Samvera Tech Call 2025-04-09

3 min

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Meeting Logistics:

Agenda (meeting notes below)

Moderator: @Bradley Watson

Notetaker: @Chris Colvard

Attendees:

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Randall Floyd

  • @Heather Greer Klein

  • @Rob Kaufman

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Nic Don Stanton-Roark

  • @Tracy McCormick

  • @Annamarie Klose



Meeting Process

  1. Standing pre-agenda items (moderator)

    1. Welcome

      • "Welcome everyone, please add your name to the Attendees list.  If you are unable to do so, please let us know, and someone will add you. To any newcomers, Welcome, and please feel free to ask questions. Likewise for all attendees. We strive for an open and accessible conversation around Samvera technology."

    2. Call for new agenda items

  2. Follow Agenda from above (facilitated by moderator) and record notes in Notes section below (note taker)

  3. Standing post-agenda items (moderator)

    1. call for next moderator and note taker (moderator)

      1. Moderator:

      2. Notetaker:

    2. Samvera help follow-up (moderator)

    3. Pull request review (moderator)

      1. Recent Samvera PR list

  4. Post-meeting action (note taker)

    1. After call, this week's notetaker should create the agenda for the next call:

      1. Open template agenda titled "Samvera Tech Call XXXX-XX-XX"

      2. Click on ... in the top right corner, and select copy.

      3. Popup will open for location. It should contain:

        1. Space: Samvera

        2. Parent page: (Verify value is current year)

      4. Select copy. New page should be created.

      5. Modify the title to remove "copy of", update it with the next date, add moderator, notetaker, and any carry-over agenda info. Click Publish. 



Notes

  1. Github Processes and Permissions WG

    1. Github Processes and Permissions Working Group Charter

    2. Just getting started so join if you’re interested

    3. Only one small meeting has happened and next meeting getting scheduled soon

  2. Hyrax Community Sprint (4/14-25)

    1. 5.1 release TODOs

      1. Nurax work by @Daniel Pierce Prep to run dassie/koppie/sirenia on nurax by dlpierce · Pull Request #7035 · samvera/hyrax

        1. Will pull out changes to dockerfile related to debian change

      2. Install template fixes by @Randall Floyd and @Tracy McCormick

      3. Accessibility work?

  3. tesseract training data bundled with hyrax

    1. currently trained on mid-tier data (for mostly pdfs)

      1. Is this the best choice to balance size of training data and usage needs?

        1. Rob still thinks so…maybe

    2. hyku is trained on more complex higher-tier data (for handwritten manuscripts)

    3. OCR will only go so far and can’t derive a reliable transcript

    4. is tesseract still the best tool for this now?

  4. Work for Valkyrie migrations

    1. Done in main_before_rails_72

    2. Some hyku implementations are using that branch for migration performance improvements

    3. Queuing indexer to avoid so many solr indexing calls for works with many children

      1. Stash into redis and have background job do the actual indexing

  5. Hyrax github CI build trigger

    1. Need to also run builds for PRs to -stable branches?

  6. Issue with deploying via capistrano and honeybadger announcement tool (@Bradley Watson )

    1. Rob suggests reaching out on reddit or somewhere else

  7. SMIG questions:

    1. Has flexible metadata been integrated into hyku?

      1. Under active development now in a branch

      2. Last issue hopefully just resolved

      3. Going into testing for hyku 6.2

      4. Great! Will this be going into hyrax?

        1. There is a plan to do this but don’t know when it will get done. Waiting on Rob’s availability

    2. Ordered metadata in valkyrie

      1. Postgres - yes

        1. by happy accident

        2. No helpful UI for reordering them

      2. Wings - no

      3. Fedora - no

      4. order_already gem exists which might help with this

        1. GitHub - samvera-labs/order_already: A tiny gem to provide naive sorting for Fedora Commons properties

  8. Next Meeting: 4/16

    1. Moderator: @Rob Kaufman

    2. Notetaker: @Randall Floyd



 

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