A presentation at Connect 2018 updating delegates on the recommendations of Samvera's Governance Working Group. A video recording of this session is available at the 'Related URL' below.
Keyword:
Governance, Connect 2018, and Samvera
Subject:
Samvera Community
Creator:
Ciazzi, Carolyn and Metz, Rosalyn
Contributor:
Samvera Governance Working Group and University of Utah
Samvera Partners must sign a formal one page Letter of Agreement (LoA) in support of the formal and legal Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the Steering Group in April 2012. A composite document comprising the 2012 MoU, amendments made to it in 2018 to reflect the name change from Hydra to Samvera, changes made in 2019 to reflect governance changes in the Community, a version of the MoU showing the effect of these amendments, and a blank Letter of Agreement are in this downloadable document.
Keyword:
Memorandum of Understanding, Governance, Samvera, and Letter of Agreement
Contributors to the Samvera codebase require the consent of their institution or organization and to give this, the employer must sign a Corporate Contributor License Agreement. This is the downloadable form.
Keyword:
Contributor License Agreement, Governance, and Samvera
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.
The Governance Working Group was chartered by Partners thus, A one-page summary of the discussion, documentation, and feedback to-date related to the various governance models under consideration. * Synthesis, This step will be shepherded by Steering, as the proposed model will also be assessed for legal, licensing, and MOU implications prior to further community review. * Proposal, Development of a draft governance proposal and incremental steps to implementation if appropriate * Community Input, Circulation of the final proposal for potential adoption at a Spring/Summer 2018 partner meeting, The Governance working group is a small group chartered by the community to help synthesize and formalize the various governance discussions and documents currently underway. The scope of the Samvera Governance Working Group’s deliverables will be, Circulation of the above to Partners, stakeholders, and the Steering group for review, comment, and change requests to the proposal * Legal Review, * Context, A revised governance proposal based on community, stakeholder, & legal feedback * Community Review, and A summary of the themes and issues that the community hopes to address by refining existing or adopting new governance practices and structures. Ideally identifies key differences and decision points between the models provided for evaluation and current model. This combined context and synthesis documents should be approximately 750-1500 words (1-3 pages) in length * Draft
Keyword:
Governance, Interest and Working Groups, and Samvera
University of Michigan, Data Curation Experts, Northwestern University, DuraSpace, Emory University, Princeton University, Indiana University, and Cornell University
Assignment document transferring the 2019 Memorandum of Understanding between Samvera and DuraSpace to Lyrasis following their merger. It also extends the agreement for six months.
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.