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Hydra Partners Call (May 2016)

Friday, May 13, 2016

11:30 am | Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) | 1 hr

Meeting number:	738 605 799
Meeting password:	VBjSQ583

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Facilitator: Karen Cariani (WGBH)

Notetaker: Carolyn Caizzi (Northwestern)

Agenda

11:30am – quick discussion about the new partner call format
- next month call: facilitator and note taker
- What we might do different to generate agenda items
11:45am – Declan Fleming’s group at UCSD will give a 10min report on their Hydra activities
12:00pm – Julie Hardesty will report on work being done by the Metadata working group
12:10pm – brainstorm session for potential topics, and speakers for a Hydra webinar series through DuraSpace
12:30pm – adjourn, if not sooner

Attendees

Mike Giarlo (Stanford)
wgcowan (Indiana University)
Mike Korcynski (Tufts University)
asconrad (Deactivated) (Royal Library)
Don Brower (Notre Dame)
Margaret Mellinger (Oregon Digital - Oregon State University)
Eben English (Boston Public Library)
Fleming, Declan (Deactivated) (UCSD)
Julie Allinson
Glen Horton (Cincinnati)
Nabeela Jaffer (Michigan)
John Weise (Michigan)

13. Eric James (Yale)

Event Recording

Notes

New partner call format description: see Karen Cariani’s email to list

Add names to wiki

June 10 next call—may be light because of Open Repositories

Facilitator: Will Cowan

Notetaker: Chris Awre

How to encourage people to come up with agenda items?

-Pick working groups to report in

-Ask Steering Committee for agenda items

-Facilitator could call upon their network, directly ask colleagues

UCSD report

-DAMS system: Legacy-RDF custom code, AJAX front end. Been refactoring for last 2-3 years, looked at Islandora and Hydra; moved to Hydra, still have RDF back end, shim in place

-Digital Collections app- linked data aware, and complex object aware, not a self-deposit repository like Sufia

-Working with community on data modeling; focusing on descriptive now, previously

-Hosted a Dev Congress- a gem for SHARE came out of this congress

-Fedora4 migration is being tested

-CuratonConcerns or Sufia level development is a question still being explored

-Working with DevOps, moving away from Bamboo

Questions/Comments

-Storing objects in Fedora was discussed at the high level since UCSD is using Hydra as a front end for their DAMS, but Fedora is not on the backend.

-Merging CurationConcerns and Sufia back together is still open as a question that will be discussed more in the architecture working group.

-Is there some more documentation for CurationConcerns that is more friendly for less dev centric folks?

Not much apart from the ReadMe. Discussion about whether to form a tightly scoped working group for documentation. Be sure to loop in Jon Stroop at Princeton.

Metadata Working Group update (see wiki for meeting notes)

-3 groups: Technical, Rights, and Structural, all completed work last year.

-Baseline recommendations for technical, rights for Hydra apps.

-Structural group documented the current landscape.

-Descriptive is still active—best practices, metadata profile baseline.

Descriptive Subgroups: MODS and RDF. MODS working on crosswalks to RDF. Active development example.

-Applied linked data is active—exploring fragments, may be dissolving

-New working sub group, URI Management—first meeting will be next week. Working on recommendations on maintaining URIs.

-Slack Channel created for Metadata Working Group

DuraSpace Webinar Series about Hydra ideas for content

-Collecting what is already out there would be helpful as opposed to new content

-Server environments needed to support a Hydra application

-Explanation of points of departure from out of box functionality and decision making process about why