An update about Samvera Connect 2020 from the organizers to the community. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
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Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and Connect 2020
This talk outlines our digitization workflow, the problems we encountered with batch ingest, and how we used Avalon's api-ingest. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
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Screencast, Workflow, Virtual Connect 2020, Avalon, and Samvera
A major advantage of open source repositories is that search results and relevancy ranking can be tuned to our specific collections, as well as our users’ needs. This lightning talk will explore how users, developers, and catalogers collaborate to create shared meaning in the form of search results and relevancy ranking, and will discuss what types of interventions can be made in that meaning-making process to allow user needs and search results to be more closely aligned. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
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Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and Solr
The program and notes, with linked slides, for the Samvera Virtual Partner meeting held on-line 27/28 April, 2020. This virtual meeting replaced the planned face-to-face event that should have been held in Atlanta but which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“In order to support centralized staffing the Samvera Community needs a strategy to raise significant funds on an ongoing basis. Partner discussions have supported the idea of a required contribution model that equitably distributes the burden. The contribution model will include both financial and in-kind staff time tiered options. Equity, good standing, how to value in-kind contributions, and incentives will be addressed in the proposed contribution model.” The work developed over two phases producing these reports. and The Samvera Contribution model Working Group was chartered to propose a model in support of the Governance Working Group recommendation that
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Governance, Interest and Working Groups, Samvera, and Community
Slides from a workshop at Samvera Connect 2019 advertized under the title "Using The Latest Rails Features in Hyrax" and described thus and We'll introduce Rails 6 features and discuss how they might integrate in to Samvera applications. *File uploads with S3 *Action Mailbox *Webpacker (default in Rails 6) *ActionText Another day, another major Rails version. What's been happening in the larger Rails community and how does it affect Samvera development?
This is a recording of part of a Samvera Partner call held on 8th November 2019. Ellen Ramsey from the University of Virginia talks about the two-year, $1 million grant from the Arcadia Fund. Through this project, the University of Virginia and its partner institutions—Ubiquity Press and the British Library—will support the growth of open access through institutional repositories. Working with the global open infrastructure community, the partners will introduce significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community’s Hyku Institutional Repository platform. A link to the full grant announcement can be found below. Extent, 20, and 14
A short presentation given during Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 reviewing the work of the Steering Group during the previous months. Both the slides and the script are available for download.
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Governance, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Community, and Lightning talk