2024-07-12 Partner Call

Facilitator: @Heather Greer Klein

Note Taker: @Chris Awre

Attendees

• @Stuart Kenny

• @Robin Lindley Ruggaber

• @Alberto Martinez

• @Esmé Cowles

• @Jim Halliday

• @Glen Horton

• @Beth Shields

• @Chris Awre

• @Nicholas Mark Homenda

• @Kate Lynch

• @Alicia Morris

• @david.schober

• @Paul Walk

• @Karen Cariani

• @Kirsten Leonard

Agenda & Notes

1. Any other items for the agenda?
   No other agenda items were raised.

2. Discussion: @Robin Lindley Ruggaber will give her presentation from Open Repositories 2024, “Appalachian Research and Value for the Greater Good” and lead a discussion about supporting under-resourced regional institutions and similar partnerships.

   1. Excellent presentation from Robin! Useful insight to appreciate the relationship between a parent university and satellite campuses and how they might support each other.

   2. Would like to tell the UVA, PALNI and British Library stories (the latter two using Hyku) of a hub and what it can do to support related organizations without infrastructure directly on Samvera channels. UVA story would be excellent as a video story.

   3. Would like to reach Deans with these stories to highlight how libraries can support wider mission of the institutions. Also to showcase, and leverage, use of open source in achieving that mission.

   4. Robin is interested in hearing from anyone who has had grant opportunities for similar projects. Suggestions for Mellon and Arcadia.
      
      

3. Regional Meetings - updates and planning needs

   1. Midwest

      1. CFP soon (hopefully within next 7-10 days) - a small program committee has been formed and is working on this

      2. Registration opening soon

      3. Hotel and travel info posted

      4. PALNI and IU are funding it

   2. Northeast

      1. Because of hotel availability, we're making some changes to the schedule, with DevOps4Lib being at the same time as the Samvera Northeast Regional meeting (10/14-10/15), and the Blacklight Summit moving to Wednesday, 10/16

      2. The Samvera Northeast Regional Meeting dates are unchanged (10/14-10/15)

   3. West Coast Oct 9-10

      1. Registration launching soon. The program will be driven by those who are attending, so as to best focus it on their interests.

   4. Europe - Oxford and British Library have expressed interest in working together to host something at Oxford the week of October 21st (International Open Access Week)

   5. No fall Partner in-person meeting - could have a virtual Partner meeting after the regional meetings, or devote November 8th or December 13th meeting to discussion of regional meeting outcomes and next steps. Thoughts welcome.

      1. A Spring 2025 hybrid Partner meeting at Northwestern is being considered
         
         

4. Other Updates: 

   1. Sign up to present or facilitate a topic (5 - 30 minutes) at a future Partner call

      1. Potential ideas of interest include research data and the challenge of campus v library IT)

   2. Nominations open for the Julie Allinson Award 2024.

      1. The aim is to complete the process by September 1st so the Award can be given out at a regional meeting.

   3. OR2024 Samvera-related presentations

      1. 166 contributions from OR2024 are now uploaded to the OR Community in Zenodo. Heather will pull together a subset of Samvera-related presentations (of which Robin’s was one).

      2. OR25 will be at the University of Chicago

   4. Hyrax and Hyku development updates

      1. August 14th Hyrax Interest Group meeting: Frigg/Freya Q&A with Rob

      2. Please consider pledging hours to the Hyrax Maintenance Working Group this summer/fall so we can complete needed upgrades in a timely manner, and address identified accessibility issues.

Anything for the Samvera Board? (Standing item) 

No items were flagged for the Board
Date of next call: August 9th

Notetaker: @Esmé Cowles