Notes from Partner Updates

Notes for Institutional Updateshttps://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Hydra+Partner+Meetings
1) Notre Dame
Ā  A) Atrium ā€“ Solr index viewer
Ā  Ā  i) This is a decorator to a Solr index, allowing slicing the index along
Ā  Ā  facets.
Ā  Ā  ii) Allows ease of changing themes.
Ā  Ā  iii) Atrium is a proper Rails 3.x engine.
Ā  Ā  iv) Atrium and Blacklight are to be mounted engines in the same application.
Ā  Ā  v) How many themes are there. Presently it hasn't gotten very far. However,
Ā  Ā  if you know Rails ERB, you can easily roll your own theme.
Ā  B) EAD Ingest and Heracles Workflow Sytem
Ā  Ā  i) Several slides with ND Fedora Object Model, Workflow Diagrams
Ā  Ā  ii) Speakerdeck
Ā  Ā  iii) Will extract as an engine and repo with example workers/workflow
Ā  Ā  iv) Integrate Heracles with other systems in the library
Ā  Ā  v) Live demo of rabbit tests
Ā  Ā  vi) Indexes into Solr but relatively headless
Ā  Ā  vii) https://speakerdeck.com/u/dbrower/p/ead-ingest-and-heracles-workflow
2) Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame - Adam Wead
Ā  A) Hydra head is internal
Ā  Ā  i) Two formats:
Ā  Ā  Ā  a) Digital Video: born digital content with no analog or physical source
Ā  Ā  Ā  b) Archival Video: born analog
Ā  Ā  ii) Solr index copied into public Blacklight instance
Ā  B) Using facets as a rudimentary workflow;
Ā  Ā  i) Provide granular options for editing different attributes (collection,
Ā  Ā  title, contributors, etc)
Ā  Ā  ii) Once edited, daily job pushes to Blacklight instance
Ā  C) Creating collections via administrative interface ā€“ mixing Digital Video &
Ā  Archival Video
Ā  D) We, the Hydra community, are circling around the same EAD problems
3) University of Hull - Richard
Ā  A) Discussion concerning data sets
Ā  Ā  i) Opened hydra to data set deposits
Ā  Ā  ii) Has been able to meet lots of expectations for contributors
Ā  B) Have added more granular analytics to collections/data sets
Ā  C) Library Catalogue have applied responsive design
Ā  Ā  i) Exporting every night all the changes in holding to SOLR index
Ā  Ā  ii) Availability is being rendered as well
Ā  Ā  iii) Want to be able to login to Blacklight and checkout a book
Ā  Ā  iv) Intend to merge library server index and repository index
4) North Western ā€“ Mike Stroming
Ā  A) Application show images used by faculty, students, and staff
Ā  Ā  i) General use image library Hydra app ā€“ export to power point ā€“ create
Ā  Ā  custom collection
Ā  Ā  ii) Create a cropped image that is viewable only by creating user
Ā  Ā  iii) jQuery uploader tool
Ā  Ā  iv) Search results you can drag images into and around collection
Ā  Ā  v) Nested collections
Ā  Ā  vi) Batch edit ā€“ allows meta data updates ā€“ faculty that uploaded images for
Ā  Ā  a research trip could edit the meta data easily
Ā  Ā  vii) Fedora Admin Policy Objects ā€“ allow other objects to subscribe to this
Ā  Ā  policy object; Then the FAPO can be updated an all the subscribers inherit
Ā  Ā  this ā€“ Editorial: Sounds like a great idea!
5) IU ā€“ Chris &
Ā  A) Avalon ā€“ Joint venture between Northwester and IU?
Ā  Ā  i) Some overlap with RnR Hall of Fame
Ā  Ā  ii) System to provide access to AV collections;
Ā  Ā  Ā  a) 50 different units on Bloomington campus that have AV collections that
Ā  Ā  Ā  they want to expose;
Ā  Ā  Ā  b) Want one system for maintenance
Ā  Ā  Ā  c) R0 is currently publicly released (http://pawpaw.dlib.indiana.edu)
Ā  Ā  Ā  d) Opencast Matterhorn for video processing
Ā  Ā  iii) Browse, search, playback video
Ā  Ā  iv) Integration with single signon (CAS)
Ā  Ā  v) Multi-value fields; how to best edit this?
Ā  Ā  vi) Some work on Access controls ā€“ how to manage authorization controls
Ā  Ā  vii) Aiming for R1 by December/January
Ā  Ā  viii) Brief discussion between master/derivative and having a lab that is
Ā  Ā  performing conversions
Ā  Ā  ix) Batch ingest and how master's storage works
Ā  Ā  x) Would like to publish out to other digital video providers (e.g. iTunesU,
Ā  Ā  YouTube)

6) MediaShelf ā€“ Matt
Ā  A) HydraCamp training opportunities
Ā  Ā  i) Stabilize curriculum, provide videos
Ā  Ā  ii) Expand to other geographic regions
Ā  Ā  iii) Should we do these twice a year
Ā  Ā  iv) Organizational overhead for hosting at University is easier than
Ā  Ā  MediaShelf
Ā  B) Jenkins plugin for HydraHead change to spin up AWS instance to run tests
Ā  C) Scholarsphere ā€“ Google Docs for Academia --Ā 
Ā  Ā  i) Focused at the level of you've given us files and we don't know what applies.
Ā  Ā  ii) Provides checksums, version histories, some batch editing, characterization testing and displayable.
Ā  D) Fedora Update 3.6.1 was pushed out
Ā  Ā  i) hydra-jetty has been updated
7) Stanford
Ā  A) Blacklight Browse
Ā  Ā  i) May not work in Hydra context
Ā  Ā  ii) Terms component of SOLR
Ā  Ā  iii) https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight_browse_nearby
Ā  Ā  iv) Complication getting terms behind an item instead of ahead of item
Ā  Ā  v) Provide reverse shelfkey to find terms behind an item
Ā  Ā  vi) Handles multi-value fields
Ā  Ā  vii) Command line interface available
Ā  B) Hydrus
Ā  Ā  i) Rails 3 app with Hydra stack
Ā  Ā  ii) Hopefully release with data set support Q4
Ā  Ā  iii) Create collection, sign deposit agreement, etc.
Ā  Ā  iv) Three tier of users
Ā  Ā  v) Collection depositor cannot do publishing, but librarian or collection administrator could publish the collection
Ā  Ā  vi) Gem for generating admin view, not open sourced, but gives handy things. Stanford specific, but can be shared with other Hydra community members.
Ā  C) Stylesheets for OAI provider with Fedora