Samvera Virtual Connect 2025 Agenda

11:00 - 11:10

Welcome to Day 1

Welcome and review of the Samvera Code of Conduct and Community Guidelines

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation

11:10 - 11:30

DigitalGeorgetown: Migrating to Multiple Hyku Tenants

Georgetown University has implemented Hyku 5.1.0/Bulkrax 5.4.1 for DigitalGeorgetown. We use the platform to manage our institutional submissions, digital projects, and archival collections. We are utilizing the multi-tenant option, having one tenant for all main campus, medical, and bioethics library material, and another for Law Library material. Over the past six months we migrated 30,000 works (everything from the main campus, medical, and bioethics libraries) from our old platform, DSpace, which was run since 2011. Migrating from a legacy platform presented challenges, but also opportunities. Through this process we worked to clean up and restructure metadata, remove metadata-only objects, and reorganize our collections in a way that is more logical for digital platforms. The new platform has made DigitalGeorgetown more accessible and responsive, and front end customization and tweaks have helped us to meet the University’s accessibility standard. As of April, our migration is not yet complete, we will begin migrating the Law Library works soon. In our presentation we will introduce DigitalGeorgetown and discuss some of the challenges and solutions we arrived at, as well as what we hope to see in the future.

Rachel Jacobson, Scott Tyson, Suzanne Chase, Ted Mallison, Jason Brock, Steve Fernie - Georgetown University

11:30 - 11:50

Transitioning to Hyrax 5 with Fedora 6: A Case Study

Emory University team members will discuss its transition of a large institutional repository collection of open access publications from a non-Samvera, Fedora 3 based repository to a Hyrax 5, Valkyrie and Fedora 6 based implementation.

Emily Porter, Emory University

11:50 - 12:00

Break

12:00 - 12:20

Technology Updates: Avalon Media System, Hyrax, Hyku

Hear the latest platform news from the Product Owners and Tech Leads of Avalon Media System, Hyrax, and Hyku

Jon Cameron & Emily Lynema, Indiana University

Nick Homenda, Tufts University

Nic Don Staunton-Rourk, Anderson University

12:20 - 12:45

Breaking Down Hyku Terminology: What is Knapsack? What is flexible metadata? What does it all mean for me?

An overview of recent Hyku technology features, what they mean for your repository, and how they relate (or not) to Hyrax. Includes a Q&A opportunity with the Hyku Tech Lead.

Rob Kaufman, Notch8

12:45 - 12:50

LibraryHost: A lightning talk introduction

LibraryHost is a mission based tech company founded in 2011. Our mission is to support the community by removing technological barriers and making it simpler to connect content-creators with consumers and provide ready access to materials and information. We provide low-cost hosting and expert support of open-source library, archives, and scholarly publishing software.
We are committed to growing the community by popularizing great software and making it easy for anyone to run. We also give back by contributing code enhancements back to the source for anyone to use. We are currently offering Hyku pilot projects.

Dona Christensen, LibraryHost LLC

12:50 - 1:00

Break

1:00 - 1:10

Interest & Working Group Updates

Roadmap Alignment Group & Fedora 6 Working Group

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation

Arran Griffith, Fedora

1:10 - 1:30

Fedora Community Roadmap

This presentation will showcase and highlight the most recent achievements of the Fedora community. Finally putting planning into action, 2024 was a year of trying new things, reaching new audiences, and making progress. We will share information about technology development efforts and our plans to modernize the codebase. We will discuss our approaches to increasing community engagement, highlighting the new and innovative ways we’ve created to get involved. And we will share how all of these efforts have been helping to grow our global community

Lastly we will discuss our Community Roadmap and what we are doing to ensure we are meeting the needs of our users.

Arran Griffith, Fedora

1:30 - 2:00

Hyku Town Hall, with Panel Q&A

A moderated town hall/panel discussion/question & answer session/retrospective around the process of incorporating Valkyrie functionality into in Hyku.

Topics will include:

• technical debt

• effect on working relationships

• how we collaborated

• answering questions from the community

Kait Sewell from Notch8 will act as the session moderator.

Anticipated panelists include LaRita Robinson (developer), Jill Peterson (project manager), and Nic Don Staunton-Rourk (Hyku Commons client and Hyku Product Owner).

11:00 - 11:10

Welcome

Welcome and review of the Samvera Code of Conduct and Community Guidelines

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation

11:10 - 11:20

Repository Showcase: MorphoSource

A showcase of MorphoSource, a 3D Data Repository for natural history, cultural heritage, and scientific collections built using Hyrax.

Jocelyn Triplett, Duke University

11:20 - 11:30

Repository Showcase: Shenandoah University Digital Archives

A showcase of the Shenandoah University Digital Archives, a repository for University history and part of the Hyku Commons.

Kathy Evans, Shenandoah University

11:30 - 11:40

Getting to Full Open Access: Integrating Dimensions into Hyrax

In 2016, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Faculty Council passed the Open Access Policy, which facilitates free, public access to research authored at the University. The Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) is a Hyrax-based institutional repository whose mission supports the Open Access Policy. CDR staff have engaged in multiple projects to collect and provide access to open content, which has been challenging given the University’s lack of access to automated solutions such as a faculty activity tracker. In this presentation, we will discuss the CDR’s integration with Dimensions, a large-scale research system, which has enabled us to import over 50,000 works to CDR. We will describe the projects, the workflow and our results. We will reflect on the successes and challenges of the project and evaluate future directions, including our plan to integrate federal research sources.

Rebekah Kati & Dave Campbell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

11:40 - 11:50

Defending The Realm Against The Swarm

A retelling of our journey implementing Rack Attack to thwart the debilitating stream of requests from bots, crawlers and scanners.

Daniel Pierce, Indiana University

11:50 - 12:00

Break

12:00 - 12:30

Participation Breakout: An Open Source Therapy Session and Reference Desk

I am interested in fostering some discussion about participating in open source work: why folks are interested, barriers to participating, and what their institutions expect from being part of the Samvera Community. I would also be interested in pointing folks to information about participating in development and testing, documentation, and how interest groups and working groups fit into all of this in our community. Kind of like an Open Source Therapy Session and Reference Desk.

Julie Hardesty, Indiana University

12:30 - 12:50

Interest & Working Group Updates

Repository Management Interest Group, Metadata Interest Group, Outreach and Engagement Working Group

Emily Porter, Emory University

Annamarie Klose, The Ohio State University

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation

12:50 - 1:00

Break

1:00 - 1:10

Reaching WCAG 2.1 AA: Content and Technology Accessibility in Ohio State University Libraries’ Digital Collections

Ohio State University Libraries’ (OSUL) has been addressing accessibility issues in its Digital Collections (DC) platform built on Samvera Hyrax. As per the Department of Justice’s ruling the goal is to support Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA. This presentation addresses OSUL’s work in this regarding in terms of content and technology.

Annamarie Klose & Chris Sellers, The Ohio State University

1:10 - 1:30

Interest & Working Group Updates

Accessibility Working Group, Documentation Interest Group, GitHub Processes Working Group

Kate Lynch, Princeton University

Kiah Stroud, Notch8

1:30 - 1:40

Join us for Connect 2025 Mexico City!

Learn more about Samvera Connect 2025, hosted by El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, October 21-24.

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation

Alberto Santiago Martinez, El Colegio de Mexico

1:40 - 2:00

Community Share Fair: Informal Repository Sharing and Q&A

We’ll end day 2 with open time for questions, reflections, and an opportunity to share information and links to share your repository and collections with others in the community.

Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Foundation