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Community Notes: Samvera Metadata Interest Group Meeting: 2024 Rolling Minutes

2024-09-24

Moderator(s): Annamarie Klose

Notetaker: Anna Goslen

Attendees:

• Julie Hardesty, Indiana University

• Benjamin Riesenberg, University of Oregon

• Anna Goslen, UNC Chapel Hill

• Annamarie Klose, The Ohio State University Libraries

• Steve McDonald, Tufts University

• Rachel Jacobson, Georgetown University

• Margaret Kibi, UC Santa Barbara

• Morgan McKeehan (she/her/hers), Oregon State University Libraries & Press

• Meg D’Elia, Georgetown University

• Emma Beck, University of Louisville (she/her)

Agenda: 

• Samvera updates

  • Regional meetings

    • Midwest Regional Meeting (9/25-9/26): Samvera Midwest Regional Meeting 2024  

    • Other regional meetings: Samvera Regional Meetings  

    • Can still sign up!

  • Documentation group

    • There is a Samvera Documentation Interest Group that has started meeting

      • Documentation Interest Group  

    • The docs group has a GitHub project board for identifying outdated docs for doc sprints

      • Documentation Tasks • samvera  

• Steve McDonald demo on local Samvera ingest packages @ Tufts

  • Demo was recorded - Links to recording and transcript

  • Repo run jointly by Archives Dept and the Library will full time developers

  • Archives staff use it for archival materials such as records, memorabilia. Theses are under their administration but have Library do cataloging and subject analysis

  • Library ingests other non-archival materials such as scholarly research from faculty and students. Licensed materially hosted locally.

  • For scholarly materials, ask contributors to fill out spreadsheet with metadata

  • Toolkit converts to XML for ingest

  • Also get materials through the Springer OA process. Springer sends out zip file.

  • Get theses from Proquest 

  • Toolkit creates “processed” directory that is ready to ingest

  • In repo dashboard, add xml then add files; batch begins processing. Can then preview items and publish 

  • Q: Do you initially ingest metadata, then the files? Yes

  • Q: Is this an alternative to Bulkrax? Does Tufts use Bulkrax? No, Tufts doesn’t use Bulkrax

  • At Tufts, their Hyrax can ingest and export XML

  • IU is importing content in METS XML for the purposes of migrating content from another system

  • Many of us with Hyrax/Hyku systems are using CSV for import

• Alt-text in our repositories

  • Samvera movement toward 2.0 accessibility? 2026 compliance of 2.1?

    • Department of Justice requirements for public institutions

      • Fact Sheet: New Rule on the Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps Provided by State and Local Governments

      • IU - system-wide they’ve implemented Siteimprove. Generates reports. 

      • Alt-text: using title of the work for alt-text on items in search results. Believe this is part of Hyrax core. Is this good enough?

      • What does it mean to provide alternative text through IIIF viewer?

      • Often have many images per work, so need to be able to provide alt-text on file-level

        • Ex: https://library.osu.edu/dc/concern/generic_works/gb19fk54k 

      • Emma: use title of the work plus source identifier because titles may not be unique.

      • Margaret: IPTC has two properties available for alt-text, Iptc4xmpCore:AltTextAccessibility and Iptc4xmpCore:ExtDescrAccessibility

        • https://iptc.org/std/photometadata/specification/IPTC-PhotoMetadata#alt-text-accessibility  

      • Emma: Institutionally, are folks getting buy in?

        • Julie: Institutionally being told that what we’re putting online needs to be accessible. Staffing and resources still an issue.

      • Q: does IIIF have a way to handle alt-text?

        • Possible - but would depend on viewer support. It’s feasible to add properties, but need viewers to support it

        • (manifest can take in descriptive alternative text but the viewers don’t necessarily do anything with it or don’t use it the same way)

      • Annamarie: OSU trying out an AI tool for images to provide Alt-Text, ASU EdPlu Image Accessibility Creator. Some results were good and in other cases the AI hallucinated. In this example, the AI interpreted the blurred text on the back of a jacket as “FLUIDMS.”

• Open discussion

  • (BMR) RE: lack of language tags for text fields in Samvera Hyrax - there is an open issue for this!

    • We will return to this topic next month

Next meeting November 26; October meeting canceled due to conflict with Virtual DLF Forum 2024