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

2024-11-26

Moderator(s): Annamarie Klose

Notetaker: Emma Beck

Attendees:

• Emma Beck - University of Louisville

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

• Annamarie Klose (she/her/hers), Ohio State University

• Steve McDonald, Tufts University

• Anna Goslen, UNC Chapel Hill

• Sarah Proctor (she/her), http://Scientist.com

• Christine Peterson, Amigos Library Services

• Heather Greer Klein, Samvera

Agenda: 

• Samvera community updates - Heather Greer Klein

  • Monday December 2nd, Samvera Community meeting

  • State of samvera presentation, share fair

  • Pared down samvera slack channel

  • Pulling together a welcome channel when people enter the community

• Roadmaps alignment group

  • Preparing for the Community meeting

• Documentation Group

  • See GitHub for documentation issues (Documentation Tasks • samvera )

• Lack of language tags for text fields in Samvera Hyrax - there is an open issue for this!

  • Originated from a question of Benjamin Riesenberg

  • Is this something that we want?

  • Dspace has language tags, but CONTENTdm does not

  • Language field is not always enough, some have multiple languages

  • There is a way in the iiif community to support language tags

    • Internationalization and Multi-language Values  

  • Internationalization seems like a good idea

  • How would it be implemented? Would every field have a language field?

  • A feature in similar communities, but not in ours

  • Is the lack of this preventing libraries in Canada from using Samvera?

    • University of Victoria is a current user

  • Maybe we can start a wishlist which this can be added to? Would help prioritize this work

    • There is a label in github #metadata but there are currently on 4 tags, so that could be a good start

    • https://github.com/samvera/hyku/labels/metadata

    • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/labels/metadata  

• Regional meetings takeaways

  • Midwest meeting - nice to get to know people using other samvera technologies. A lot more in common between Hyrax and Hyku. Hoping Hyku will get move involved in the community at large

  • Biggest commonality across all the meetings was how close Hyrax and Hyku are getting closer and closer

  • How does the community come together to identify priorities?

    • Time to forge a new way forward

    • After figuring out how Hyrax Tech Lead position will go forward

    • Re-establish roadmap

    • Accessibility sprint worked very well, so using the things that worked well there

• Open Discussion

  • Can the text of a PDF be searched by a search engine. 

    • Yes if using a pdf.js viewer

Next meeting: January 28th