At the April 2019 partners meeting in the final discussion after the visioning exercise, we collectively [see list of creators] thought it would be useful for a small group of folks to spend more time processing all the ideas and input generated by the exercise participants, distilling the material further and then bring the results of that work back to Partners with a report and recommendations. This is that report.
The Fundraising Working Group was chartered at the behest of Partners. It was to investigate the idea of seeking sponsorship for Samvera’s annual Connect conference, to manage Samvera’s 2019 fundraising appeal to Partners, and to investigate how Samvera might create a much greater annual income in order to support the hiring of staff. This is the Working Group's final report.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Hilt, Jessica, Steans, Ryan, Cariani, Karen, Green, Richard A, Hole, Brian, Frost, Hannah, and Dunn, Jon
The Governance Working Group was chartered by Partners thus, A one-page summary of the discussion, documentation, and feedback to-date related to the various governance models under consideration. * Synthesis, This step will be shepherded by Steering, as the proposed model will also be assessed for legal, licensing, and MOU implications prior to further community review. * Proposal, Development of a draft governance proposal and incremental steps to implementation if appropriate * Community Input, Circulation of the final proposal for potential adoption at a Spring/Summer 2018 partner meeting, The Governance working group is a small group chartered by the community to help synthesize and formalize the various governance discussions and documents currently underway. The scope of the Samvera Governance Working Group’s deliverables will be, Circulation of the above to Partners, stakeholders, and the Steering group for review, comment, and change requests to the proposal * Legal Review, * Context, A revised governance proposal based on community, stakeholder, & legal feedback * Community Review, and A summary of the themes and issues that the community hopes to address by refining existing or adopting new governance practices and structures. Ideally identifies key differences and decision points between the models provided for evaluation and current model. This combined context and synthesis documents should be approximately 750-1500 words (1-3 pages) in length * Draft
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Governance, Interest and Working Groups, and Samvera
University of Michigan, Data Curation Experts, Northwestern University, DuraSpace, Emory University, Princeton University, Indiana University, and Cornell University
Assignment document transferring the 2019 Memorandum of Understanding between Samvera and DuraSpace to Lyrasis following their merger. It also extends the agreement for six months.
The t-shirt design for the Samvera Connect conference at Washington University in St Louis, MO, in 2019. The design mixes the image of the Samvera 'tree' with the St Louis street plan.
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 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.
Keyword:
Controlled vocabulary, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
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 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.
Keyword:
Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Hyku, and Customization
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.
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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 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.
Keyword:
Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2019, Samvera, and Valkyrie
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 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 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
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
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 We'll go over the Apartment gem, what it means and how it is integrated in the the multi-tenant structure of Hyku.
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 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 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
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
Keyword:
Lightning talk, Virtual Connect 2018, Samvera, and Valkyrie
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.
Keyword:
Samvera, Roadmap, Virtual Connect 2018, Lightning talk, and Hyrax
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 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.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Lightning talk, Research data management, Virtual Connect 2018, and Samvera
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
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Virtual Connect 2017, and Samvera
A lightning talk at Samvera Virtual Connect 2016. The talk was in two parts with the second given by Matthew Phillips of Durham University. Unfortunately, his slide deck is missing from the archive.
Keyword:
Research data management, Hydra, Virtual Connect 2016, and Lightning talk
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Allinson, Julie
Contributor:
University of York, Phillips, Matthew, and Durham University
Blacklight, International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), Newspapers, Connect 2016, Research data management, and Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Minimum Viable Product-Suite and Minimum Viable Preservation features in a new Samvera platform migration., A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus, and The Emory Digital Library Program team will share a retrospective of their Discovery and Technical Design process for determining MVP2
Keyword:
Preservation, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Brittle, Collin, Porter, Emily, Metz, Rosalyn, and Dragovic, Nik
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus, An overview of modern front-end UI component architecture and patterns. Will showcase case studies in development and implementation decisions in Avalon Media System (platform, React/Redux application built on top of Hyrax in AWS). Will make a case for why UI component architecture is important in community-driven, open-source development, how it can directly benefit the Samvera community moving forward. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below., and Hyrax/Webpacker/React) and Northwestern University's Digital Collections application (platform
Keyword:
Architecture, Connect 2018, Samvera, and User experience
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus, Despite widespread interest in Hyrax, Samvera’s new flagship repository solution, there is a dearth of documentation about how to run a production instance. We’ll cover the lessons we’ve learned from a year of building and hosting Hyrax, including our new project checklist, logging and monitoring practices, and data migration paths. DCE has been hosting a Hyrax based ETD repository for Emory University for 12 months. We've made a lot of discoveries and improvements since we launched. We'll be sharing our learnings and best practices for running Samvera Based repositories including, and * Infrastructure as code (esp. ansible for configuration management) * Monitoring using open-source and commercial tools (nagios, ok computer, splunk, pingdom, honeybadger) * Maintenance, Upgrades, and Testing A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Over the past two years, Northwestern University Libraries has moved its repository infrastructure and applications to Amazon Web Services. Our initial solution, presented at Samvera Connect 2017, involved AWS CloudFormation, several different deployment platforms, and a lot of manual intervention. In our second phase, we have adopted a fully automated build/configure/deploy system to stand up Fedora, Solr, PostgreSQL, Redis, a Cantaloupe IIIF server, an Avalon Media System instance, a secure CloudFront streaming media distribution, and two Hyrax applications using Terraform, Docker, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, and a whole bunch of homegrown tools and hacks. This presentation will provide an overview of our current system, and hopefully jumpstart some discussions of how these tools can be adopted, standardized, and reused among other members of the Samvera community. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below., A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2018, originally titled "My Life in Ops, and Docker, Terraform, AWS, and Learning As We Go", described thus
//github.com/upenn-libraries/guardian) * A report on the reusability of these components to quickly develop Ruby-based integrations with Amazon Glacier in other applications * Challenges faced while integrating asynchronous storage with our Samvera repository * Considerations for developing a disaster recovery plan dealing with large-scale data loss and recovery A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below., A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus, * Fundamental concepts of managing repository objects as Glacier archives * Best practices followed at Penn Libraries for efficient, affordable transfer and retrieval interactions with Glacier * A dive into the stronghold gem, developed at Penn Libraries, which provides a simple interface for interacting with Glacier (https, //github.com/upenn-libraries/stronghold) * Demonstration of Penn's workflow for running synchronous transfer of objects to Glacier using guardian, a set of Ruby scripts serving as the orchestration layer (https, and This session details work done at the University of Pennsylvania to incorporate Amazon Glacier as a third-copy backup storage location for objects in our repository using a series of components that were developed as generalized tools that can be integrated into any Ruby-based application to manage object copies in Glacier. This session will cover
Keyword:
Cloud services, Repository, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Lynch, Katherine
Contributor:
University of Utah and University of Pennsylvania Libraries
This presentation aims to explore the possible integration of Samvera digital object repositories with additional web services using message brokers. There have been cases in which it is necessary to synchronize content updates between repositories and additional library systems such as library catalogs or digital exhibit publishing software. Within this context, developers may benefit by exploring architectural pattern in which a dedicated message broker receives asynchronous notifications of repository content updates, new ingestions, and deletions. In response to having received these messages, the broker may then broadcast these events to other listening library systems. The library systems then may reindex or update their own content accordingly. A conceptual overview of this architectural pattern shall be provided, followed by an overview of an implementation local to the systems within the Princeton University Library (synchronizing content between implementations of Valkyrie and Spotlight using RabbitMQ). The outcome of this presentation would be to identify other Samvera adopters who may also be utilizing message brokers, with the ultimate aim of determining whether or not this approach would be beneficial to a larger number of community members. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus
Keyword:
Repository, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Griffin, James
Contributor:
University of Utah and Princeton University Library
A combined slide pack of a number of lightning talks given by Interest and Working Groups at Samvera Connect 2018. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Interest and Working Groups, Lightning talk, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Hyrax Batch Import-Export Working Group, CONTENTdm Migration Working Group, Core Components Maintenance Working Group, Geopredicates Working Group, and Geospatial Interest Group
