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
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Samvera, SWORD, Protocol, Connect 2020, and Metadata
The Emory Libraries implemented a second-generation preservation infrastructure in 2019 utilizing Hyrax 3, Fedora 4 and AWS, following a requirements gathering phase that included developing a preservation policy and a review of preservation community best practices. This presentation describes our solution design including locally-defined entities such as preservation workflows and events and FileSet expansion to support derivative files. We will also address implementation lessons learned while leveraging existing Samvera functionality and building new features to bridge gaps between existing framework components. 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
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
A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Update on recent and coming work for the Bulkrax gem. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
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Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, and Import/export
In May 2018, UNC Libraries purchased a report from 1Science which listed 47,000 articles authored by UNC researchers. Although the vendor characterized the report as an out-of-the-box tool designed to fill an institutional repository, we found that it would take significant work to make it usable for UNC’s Hyrax-based institutional repository, the Carolina Digital Repository (CDR). In this presentation, we will discuss the issues that we identified, including scripting errors, inconsistent metadata and rights concerns. We will describe the plans and processes to fix these issues and to adapt the metadata for our repository. Additionally, we will address best practices for uploads and future plans. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording. and A lightning talk (seven minute) presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
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Metadata, Lightning talk, Connect 2020, and Samvera
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Figgy is Princeton University Library’s staff-facing repository management application. This presentation will share screenshots, user stories, and technical overviews of all the forms, magic buttons, storage integrations, drag-and-drop targets, rake tasks, and directory watchers that Figgy provides to support the different workflows our users have for ingesting content. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
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Metadata, Workflow, Connect 2020, Migration, Archives, Samvera, and Digitization
one size would not fit all for our campus archives, library, and museum, and community needs above all. In this presentation, team members will talk about the past two years of experimentation, development, and conversation around how to connect our community to our cultural heritage collections through multiple integrations, both human and technological. At a high-level, we’ll discuss our technical architecture that uses legacy applications like ArchivesSpace, an aging Fedora repository, and a decades-old museum database together with the IIIF framework and open-source GatsbyJS. And perhaps more importantly, we’ll outline the cross-departmental team structure that has developers talking to museum curators, library cataloguers, archivists, and everyone in between. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording., The University of Notre Dame has taken a modular approach to building a new digital collections platform-integrating existing applications and connecting the people that manage and use them across the library, archives, and art museum. We began with two assumptions, and A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus
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Architecture, Samvera, Workflow, Connect 2020, Metadata, and Digital collections
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and Princeton University Library’s digital projects and initiatives were seriously disrupted by COVID-19. Digitization of materials for projects and forthcoming exhibitions came to an unexpected halt at the same time as patrons and staff were separated from physical objects and library spaces. Necessity, however, provided an opportunity to reassess digital projects and how staff members interact with and contribute to our repository (Figgy). We focused on the creation of workflows and documentation for new contributors who would be working in the repository, helping them enhance existing digital objects with OCR, item level organization, structural metadata, page labeling, and IIIF display attributes. We describe how we were able to use Figgy and unexpectedly-available staff time to make more effective research tools and provide a better user experience for patrons and staff working with our digital collections. Such enhancements add immense value to our collections as well as to our applications, and the work can be done effectively by a wide range of staff from different departments with variable skill sets. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
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Metadata, Workflow, Connect 2020, Digitization, Samvera, Exhibits, and Vendors
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
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Architecture, Samvera, Workflow, Connect 2020, Metadata, and Preservation
A set of very brief (3 minute) presentations given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line updating the Community on the work of some of its Interest and Working Groups. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
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Interest and Working Groups, Hyrax, Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, Controlled vocabulary, Marketing, User experience, and Repository management
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Egloff, Nora, Goslen, Anna, Awre, Christopher L, Hardesty, Juliet L, Jaffer, Nabeela, and Arling, Adam
Contributor:
Samvera Controlled Vocabulary Decision Tree Working Group, Samvera Metadata Interest Group, Samvera Marketing Working Group, Repository Managers' Interest Group, Hyrax 3.0 Metadata Application Profile Documentation Working Group, and Samvera UI Interest Group