Following the change of name from the Hydra Project to Samvera, the Steering Group commissioned a set of logo designs for the community. Of those submitted, the tree, in autumn colors, was the clear favorite. This logo went into use mid-2017. The Samvera logo is a registered trade mark in the USA and is the subject of trademark applications in Canada, the UK and the EU.
The Hydra logo that was the branding for the Hydra Project throughout most of its existence under that name. It was dropped when the Community changed name to Samvera in order to avoid a trademark dispute.
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2019 described thus and This presentation will cover the initial work to move the University of Michigan’s Deep Blue Documents repository from DSpace to Hyrax on Samvera and also merge it with the U-M data repository, Deep Blue Data, which is already on Hyrax. Deep Blue contains more than 120,000 items and has been around on DSpace since 2006. The Deep Blue Data repository started in 2016. Presenters will discuss steps taken so far to migrate and merge the repositories, including creating a minimum viable product (MVP) list, testing migration, addressing challenges so far, collaborating between IT and service providers, and determining next steps.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Collaboration, Research data management, Repository, Samvera, and Connect 2019
Following a number of successful trademark applications, "TM" was added to the basic Samvera logo. The Samvera logo is a registered trade mark in the USA and is the subject of trademark applications in Canada, the UK and the EU.
Understand what Samvera is and how to participate Understand how to use Samvera Understand the value of Samvera Samvera is a community, a set of tools, and a collection of ready-to run and hosted applications to help build a digital repository for your institution. The community drives the specification and development of sustainable open source technology and honing best practices for managing digital content. This workshop will provide an on-boarding and general entrée to the Samvera community and solutions for non-coders. The first part will provide an overview of Samvera solutions, hosting options and the community – what is it, why is it different? It will showcase applications solving a diverse set of needs and organizations, and discuss the how the community at large works to enable these. The second part will give a general technical overview designed for a non-technical audience. The resources needed to maintain and contribute to a hosted or custom Samvera solution will be discussed, resources that exist to get started will be highlighted plus how to contribute to the community technically and non-technically. The final part will discuss value and how to pitch Samvera and get institutional support. It will discuss the advantages of being part of the community and how that strengthens the sustainability of the tools, the applications, and the community overall. and Slides from a workshop given at Samvera Connect 2019 and described thus
Keyword:
Workshop, Governance, Architecture, Repository, Samvera, Connect 2019, and Community
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Green, Richard A, Ruggaber, Robin, and Allinson, Julie
At Samvera Connect 2019 there was a small number of presentations about ongoing work on Wings - "a Valkyrie adapter with data compatibility with Active Fedora" as part of the technology stack under the Hyrax gem. There were references to "Hyrax on Wings" and, almost inevitably, two related hex sticker designs emerged.
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Logo, Hyrax, Samvera, Valkyrie, Wings, and Connect 2019
Triangular sticker and hex sticker for Samvera's 'Valkyrie' gem based on an illustration from the 1910 edition of 'The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie' by Richard Wagner, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The work is available as an e-book under Project Gutenberg as a work on which US copyright has expired.
Samvera's annual Connect conference was held on-line because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A design had been created in anticipation of t-shirts at a face-to-face conference but it was used, instead, as the conference logo. 'Souvenirs' bearing the design were available via an on-line shop.
Samvera circulated a "Season's Greetings" card for the first time in December 2020. It features the Samvera tree festooned with decorative lights and incorporates in the winter scene the logos for Samvera's major software items.
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Avalon, Samvera, Community, Valkyrie, Hyrax, Hyku, and Branding
Using Git and GitHub for managing metadata (no new data models, we promise)This session is proposed as a two-part workshop, A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus, and The first will cover a modified version of the ‘Version Control with Git’ Software Carpentry lesson, tailored for a non-developer audience, with more focus on metadata. This is typically taught as a half-day (3 hour) workshop.The second part will focus on the use of Git and GitHub in the context of the metadata workflow. We will present examples and strategies, taken from recent work by UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego, of version control, pull requests, and automated hooks and integrations as they relate to moving metadata through a workflow and into our repositories. In addition to these demonstrations, we hope to spend a good percentage of the time available in discussion with other interested institutions and how we might leverage our collective experience to make getting our metadata into our repositories easier, more consistent, and maybe even more fun!
Keyword:
Workshop, Metadata, Connect 2017, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Rissmeyer, Chrissy, Critchlow, Matthew, and Dunn, Alex
Contributor:
University of California San Diego Library and University of California Santa Barbara Library
How to Write Module-Based JavaScript with RequireJS and the AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition) PatternTired of worrying about load order for your script includes? Tired of polluting the global namespace? Want to write more re-usable JavaScript code with discrete modules? Maybe RequireJS / the AMD pattern is right for you! This presentation will go through the construction of a simple RequireJS-based JavaScript app with a few modules. and A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus
Fedora is the flexible, extensible, open source repository platform that commonly underlies Samvera implementations. Fedora provides a number of core services that Samvera already uses, such as CRUD operations, versioning, and fixity, and several new, potentially useful extended services have been introduced within the last year. The API Extension Framework provides a means of binding services to repository objects in order to extend the functionality of Fedora, while the Import/Export Utility makes it easier to get content into and out of Fedora in standardized formats and packages. This workshop will introduce both of these new services and discuss how they might be used in the context of Samvera. Participants will also have an opportunity to try them out via hands-on exercises in combination with a virtual machine. and A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus
Keyword:
Fedora, Samvera, Workshop, Import/export, and Connect 2017
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Woods, Andrew
Contributor:
Birkland, Aaron, DuraSpace, and Johns Hopkins University
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
Fulcrum is in its third year of developing a publishing platform on Samvera (and is now running on Hyrax). Given the recent interest in possible successor solutions to Digital Commons / bepress, I think this could take the form of a workshop with 3 parts, 1. Presentation of the service model that Fulcrum is being built to support, 2. Presentation of the features and architecture of the platform, with an emphasis on Epub support and publishing workflows, A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus, and 3. A group discussion of the kinds of publishing-related service requests attendees are hearing from their communities who are concerned about the Elsevier acquisition of Digital Commons / bepress, and what interest is there in a coordinated community effort around support for publishing and fully-encoded texts.
Keyword:
Samvera, Workshop, Connect 2017, and Hyrax
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Morse, Jeremy, Baker-Young, Melissa, and McGlone, Jon
Contributor:
Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library
A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus and Workshop going over the interface, configuration, patterns, and interaction points for using Valkyrie, a library to enable persisting metadata and files into a variety of different backends with a common interface.
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus and The Accessibility and Samvera presentation will cover an intro to web accessibility , general accessibility of Samvera applications, tools and resources for evaluation, educating ourselves and making accessibility a part of development from the start.
Keyword:
Connect 2017, Accessibility, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Tribone, Michael, Lynch, Katherine, and MacMath, Tracy
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus and A presentation that reflects on the learnings and accomplishments of the Hydra-in-a-Box project, the 30-month effort by Stanford Libraries, DuraSpace, and the Digital Public Library of America with funding from the IMLS.
Keyword:
Hydra in a Box, Grants, Samvera, and Connect 2017
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Frost, Hannah and Giarlo, Michael J
Contributor:
Stanford University Libraries, Digital Public Library of America, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and DuraSpace
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2017 described thus and In this session we will give a quick background of Hyrax and offer a status update on current Hyrax work including the 2.0.0 release and the new testing process for releases. We will also discuss our early plans for the 2.x series of releases including updates on Collection Extensions work, Valkyrie sprints, plans for new Analytics features, and other potential work in the 2.x series. Last, we’ll talk broadly about roadmapping for Hyrax and what we might expect from Hyrax 3.0.0 and beyond.
Keyword:
Samvera, Connect 2017, and Hyrax
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Giarlo, Michael J, Rudder, Julie, and Van Tuyl, Steve
Contributor:
Stanford University, University of North Carolina, and Oregon State University
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2017. A combined slide pack covering brief reports for a number of Interest and Working Groups.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Lightning talk, Samvera, and Connect 2017
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Newspapers Working Group, Documentation Working Group, User Experience Interest Group, Data Mapper Working Group, Hyrax Analytics Working Group, Metadata Interest Group, and Geopredicates Working Group
Want to move beyond a simple autocomplete field for controlled vocabularies? Want a more accurate selection process? We will look at a Hyrax demo app that uses questioning authority to search linked data authorities and extracts multiple predicate values from search results to provide additional context in a lookup table to help with the selection process from a controlled vocabulary. The presentation will include direct access to OCLC Fast, locally cached access to Library of Congress and GeoNames, as well as others. and A presentation given at Connect 2017 originally advertised as "Lookup with Context to select metadata values from a controlled vocabulary" and described thus
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and The University of Cincinnati recently migrated our Scholar@UC application from Sufia 7.3 to Hyrax 1.0. We will discuss our process and the special circumstances we had to deal with.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Connect 2017, Case study, Samvera, and Sufia
Flexible approaches to grouping things in the repository" and described thus, An introduction to the Hyrax 2.1 Collections which include collections extensions, once known as Display Sets. This implementation adds the ability to define collection types with various settings to meet the many use cases for collections from user collections to exhibits. We'll also look at how these play nicely with Admin Sets., and A presentation given at Connect 2017 advertiosed under the title "Collections Extensions and Admin Sets
Keyword:
Hyrax, Connect 2017, Samvera, and Collection management
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Rayle, E Lynette
Contributor:
Cornell University and Collection Extensions Working Groups
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and Presentation on a gem for Hyrax models and authorities, which provides a central place for creating models for different types of works. Each new model draws on a central pot of properties to declare the set of properties needed to fully describe the particular work. The gem already exists and has sample models for journal article, thesis and more. In this presentation we will work through the process of defining a new model and then using that model in a Hyrax application. The idea behind the gem is to make it easier for developers to deploy new models, and provide a place for metadata folks to jointly define re-usable models.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Connect 2017, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Hardesty, Juliet L and Allinson, Julie
Contributor:
CoSector, University of London and Indiana University
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
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and With so many Samvera metadataists managing similar objects and collections, can we get a handle on the metadata we have and what we share with the community? This session will introduce the idea behind the Documentation Project from the Samvera Metadata Interest Group and will consider what we're saying about our objects, how we're expressing it, and how best to move this work forward to provide suitable context for what we do or don't want our MAPS to look like as we document our work within Samvera.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Metadata, and Connect 2017
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and Princeton University Library has spent the last two years developing Plum as a staff-only ingest platform for books, manuscripts, geo-spatial data, and archived ephemera. This talk would go through a history of the design goals, the successes we've had, the problems we've run into, and a look into the future.
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus, it’s not fun to have an ingest fail overnight and spend the morning tracking down why. Programmatically testing and validating digital object metadata prior to ingest helps us avoid these failures. The metadata itself is managed by Git and stored in GitHub, Several years ago UCSB incorporated Git/GitHub and JIRA into our metadata management and batch ingest workflows. Since then we’ve looked at repurposing other development tools to provide lightweight and automated solutions to problems we often face. One is that we rely primarily on batch ingests when adding content to our Samvera repository. As a result it’s especially important for the metadata to be error-free, and this allows us to run automated checks against any changes using Jenkins and some custom libraries we’ve written for validating CSV and MODS metadata. In this session, we will provide an overall of our current ingest preparation workflow and the tools we are using, and will discuss some of the benefits that have come out of this collaborative effort.
Keyword:
Metadata, Connect 2017, Samvera, and Import/export
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus, Michigan's Research Data Repository has been in production since Feb 2016. Presentation on experiences and challenges of transitioning from Sufia to Hyrax, and adding new features and running the service over the past year.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Connect 2017, Research data management, Repository, and Samvera
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and Over the past 5 years ScholarSphere has been released 100 times. We will look back at those 100 releases to categorize the releases. I will then share lessons that I have learned through the process of releasing ScholarSphere.
A presentation given at Connect 2017 described thus and In this presentation, we present Fedora 4’s performance in different use cases. These use cases are the most general use cases that were developed by the Fedora 4 performance team. We compare the performance between different versions of Fedora 4 and demonstrate the improvement between these versions. We will also describe the procedures of these performance experiments and demonstrate the software we use (Ansible, AWS, and JMeter). Our performance experiments are conducted in the AWS ecosystem, and we use an R graph tool to visualize the JMeter result. With the AWS grant, we can do many different performance experiments in many scales. Moreover, it is easy to repeat and verify the performance results using AWS. The Fedora 4 performance team wants to know more about the Samvera community’s interests related to the Fedora 4 performance. We plan to gather more use cases from the Samvera community, including middleware such as Solr, Camel, and Fuseki, etc. We can investigate, explore issues, and continue enhancing the future of Fedora 4.
