This is a list of current calls for participation in the Community. Use the Ask template to add your call to action. These Asks will be promoted to the Community by the Community Manager – contact Heather Greer Klein if you need any help or if you want to explore other ways to find participants.
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Ask: Join the 2021 Samvera Virtual Connect Committee
Participation target date: February 19th
What we need: The Program Committee will:
- Determine how we will solicit and manage presentations
- Develop a schedule of presentations
- Provide day-of support during Virtual Connect
This is a great way to take a leadership role in the Samvera Community; you'll have Community manager support and the Virtual Connect planning process has great documentation from all the Samverans on committees from past years.
Who we need:
Anyone from within the Samvera Community (need not be a Partner)
Any role at your institution or organization that touches Samvera
Has support from your local leadership/management
Can commit to a few 1 hour meetings in February/March, up to 1 hour per week leading up to Virtual Connect, plus the conference days
To participate: Sign up here by February 19th: https://forms.gle/TuTqTjm27MpWZALd8
We'll try to schedule our first meeting for the week of Feb 22, and select Chairs or Co-Chairs for the committee at the first meeting.
For questions: email heather@samvera.org
Ask: Review/Feedback request for Hyrax Metadata Application Profile Documentation
Participation target date: We kindly ask that any input be sent by Friday, February 19th.
What we need: The Hyrax Metadata Application Profile Documentation Working Group has created the expanded metadata application profile (Google sheet), and the machine-readable metadata modeling specification example (YAML file) for the forthcoming Hyrax version 3.0. Updates to the relevant page of the Samvera Knowledge Base, including links to the aforementioned resources, will be pushed at the time of stable release.
Community feedback on these outputs would be extremely appreciated. We are specifically seeking feedback on:
General helpfulness and utility of these documentation references
Accuracy with regards to out-of-the-box metadata behavior
Any aspects of this documentation that seem unclear or confusing
Who we need: Anyone in the Community who is interested is welcome to review and provide feedback.
To participate: provide feedback by commenting directly in the MAP Google sheet, or sending a message to any of the WG members
For questions: message to any of the WG members
Ask: Add or update your Samvera Repository listing for 2021
What we need: A reminder from the Repository Management Interest Group: Do you have a Samvera application in production? Or are you currently working on one? The community keeps a list of these projects as a way to share information within the community and with potential adopters about live and planned implementations. These lists are an especially helpful tool to learn about locally developed features.
Who we need: Anyone who works for an institution that has a Samvera repository in production or in progress is welcome to add to or update these lists.
To participate: Check and/or add your entry on the wiki at Samvera Implementations: In-production and Samvera Implementations: In-development
For more information/questions: email heather@samvera.org
Ask: Share one particularly fun/interesting/notable holding from your Samvera repository
What we need: Would you take a few minutes to complete this brief form to share one particularly fun/interesting/notable holding in your repository so we can feature it on the map? The Samvera Marketing Working Group plans to create an online map/tour of Samvera-based repositories. The repository tour will appear on the Samvera website and will be a communication tool to provide an overview of what's possible with Samvera-based repositories.
Who we need: Anyone who works for an institution that has a Samvera repository is welcome to share a holding.
To participate: Complete this brief form to share your notable holding.
For more information/questions: Message the # marketing_wg Slack channel with any questions.
Ask: Update the Roadmaps Alignment document with the features your institution plans to add or would like to add to your Samvera installation(s)
Participation target date: Ongoing; please add add or update your 2021 interest by the end of January 2021 for inclusion in Roadmaps Alignment planning
What we need: The Community needs to understand which features Partners are planning to work on or would like to work on. This information will be used to help prioritize features of interest to many institutions, with a goal of reducing redundancies and moving widely needed features into core code for Hyrax, Avalon, and Hyku.
Who we need: Anyone from a Partner institution who can speak to the needs and plans for new features at your institution.
To participate: Add to the Roadmaps Alignment
For questions: Message the #roadmaps-alignment-group Slack channel