2023-09-25 Hyrax Fedora 6 Working Group

Date

Sep 25, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

Participants

@Rosalyn Metz
@Heather Greer Klein
@Randall Floyd
@Collin Brittle
@Jon Dunn
@Arran Griffith
@Daniel Pierce
Tim Sheerer
@Juliet Hardesty
@Tom Wrobel
@Emily Porter
@Bradley Watson
@Ayoub Belemlih
@Ben Pennell
@Tom Wrobel
@Kevin Kochanski

Regrets

@Rebekah Kati
@Dan Field

Goals

Review the group’s charter: Hyrax Fedora 6 Working Group
Clarify any questions about the deliverables

Discussion topics

Time	Item	Facilitator

Time

Item

Facilitator

10 minutes

Introductions

All

25 minutes

Review the Goals of the Charter:

Identify and complete any pre-work to determine the scope of development.
Determine what infrastructure is needed to engage in the scoped development.
Determine the scope of development.
Create a high-level outline for the development work.

25 minutes

Review the Deliverables of the Charter:

Pre-work outcomes document.
An infrastructure proposal.
A scoping document.
An outline of the development effort.

Notes

Hyrax 5.0 is being worked on, it should be good enough to stand up a new clean application. There hasn’t been any work yet for migration work. The plan is to release this by Samvera Connect.
Valkyrie PostGRES Metadata adapter and then it's a matter of setting whatever backend you want.
Question: What paradigm is being used for metadata preservation? Not clear right now but perhaps that is a question and a discussion for this group.
Emory has been doing some work with ActiveFedora to connect Hyrax and Fedora 6.
Hyrax 5 will have both Valkyrie and ActiveFedora
- There is some work for shared testing infrastructure between ActiveFedora and Fedora 6 so that we can do some comparison testing between ActiveFedora and Valkyrie.
Identify and complete any pre-work to determine the scope of development.
- There is probably some discussions around metadata and object models and what we want to persist in Fedora.
- What are the actual use cases for Fedora 6 with Hyrax that we want to address?
- We also need to think through greenfield v. migration.
- Is it worthwhile to come up with our use cases for Fedora 6 and compare them? Perhaps we can come up with a sensible default way of doing implementing Hyrax and Fedora 6 and also communicate what these sensible defaults do for performance.
  - We should also run our use cases past the community that isn’t present.
  - We can then give them a proposal and ask them to react to it.
- Test use cases and objects might help us with creating that infrastructure needed to engage in development.
- One goal might be to not have such a fragile relationship with solr and activefedora (i.e., let’s not make the mistakes of the past). Objects should be independent once persisted in Fedora.
Convening the group:
- Arran can handle the scheduling and creating agendas for the group
Use cases next step
- Find common use cases within the group and then share those with the broader community.
- Questions that we might want to answer
  - What are you trying to persist in Fedora?
  - How do we want Hyrax to be interacting with Fedora? Is Fedora 6 the only place you’re storing things?
  - What is the size of the architecture that you’re hosting Hyrax in?
  - Are you going to be running your fedora component alone or with another component (i.e. solr for indexing)?

Action items

Emory, IU, UNC, Bodleian: Gather use cases for the institutions in the room for Fedora and Hyrax.

@Arran Griffith to share the use cases with the institutions not here that would be impacted.

@Heather Greer Klein to let the group know if there will be time for working group meetings at Samvera Connect

@Arran Griffith to schedule a meeting for two weeks from now (the week of October 9th)