Samvera Connect 2018 SMIG Meeting

Wednesday, 2018-10-10, 12:30-2:30pm

Rm 1150

Facilitator: @ruth.k.tillman

Notetaker: @Lisa McAulay

Attendees: 

• @Lisa McAulay , UCLA

• @jen young , Northwestern University

• @Nora Zimmerman , Lafayette College

• @Gregory Reser , UC San Diego

• Rachel Jaffe, UC Santa Cruz

• @Hutt, Arwen , UC San Diego

• Sari Mauro, Tufts University

• @Chrissy Rissmeyer , UC Santa Barbara

• @bhavanana , Oxford

• @Ryan Wick , Oregon State University

• @Anna Neatrour , University of Utah

• Nasrin Shekarforoosh, University of Utah

Community Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jiipUH7l9RsGWk9Eqsud72udYwKKkUMRDtdGll66HUo/edit?usp=sharing

• SMIG Scope and Objectives Review

  • No recommended changes from co-facilitators. We anticipate the group continuing for another year.

• Reports from Groups/Representatives

  • URI Selection WG

    • Not much to update: Met regularly and had some submissions. There isn’t yet a place to put these, however. Need to work on Samvera Community Vocab Manager. Support for money for hosting?

    • Is a vendor going to do it? Institution? What is the domain name going to be?

    • Fedora 4 hosts some URIs in github, maybe we can do that for some of these to get started?

    • This is something which should probably be punted to Samvera Steering via an email.

  • MODS -> RDF WG (see also 10/11 presentation 11:10-11:40 room 1170)

    • They have distributed the draft and are collecting feedback and they are re-working the draft

    • You can read their notes on the wiki and visit the presentation.

  • Geo Predicates - no one present at this meeting to report on it

  • Metadata Ordering

    • Problem statement: RDF statements aren’t ordered, but sometimes we need to manage ordered metadata, such as author orders.

    • The group has finished its work and submitted a report to to Steven Van Tuyl

    • Valkyrie has the best support for metadata ordering (San Diego? has done this in their IR, but it takes a lot of work and building a new model in Fedora. The method is essentially creating blank nodes which have a class indicating that they’re an ordered list of authors. But this requires creating objects for each list of authors.)

    • Valkyrie is likely to be the path forward.

      • Of note, Valkyrie won’t be storing things as native RDF, it will be JSON. This is something the group may which to tackle.

  • Batch import/export group demos are available, recorded by Greg.

    • There is a reporting out tomorrow at lunch.

    • There isn’t a real API for Hyrax at the moment, but there was a workshop on Hyrax API yesterday (Tuesday, October 9)

    • Round tripping -- export, make edits, re-import edits

  • Samvera Roadmap Council

    • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/samvera/Samvera+Roadmap+Council

    • Jen Young is the Metadata IG representative.

    • Jen is looking for feedback for what can the Samvera Roadmap Council do for the community?

      • Creating clear documentation and posting the roadmaps consistently

      • Developing methods for connecting non-developer contributions to the developer work. Is there a way to make the contributions more visible or interconnected?

      • Suggestion -- the Council could make sure the roadmaps are good communication documents for people outside of the working groups that they represent

      • Suggestion - connect with Jen on what you’d like for this

  • Ideas for Next Year

    • Fedora 5

      • Metadata folks have been asked for input on the Fedora 5. Contact Ruth or Julie if you’re interested.

    • Metadata Updating / improving existing docs

      • More documentation around other work types, Avalon, and things like how to add/change controlled vocabs.