2. Managing Samvera-based Projects and Services

Description:
A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus, Managing Samvera-based Projects and Services, and This hands-on workshop will cover tools and techniques to help managers decide whether to spin up a new Samvera repository, manage the process of building that repository, and maintain the repository once it is in production. We’ll cover the project lifecycle for migrating to Hyrax, defining roles within your team, keeping in sync with community development efforts, managing documentation, and managing user expectations and needs.
Keyword:
Workshop, Hyrax, Connect 2017, Service management, Project management, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Diaz, Chris, Van Tuyl, Steve, Jaffer, Nabeela, and Rudder, Julie
Contributor:
University of North Carolina, Oregon State University, University of Michigan, and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
11/06/2017
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License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
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Other

3. An approach to building a Next Generation Repository and Preservation as Primary

Description:
A presentation given at Connect 2017.
Keyword:
Samvera, Repository, Connect 2017, and Preservation
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Alagna, Laura
Contributor:
Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
11/08/2017
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License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
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Presentation

4. Front-end Implementations of Hyrax

Description:
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and How can presentation layers in Hyrax applications be extended to fit local needs? This session will showcase two front-end implementations of Hyrax for institutional repositories and discuss design decisions we made for specific use-cases.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Connect 2017, Samvera, and Customization
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Diaz, Chris, Jaffer, Nabeela, and Arling, Adam
Contributor:
University of Michigan and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
11/08/2017
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

5. Realigning Avalon: or how we quit worrying and learned to love Hyrax

Description:
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2017.
Keyword:
Avalon, Samvera, Hyrax, and Virtual Connect 2017
Subject:
Avalon Media System and Samvera Community
Creator:
Schober, David and Colvard, Chris
Contributor:
Indiana University and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
07/18/2017
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License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

6. Now out on Betamax: IIIF Presentation 3.0

Description:
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.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Lightning talk, Avalon, Virtual Connect 2018, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Arling, Adam and Colvard, Chris
Contributor:
Indiana University and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
07/11/2018
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

7. Avalon’s Audiovisual Work in Hyrax: It’s about time

Description:
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.
Keyword:
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
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
07/11/2018
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

8. New Directions for Northwestern: Taking a Cloud-First Approach

Description:
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
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
04/23-24/2019
Rights Statement Tesim:
In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

9. Structural Metadata Editor: A React component for visualizing and displaying audio and video clips

Description:
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.
Keyword:
Metadata, Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Avalon, Samvera, and User experience
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Arling, Adam and Withana, Dananji
Contributor:
Indiana University and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
04/23-24/2019
Rights Statement Tesim:
In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

10. Avalon Media System: System update

Description:
A presentation to the Fedora Interest Group track at the 2014 Open Repositories held in Helsinki.
Keyword:
Community, Metadata, Collaboration, Roadmap, Avalon, Hydra, Blacklight, Digital collections, and Open Repositories 2014
Subject:
Avalon Media System
Creator:
Dunn, Jon and Stewart, Claire
Contributor:
Indiana University and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
06/2014
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
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Presentation

11. Avalon Media System: Community Implementation and Sustainability

Description:
Indiana University and Northwestern University, in collaboration with nine partner institutions, recently completed the last year of a three-year IMLS-funded effort to build the Avalon Media System, an open source solution for managing and providing access to digital audio and video collections, based on Fedora and the Hydra repository software development framework. As the Avalon platform reaches maturity, several institutions are in the process of implementing Avalon both to replace current time-based media access solutions and to support new use cases. In addition, new funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will support continued work to develop new features, grow and provide support for the community of adopters, and move Avalon towards organizational and financial sustainability. This panel will bring together project leaders from Indiana and Northwestern, along with Avalon community members at the University of Virginia and Stanford University, to share experiences of implementing Avalon at their institutions, integrating Avalon with other local systems, and supporting Avalon to enable a variety of use cases in research, teaching, and learning. Panel members will also discuss future development plans and provide a preview of how the project intends to transition from a grant-supported endeavor to a community-sustained solution. and Slides for a panel presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
Keyword:
Fedora, Avalon, Digital collections, Hydra, Repository, Sustainability, Open Repositories 2015, Community, Digitization, Preservation, Workflow, and Archives
Subject:
Avalon Media System
Creator:
Frost, Hannah, Grants, Dunn, Jon, Rudder, Julie, Cane, Debs, and Durbin, Mike
Contributor:
Andrew W Mellon Foundation, University of Virginia, Stanford University, Northwestern University, and Indiana University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
06/10/2015
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

12. Searching for Sustainability – Avalon in the Samvera Community

Description:
This presentation will focus on Northwestern University and Indiana University’s continued work toward a sustainable model for support, maintenance, and development of the Avalon Media System - an open-source, Samvera-based repository for audio and video jointly developed since 2011. Over the last two years, the team has focused on widening engagement with and commitment to the Samvera and IIIF communities as well as developing wider developer interest by re-basing the product on top of Hyrax and developing a modular architecture. and A proposal and presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in Hamburg, Germany, in 2019, described thus
Keyword:
Grants, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), Avalon, Samvera, Open Repositories 2019, Sustainability, and Hyrax
Subject:
Avalon Media System
Creator:
Dunn, Jon, Schober, David, and Steans, Ryan
Contributor:
Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Indiana University, Samvera, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
06/11/2019
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

13. React NPM module / dev environment starter package

Description:
Forking this Github starter project spins up a webpack React dev environment, along with some tools and commands to bundle your React component to share via NPM. An alternative to Create React App, the project configuration was developed with the aim of exporting and sharing with other React apps in the wild. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Arling, Adam
Contributor:
Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
05/14/2020
Rights Statement Tesim:
In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

14. Meadow: An introduction to Northwestern University's new digital repository application built with Elixir, React, and GraphQL in the middle

Description:
Elixir, Phoenix, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Amazon Web Services, Docker and Terraform. This presentation will focus on describing why we chose this path and the decisions and tradeoffs we've made along the way, along with a brief demonstration of our current state. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., Northwestern University Libraries has been building a "green field" digital repository application since June 2019, code-named "Meadow". Our goal in building Meadow is to provide an internal tool to ingest, modify and publish digital resources to an API that drives our user-facing digital collections frontend. Meadow's development roadmap has focused on complementing NUL's existing production workflows and implementing best practices in digital preservation in a cloud-based environment. Meadow is built with a several languages, tools, and frameworks including, and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Architecture, Samvera, Workflow, Connect 2020, Metadata, and Preservation
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Quinn, Brendan
Contributor:
Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
10/26/2020
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

15. Case Study: Batch update : What we talk about when we talk about design thinking

Description:
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, using a recent major batch update feature as a case study. We’ll explore how our approach allowed us to stay connected to our users and helped keep our development team in sync. Finally, we’ll reflect on what we’ve found most successful in this approach as well as stumbling blocks we encountered along the way. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., and Over the past year, NUL dev team has implemented and refined a workflow for modular development of repository applications. It starts with addressing a specific user need or problem. Using design-thinking techniques, we next generate visual solutions through rudimentary wire framing, white boarding sessions and architecture discussions. We then move to API design and mocking before starting development with two teams working independently, from the API, outwards. This presentation will demonstrate the iterative approach in action
Keyword:
Workflow, Connect 2020, Samvera, User experience, and API
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Shaw, Karen and Arling, Adam
Contributor:
Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
10/26/2020
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

16. "Authoritex": Authority Alchemy in Elixir

Description:
Heavily inspired by QA, "Authoritex" is a Hex package for querying any controlled vocabulary or set of authority terms that NUL developed for use within our Elixir ecosystem. We'll go through quick overview of Authoritex and how it fits into our repository ingest application "Meadow" and our broader strategy for handling controlled terms and authorities. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, and API
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Shaw, Karen
Contributor:
Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
10/28/2020
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

17. It Took a Village: The Evolution of Samvera

Description:
A short lightning talk presentation given to the CNI Fall conference in 2019.
Keyword:
Community, Governance, Lightning talk, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Caizzi, Carolyn
Contributor:
Northwestern University and Samvera Steering Group
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
12/10/2019
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

18. It's Alive: Building a preservation-first repository

Description:
- Large ingestion of 4 gig tifs with derivates and preservation checks (10k works) in ~ 1 hour - 5k batch metadata updates ~5 minutes - Round trip spreadsheet update (5k records in 5 minutes) - Preservation dashboard / verification - Local authority creation and updates This presentation will discuss the process, what we learned, and how it relates to the Samvera community at large. and On St. Patrick's Day NU went live with our new digital collection repository and asset management tool prioritizing speed of ingestion and metadata updates. We reframed the problem by working with end-users to look closely at workflows and prioritize solutions rather than any specific technology. The resulting application ecosystem is extremely budget friendly and the architecture supports
Keyword:
Samvera, Virtual Connect 2021, and Preservation
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Klein, Michael B
Contributor:
Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
04/20/2021
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In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Presentation

20. Avalon 7 Release Roadmap

Description:
Poster presented at Samvera Connect 2018.
Keyword:
Architecture, Avalon, Sustainability, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community and Avalon Media System
Creator:
Indiana University and Northwestern University
Contributor:
Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Indiana University, and Northwestern University
Owner:
rob@scientist.com
Language:
English
Date Modified:
07/24/2023
Date Created:
10/2018
Rights Statement Tesim:
In Copyright
License Tesim:
Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International
Resource Type:
Poster