Hydra Connect 2015

200 HydraNauts from 60 institutions attended the 3rd International Hydra Connect in Minneapolis, 21-24 September 2015.

Photo ( HydraConnect2015-02.jpg): Mark Bussey / Colin Smith

Presentations and breakout notes are linked from the program further down this page as available

Detailed Table of Contents

What is Hydra Connect?

Hydra Connect (hashtag #HydraConnect) is a chance for Hydra Project participants to gather in one place at one time, with an emphasis on synchronizing efforts, technical development, plans, and community links. As the community expands, it is becoming clear that not every Partner will make every meeting, but there is value in ensuring cross-connections across the community, and we'd be well served to have at least one meeting where everyone shows up. Put another way, if a Partner could attend only one meeting in the 2015/2016 academic year, this would be it. Adopters of Hydra, or those considering its adoption, who are not yet Partners are equally welcome to attend and a number of the meeting sessions during the workshops and conference proper will be specifically tailored to their needs.

Program

Many of the sessions listed below now have links to the presentation materials.

Monday 21st September

Coffee and Registration

8.15-9.00am Coffee and registration (also on Tuesday and Wednesday)

Pre-conference workshops

9:00am-4:45pm

- Fedora 4

9:00am-10:30am

- Sufia test drive
- Managing geospatial metadata
- Avalon technical deep-dive
- Customizing your Blacklight application: best practices

10:45am-12:15pm

- Introduction to Hydra for managers
- Making your Hydra project production ready
- Ask the Blacklight experts
- Avalon technical deep-dive - (continued from 9am)

1:30pm-3:00pm

- Deep dive into Spotlight
- Allies workshop - cancelled
- Working with linked data in Ruby(rdf.rb)
- Service management planning for Hydra

3:15pm-4:45pm

- Tour of the Hydra testing stack
- Working with linked data - (continued from 1:30pm)
- Service management planning - (continued from 1:30pm)

Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd September

Tuesday plenary sessions

- - Hydra Connect 2015 Welcome.pdf
  - The state of the HydraSphere - Tom Cramer
  - The Hydra in a Box project - Mark Matienzo & Hannah Frost
  - A More Worthwhile Sufia: Now with PCDM™ - Mike Giarlo and Jon Stroop
  - Reports from Interest and Working Groups.pptx
  - Avalon - a demonstration and roadmap - Jon Dunn
  - Service Management Plenary HydraConnect 2015.pptx - Tony Navarette