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 recording of a presentation at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus and Panelists from Duke University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan will share their experience of developing a Research Data Repository based on Hyrax 2. They will discuss what worked out-of-the-box, what was customized, future directions, lessons learned to date from working together, and contributing back to the Hyrax community. Institutions’ efforts include data migration, accessibility testing, branding, community outreach, curation workflows, and overcoming the challenges associated with large datasets. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Hyrax, Research data management, Repository, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Freiheit, Fritz, Downey, Moira, Jaffer, Nabeela, Sexton, Will, and Dunn, Jon
A recording of a presentation at Samvera Connect 2018 described thus, prototyping a core component of our new architecture to be horizontally scalable, designing a new architecture for our digital library with a wide ranging set of requirements and users, Stanford University Library has a robust digital library system called the Stanford Digital Repository. This repository holds a little under 500 TB of materials in preservation, and a little less than that for online access, from our cultural heritage digitization efforts and institutional repository outputs. These materials are managed across 90+ codebases serving a variety of functions from self-deposit web applications, to a nearly 10 year old parallel processing framework, to a digital repository assets publication mechanism leading into our Blacklight, Spotlight, and Geoblacklight applications - among other services and needs. At the core of this system is a Fedora 3 store. With Fedora 3 now end-of-lifed, and our system suffering from limited to no horizontal scalability options, we’re revisiting our system and architecture. We are writing it from the start with a goal to have data-forward, distributed microservices and some event-driven processing components. TACO, our new core management API, is the heart of this new architecture, and is currently being developed as a prototype. This talk will walk through the process of analysing our current system via a dataflows analysis, then planning how to create ‘seams’ in our current system to migrate towards our new system in an evolutionary fashion instead of a turn-key migration. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below., and seeing where community technologies like Hyrax, Blacklight, and IIIF will connect
Keyword:
Workflow, Architecture, Repository, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Frost, Hannah and Harlow, Christina
Contributor:
Stanford University Libraries and University of Utah
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 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
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
Keyword:
Case study, Digital collections, Hydra, Repository, Archives, Open Repositories 2015, Lightning talk, and Metadata
A poster given at the 2014 Open Repositories held in Helsinki. This poster will demonstrate the breadth of usage of the Hydra open repository solution within Europe, and highlight how the institutions using it have engaged with the Hydra community to establish their own repositories and fed into ongoing development. Readers will become aware of the use of Hydra within Europe, and how this relates to the Hydra project overall.
Keyword:
Community, Repository, Hydra, Blacklight, and Fedora
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Conrad, Anders, Wright, Nicola, Awre, Christopher L, Frost, Dermot, and Arambudo, Roger Guash
Contributor:
London School of Economics and Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, Theater Institute of Barcelona, and University of Hull
A workshop given at the 2014 Open Repositories held in Helsinki. The Hydra for Managers workshop will enable repository managers and curators of digital collections to learn about the Hydra Project, encompassing both the community and the technical development. Focusing on the community primarily, topics covered will include an exploration of how Hydra fits local use cases, how to work with Hydra as a repository, and how to engage with the community to serve local needs and the sustainability Hydra going forward. The workshop will run for 90 minutes and will comprise a mixture of presentations and time to discuss questions raised by attendees. The workshop will be led by established Hydra Partners with different perspectives on using Hydra from differently-sized institutions.
Keyword:
Collaboration, Open Repositories 2014, Hydra, Repository, Sustainability, Community, and Workshop
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Ruggaber, Robin, Cariani, Karen, and Awre, Christopher L