Building and using an open source community-supported system to manage audiovisual materials for a digital archive/library has many advantages and challenges. Being able to dictate the features, have a system speak to specific needs, and have staff on hand that can change or fix problems is certainly appealing. Embarking on this effort with an established open community, such as Samvera, has the advantages of a robust community of developers and service vendors to turn to for help. Managing needed customisations to core code base, keeping track of updates and contributing to the community, however, is challenging. For WGBH, a public television station with a robust 60-year archive, most customisations are due to the use PBCore to structure the metadata of the audio-visual items. This paper focuses on WGBH’s efforts to build a system for its Media Library and Archives based on the Samvera digital repository framework and its Hyrax and Avalon Media System ‘products’. and Abstract
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #4 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 3 hours 23 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 on-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
A recording of the opening session of Samvera Connect 2020. Labelled "Welcome and housekeeping" in the program, the session also included a memorial to the late Julie Allinson and a tribute to the Community's retiring Operations Adviser, Richard Green.
Keyword:
Community and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Metz, Rosalyn
Contributor:
McBride, Brian, Awre, Christopher L, and Cramer, Tom
Samvera Connect 2020 was held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 340 people registered for the event. The linked video is a recording of the Day #5 events. The 'Related URL' below links to the start of this presentation in the YouTube recording. This is the full recording of the day's presentations lasting some 2 hours 51 minutes. Shorter recordings of the individual presentations are to be found elsewhere in this repository. Search 'Connect 2020 on-line' and use the facets to select just 'presentations'.
Between 2018 and 2019, Jisc funded an effort to refresh the SWORD repository deposit protocol, with modern repository use cases in mind, especially around data repositories. As a result we produced a draft specification, extensively reviewed by a large number of the repositories community, including those from the Samvera and Fedora communities. In 2019, NII provided funding to produce a reference implementation, and we have been working to prove that the specification is implementable and viable. That work concluded in July 2020 with the release of a client library and a server library in Python. Now the SWORDv3 team is looking outward to the rest of the repositories community, looking to engage them in development for their platforms, and to enable novel integrations. This presentation will introduce the spec for those that are not familiar, and describe the technical and community-building work that is ongoing, and call for engagement by the Samvera technical community in working with SWORDv3. The YouTube 'Related URL' below links to a recording of the presentation with closed captioning. and A presentation at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Samvera, SWORD, Protocol, Connect 2020, and Metadata
Ubiquity repositories, which are based on Hyku, are designed to be highly scalable, highly reliable and quick to deploy in the cloud. In this presentation we will outline the technical architecture we have implemented, along with the challenges faced. These include scalability, security, cost-efficiency, performance, reliability, resilience, portability, delivery pipelines for code deployment, error reporting, testing and localization. We will also discuss our approach ensuring we remain on the most recent stable branch of the platform and contributing our code back to the community. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning. and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
Keyword:
Collaboration, Architecture, Samvera, API, Customization, Connect 2020, Hyrax, and Hyku