Metadata Call 2024-11-26

Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern

Call-In Info: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Community Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iaH6zpXc32K3Llz9uKp8DYN-wqzEo9A6kfHtt4xmpx8/edit?usp=sharing

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

  • 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 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

  • 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