Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern / 1-2 pm Central / 11 am-12 pm Pacific

Community Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G8wmi9R3q1uHatQLa3JfmlVr1-laTO5vgYzUZz-B7QU/edit?tab=t.0

2026-06-23

Moderator(s): Annamarie Klose

Notetaker: Emma Beck

Attendees:

• Patrick Burden - WVU 

• Dolsy Smith, GWU

• Rachel Howard (University of Louisville)

• Terri Holtze (University of Louisville)

• Emma Beck (University of Louisville) - She/her

• Kevin Jones (Oregon State University)

• Nic Don Stanton-Roark (PALs)

• Morgan McKeehan (she/her/hers), Oregon State University Libraries & Press

• Rachel Jacobson (she/her), Georgetown University

• Sarah Cogley (University at Buffalo)

• Sarah Proctor (Notch8)

• Nick Steinwachs (Notch8)

• Anna Goslen (UNC-Chapel Hill)

• Steve McDonald (Tufts University)

Action items

Agenda:

• Samvera Updates

  • In a community sprint this week. Working on documentation and code work

  • Avalon new release will be announced shortly

  • Samvera virtual connect and open repositories were recorded and are uploaded now. Lots of Samvera representation in the presentation

• Nested metadata work seems to be happening with Notch8 - dubbed “compound metadata” by LaRita - will try to come back to this in a future meeting, hopefully with LaRita present 

  • Recoding about is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1na7Nh5WtsqPNtNtRSPVUyzkkA2TTR0fJ/view  

  • “We're looking at bringing compound metadata into Hyrax first and then into a Hyku 7.3 release”

  • Work is going on at Westminster - “practice research” - research were the traditional research output is not a paper, but more in line with research arts. Videos, photos, recordings

  • https://neurology.wustl.edu/dancing-to-ease-disease-tango-with-a-beneficial-beat/

  • Has the ability to work with strings and controlled vocabulary

  • Ability to create a database from creator

  • Guided csv import will likely not need to be updated massively

• Alt-text in Hyku

  • University of Louisville - has done some adapting with the code to add it to all the records. The tag reads “resource type, source id, see description for more detail”

    • https://github.com/rkuehn-uofl/uofl_knapsack/blob/required_for_knapsack_instances/app/factories/bulkrax/bulkrax_file_set_alt_text_decorator.rb  

    • Trying to have a unique identifier, but not overwhelming the reader

    • We do have compound objects/parent child records so the idea was to get this at the file set record not at the individual image level

  • Would be nice if it was a little more automated in Hyku or Bulkrax

  • OSU has comic strips - have not found a good way to automate that work

  • Some people using AI claude sonnet to build the alt-text

  • How are various places approaching alt-text vs description? What happens when an image contains text?

  • Hyrax alt-text ticket: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/issues/7236  

  • OSU has an accessibility person who has been helping to guide the work

  • Hyku alt-text

    • https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/2961  

    • https://github.com/samvera/hyku/pull/2951   

  • tip for finding more Hyku alt-text features - look for ones created by LaRita as she did most of the work :) 

  • A spot to collaborate on alt-text definitions - New Features and Needs - Proposed, In-Progress, Released  

  • Public documentation can be risky because you’re showing your cards

• Open Discussion

  • Will send out a poll to see if this is still a good time for everyone

  • Next month agenda: language tags and language support, Nick would like to request some feedback on another project