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:
  - Can still sign up!
- Documentation group
  - There is a Samvera Documentation Interest Group that has started meeting
  - The docs group has a GitHub project board for identifying outdated docs for doc sprints
Steve McDonald demo on local Samvera ingest packages @ Tufts
- Demo was recorded
- 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
    - 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
    - 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)
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 October 22nd (who will be at DLF) - Tentative? - will follow-up