NE Regional Group Meeting: May 7, 2015

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. #HydraNE2015

Location & Logistics

Brown University
Rockefeller Library, Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab (Room 137)
10 Prospect St. Providence, RI, 02912

Map here: https://goo.gl/maps/VdVsQ

Parking
Parking at Brown can be difficult, although the available options, as well as information about rail and air service, are detailed here: http://brown.edu/go/hydraworkshoptravel

Hotels
The most convenient hotels are in downtown Providence, which is generally an easy walk to campus. Here is a list of nearby hotels: http://goo.gl/0qQPVG

Registration

Registration is now closed. However, you can put your name on the waiting list:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zVmSGv9SOYELHqprzN8IHI_fq7fJR-QMM0w04R_VQag/viewform?edit_requested=true

Agenda

9:00: Welcome and breakfast

9:15 - 10:30: Brief overviews from participants

10:30 - 10:45: Break

10:45 - 12:00: Fedora 4 migration - Michael Friscia (Yale) will start the discussion

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch (provided by Brown University Library); Sign up for discussion topics

1:00 - 2:15: Spotlight Ben Cail and Joseph Rhoads (Brown) will start the discussion

2:15 - 2:30: Break

2:30 - 3:30: Breakout groups

3:30 - 4:00: Report out and wrap up Discussion about hosting Hydra Connect

Questions?

Please contact andrew_ashton@brown.edu with any questions

Previously proposed discussion topics below... (left here for posterity).

Proposed topics/sessions	Description
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.
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?
Intro to Hydra	Informational session for institutions that are new to the Hydra stack and/or institutions thinking about implementing Hydra
Hydra Connect 2016	The possibility of hosting Hydra Connect 2016 in the Boston area and planning a proposal submission.
Hydra for managers	Discussion of issues related to managing software development projects with Hydra