A presentation at Samvera Virtual Connect 2017. Interest and Working Group Reports and Newspaper IG User Experience IG Repository Management IG Metadata IG Hyrax Analytics WG URI Selection WG Data Mapper WG Applied Linked Data IG Documentation WG Collection Extensions WG CONTENTdm Migration WG Samvera Plugins WG
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Interest and Working Groups, Virtual Connect 2017, and Samvera
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and Over the course of the last six months, Duke University Libraries have been engaged in adjusting some of the native features of Hyrax in order to support a research data curation workflow that is heavily mediated and may involve extensive pre-publication alterations to files and their arrangement or description. This presentation will cover how we've adapted a Hyrax application to facilitate research data curation best practices, using the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data guidelines as a framework.
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Hyrax, Lightning talk, Research data management, Virtual Connect 2018, and Samvera
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and At Samvera Connect 2017, we presented a draft roadmap for the Hyrax 2.x-3.x release series. Since then, much work has been done to fulfill the promise of that roadmap, and work continues. In this talk we'll quickly review the roadmap, discuss the current status of work on Hyrax, and call for participation in future development efforts to bring Hyrax to 3.0 as soon as feasible.
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Samvera, Roadmap, Virtual Connect 2018, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and Beginning in April, folks from DuraSpace, Stanford University, Digital Curation Experts, CoSector (U. of London), Ubiquity Press, Texas Digital Library and Notch8 have been meeting to discuss their experiences hosting Hyku and develop a roadmap for its future. This presentation will update the Samvera community on the work group members have done to host and implement Hyku, plans for future work, and present several topics for consideration such as a potential governance structure and the feasibility of Hyku going forward.
Keyword:
Samvera, Virtual Connect 2018, Lightning talk, and Hyku
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Woodward, Nick
Contributor:
Stanford University, Notch8, Data Curation Experts, CoSector, University of London, DuraSpace, Ubiquity Press, University of Texas at Austin, and Hyku Service Provider Group
Valkyrie is a new persistence layer for Samvera, designed to address performance and sustainability problems. It was developed through the existing Samvera Working Group process, showing that the current Samvera community governance structure can be used to tackle big problems. Valkyrie features pluggable persistence options, allowing Samvera applications to use not just the historical combination of Fedora and Solr, but also other options like Fedora or Solr by themselves, PostgreSQL, and local disk. Allowing Samvera applications to use different persistence options refocuses the Samvera community, shifting away from persistence in Fedora as the defining aspect of the community. Instead, the focus shifts to the shared tools built by the community. and A presentation at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus
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Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2018, Samvera, and Valkyrie
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and IIIF Presentation 3.0 pushes beyond only images to support time-based media. This presentation will explain the new possibilities and how the Avalon team is helping to bring those to Hyrax.
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Hyrax, Lightning talk, Avalon, Virtual Connect 2018, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Samvera
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and Avalon Media System is working towards a release to integrate with Hyrax in support of time-based media formats. This includes creating a Work type to support the needs of audio and video formats and provide an upgrade path for those who have been using Avalon in it’s previous releases as a standalone Samvera product. Join us for a look at the new Audiovisual Work type, specifically how we’re transitioning descriptive metadata from MODS XML to RDF. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
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Avalon, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2018, Lightning talk, Hyrax, and Metadata
Subject:
Avalon Media System and Samvera Community
Creator:
Hardesty, Juliet L and Young, Jennifer
Contributor:
Indiana University, University of Utah, and Northwestern University
Northwestern University Libraries is currently running Samvera applications in production. Three of these are developed, maintained, and managed by the Repository & Digital Curation workgroup, * Arch, an Institutional Repository, based on Hyrax 2.4.1 * AVR, Northwestern's audiovisual repository, based on Avalon 6.3 * DONUT, the staff-facing ingest interface for the digital object repository, based on Hyrax 2.4.1 In developing and deploying these applications, we have encountered (and mostly overcome) numerous stumbling blocks relating to performance, scalability, customization, and assumptions about the deployment environment and infrastructure on which the apps will run. While we have found it possible to shoehorn the Samvera stack (as it exists today) into our Amazon Web Services cloud-based deployment environment, we have also started to investigate the rewards and compromises involved in taking a cloud-first approach to our next generation of tools. We have identified several basic tenets for this approach so far, * If AWS offers a native Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for a particular problem, use it (e.g., choose ElasticSearch/Cloud Search over Solr) * Avoid virtual server instances that run 24x7 waiting for requests/work * Do not assume there is a local filesystem to work with * Optimize startup time so that units of work can be spawned and killed as needed * Constantly assess and reassess every unit of work for scalability, repeatability, and idempotence * Keep data portable and code adaptable, but don't over-stress about vendor lock-in In this presentation, members of the Repository Development & Administration Team will present on lessons learned from 7 years of working with Samvera, Avalon, and Hyrax, what the future holds for our next round of in-house development, and the opportunities & compromises our cloud-first approach creates regarding our use of and contributions to the larger Samvera community., and A presentation at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus
Keyword:
Cloud services, Samvera, and Virtual Connect 2019
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Klein, Michael B
Contributor:
Quinn, Brendan, Schober, David, Arling, Adam, Shaw, Karen, and Northwestern University
A presentation at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and Samvera Metadata Interest Group Update - Julie Hardesty (Indiana University) Samvera URI Selection Working Group - Ryan Wick (Oregon State University) MODS to RDF Working Group - Eben English (Boston Public Library) Machine-readable Metadata Modeling Specification (M3) Working Group - Arwen Hutt (UC San Diego) Samvera Geospatial Predicates Working Group - James Griffin (Princeton University) Newspapers Interest Group Update - Eben English (Boston Public Library) Repo Managers Interest Group - Nabeela Jaffer (University of Michigan)
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Virtual Connect 2019, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Samvera Geospatial Predicates Working Group, Samvera URI Selection Working Group, Samvera Metadata Interest Group, Newspapers Interest Group, MODS to RDF Working Group, Machine-readable Metadata Modeling Specification (M3) Working Group, and Repository Managers Interest Group
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2018 described thus and Bridge2Hyku is an IMLS-funded grant project that is building a migration toolkit to assist institutions interested in migrating their digital content to Hyku. The toolkit contains general guidance for migration planning, documentation for software that enables efficient and effective data migration, and an introduction to the Hyku platform. This presentation will provide an overview of the project goals and timeline, an update on project progress, and information about how to contribute to the Bridge2Hyku migration toolkit.
Keyword:
Grants, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2018, Migration, Lightning talk, and Hyku
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Crocken, Todd
Contributor:
University of Houston and Institute of Museum and Library Services
A presentation at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and We'll go over the Apartment gem, what it means and how it is integrated in the the multi-tenant structure of Hyku.
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and For metadata specialists, creating metadata profiles, system requirements, and accompanying documentation often feels like a game of whack-a-mole. Current practices and technologies also mean comparing your profiles with another institutions’ is an enormous hassle. To address this problem, developers and metadatists came together to create the machine-readable metadata modeling (M3) specification. This presentation will offer some history and use cases for the specification, an update on its current status, and where to learn more.
Keyword:
Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Lightning talk, and Metadata
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Tillman, Ruth Kitchin and Hutt, Arwen
Contributor:
Penn State University and University of California San Diego Library
A presentation at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and 6,761,224,773 words. 2,823,957 images. 200+ content sources. And a very long tail of unique metadata fields. This will be a "by the numbers" tour of the digital collections at the University of Michigan Library that highlights some of the challenges of designing and building a new repository and access system for our digital collections that can handle scale, variety, growth, and a rich feature set.
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and Avalon Media System is upgrading it's UI component for handling structural metadata editing for an audio or visual work. The user can select and organize timespans in an AV work by manually typing bounding times and titles, or by interacting with a visual representation of the waveform. Technologies used are Peak.js and ReactJS.
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Metadata, Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Avalon, Samvera, and User experience
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and A quick look at how WGBH is using the hyrax-batch_ingest gem in their AMS app for multiple shapes and sizes of ingest.
Keyword:
Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Import/export, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and The Timeliner is a pedagogical tool that was available in the old Variations application, the Avalon predecessor. It allows for a visual representation of the structure of an audio file or fragment. The tool, which will be made available as a standalone, has been reimplemented using IIIF Presentation API v3 for the presentation layer and the IIIF Auth protocol for the integration with Avalon. We will show the tool and also discuss the technical aspects of the IIIF standards.
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Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Avalon, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Samvera
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and I'll present the many contexts in which pair programming can be beneficial in different ways, reasons to use pairing as part of the regular practice of your team, the basic mechanics of how pairing works, prompts for staying mindful of power dynamics while pairing, and ideas for introducing the practice to a team that has never really done it before.
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and This will be a shorter presentation to give an update on changes to Valkyrie since Samvera Connect, as well as provide some guidance on when 2.0 will be released and what to expect.
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Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Samvera, and Valkyrie
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and What if the Hyrax web application were to support and include, by default, controlled vocabularies from marginalized communities? Currently Hyrax supplies a default set of descriptive metadata fields for describing uploaded objects. This set of fields includes Keyword (a required field) and Subject (an optional field). Neither of these fields are controlled by a vocabulary of terms upon install. The Questioning Authority (QA) gem exists as an option to configure and apply controlled vocabularies for use with fields such as these in Hyrax. While QA can be configured to work with nearly any vocabulary, the current vocabularies offered through the gem when it is installed include LCSH/NAF/GFT/MPT/DGT, FAST, Geonames, MeSH, Agrovoc, DBPedia, NALT, and Getty (AAT, TGN, ULAN). These are widely used mainstream sources for topical subject and genre description but also tend to reflect the current dominant mainstream power structure in the United States (white, male, straight, able-bodied, middle-class, Christian, Anglo). Should we increase the list of vocabularies available, by default, in the QA gem? Should we go beyond that and enable vocabulary choices on the default Subject and Keyword Hyrax fields? This lightning talk will discuss these questions and consider vocabulary options that would provide more inclusive descriptive capabilities.
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Controlled vocabulary, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and Notch8 recently implemented custom theming for the PALNI/PALCI joint Hyku project. This talk will go over how we installed access to Google fonts as well as a code editor gem to enable each tenant in the project to write its own CSS. This allowed for much expanded customization and theming experience.
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Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Hyku, and Customization
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and An introduction to Hyku. Hyku is a collaborative product that extends existing Samvera codebase in order to build, bundle, and promote a feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository. Hyku's chief benefits are ease of installation, configuration, and maintenance.
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Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Hyku, and Samvera
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and For the past several years the Fedora community has prioritized alignment with linked data best practices and modern web standards. We are now shifting our attention back to Fedora's digital preservation roots with a focus on the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL). The OFCL is an application-independent approach to the storage of digital objects in a structured, transparent, and predictable manner. Fedora 6.0, the next major release, will replace the current ModeShape backend with a more scalable and performant implementation that persists data in accordance with the OCFL specification. This presentation will provide an overview of the Fedora 6.0 design, including an introduction to the OCFL and how it will be implemented. It will be of interest to Samvera community members who want to track Fedora developments and understand their impact on Samvera applications.
Keyword:
Fedora, Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL), Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Lightning talk, and Preservation
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2019 described thus and This talk will discuss NewspaperWorks, a gem that provides content models, batch ingest tasks, and front-end functionality for digitized newspaper content. The gem is intended to be installed in a Hyrax-based repository application, and can be used to add newspaper content to an existing repository, or create a stand-alone newspaper content interface.
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Newspapers, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Import/export, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
A presentation at the Open Repositories conference in 2014. There are those who perceive that implementing, running and maintaining a Fedora-based digital repository is a daunting task suited only to institutions with a significant team of developers and support staff. This paper offers a different perspective. The University of Hull in the UK, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC) provide three case studies of Hydra-based repositories that are centred on a single developer working with small, limited or no support. This talk will compare and contrast their experiences and explain why the developers concerned feel that creating and maintaining these successful repositories has been worth their time and effort.
Keyword:
Deployment, Case study, Hydra, and Open Repositories 2014
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Wead, Adam, Awre, Christopher L, Green, Richard A, Ng, Steven, and Lamb, Simon W
Contributor:
University of Hull, Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC), and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• No single institution can resource the development of a full range of digital content management solutions on its own, …yet each needs the flexibility to tailor solutions to local demands and workflows. • No single system can provide the full range of repository‐based solutions for a given institution’s needs, *…yet sustainable solutions require a common repository infrastructure The Hydra project has tested out these assumptions and reports in this presentation the outcomes from applying them to the work undertaken. The paper was delivered as a 'Prezi' presentation which can be found by following the 'Related URL' link below., The proposal for this presentation at the Open Repositories conference in 2011 begins, and The Hydra project is a digital repository initiative started in 2008 that originally brought together three institutions (Stanford University, the University of Virginia and the University of Hull) and DuraSpace, with a common identified need to provide a flexible means for managing and delivering a wide range of digital content types. The project has since investigated and worked towards a reusable framework for multipurpose, multifunction, multi‐institutional repository‐enabled solutions. Two previously identified assumptions have underpinned the work
Keyword:
Collaboration, Open Repositories 2011, Hydra, and Community
A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2009. Part of the proposal reads and Repositories have proven themselves as powerful tools for managing digital content in many different contexts. But experience has also shown that there are real, practical limits in trying to extend a single repository solution to meet the manifold needs of most institutions for their full range of digital content and use cases. Relatively narrow and inflexible application front ends can be used to create single-purpose repository-powered solutions, but they do not lend themselves to being quickly and easily repurposed to meet variations in content type or user interactions. There is a clear business need for a flexible, reusable application framework that can support the rapid development of multiple systems tailored to distinct needs, but powered by a common underlying repository. Recognizing this common need, Stanford University, the University of Hull and the University of Virginia are collaborating on “Project Hydra”, a three-year effort to create an application and middleware framework that, in combination with an underlying Fedora repository, will create a reusable environment for running multifunction, multipurpose repository-powered solutions. This presentation will provide demonstrations of the work done to date, including of the prototype ETD application, as well as the set of content models and disseminators that the project has defined so far. The presentation will also present links to the project’s publicly accessible documentation and open source code, as well as solicit the constructive input from community members who may be interested in the project or its outcomes.
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Open Repositories 2009, Collaboration, Repository, and Hydra
A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2010. In part, the proposal reads and While repositories provide obvious benefits in hosting and managing content, it is equally clear that there is no “one size fits all” solution to the range of digital asset management needs at a typical institution, much less across institutions. A system that supports the submission, approval and dissemination of electronic theses and dissertations, for example, has demonstrably different requirements than a digitization workflow solution, an e-science data repository, or media preservation and access system. There is a clear need in the repository community to readily develop and deploy content-, domain-, and institution-specific solutions that integrate the flexibility and richness of customized applications and workflows with the underlying power of repositories for content management, access and preservation. This paper will provide an overview of Hydra’s philosophy, architecture, and components, as well as demonstrations of various Hydra installations. The paper will also provide a progress report on Hydra development to date and its overall roadmap, as well as provide observations on the successes and challenges of community-based development of shared repository solutions.
Keyword:
Community, Open Repositories 2010, Architecture, Repository, and Hydra
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Sadler, Bess, Sigmon, Tim, Mene, Willy, Green, Richard A, Staples, Thornton, McRae, Lynn, Cramer, Tom, and Awre, Christopher L
Contributor:
University of Hull, DuraSpace, University of Virginia, and Stanford University
A webinar given by Tom Cramer for the DuraSpace 'Hot Topics' series in 2012. A recording of the webinar is available by following the 'Related URL' link below.
