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Community Notes: Samvera Metadata Interest Group Meeting: 2025 Rolling Minutes

2025-01-28

Moderator(s): Annamarie Klose

Notetaker: Emma Beck

Attendees:

• Nick Steinwachs (he / him) - Notch8

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

• Rachel Jacobson (she/her) - Georgetown University

• Meredith Hale (she/her) - University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• Anna Goslen (she/her) - UNC Chapel Hill

• Benjamin Riesenberg (they/them) U. of Oregon Libraries

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

• Steve McDonald (he/him), Tufts University

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

• Christine Peterson - Amigos Library Services

• Heather Greer Klein (she/her) - Samvera

Agenda: 

• Samvera community updates - Heather Greer Klein

  • Community leadership - Hyrax set for the year and hoping to establish it through this year for next year

  • Hyku - new community leadership that should be announced shortly

  • Partner meeting in March

• Roadmaps Alignment Group

  • Meet yesterday

  • Trying to establish goals for the year

    • Technology report - requires some developer time so has been hard to prioritize. Hopefully there will be a sprint this year to get this completed

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

  • See notes from the last meeting about this.

  • Rooted in conversations around RDF - samvera is kinda linked data and the language tag is an area where we are currently lacking that would help complete this

  • Was a discussion at the Samvera West Coast Meet up. Very developer heavy group, and the takeaway was it would be a lot. Would need to create an ability to associate a language tag and then create the functionality to associate with the language the user wants. Would be cool, but would be a lot of work to get it to this point

  • Looked at iiif - if we did take this on, we would want it to be iiif compatible 

  • November consensus was it would be neat but not a strong push

• Ranking priorities of Hyrax/Hyku work related to metadata - proposed by Emma in November

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

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

  • Hoping to clean up these tags. Right now they are on the older side. If we can tag some of the newer tickets with “metadata” we can keep track of them better for us and for developers

• Brainstorm metadata priorities - will keep building on this list! Feel free to go back to institutions and report back

  • AllinsonFlex - AKA flexible metadata 

    • IU has it implemented, older version of Hyrax. See Julie’s recording - UTK AllinsonFlex Demo 2024-05-03.mp4

    • Amigos is doing some development on it which will be run on valkyrie. Will not have the interface (as seen in Julie’s video) but will use yaml file. Metadata can be changed based on admin set. Being built on Hyku, might take some time to have it in Hyrax

    • If we wanted an interface it would be the next step. Might be a next project

  • Ordering of metadata 

    • Hyrax Metadata Ordering Working Group. Seems to be possible with Valkyrie - Hyrax Metadata Ordering Working Group  

    • https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/4781

    • Built on Fedora 4 and linked data - no longer applicable so some movement (Roadmaps Alignment sees this as a priority too) 

    • Avalon has fixed it, so might look at how they fixed it

    • Via Shana/Nick - This reminds me of work Jeremy did. He created a gem called OrderAlready https://github.com/samvera-labs/order_already but this was a solution for Active Fedora so now that we've moved to valkyrie it may need updating - samvera-labs/order_already

  • Language tags

  • Add tags (language tags but broader) - Use cases include provenance, preservation, associating a term with a controlled vocabulary

    • How to do it in RDF….

    • How to have non-flat files. Wanting hierarchy 

    • UNC has added some hierarchy to their records, around ORCID. Anna has agreed to look into more detail. Example: Implementing a new Carolina Digital Repository: communities, customizations and change  

  • Embargo feature

    • Embargo auto expire not working · Issue #121 · notch8/atla-hyku  

  • Questioning Authority - for names and subject headings

    • 20201124_SMIGdemo.mp4

• Open discussion

  • Has anyone tried to connect Hyku to CIDOC CRM yet?

    • https://cidoc-crm.org/

    • Like getting the mapping together so that a field in hyku can be associated with the CIDOC term to have the ontologies being picked up into rdf triples and better Linked open Data

    • No one in the group had first had knowledge, but encouraged the question in slack

Next meeting: February 25, 2025, 2-3 pm EST / 1-1 pm CST / 11 am-12 pm PST