Events, presentations and articles

Forthcoming Events

One or more members of the Samvera Community will be attending the following events. Events listed with the Samvera icon are organised by or on behalf of Samvera, those labelled were organized by or on behalf of Hydra (our previous name).

Samvera Partner meeting

Spring 2021 tbc | On-line

Samvera Virtual Connect 2021

April 2021 tbc | Online

Samvera Connect 2021

Fall 2021 tbc | On-line

Past events (with presentations if available)

Samvera Developer Congress 

16 - 18 November 2020 | Virtual | Now virtual and moved to November due to the COVID-19 disruption

Samvera Connect 2020 

22-23 and 26-29 October 2020 | On-line

Fall 2020 Samvera Partner meeting

14-15 October 2020 | On-line

Samvera Virtual Connect 2020

14-15 May 2020 | Online

Hydra Connect 2015

21-24 September, 2015 | Minneapolis, Minnesota

Open Repositories 2015

8-11 June, 2015 | Indianapolis, Indiana
Annual open source conference for the repository community 
List of Hydra-related presentations etc at OR2015 

Hydra Northeast (US) Regional Meeting

7 May 2015 | Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Hydra Europe Symposium 2015

23-24 April 2015 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London

Hydra Camp London

20-23 April 2015 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London

Hydra Developers' congress

26-27 March 2015 | Stanford University 

Hydra Power Steering meeting

Invitation-only event
26-27 March 2015 | Stanford University 

Invitation-only event
23-25 March 2015 | Stanford University

Hydra: many heads, many connections. Enriching Fedora Repositories with ORCID (slides and recording)

2 April 2015 | Duraspace Hot Topics Series: Integrating ORCID Persistent Identifiers with DSpace, Fedora and VIVO

Advanced Blacklight Workshop

13 March 2015 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Hydra Camp

9-12 March 2015 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Post-Code4Lib Hydra Developers' meeting

12-13 February 2015 | UoPDX Library, Portland, Oregon

Code4Lib

9-12 February 2015 | Portland Hilton (Portland, OR)

1. 1. RailsBridge (Carolyn Cole)
   2. Intro to Blacklight (Justin Coyne, Mark Bussey, Jessie Keck)
   3. GeoHydra / GeoBlacklight (Jack Reed, Darren Hardy, Bess Sadler)
   4. Dive into Hydra (Possibly with a focus on installing Worthwhile) (Justin Coyne, Mark Bussey, Bess Sadler)
   5. Orienting newcomers and/or Q&A - possible times

10th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC)

9-12 February 2015 | Royal College of General Practitioners, 30 Euston Square (London, UK)

a. Meeting institutional needs for digital curation through shared endeavour: the application of Hydra/Fedora at the University of Hull (Chris Awre)

CNI Fall Member Meeting

8-9 December 2014 | Washington DC

• • Digital Repository Development at Yale Library, from Michael Dula, CTO of Yale Library

DLF Forum 2014

27-29 October 2014 | Atlanta, Georgia

There is a wealth of Hydra and Hydra-related content at DLF this year. If you won't be able to make it to Hydra Connect 2 (Cleveland, Sept 30-Oct 2), or if you want to carry on the conversation with the broader community, you should consider booking early to DLF; they tend to fill up relatively early.

• • Hydra Installfest: Monday, October 27, 1:30-3:30pm, Salons 1,2,3
  • Developing With Hydra: Tuesday, October 28, 1:30-3:30pm, Salons 1,2,3
  • DevOps for Digital Repositories
  • Sustaining Open Source Software
  • The Future of Fedora: Update on Fedora 4
  • Avalon Media System: Implementation and Community
  • Spotlight: A Self-Service Tool for Showcasing Digital Collections
  • Placing the IR Within the User's Workflow: Connecting Hydra-based Repositories with Zotero
  • Running Up That Hill: The Academic Preservation Trust: A Community Based Approach to Digital Preservation

Hydra UK Regional meeting

22 October 2014 | London School of Economics and Political Science

AMIA 2014

8-11 October 2014 | Savannah, Georgia
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) annual conference

Hydra Connect #2 -

30 September - 3 October 2014 | Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio
Annual gathering of the Hydra Community - 4 days including workshops, plenary and breakout sessions

Innovatics conference

27-29 August 2014 | Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile
Dive into Hydra workshop (in Spanish) as part of Innovatics conference
Keynote speaker (Bess Sadler) 

Hydra Camp -

 26-29 August 2014 | Princeton, New Jersey

Four day Hydra Developer training class - syllabus

Open Repositories 2014

9-13 June, 2014 | Helsinki, Finland
Annual open source conference for the repository community.  See below the list of Hydra-related talks accepted, with timings and links to abstracts on the OR2014 conference website.

Workshops

• WK1A and WK2A: GIS in Digital Repositories, 9th June, 9:00am-5:00pm - Abstract
• WK1G: Introduction to Hydra for Developers, 9th June, 9:00-12:30 - Abstract
  
• WK2E: DevOps for Digital Libraries, 9th June, 1:30-5:00 - Abstract
• WK2F: Implementing RDF metadata in Hydra, 9th June, 1:30-5:00 - Abstract
  
• WK3B: Hydra for Managers, 9th June, 5:30-7:00 - Abstract
  

OR2014 Plenary

• P3C: Self-deposit, discovery, and delivery of scientific datasets using GeoHydra, 10th June, 3:00-4:15 - Abstract
• P4A: Spotlight: A Blacklight Plugin for Showcasing Digital Collections, 11th June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P4A: Hacking User Experience in a Repository Service: ScholarSphere as a Case Study, 11 June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P4B: Distributed Repositories of Medieval Calendars and Crowd-Sourcing of Transcription, 11 June 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P4B: From Local Practice to Linked Open Data: Rethinking Metadata in Hydra, 11 June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P4C: Building Successful, Open Repository Software Ecosystems: Technology and Community, 11th June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P7A: Building the ‘Digital’ Library: Routes to Managing our Institutional Digital Learning, Teaching and Research Assets Together, 12th June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P7A: From library repository to university-wide service: Stanford Digital Repository as a case study, 12th June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• P7C: Leveraging Agile & Resourcing for Success - Hydramata, Avalon, Fedora 4 and Islandora (panel), 12th June, 11:15-12:30- Abstract
• P8A: Audio and Video Repositories at Scale: Indiana University’s Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative, 12th June, 1:30-2:20 - Abstract
  
• P8B: Sustaining your open source project through training: a Hydra case study, 12th June, 1:30-2:20 - Abstract
• P8B: Hydramata: Building a Nimble Solution with Hydra to Transcend the Institutional Repository, 12th June, 1:30-2:20 - Abstract  

Fedora Interest Group

• IG3A (Fedora/Hydra): Facing the Hydra alone: three case studies, 13th June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract
• IG3A (Fedora/Hydra): Extending the Hydra Head to Create a Pluggable, Extensible Architecture: Diving into the Technology of Hydramata, 13th June, 11:15-12:30 - Abstract  
• IG3A (Fedora/Hydra): Issues with Fedora & Hydra, experiences from a research-data-driven implementation, 13th June, 11:15-12:30 -   Abstract
• IG4A (Fedora): Avalon Media System project update: a Hydra solution for digital audio and video access. 13th June, 1.30-2.45 - Abstract

Posters and Demonstrations - 10th June, 6:30-9:00 - Abstracts

• Hydra Europe
  
• Avalon Media System demonstration 
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ORCID Outreach and CodeFest Meeting

21-22 May 2014 | Chicago
Outreach meeting for customers, ORCID members, and researchers highlighting solutions and adoption strategies.  

• ORCID Identifiers in Repositories Panel: ORCID Hydra Plug-in

Hydra Camp -

6-9 May | Minneapolis
Four day Hydra developer training   

Hydra Developers Congress -

24-25 April 2014 | Stanford University
Two day in-person Hydra Developer coding fest  

Hydra "Power" Steering meeting - invitation only -

24-25 April 2014 | Stanford University
Two day strategic planning event - Hydra Steering Group and Invited advisers only  

LAMDevConX - invitation only

21-23 April 2014 | Stanford University
Library, Archive, and Museum technical summit - invitation only event  

European Hydra Camp -

8-11 April 2014 | Trinity College Dublin
Four day Hydra developer training course  

European Hydra Symposium  

7-8 April 2014 | Trinity College Dublin
European Hydra symposium to introduce prospective users to Hydra

Code4Lib 2014

24 - 27 March |  Raleigh, NC
Annual grassroots library technologist conference in the US

Pre-conference workshops:

• Intro to Blacklight
• Blacklight hackfest
• Rails Bridge intro to programming
• GeoHydra: Managing Geospatial Content

Scheduled talks:

• Building for others (and ourselves): the Avalon Media System
• Sustaining your Open Source project through training
• Behold Fedora 4: The Incredible Shrinking Repository!

ORCID Dev Congress

4-7 March 2014 | Chicago Dev House
ORCID and Hydra Plug-in integration Adopter and Contributor Dev Meeting to jump start adoption

Hydra Connect January 2014  

21-24 January 2014 | UCSD, San Diego

CNI Fall 2013

9-10 Dec 2013 | Washington, DC

• • Collaborating to Manage Research Data (Notre Dame and Hydra Partners) (pptx)

DLF 2013

4-6 Nov 2013 | Austin, TX

Hydra Activities at DLF2013

EOD Conference

17-18 October 2013 | National Library of Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

From content silos to an integrated digital library (Royal Library project presentation, including slides about Hydra)

HydraCamp  

1-4 October 2013 | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

HydraCamp Syllabus - Fall 2013

DARIAH General VCC Meeting

5-6 September 2013 | Copenhagen, Denmark

Using Hydra/Fedora for digital library infrastructure (5 minutes presentation)

OR13 Conference

7-13 July 2013 | Prince Edward Island, Canada

Hydra Activities at OR13

• • State of the HydraSphere for OR13 (pptx)
  • 24x7 Presentation: "Testing Your Archive: Delivering on the Promise of Persistence"
  • Duke University Libraries Preservation Repository (pdf)
  • 

OAI8

19-21 June 2013 | University of Geneva, Switzerland

• Hydra poster
  
  

Hydra Camp  

8-12 April 2013 | Dublin

LibDevConX^4

25-27 March 2013 | Stanford

Code4Lib 2013

February 11-14 | Chicago, IL

Hydra UK  

22 November 2012, LSE, London

• Introduction to Hydra by Chris Awre
• Hydra in Hull by Richard Green
• Hydra@GCU: a repository for audio and video by Caroline Webb
• Hydra at LSE by Ed Fay
• Hydra at Oxford by Neil Jefferies
• Hydra UK discussion notes
• Twitter hashtag for ongoing comment and discussion - #hydrauk
• Ariadne event report
  
  

Hydra Webinar Series - Fall, 2012

• DuraSpace Webinar Hub
• Series Announcement - Hydra Webinar Series - 2012
• Webinar 1 – Introduction to Hydra, presented by Tom Cramer (Sept 25, 2012)
  
  • Watch the Webinar Recording
  • View the slides (slideshare)
• Webinar 2 - A Case Study on General Repository Applications, presented by Rick Johnson and Richard Green (Oct 16, 2012)
  
  • Watch the Webinar Recording
  • View the slides (slideshare)
• Webinar 3 - Hydra Technical Deep Dive, presented by Matt Zumwalt (scheduled for Oct 30, 2012, but recorded separately due to Superstorm Sandy)
  • Watch the Webinar Recording
  • Watch the Q&A follow-up session
  • View the slides (slideshare)
    
    

OR12 Conference

9-13 July 2012, Edinburgh – Schedule of Hydra Events at OR12 in Edinburgh

• Intro to Hydra for OR12 PreConWorkshop by Chris Awre
• HydraSphere: One Body, Many More Heads, One Year Later Fedora User Group panel on Hydra, by Tom Cramer
• Hylandora by Tom Cramer and Jonathan Green
• Hydra Framework Technical Update for OR12 by Matt Zumwalt
• Seaside Research Portal: A Best of Breed Approach to Digital Exhibits and Collection Management by Rick Johnson
• Towards a mature, multi-purpose repository for the institution by Chris Awre
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LibDevConX^3

26-28 March 2012, Stanford

CNI 2011

December 12 - 13, 2011 | Arlington, VA
Hydra: One Body, Many Heads for Repository-Powered Library Applications

DLF 2011 Forum

31 Oct - 1 November, 2011 | Baltimore
Hypatia Proposal, Powerpoint

OR11 Conference

7-11 June 2011 | Austin

Main conference presentation

• Building the Hydra - Enhancing Repository Provision through Multi-Institution Collaboration: Chris Awre

Fedora track 24/7 block:

• SALT, ETDs and EEMs - Stanford's suite of Hydra services: Tom Cramer
• Libra - an unmediated, self-deposit, institutional repository at the University of Virginia : Julie Meloni
• Hydra in Hull: Richard Green
• A Hydra head for Northwestern University Digital Image Library: Bill Parod
• Hydra-based digital exhibits gallery at Notre Dame: Dan Brubaker Horst

Fedora track: Tools and integration

• Hydra technical deep-dive: Matt Zumwalt

Hydra-related presentations

• CLIF: Moving repositories upstream in the content lifecycle: Richard Green and Simon Waddington
  
  

LibDevConX^2

21 - 23 March 2011 | Stanford University

Code4Lib 2011

7-10 February, 2011 | Bloomington, Indiana
Related Presentations:

• Digital Exhibits at Notre Dame Using Hydra by Rick Johnson & Dan Brubaker Horst
• Opinionated Metadata by Matt Zumwalt
  
  

Fedora UK & Ireland group meeting  

13 December 2010 | London School of Economics and Political Science

DLF Fall Forum

1-3 November 2010 | Palo Alto, CA
Tom Cramer & Matt Zumwalt's presentation

Hydra Camp  

4-8 October 2010 | Minneapolis

Repository Fringe

September 2010 | Edinburgh
Presentation: Hydra - Chris Awre (Video)

OR10 Conference

6-9 July 2010 | Madrid
Related Presentations:
Hydra: a technical and community framework for customised, shared repository applications
Blacklight: Levaraging a Rich Discovery Interface in Open Repository Architectures

LibDevConX

23 - 25 March 2010 | Stanford University

Fedora UK & Ireland User Group, Fedora EU User Group

8 December 2009 | Oxford
Presentations:

• The Hydra initiative: Underpinning repository interaction for research support - Chris Awre
• Content models in the Hydra Project - Richard Green
  
  

Fedora UK & Ireland User Group

9 June 2009 | Dublin, Republic of Ireland

OR09 Conference

18-21 May 2009 | Atlanta, GA
Presentations:

• Designing and building a reusable framework for multipurpose, multifunction, multi-institutional repository-powered solutions - available here
• Case studies in workflow: Three approaches - available here

Related Conferences

• Annual schedule of Samvera-related conferences which Samverans may be interested in attending