Hydra Virtual Connect 2016 took place online using Adobe Connect on Thursday, July 7, 2016.

A recording of the event is now available along with slides from many of the presentations, which are linked below. More slides will be added as they are received from presenters.

11:00 AM - 11:05 AM EDT	Welcome and Housekeeping
11:05 AM - 12:30 PM EDT	Featured Presentations:
11:05-11:30	Karen Estlund (Penn State University) and Esme Cowles (Princeton University). Portland Common Data Model (PCDM) Update.
11:30-12:00	Mike Giarlo (Stanford University) and Jon Stroop (Princeton University). Robust Repository Tooling through Community Collaboration.
12:00-12:30	Hannah Frost (Stanford University), Mike Giarlo (Stanford University), and Mark Matienzo (DPLA). A Peek Inside the Box: Designing and Building Hydra-in-a-Box through Repository Community Engagement.
12:30-12:45 PM EDT	Break
12:45 - 2:00 PM EDT	Lightning Talks:
12:45-12:55	Julie Hardesty (Indiana University). How the Hydra Metadata Interest Group can inform Fedora.
12:55-1:05	Julie Allinson (University of York) and Matthew Phillips (University of Durham). Hydra for Research Data. (Durham slides -- York slides)
1:05-1:15	Sheila Rabun (University of Oregon) and Kieran Etienne (Washington University, St. Louis). Hydra Service Management Interest Group Update.
1:15-1:25	Debs Cane (Northwestern University). Avalon 5.0 and the Future…
1:25-1:35	Jim Coble (Duke University). Migrating our Hydra Repository from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4.
1:35-1:45	Josh Gum (Oregon State University), Linda Sato (University of Oregon), and Ryan Wick (Oregon State University). Recent Progress on OpaqueNamespace.org including new triplestore-adapter gem, Blazegraph integration, and Git for tracking data changes.
1:45-2:00	Lightning Talk Q&A

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