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
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Workshop, Governance, Architecture, Repository, Samvera, Connect 2019, and Community
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Green, Richard A, Ruggaber, Robin, and Allinson, Julie
The Hydra Project started in 2008 through a partnership between the University of Hull, the University of Virginia, Stanford University and Fedora Commons (now DuraSpace) to create tools that support use of the Fedora digital repository. Hull adopted the software outputs from this collaboration for its institutional repository in 2011 and remains an active Partner in the community, serving on the Steering Group and fostering development of the community and software in the UK and mainland Europe and The community now has 35 formal Partners and over 70 known adopters internationally. In June 2017 Hydra changed its name to Samvera, Icelandic for 'being together', to recognize the value gained from multiple institutions working together to create the underlying common basis upon which multiple different repository solutions have been implemented. Samvera can be adopted through a set of tools to develop your own repository (using a package called Hyrax as the starting point) and is also available as a complete repository solution, hosted or local, through the use of Hyku. The community has been at the heart of making Samvera a success, and will continue to underpin its future direction.
Program, and links to subsequent notes, for the Samvera Europe Group meeting held 14th December, 2017, at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Agenda, with linked presentations and notes, for the Samvera Partner Meeting held at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) 29-30 April, 2019.
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.
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Governance, Samvera, Virtual Connect 2019, Community, and Lightning talk
57, 38, 2, and A recording of Samvera's Virtual Connect conference in 2017. Follow th 'Related URL' below. Samvera Virtual Connect (SVC), formerly known as Hydra Virtual Connect, is an opportunity for Samvera Community participants to gather online to touch base on the progress of community efforts at a roughly halfway point between face-to-face Samvera Connect meetings. Samvera is a growing, active community with many initiatives taking place across interest groups, working groups, local and collaborative development projects, and other efforts, and it can be difficult for community members to keep up with all of this activity on a regular basis. SVC will give the Samvera community a chance to come together to catch up on developments, make new connections, and re-energize itself towards Samvera Connect 2017 in Evanston in November. Duration
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Community, Screencast, Virtual Connect 2017, and Samvera
A recording of Samvera's Virtual Connect conference in 2018. Follow the 'Related URL' link below. Samvera Virtual Connect (SVC), is an opportunity for Samvera Community participants to gather online to touch base on the progress of community efforts at a roughly halfway point between face-to-face Samvera Connect meetings. Samvera is a growing, active community with many initiatives taking place across interest groups, working groups, local and collaborative development projects, and other efforts, and it can be difficult for community members to keep up with all of this activity on a regular basis. SVC will give the Samvera community a chance to come together to catch up on developments, make new connections, and re-energize itself towards Samvera Connect 2018 in Salt Lake City in October. Duration, 50, 2, and 43
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Community, Screencast, Virtual Connect 2018, and Samvera
The program and notes, with linked slides, for the Samvera Virtual Partner meeting held on-line 27/28 April, 2020. This virtual meeting replaced the planned face-to-face event that should have been held in Atlanta but which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The program, with linked slides and notes, for the Samvera Partner meeting held on 27th and 28th April 2020. The planned face-to-face meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and replace by this on-line substitute,
25 - 2, 45 Durham update 1, 45 - 2, Video recording of the virtual Samvera Europe meeting held on 18th September 2020. For the video follow the 'Related URL' link below. The agenda below will give approximate ideas of the offset times within the video to the various reports. Agenda (times are British Summer Time - UTC+1) Each update has 5-10mins between them to allow for questions and discussion 1, 20 Digital Repository of Ireland update 2, 35 - 2, 30 York update 2, 00 Samvera Connect update and close, 55 Ruhr-University Bochum update 3, 35 - 1, 50 - 2, 40 Hull update 2, 05 Oxford update 2, 05 Welcome & housekeeping 1, 25 British Library/Ubiquity update 1, 00 - 1, 15 - 2, and 05 - 1
Keyword:
Community, Regional event, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Awre, Christopher L
Contributor:
Ruhr-University Bochum, University of Hull, Digital Repository of Ireland, University of Oxford, University of York, British Library, and University of Durham
* 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. The 'Related URL' below links to a YouTube video of the presentation. and Samvera Connect 2020 was a virtual, rather than face-to-face, conference because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation would normally have been given as a workshop with some hands-on participation in the middle. The session was described thus
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Community, Governance, Architecture, Connect 2020, Samvera, Workshop, and Repository
Slides from an on-line workshop given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and *Overview of the M3 schema *Requirements and Installation for Allinson Flex *Overview of Allinson Flex usage *Constraints and next steps discussion Allinson Flex brings on the fly user editable M3 metadata schemas to Hyrax and repositories built with similar components. We'll dive deep into what the M3 schema is and how it is structured, how Allinson Flex works today and what our plans for the future bring. Workshop will be divided into 2 parts. Part 1 will be a feature overview and discussion / dive into how M3 schemas are laid out. Part 2 will be a hands on installation and configuration of the Allinson Flex tools and a code dive into certain features.
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Workshop, Hyrax, Metadata, Connect 2020, Samvera, and Community
streaming media protocols and their differences, file formats and codecs, Slides from an on-line workshop given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus, This workshop will provide a general overview of streaming media technologies and applications, as well as a hands-on portion where participants will configure a simple Rails application with a streaming server. Topics will include a brief overview of commonly used streaming servers and applications, both local and cloud-hosted, and and browser support. The workshop component will include a walk-through of setting up Nginx as a streaming server, building a Rails app with stream security and authorization. Docker containers will be provided.
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Avalon, Samvera, Workshop, Community, and Connect 2020
A presentation given at Samvera Connect 2020 On-line described thus and The annual roundup of all that has happened and our exciting prospects for the next few years from Rosalyn Metz, Chair of the Samvera Steering Group. The 'Related URL' below links to beginning of this presentation in the day's YouTube recording.
New to Samvera? Welcome! We understand how steep the learning curve may seem when getting started. Samvera 101 is an introductory presentation that will cover fundamental principles with a sampling of common topics and definitions used within the Samvera stack and community. Framework topics include discussions around, Rails, Sidekiq, Data Stores, Fedora, Solr, Blacklight, etc. While application level topics include discussions around, Avalon, Hyrax, Hyku, etc. Like a prerequisite class, this talk is designed to prepare developers and community members for success! Attendees will leave having a greater understanding of Samvera's components and how they come together to create a Samvera application. The 'Related URL' below links to a YouTube recording with closed captioning., and A 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 A quick introduction to the Samvera Tech call to address what is it, who is it for, and how can I engage. The 'Related URL' below links to a video recording of the session. The video has closed captioning.
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
The Samvera Community's Annual Report for 2017. This report may be of particular interest as it explains the reasons for the change of name from the 'Hydra Project'.
Keyword:
Samvera, Community, and Annual report
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Rouner, Andrew, Steans, Ryan, Green, Richard A, Bussey, Mark, Newman, Linda, and Giarlo, Michael J
Contributor:
Cole, Carolyn, Porter, Emily, Byard, James, and Stover, Dottie
Frost, Hannah, Taylor, Stephanie, Cowles, Esmé, Allinson, Julie, Steans, Ryan, Awre, Christopher L, Pendragon, Trey, Van Tuyl, Steve, Dunn, Jon, and Green, Richard A
Contributor:
Headley, Anna, Dunn, Jon, University of Utah, Weise, John, Tampakis, Nikitas, Bussey, Mark, IUPUI University Library, Lynn, Rachel, and University of London
An overview of the Samvera Community in fall 2019 written as a companion document to the Samvera Roadmap Council's white paper describing the state of the technology.
This policy describes how the Samvera Community will process and manage your personal data. It applies to the data collected through community activities such as online and face-to-face meetings. Samvera cares about protecting your privacy. Our primary objective in meeting GDPR and related privacy legal requirements is service to our community.
“In order to support centralized staffing the Samvera Community needs a strategy to raise significant funds on an ongoing basis. Partner discussions have supported the idea of a required contribution model that equitably distributes the burden. The contribution model will include both financial and in-kind staff time tiered options. Equity, good standing, how to value in-kind contributions, and incentives will be addressed in the proposed contribution model.” The work developed over two phases producing these reports. and The Samvera Contribution model Working Group was chartered to propose a model in support of the Governance Working Group recommendation that
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Governance, Interest and Working Groups, Samvera, and Community
Frost, Hannah, Allinson, Julie, Cariani, Karen, Green, Richard A, Kochanski, Kevin, Basford, Jenny, Pendragon, Trey, Cameron, Jon, and Carpinski, Christy
Contributor:
British Library, Princeton University Library, Webb, Mollie, Indiana University, Stanford University Libraries, Notch8, ATLA, WGBH, Boston, and Washington University in St Louis
Samvera publicity leaflet for use at conferences. Version 2 dated April 2019 in A4 and US Letter formats. This version of the leaflet has been superseded.
Samvera publicity leaflet for use at conferences. Version 1 dated October 2018 in A4 and US Letter formats. This version of the leaflet has been superseded.
A workshop given at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus and If you are new to Samvera or considering adoption of Samvera products, this workshop is designed for you! Samvera is a community, a set of tools, and increasingly a collection of ready-to run applications to help build a digital repository for your institution. It is an open source and sustainable community. This workshop will provide an on-boarding and general entrée to the Samvera community for non coders. The workshop will begin with an overview of Samvera community and products– what is it, why is it different. It will showcase some applications that exist, and discuss the how the community at large works. The overview will be followed by a general technical overview designed for non-coders. The staff skills needed to maintain and contribute a Samvera solution will be discussed, resources that exist to get started, and how to contribute code to the community. The workshop will conclude with discussing 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.
Keyword:
Workshop, Architecture, Connect 2018, Samvera, and Community
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Ruggaber, Robin, Van Tuyl, Steve, and Allinson, Julie
A presentation at Samvera Connect 2019, originally titled "Creating a Vision for Samvera", described thus and As Samvera had undergone a shift it its governance over the past 2 years, Samvera Steering wanted to ask Partners to contribute to the creation of a vision for Samvera’s future. The visioning exercise was conducted in April 2019 at the Samvera Partners meeting, involved over 30 community members, and was facilitated by Hannah Frost and Carolyn Caizzi. This presentation will update the community about the process used, the outputs of the exercise, and about any ongoing work to further hone the vision of Samvera’s future.
Keyword:
Community, Samvera, and Connect 2019
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Frost, Hannah and Caizzi, Carolyn
Contributor:
Samvera Vision Statement Working Group, Ruggaber, Robin, Hardesty, Julie, Nunes, Charlotte, and Whitaker, Matia
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
A recording of a panel presentation at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus and In this panel we will briefly discuss the current landscape of needs and reasons for users to consider moving from an established repository, and the challenges facing users of a variety of platforms, both cultural and technological. We will also consider work currently underway such as "Bridge to Hyku", a grant-sponsored project empowering Content DM users to migrate, successes in DSpace-to-Samvera migration and what's on the horizon for BePress. In discussing these challenges, we hope to present the Samvera Community with an opportunity to grow the portfolio of users and create the potential for standards and teams to assist those who wish to be a part of the Samvera Community. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Community, Migration, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Richardson, Crystal, Jaffer, Nabeela, Crocken, Todd, Blanco, Jose, and Steans, Ryan
