terraform

• Kubernetes and Docker Compose would provide templates for running Avalon using one single server

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Technology “Dreams” follow-up: the Board is requesting our group to determine next steps and lead actions for Dreams #3 and #4

• Board held Winter Virtual Meeting

• List of Dreams emerged from the “It Takes a Village” exercise

  • Clear technical strategy for the community. Defining a standards based approach and products. (#3)

    • Rewriting the white paper following the completion of Hyrax-Valkyrization

  • Easy Upgrades (#4)

    • What does this mean?

    • Ways of investigating easy upgrades could be explored by the Roadmaps Alignment Group

• Progress on these are going to likely be blocked until Hyrax-Valkyrization has officially completion

• There is an invitation for those who can propose an approach which would not require Valkyrization

Code4Lib 2023

• Proposed Samvera meetup may be organized for the Code4Lib 2023 event in March

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Metadata Interest Group

• OAI-PMH is becoming a resurgent topic

• This might inform Hyrax, Hyku, and Avalon offers in terms of features for supporting OAI-PMH

End-User Documentation

• End-User documentation is planned to be developed for cloud deployment

• Avalon is going to have a collection manager’s guide for usage

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Community Leadership

• How might Samvera create a role and sustain it for an extended length of time?

• This was attempted with the lead developer role for Hyrax