2026-04-28

Moderator(s): Emma Beck

Notetaker: community support

Attendees:

@Heather Greer Klein
@Annamarie Klose (Ohio State University)
@Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)
@Benjamin Riesenberg
@Emma Beck (University of Louisville)
@Anna Goslen (UNC-Chapel Hill)
@Morgan McKeehan (she/her/hers), Oregon State University Libraries & Press
@Sarah Cogley (University at Buffalo)
@Christine Peterson (CPC)
@Nick Steinwachs (Notch8)

Agenda:

Samvera updates
- Roadmaps alignment group
  - Slight change in the name to Samvera Roadmaps Working Group Samvera Roadmaps Working Group
  - Name change clarifies that this group aligns work with the roadmaps but also creates the roadmaps
  - They are still tracking and timelining work on the various Samvera projects). The most recent meeting discussion was about FITS hosting changes.
SPARQL to RDF with Benjamin Riesenberg
- Slides: 20260428_SMIG_SPARQL_CONSTRUCT.pdf
- A lot of work was done prior to Benjamin’s arrival to integrate RDF into Oregon Digital, such as requiring URIs
- Benjamin learning what is custom to Oregon Digital and what is common to Hyrax
- Able to export n-triples as a repository administrator, however showing a turtle serialization in this demo
- RDF from Oregon Digital not quite ready to be published. Have to do some processing first.
- Can also transform RDF with SPARQL using SPARQL CONSTRUCT, not just query
- Benjamin also using Python rdflib for processing
- Filtering out administrative fields, creating more concise descriptions
- Fixing data types & language tags, for example, dates typed as strings, descriptions not tagged with language
- Not currently publishing data, but assessing what would need to be done if wanted to publish
- Is Oregon Digital unique in being able to export RDF? Is it because Fedora 4 stores it?
Sub-collections
- Is anyone using this? Is it searchable?
- From Eleni: amigos has a library that heavily uses sub-collections and doesn't like that you can't out-of-the-box search all the works that are contained in their various sub-collections without needing to be directly within that one specific sub-collection. The workaround I've been told is to make the works also searchable at the top-level collection but that seems like a lot of duplicate extra work. I made a github issue about it:Misleading help text when searching for results in nested collections · Issue #2862 · samvera/hyku
- IU uses sub-collections (unit-level collections contain collections with all of the works we are organizing) but searching doesn't start off restrictable to a sub-collection - you have to go to that collection landing page and then search or conduct an overall search and then use facets to narrow down to a particular collection.
- OSU is using sub-collections depending on the collection and curator
  - Achieves this through nesting the sub-collections, similar from what Layfette is doing
  - Not the best when looking at it in the collection facets
  - Examples: https://library.osu.edu/dc/collections/1257b648s
  - In blacklight
- UofL would like for it to be easier to share sub-collections with their largest collection
- Tufts uses sub-collections as an organizational feature
  - On the public facing side it helps to facet by the sub-collection
Follow-up from prior meeting
- So many of us are using AI for accessibility. What is the quality level though?
- Sarah Cogley at Buffalo has a lightning talk at OpenRepositories about the AI rubric they have done
Open discussion

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