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Samvera Tech Call 2026-05-06

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Samvera Tech Call 2026-05-06

Meeting Logistics

  • Time: 9:00am PT / Noon ET

  • Zoom Meeting URL: Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

  • (link will launch Zoom client – if you do not have Zoom, expand the instructions below)

  • Moderator: @April Rieger

  • Notetaker:  @Rob Kaufman

Agenda Items

(Meeting notes below)

  • Hyku demo freeze request from Christine P due to VPAT extension

  • Redirects work (@LaRita Robinson )

  • Maintenance Working group

Attendees

  • @April Rieger

  • @Rob Kaufman

  • @Shana Moore

  • @LaRita Robinson

  • @Tracy McCormick

  • @Nicholas Mark Homenda

  • @Nic Don Stanton-Roark

  • @Randy Kuehn

  • @Chris Colvard

  • @Daniel Pierce

  • @Randy Kuehn

  • @Daniel Pierce

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 Make a copy.

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

        1. Space: Samvera

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

      4. Select Make a 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.

      6. Click Publish. 

Meeting Notes

 

  • Hyku demo freeze request from Christine P due to VPAT extension

    • Rob will create a second staging server to ease testing.

  • Redirects work (@LaRita Robinson )

    • initial infrastructure is complete

    • UI improvements are coming soon

    • LaRita shared some testing info for how to explore it in Hyrax

  • Maintenance Working group

    • begins work again next week

    • Will work on Bulkrax in Hyrax

New work - Practice Research topics. Will have AV improvements and some custom work. Notch8 will be looking for which parts should be contributed down vs which parts are custom.

PR Review

General PR queue:

https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+user%3Asamvera+sort%3Aupdated-desc

  • controlled vocabulary pr - enforced controlled vocabularies for imports.

  • Will cause potential problems with existing works flows.

  • Needs to be off by default.

  • Want to create a community visible script to migrate from mixed controlled vs non controlled and to split them in to separate metadata properties.