Slides and Videos for Samvera Connect 2025 Online Presentations
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Flexible Metadata in Hyku workshop | 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. | Nic Don Stanton-Roark | |
State of Samvera | An overview of community activities for the past year, upcoming activities and events, and recognition of community leaders. | Heather Greer Klein | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QQ6-M00aH-2Io4Sfc0GBtfgRyRboSJS38gCjZGNuGlU/edit?usp=sharing |
Avalon Media System, Hyku, and Hyrax Updates |
| Jon Cameron; Nick Homenda; Nic Don Stanton-Roark |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1W6_GsJHW_ja0MaGDxSg7gbuj_mawLlo9hYFfltH9-II/edit?usp=sharing |
Navigating Open Source: Lessons Learned as a First-Time Service Manager | This session explores the multifaceted role of managing IU’s Digital Collections service within an open source environment, viewed through the lens of a newly minted Digital Collections librarian. I’ll share highlights from my learning journey - starting with understanding the behind the scenes nuts and bolts of IU’s Hyrax Implementation, progressing to the process of mapping metadata for incoming collections and legacy collections slated for migration. I’ll also explore our approach to onboarding and training collection managers, helping them build confidence in navigating the dashboard interface and tools. Lastly, I’ll touch on our ongoing efforts to respond to meet accessibility requirements. My hope is that this session serves as a springboard for others stepping into service-oriented roles in the Samvera community. | Sudha Anand |  Video link: https://iu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_8htye7ui |
What Problem Are We Solving Here? Escaping the Build Trap in Open Source: Focus, Iteration, and the Cost of Saying Yes | As a newcomer to Samvera, I’ve been energized by how much we build—and how much we care. I've also noticed how easy it's been to move fast on solutions, skipping discovery, and create maintainability and quality challenges.<br>This talk is about getting clearer before we go bigger. I’ll share lightweight ways to focus problem framing, reduce complexity, and build just enough to learn. We’ll talk about how delight emerges from iteration—not from planning every feature up front. Key themes: Why small, focused releases create better outcomes How solution complexity creeps in without clear problem definition The importance of asking the right people the right questions The cost of saying yes before we’ve validated the need This isn’t a process talk—it’s about building trust, sustaining quality, and creating room to learn. When we start small and stay focused, we make space for the kind of impact that lasts. | Nick Steinwachs |
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GitHub Processes and Permissions Working Group Update | An update on the effort to cleanup membership roles in the Samvera GitHub organizations. | James Griffin |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zp81tcnL6JZ73o3UOo1JvIhqyUqsrjGPoxDtI4Z5CA4 |
Deterministic Jobs - a first pass | DCE is working on a code update for Hyrax, Hyku, & Bulkrax that will allow administrators to run background jobs in a more deterministic manner, reducing or eliminating race conditions and making debugging background jobs easier. This lightning talk will share our work to date and some initial metrics. | Mark Bussey |
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Team Violet Community Office Hours: Supporting the Samvera Ecosystem | This presentation highlights Team Violet's community office hours initiative, showcasing how we've created a valuable support channel for the Samvera/Hyku ecosystem while gaining crucial insights into real-world implementation challenges. | LaRita Robinson |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Imth1u6SEjriVEQm91zEGT9ryNw4npx-KXEQLP4AkVQ/edit?usp=sharing |
COAR Notify Implementation in Hyrax 5 | The COAR Notify Initiative is developing and accelerating community adoption of a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services, such as overlay-journals and open peer review services. COAR Notify makes use of two W3C standards - Linked Data Notifications and Activity Streams 2.0 to support asynchronous messaging between repositories and remote services. COAR Notify has been implemented in several popular repository software platforms. This presentation will describe the work being done to implement COAR Notify in Hyrax 5, such that Hyrax will be able to participate in this emerging environment of repositories interoperating with other repositories as well as review and endorsement services. COAR is extremely grateful for the generous funding support from Arcadia, a charitable foundation. | Paul Walk | |
Weathering the Storm - AI Scrapers Are Ruining Your Site Experience | 51% of internet traffic is now scrapers and bots. In the past few years the rise of AI builders has made it almost impossible to keep a heritage or data repository online. Frequent traffic storms prevent people from working in these systems and ruin the experience for patrons. We’ll discuss current strategies around dealing with this traffic and describe a multi layer approach that works for any web application regardless of the network stack and our ability to make changes to it. | Rob Kaufman |
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From junction to switching yard: uncoupling curation from discovery with Comet and Daylight | The intent of UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara's Project Surfliner has always been to develop a modular suite of applications based on Samvera core components, sharing the engineering workload but allowing each institution to assemble a digital collections platform tailored to local needs. With Hyrax, we have a rich set of content management features that, with customizable workflows and configurable metadata, give us enough flexibility that Comet, our staff-facing, Hyrax-based digital object management system, can meet the needs of both campuses. But what about discovery? As planning has progressed for our respective general-purpose discovery layers, it's clear that divergent campus requirements—and, even, diverse use cases on each campus—make a single, shared discovery application impractical. Come learn how, instead, we're leveraging Hyrax events to publish content from Comet to multiple discovery platforms, and how Daylight, our our new framework for composable micro-frontends, is letting us pool our development efforts and still deliver each campus a fully customized patron-facing discovery and access experience. | David Trujillo; Chrissy Rissmeyer; Alissa Pierce; David Moles |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Dp6mx-BP7oufNGsLU33llrx4p9atnuvx1FDxEdgdgHQ/edit?usp=sharing |
Unpacking Hyku Knapsack: Sustainable Customization With Less Upgrade Pain | Customizing Hyku is powerful, but it often comes at the cost of upgrade friction and long-term maintainability. Hyku Knapsack was developed to address this challenge by allowing institutions to isolate their customizations from the core application, making it much easier to stay current with upstream changes. In this session, we’ll walk through how the Knapsack works, the problems it was designed to solve, and how it supports both flexibility and sustainability for multi-tenant Samvera repositories. Attendees will leave with a clear mental model for separating customization from core code and practical takeaways for adopting this strategy in their own work. This talk is aimed at a technical audience familiar with Hyku/Samvera development, though interested non-developers are welcome to listen in. | Shana Moore |
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Wayfinding in the Samvera Community: Using Bulkrax as a Repository Manager | Managing a collection of digital special collections and archives in Hyrax means collection managers handle content at the administrative set level and the collection level as opposed to individual depositors managing individual works in more of an institutional repository-style setup. This presentation walks through including and using the Bulkrax gem with Hyrax as a repository manager to enable batch importing and updating for administrative sets and collections and works. Indiana University's experience incorporating Bulkrax into migration and management workflows includes finding Bulkrax documentation, understanding capabilities in newer versions of the Bulkrax gem, and providing our own documentation for collection managers to use these capabilities. | Juliet Hardesty |
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Hyrax Fedora 6 Working Group Update | This lightning talk will provide an overview of the completed deliverables of the Hyrax Fedora 6 Working Group. We will share what work is in progress and what is left to complete. | Arran Griffith |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1coSfDQA0P76FVeCXbugFlGLr1jwaEJZG-5SCKSfgKTM/edit?usp=sharing |
Upgrading Hyrax 3.x to 5.x - A case study | Earlier this year, DCE completed an upgrade of a Hyrax v3.6.0 application to Hyrax v5.1.0. The process was a bit of an adventure and we'd like to share our learnings for anyone else who might be thinking about this journey. | Mark Bussey |
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AI in Samvera – Updates from the Working Group | Artificial intelligence is rapidly entering the repository and archives space, raising both opportunities and challenges. In response, the Hyku community formed an AI Working Group to explore responsible, community-aligned approaches to AI integration within Samvera solutions. This session will provide an update on the group’s activities, share a proof-of-concept, and outline the next steps for this important area of development. Session Outline Why an AI Working Group? We will begin with the circumstances that led to the creation of the Samvera AI Working Group and the emerging need for a coordinated AI solution. AI in the Repository Landscape A quick survey of the current state of AI adoption in institutional repository (IR) and digital library environments: what’s happening, where gaps remain, and how Samvera can position itself. Our Approach to Metadata Generation An introduction to the group’s exploratory work on AI-assisted metadata creation, including guiding principles, ethical considerations, and practical use cases. Proof-of-Concept Mockup A short demonstration of a mockup showing how AI metadata generation could function for a Samvera-based repository. Next Steps for the Working Group A roadmap for continued investigation and development: scoping areas of interest, identifying potential integrations, and inviting community participation. | Rob Kaufman; Nic Don Stanton-Roark | |
Serving IIIF Requests in Samvera | Delivering high-performance IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) services is critical for digital repository platforms. This talk explores strategies for serving IIIF content from Samvera applications, focusing on optimizing Cantaloupe for speed and scalability, integrating lightweight solutions like Riiif, and exploring serverless architectures for IIIF delivery. We'll cover tuning tips for image performance, when and how to offload IIIF to cloud-native infrastructure, and real-world use cases to help you balance flexibility, maintainability, and performance. Whether you're scaling an existing Hyrax application or starting fresh, this session will provide practical insights into modern IIIF delivery. | Rob Kaufman |
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Sustaining Hyku: Building Shared Capacity and Infrastructure for the Future | Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Sustaining Hyku project is a collaborative effort to strengthen the durability and scalability of the Hyku repository application. Now in its second year, the project addresses technical and organizational needs through shared staffing, community-driven development, and capacity-building. This presentation will share updates on our progress, including the launch of a developer training camp and strategies for growing Samvera-aligned technical expertise. We’ll highlight the collaborative development of shared roles and the challenges of sustaining work within grant-funded structures. We’ll also share insights from our partnership with Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), which is conducting an organizational and economic assessment to support long-term sustainability planning. Attendees will gain a deeper understanding of our approach to shared infrastructure, take away practical lessons learned, and be invited to join ongoing conversations about sustaining open-source repository solutions within library and cultural heritage communities. | Kirsten Leonard; Lauren Collister |
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Repository Showcase | This repository showcase shares our institution’s first experience implementing Hyrax as a digital collections repository. With a new team and first-time collaboration between librarians and technologists, we’ve moved from planning through initial deployment and into configuration and customization. We’ll highlight lessons learned so far and reflect on the realities of launching both new technology and new workflows at the same time. | Reed Jones; Emilyann Kerr | |
Samvera Metadata Interest Group (SMIG) Update and Survey | This session will focus on a short update from SMIG, before spending the rest of the time doing a short interactive survey to establish the metadata priorities for the Samvera community. | Annamarie Klose; Emma Beck |
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Fedora Community Update | This presentation will provide a brief overview of the Fedora community's activities, active development and plans for the future. It will touch on elements of our work that are immediately relevant to the Samvera community. | Arran Griffith |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cVPcfcMtCHNvHNmx1V8TgHiyHz9DIzPp-Db3i_wmpaY/edit?usp=sharing |
