NE Regional Group (North East and/or New England)
NE Regional Group Meeting: May 22 2017
Calling all Northeast Hydranauts! Come join your colleagues from Amherst, Boston Public Library, Brown, DPLA, Northeastern, WGBH, Yale, and other institutions as we gather for a one-day meeting to discuss all things Hydra. #HydraNE2017
Location & Logistics
Snell Library, Northeastern University
Registration
Agenda (roughly sketched)
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Day Setting
9:10 - 10:00 Update from the DPLA
10:00 - 10:30 Charon Project (Northeastern)
10:30 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Institutional Updates
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Update from Hydra Steering)
1:00 - 2:15 Breakouts I
2:15 - 2:30 Break
2:30 - 3:45 Breakouts II
3:45 - 4:00 Wrap Up
Questions?
Please contact Patrick Yott (p.yott@northeastern.edu) with any questions.
Possible Break-Out Sessions
| Proposed topics/sessions | Description |
|---|---|
| General repository concepts | eg. fixity checks, virus checks, ... Concepts that apply across repositories, not just repositories built on hydra ruby gems. |
| Project Updates | State of Keepy McDataface nation; projects underway and their progress; future and potential future directions. |
dev ops | |
| Breakout | User experience in the breakout sessions |
Metadata Management, PCDM, Fedora 4 migration | |
Developing with Hydra for non-CC use cases, performance and scalability | |
| Repositories as preservation and access systems. | |
Hyrax, Avalon, spotlight, other curation gems , project management for hydra projects, Hydra for repository managers, Hydra-in-a-Box/Hyku/Hyrax | |
| Fedora 4 | Integration with Fedora 4 for existing projects; getting Hydra up and running with Fedora 4; etc. |
| Spotlight | Discussion of Spotlight features; how to integrate Spotlight into an existing Hydra project, etc. |
| Content modeling | Looking at the emerging Portland Common Data Model; content modeling for complex objects; content modeling in Fedora 4; modeling in RDF; other strategies for modeling |
| Code release workflows | How do we manage the application life cycle? How to manage new releases of your own codebase? |
| UX discussion | Open discussion of various UX topics with regard to Hydra and Blacklight |
| APIs | Opening up data within your repository to the outside world; integration of Hydra-managed content with Wordpres, Drupal, ?? |
| Preservation & auditing | What tools are available for preservation and auditing? What are institutions doing along these lines currently? |
| Hydra for managers | Discussion of issues related to managing software development projects with Hydra |
| Institution updates | Each institution will give an informal 5-10 "lightning talk"-style presentation where they provide updates on current projects, discuss recent milestones, give a demo of functionality (existing or in-development), etc. |