Metadata Call 2024-09-24
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern
Call-In Info: https://osu.zoom.us/j/92616270540?pwd=VzN6bEVlR3NGbjZDdFNueWpRUVMvQT09
Community Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iaH6zpXc32K3Llz9uKp8DYN-wqzEo9A6kfHtt4xmpx8/edit?usp=sharing
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
The docs group has a GitHub project board for identifying outdated docs for doc sprints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 - 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
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
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)
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