In the past year, the major groundwork has been laid for repository systems to support ORCID identifiers. DSpace, Hydra, and EPrints all have support for storing and managing ORCIDs. However, we are still in the early stages of ORCID adoption. Only a small fraction of repository content is annotated with ORCIDs, and most end-users have not yet realized any benefit from the features based on ORCID. This panel will bring together representatives of major repository systems to relate the current status of ORCID implementations, discuss plans for future work, and identify shared goals and challenges. The panelists will discuss how ORCID support provides practical benefits both to repository staff and end-users, with a focus on features that exist now or will exist in the next year. and Slides from a panel session given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
Keyword:
Metadata, DSpace, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, and ORCID
Open source software isn’t really free. This might seem obvious to some, but there are many members of open source communities that consume rather than contribute, Slides from a panel session given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus, and they use the software but are either unwilling or unable to engage with the community to write code, submit use cases, create documentation, or do any of the other things that make an open source project a success. Fortunately, things don't have to be this way. Over the past two years, the Fedora project has undertaken a great effort to revitalize not only the software but the community itself. By maintaining open, transparent communication, soliciting use cases, development, and testing from community members, and establishing a clear project governance structure, we have laid the groundwork for a successful community source project. At the same time, the Islandora and Hydra communities have pursued similar strategies to build and sustain their own communities and the broader Fedora community. This panel will feature a discussion on the recent successes of the Fedora community and future plans to continue raising the level of community engagement and project ownership.
Keyword:
Community, Collaboration, Islandora, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, and Fedora
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Ruest, Nick, Wilcox, David, and Cramer, Tom
Contributor:
York University, DuraSpace, and Stanford University
At the Digital Collections and Archives (DCA) at Tufts University we have designed, built, and integrated our archival collection management system and repository’s administrative interface to facilitate ingesting archival objects into our Fedora based repository. This 24x7 session briefly explores the assumptions and functional requirements we have used to guide this development work. The DCA’s unique position as an archives that is one of the key stakeholders and users of the Tufts institutional repository has enabled us to meet this integration challenge. The session describes how the integration of our archival collection management system and our repository relies on the ability to flexibly move metadata from one system to another. and A lightning talk given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
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Case study, Digital collections, Hydra, Repository, Archives, Open Repositories 2015, Lightning talk, and Metadata
To offer an interface for the library’s digital collections and archives, Yale Library has adopted the hydra stack for what are currently 3 access interfaces, findit, an application currently supporting 9 special collections and containing approximately 700k object, the Henry Kissinger Papers which when complete will contain approximately 1.7m images, and the Yale Indian Papers Project, a small collection of approximately 2k objects . This presentation summarizes key customizations and features including ingest, contextual navigation, fulltext search, image and transcript viewing, and ongoing work with authentication and authorization. and A lightning talk given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
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Workflow, Authorization, Lightning talk, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, and Digital collections
Diving into the Technology of Hydramata". and A presentation to the Fedora Interest Group track at the 2014 Open Repositories held in Helsinki. As in the heading of the proposal, this was originally offered under the title "Extending the Hydra Head to Create a Pluggable, Extensible Architecture
Keyword:
Architecture, Repository, Curate gem, Hydra, Hydramata, Fedora, Import/export, Technology, Research data management, and Open Repositories 2014
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Johnson, Rick and Newman, Linda
Contributor:
University of Notre Dame and University of Cincinnati
A panel presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus and Partnerships for shared repositories offer the promise of repository services at a decreased cost due to shared infrastructure and staff. In practice, reduced costs for shared repositories often require tradeoffs in security or access for the shared system. Staff working in a shared system may be geographically distributed or may work for different institutions with different priorities and reporting lines. Effective use of shared services requires thoughtful communication and tools that help maintain consistency and prevent conflicts when multiple people work in the same system. In this panel, shared repository service managers for multisite Islandora installations and a Hydra partnership will discuss methods for distributing system access and communicating with staff who work at our parent organizations, partner institutions, and third-party vendors. Each panelist will discuss the methods used so that distributed staff can have the level of access necessary to use the repository’s unique functions, while also ensuring that widely distributed system access doesn’t result in data loss or system failures.
Keyword:
Fedora, Digital collections, Hydra, Vendors, Open Repositories 2015, Islandora, Documentation, Repository, and Training
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Dean, Robin, Estlund, Karen, and Herbert, John
Contributor:
University of Oregon Libraries, CO Alliance of Research Libraries, and LYRASIS
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
A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus, provide an update on progress to date, At the University of Alberta Libraries we are currently developing a Digital Asset Management System (‘Hydra North’, built on Hydra and Fedora 4) to bring all of our digital assets into one platform for discovery, access and preservation. The metadata underlying these repositories has been created according to many standards (DC, MODS, EAD, etc.) and varies in level of fullness and overall quality. We find ourselves at a ‘metadata crossroads’ as we attempt to bring this disparate metadata together. We see a solution in a move to RDF and the application of the principles of linked data. In this presentation we will discuss some of the initial questions we asked ourselves as we tried to fully grasp what the move to RDF and linked data would mean for our existing metadata, provide concrete examples of the thought processes and workflows involved in moving from existing non-RDF metadata to RDF, based on the principles of linked data, outline some of the decisions we made along the way, and why, and what the impact has been, and reflect on lessons learned and outline next steps.
Keyword:
Metadata, Resource Description Framework (RDF), Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, and Fedora
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries is involved in two new projects to digitize and store content and related metadata. Each of these projects presents unique challenges. We want to use the same technology stack for both, however, so we are choosing Fedora as a storage mechanism, with Hydra-based Sufia as a repository front end. We will discuss our decision, show advantages of this Hydra/Fedora framework, and discuss advantages of moving to Fedora 4. We will also contrast this framework with the way we might have approached these projects in the past with previous versions of Fedora and before Sufia or Hydra were options. and A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
Keyword:
Fedora, Digital collections, Hydra, Archives, Open Repositories 2015, Sufia, and Metadata
A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus and Avalon Media System requires support for complex structure and modular descriptive metadata management. Use cases and examples will examine options for Avalon in Fedora such as the RDF data model in Fedora 4, static XML datastreams, and external data stores to determine which path best fits structural and descriptive metadata needs for time-based media.
Keyword:
Fedora, Avalon, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, Metadata, and Resource Description Framework (RDF)
A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis, described thus, Fedora, Hydra, Solr, and Blacklight. Called “Ichabod,” this tool has allowed us to ingest, normalize, and enrich metadata from diverse systems of record and make it consumable by our main discovery tool, which is powered by the Ex-Libris product Primo. We developed Ichabod using the Agile methodology and involving developers from three distinct NYU Libraries groups. The software will lay the groundwork for future innovation in the areas of metadata management and discovery for repository content. The relationships we established have already made it possible for a similar collaboration arrangement on two other projects, with more to come in the future., and From DSpace to Drupal, NYU has a variety of systems to ingest and display curated digital content. To make this content discoverable centrally, we developed a tool for metadata ingest, transformation, and discovery based on a popular open-source software stack
Keyword:
Metadata, Workflow, Architecture, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, Blacklight, Digital collections, Fedora, and Solr
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Pechekhonova, Ekaterina, Harper, Corey, Kassel, Carol, and Lovins, Daniel
over 150,000 items in total. The University of Hull is contributing to the long-term legacy of the year through the development of a digital archive to capture, record and make available the material generated. This has been undertaken through the combination of a repository, using Samvera’s Hyrax, with related tools, A presentation at the Open Repositories 2019 conference in Hamburg, Germany, described thus, Hull in the UK was awarded the title of UK City of Culture for 2017. Over 2,800 events, attracting a total of 5.3 million people, took place over the course the year, a vast cultural undertaking. This cultural celebration generated many digital, and physical, artefacts, from the business documents of the organising company through to models of works by artists and data from evaluation of the impact of the year, and Archivematica for preservation processing, Box as an interim store, CALM for archives cataloguing, and Blacklight for presentation and discovery – each doing what they do best and being combined to best overall effect. This presentation will describe the work to create this infrastructure in partnership with a repository vendor, CoSector, and consider the ways in which the architecture, now completed, can be applied to other use cases, both archival and repository-related, beyond the specific one for which it was built.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Workflow, Preservation, Archives, Samvera, and Open Repositories 2019
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Wilson, Simon, Awre, Christopher L, Allinson, Julie, Ranganathan, Anusha, Taylor, Stephanie, and Giles, Laura
Contributor:
CoSector, University of London, University of Hull, and Cottage Labs
A presentation at the Open Repositories conference held in Hamburg, Germany, during 2019, described thus and The University of Houston (UH) Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an IMLS National Leadership/Project Grant to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit. Contents migration from proprietary systems to open source repositories remains a barrier for many institutions due to lack of tools, tutorials, and documentation. The B2H Toolkit, which includes migration strategies and use cases as well as tools for transitioning from CONTENTdm to Hyku, acts as a comprehensive resource to facilitate the repository migration process. This presentation will start with background information on the ecosystems, workflows, and tools, collectively known as the Bayou City Digital Asset Management System (BCDAMS), implemented at the UH Libraries. The presenters will then move to the key phases that make up the IMLS funded B2H Toolkit project plan. The presenters will also discuss how the project engages and strengthens the open source Samvera Community (formerly Hydra Community) around Hyku by leveraging our collective expertise through strategic collaboration. They will finally discuss sustainability and promotion of the B2H toolkit.
Keyword:
Grants, Samvera, Open Repositories 2019, Migration, and Hyku
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
Using Sufia 7 as a reference model, what does the path for depositing a new item into a Hydra/PCDM based repository look like from an end-user, code, console, solr, and fedora perspective, A presentation given at Hydra Connect 2016 described thus, show the upload of new digital content via the Sufia UI and show each step of the data flow in the Browser, rails console, and Fedora. Walk through derivative generation and show the various PCDM relationships being built at each stage. Then add a new user collection, and walk through the same flows as a work is added to a collection, and what gems are in play, what does the data look like from a ruby developer perspective, what is persisted in Fedora and Solr - how does it all relate to PCDM? A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Connect 2016, Hydra, Portland Common Data Model (PCDM), and Sufia
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.
Keyword:
Governance, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Community, and Lightning talk
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.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and Solr
Fedora 6, the next major version of Fedora, will focus on digital preservation by aligning with 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. This provides many benefits, including, storage diversity, to ensure content can be stored on diverse storage infrastructures including cloud object stores, parsability, both by humans and machines, to ensure content can be understood in the absence of original software, robustness against errors, corruption, and migration between storage technologies, versioning, so repositories can make changes to objects allowing its history to persist, and and completeness, so that a repository can be rebuilt from the files it stores. This presentation will provide an overview of the Fedora 6 design, including a brief introduction to the OCFL and how it is being implemented, along with a summary of development progress to date and the anticipated timeline for the 6.0 release. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Migration, Preservation, Fedora, Samvera, and Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL)
Working and Interest Group Updates Code of Conduct WG - Jessica Hilt Contribution Model WG - Robin Ruggaber Roadmap Council - Rob Kaufman Marketing WG - Chris Awre Controlled Vocabularies Decision Tree WG - Julie Hardesty Hyrax Permissions WG - Jeremy Friesen The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Marketing, Screencast, Interest and Working Groups, Code of Conduct, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, Roadmap, Permissions, Contribution Model, and Controlled vocabulary
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Hilt, Jessica, Hardesty, Juliet L, Ruggaber, Robin, Kaufman, Rob, Awre, Christopher L, and Friesen, Jeremy
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.
Keyword:
Screencast, Workflow, Virtual Connect 2020, Avalon, and Samvera
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.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and Connect 2020
Advancing Hyku, //advancinghyku.io/ Hyku for Consortia, What are the alignments and differences of three currently funded Hyku/Hyrax development efforts? A discussion with Advancing Hyku, Hyku for Consortia, and Hyrax Analytics leads will address deliverables of each project, unique contributions, and areas of alignment and collaboration of these three concurrent efforts to enhance the Hyku/Hyrax community core and Hyku/Hyrax applicability to use specific use cases. Background information on each project is available at, // www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-36-19-0033-19 The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below., https, and // www.hykuforconsortia.org/ Hyrax Analytics
Keyword:
Screencast, Analytics, Grants, Virtual Connect 2020, Hyku, Samvera, and Hyrax
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Hurford, Amanda, Mellinger, Margaret, Ramsey, Ellen C, Hole, Brian, and Gueguen, Gretchen
Contributor:
Ubiquity Press, Oregon State University, University of Oregon, PALNI, University of Virginia, and PALCI
Princeton and Northwestern recently underwent a two-week spike to explore a set of new technologies we might use in our respective teams. We looked at ElasticSearch, Elixir, and Phoenix. This presentation will go through our expected outcomes, strategies for a successful collaboration, our eventual output, and a retrospective on how the process went with advice for any others looking to do this kind of exploratory work. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Klein, Michael B and Pendragon, Trey
Contributor:
Princeton University Library and Northwestern University Libraries
The University of Hull has been partnering with CoSector to develop and implement a digital preservation infrastructure for the management of a digital archive for the UK City of Culture 2017. The infrastructure is based on a combination of systems that do they do best, with Hyrax and Archivematica central to the overall workflow. Following development in 2019, this talk provides an update on implementation of the infrastructure and reports on the lessons learned from turning an idea into practical reality. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, Digital Collections, Workflow, Archives, Hyrax, and Preservation
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Awre, Christopher L, McNicholl, Rory, and Giles, Laura
Contributor:
University of Hull and CoSector, University of London
Modern javascript frameworks like React and Vue facilitate building dynamic, rich user interfaces (like thematic sites or research tools). In this lightning talk, we'll show how we each built search components using these frameworks which use the Blacklight API but not the Blacklight UI. We'll also discuss how these components are being utilized and possibilities for making shared community javascript components. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and User experience
IIIF player, is a ReactJS component which renders a MediaElementJS player and a structure navigation component from a IIIF 3.0 spec manifest. This is delivered as an exportable yarn/npm package. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Avalon, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), and Samvera
Component Maintenance WG - James Griffin BrowseEverything IG - James Griffin Metadata IG - Anna Goslen Hyrax v3.0 Metadata Application Profile Documentation Review WG - Nora Egloff Repository Management IG - Moira Downey Infrastructure WG - Michael Klein Newspapers IG - Eben English Hyrax Maintenance WG - Tom Johnson Geo Predicates WG - John Huck The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below. and Working and Interest Group Updates
Keyword:
Geodata, Newspapers, Screencast, Interest and Working Groups, Virtual Connect 2020, Repository Management, Hyrax, Samvera, and Metadata
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Egloff, Nora, Klein, Michael B, Goslen, Anna, Johnson, Tom, Griffin, James, Huck, John, Downey, Moira, and English, Eben
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.
Hyku, the multi-tenant Samvera solution built on Hyrax, is moving full-steam through 2020 with project initiatives that will bring valuable features to this platform. We'll look at a snapshot of current notable Hyku projects, as well at the roadmap ahead. We'll also highlight new turnkey service solutions and Hyku's presence in the community and online. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Hyku, and Samvera
A team at Duke University Libraries refactored the Duke Digital Repository software stack, replacing Fedora 3 with the Valkyrie gem. The project kicked off in November of 2018, and concluded with the rollout of DDR 2.0.0 in January of 2020. Presenters will share the team’s experience and provide an overview of the DDR’s updated architecture. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Samvera, and Valkyrie
The Avalon Media System update is intended to give a summary of the development progress and goals of the Avalon team since the last Samvera Connect. New work discussed will include transcript support, work on the Avalon IIIF media player and continued development on porting Avalon to Hyrax. The video recording of this segment is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Screencast, Virtual Connect 2020, Avalon, and Samvera
This presentation was given during the Samvera Partners' call on 14th August 2020. It describes a collaboration between George Washington University and the New York Times to make available administrative documents discovered after the Islamic State withdrew from Mosul in Iraq. The collaboration is using using a Hyrax-based repository. "Related URLs" (see below) are provided to the GWU ISIS files site, the New York Times page about the work and to a recording of Dan Kerchner's talk.
A presentation given to the Samvera Partners' monthly call on 12th June, 2020 describing ATLA's Digital Library with a focus on its aggregation and harvesting facilities.
Keyword:
Collaboration, Samvera, Digital collections, Aggregation, Metadata harvesting, and Hyrax