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March 11, 2016
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Attendees
Facilitator:
newmanld (Cincinnati)
Notetaker:
matienzo (DPLA)
Agenda & Notes
Roll Call
AttendingWelcome New Folks
... (Hull)
... (DPLA)
... (Yale)
... (BPL)
Alicia Morris (Tufts)
... (Cincinnati)
... (Indiana University)
... (Northwestern)
... (Michigan)
... (Michigan)
... (Notre Dame)
... (UCSD)
... (UCSD)
... (Stanford)
... (Oregon State)
... (WGBH)
Call for Agenda Items
Power Steering: format for calls
Next call
Date: April 8, 2016
Facilitator:
Notetaker:
Hydra-in-a-Box project hydrainabox.org
Public announcement coming soon to hydra-community and hydra-partners
Development sprints starting soon at Stanford. Plan to do these sprints publicly a la Spotlight. Please contact ... or ... if you're interested in contributing to development
Discuss items on Power Steering identified for discussion during Hydra Connect 2015
(see https://waffle.io/projecthydra-labs/power-steering) / (see also https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/power-steering/issues), "Partner Calls"; not all items need be discussed this call; facilitator should determine based on time
Several items in Waffle are on agenda for March Power Steering meeting.
Agenda for Hydra Power Steering 2016
As yet topics need to be divided into time slots.
Key topics
financials (fundraising, allocation) - see Hydra Financial Vision 2016
alignment of Hydra-based products on development (e.g. Sufia, Plum, Hybox, Avalon, etc.) - how do we ensure there's not duplication of effort
State of the community - collaborating with IGs/WGs, newcomer onboarding,
Reviewing expectations of partners; partner support; networks (geographically based?)
reviewing training
Strategic planning - ; integration with Research Information systems (Symplectic, SHARE, etc.)
Project stability - Fedora 4, gem changes
Hydra events
Changing format of calls
Known lack of energy/attendance on partner calls
Might be better to include video as a possibility
Haven't changed format in practice over time
Please provide feedback to Steering/Power Steering - we shouldn't be discouraged by these calls; please also indicate what's useful about those calls
Suggestion: find a way to have a smaller agenda with specific topics that to discuss or where action is necessary
Overall need to make the calls more vibrant
Standing Community to-do's
Reports back from meetings (if any)
UCSB Hydra Camp
Lots of questions and focus on PCDM; people wanted to know what they should be doing it and how it gets incorporated into application development.
PCDM documentation is OK, but dispersed in multiple places; Hydra::Works requires people to go elsewhere for that documentation.
Regional Hydra meeting after Hydra Camp
Morning plenary - questions/concerns about compound objects, esp migrating existing repo objects into PCDM
Code4lib
UGent developers interested in contributing to Blacklight (Nicolas Steenlant & Patrick Hochstenbach); Nic was funded by Blacklight's platinum sponsorship
Hydra workshops (Dive Into and Dive Deeper Into)
Good number of presentations on Hydra, particularly integration with things like ArchivesSpace
Next Partner and dev-centric meetings
Hydra Connect 2016 (Oct. 3-6, 2016)
Logistics well under way
Want to start program planning - want to keep program committee to 5-6 people; still need volunteers
Local Planning Committee meeting roughly monthly
Stanford Developer Congress (March 24-25)
Jeremy Friesen working on draft agenda; should be released soon
Michigan Developer Congress (May 4-6)
Working on planning; after March HDC, should have a better idea for how it went.
Considering doing tracks for new developers vs. existing developers
DPLAFest (April 13-15)
Hydra in a Box presentation ( ..., ..., ...)
PCDM/IIIF/interoperability presentation ( ...)
Regional meetings
Hydra Europe event in April (potentially cohosted with Europeana)
CA - The link with Europeana did not turn into an event, but is following other channels around community development. We are continuing to look at options for a Hydra Europe event in the light of this
Interest in organizing a session on organizing regional meetings and Dev Congresses at Hydra Connect 2016
Training
Anyone willing to host a fall Hydra Camp? Reach out to ....
Reports from Interest & Working Groups (Please post a 1-2 sentence note of your update before the meeting just in case someone can't make the call):
Samvera Digital Preservation Interest Group
Three proposed working groups are listed on the Group's wiki page for consideration. Feedback is welcome on these, and an announcement inviting participation will go out shortly.
Samvera User Experience Interest Group
Working on wireframes for Sufia 7, and identifying items as out of scope for 7.0/in scope for 7.1
Hydra Web Presence Working Group
In abeyance pending outcome of discussions about Hydra's financial vision and plan at Power Steering and elsewhere.
Hydra Service Management Interest Group
Last call only had 4 participants. Challenges for this group include scheduling calls that more people can attend, and determining a solid focus for the group. There has been discussion on sending out a survey, as well as potentially interviewing more experiences service managers in the community to get a better idea of needs, interests, and focus for this group. Please feel free to contact ... if you are interested in helping get this group back off the ground.
Samvera Metadata Interest Group
Considering questions about where to host controlled vocabularies and/or RDF ontologies. Connecting with Time-based Media IG re: their work to extend technical metadata profile for audio and video formats. Descriptive Metadata Working Group moving towards hiatus.
MODS and RDF Descriptive Metadata Subgroup ()
Work is ongoing
Segment of a File Structural Metadata Working Group
Draft recommendation being finalized
Prospective Partner Intel Sharing
(details not included in notes)
Any other old or new business
Should we have a training WG? (Based on question of Michigan re: organizing May HDC)
Potential interest from ... to follow up on, and for discussion at Hydra Power Steering discussion ("Hydra Training" is on the agenda).