A report of Michigan's early-stage investigation into building a Hydra publihing platform, which will eventually include support for fully-encoded text with an eye towards migrating level-4 TEI texts from DLXS and possibly including EPUB 3. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
Generalizing from discussions within the GIS Data Modeling Working Group, this talk aims to address the potential benefits and risks involved in attempting to integrate Vagrant Boxes (virtual machine images) into software development and service deployment life cycles. An audio recording of the session is available for download below. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
A lightning fast overview of free or cheap, cool and useful Ruby and Rails web sites, blogs, podcasts, videos, and users groups for new and not-so-new Hydra developers. I'll talk fast, but don't worry, I'll post the links on-line before the talk. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
A brief walk through on concerns related to monitoring and alerting a production Hydra stack. An recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. Unfortunately, although it is technically a video, the slides do not show on the recording. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
When the Library of Congress was recently attacked, we noticed an important part of our workflow ground to a halt - XML schema validation had failed. We've developed a gem that allows for schema mirroring and offline validation/rspec testing, which we hope might be of use to others. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
The Boston Public Library has long been a Fedora 3 Commons system and we are heavily invested in that backend. After waiting to see how Fedora 4 Commons develops and with some recent internal debate, our "next gen" repository solution is going in a different direction. This will be a (perhaps) controversial talk as to why and how we came to this conclusion. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus and Hydra applications can interact with a number of backing services (Fedora, Solr, Redis, job runners, etc). Using Docker to run these services locally can potentially simplify the development environment and reduce on-boarding time. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
For the past few years I've been distributing a survey to gauge usage of Sufia (and, this year, CurationConcerns) and to get a sense of what direction the community wants the components to go in. I'd like to report back to you all on what the latest data says, and share a rough roadmap for 2016-2017. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016, described thus
An overview of the Jisc Research Data Management Shared Service initiative in the UK, looking to establish a set of infrastructural components that academic institutions can combine to provide an overall RDM solution. Hydra has been shortlisted as one of the repository components that an initial group of pilot institutions can use. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A lightning talk presentation at Hydra Connect 2016 described thus
We encountered big performance hurdles with our Sufia6 based application HydraNorth, and this is a quick overview of tools we used to help us monitoring and profiling the performance of our application, and restoring sanity to our team. A video of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below. and A lightning talk presentation given at Hydra Connect 2016 described thus