Samvera Connect 2025 Free Online Workshops
Flexible Metadata in Hyku
with Nic Don Stanton-Roark, PALNI, Hyku Product Owner
Date: Monday, October 27th, 2025 Length: 90 minutes Time: 9 AM PDT/12 PM EDT/4 PM GMT
Register for Flexible Metadata in Hyku
This workshop will introduce participants to Flexible Metadata in Hyku, including the creation of schema contexts, editing metadata profiles, and updating works based on new metadata fields. Whether you're managing an institutional repository or a cultural heritage tenant, this session will help you tailor your metadata to fit your content.
All Things Allinson Flex: A Technical Deep Dive Into Flexible Metadata in Hyrax
with Randall Floyd, Indiana University, Hyrax Tech Lead
Date: Friday, October 31st, 2025 Length: 90 minutes Time: 9 AM PDT/12 PM EDT/4 PM GMT
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Hyrax is a Ruby on Rails Engine that provides a foundation for creating digital repository applications. There has been growing interest in the Samvera community for Hyrax to allow customization of metadata without developer involvement, which led to the development of Allinson Flex, an optional component that offers configuration-driven "flexible metadata."
Though Allinson Flex was designed to minimize direct developer involvement to accommodate differing requirements for metadata, it does present a technical layer on top of Hyrax that a developer needs to be able to navigate to effectively support the use of it.
This workshop will focus on technical concepts and implementation details from a developer’s or application administrator’s perspective. Using a simple Hyrax application, we will take a hands-on approach to explore the various effects of having Allinson Flex running, such as:
Peeking at code to see how things get mixed itself into models
Observing behavior of metadata properties in the console
Manipulating profile versions and thinking about migration scenarios
Working through common problems or misunderstandings that users may encounter
Samvera 101: Technology and Community
with Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Community Manager
Date: Monday, October 24th, 2025 Length: 90 minutes Start Time: 9AM PDT/12PM EDT/4PM GMT
Register for Samvera 101
Get a full overview of what Samvera means: the community, supported technologies, how development work happens, and how you can contribute to the community without ever writing a line of code. Learn how work gets done collaboratively, and meet others who are new to the community.
This session is designed for repository managers, librarians, and others who are potentially interested in using Samvera solutions or who are currently involved in the Samvera Community at any level and would like to ask questions or get a refresher on how the Samvera Community collaborates.