1. samvera an open source solution for building digital repositories
Bess Sadler & Mark Bussey
45 minutes = 35 present + 10 Q & A

2. What we’ll cover Samvera in the wild Hands on feature exploration
Hyrax vs. Hyku (custom vs. packaged)
Where to go next
Q & A

3. Tufts Digital Library Fedora content pre-dates Hydra / Samvera
Multi-app ecosystem (management, discovery, image library, others)
Supports multiple content types
Live Site:

4. INDIANA UNIVERSITY Media Collections Online
Built using the Avalon Media System
Rich tool for management and discovery of audio and visual resources
Provides gated discovery and streaming authentication
Live Site:

5. Alexandria Digital Research Library
Fedora 4 + RDF based
Broadly focused Institutional Repository hosting multiple content types
Includes a mix of born digital and digitized content
Live Site:

6. Earthworks Heterogeneous GIS Content
Search and browse augmented by spatial search functions
Includes content harvested from multiple sources
Live Site:

7. Next Up:
Hands-On
Any questions so far?

8. Create an account Visit http://demo.curationexperts.com/
Click the Login link
Click on “Sign Up” (just under the Login button)
Enter your , choose a password, and click on “Sign Up”

9. Deposit a new work Click on the logo in the upper left corner
Click on the “Share Your Work” button
Select a type of work
Add required metadata, attach a file, choose visibility, accept the deposit agreement
Save your work

10. Edit your work
Choose “Dashboard” from the menu in the upper right corner
Click on Works
Use the “Actions” dropdown to choose edit
Enter some data in “Additional Fields”
Add a file or two, update versions

11. Browse content Click on the logo in the upper left
Click on the search icon to browse the repository
Use search and facet to narrow results
View some items
Log-out - how does your experience differ?

12. Next Up:
Mini Break
+ Nominate an Admin

13. Deposit a new work Reminder: Logo, Share, Select
Add required metadata, attach a file, choose visibility, accept the deposit agreement
Confirm “one step approval” is selected under Relationships
Save your work

14. View your work? Reminder: dashboard, works What do you see?
What does your administrator see?
Approve some works (Admins)
All Works
Review Submissions
Notifications

15. Other features to try Gated discovery: Public, DCE, Private
Featured works (Admins)
Collections
Admin dashboard (Group Walkthrough)
Background Processing (Group)

16. Next Up: The big picture
Any questions so far?

17. Some Names
Samvera: (formerly Hydra) an ecosystem of ruby-on-rails focused tools for building rich and flexible digital repositories - refers to the community, governance, and the software framework
Fedora: a robust, modular, open source repository back-end for the management and dissemination of digital content
Solr: a fast, scalable, search index
Blacklight: a flexible, configurable ruby-on-rails based discovery layer that can be used as part of Samvera or as a standalone discovery application
Hyrax: Fully customizable repository application - requires software development
Hyku: Fully configured (i.e. opinionated) Institutional Repository
Avalon: Fully configured (i.e. opinionated) Digital A/V repository

18. Partial, Incomplete, Concept Cloud
RDF Resource
TDD
Exporters
Importers
CSS
Bootstrap
MVC
Container
GeoConcerns
IIIF
XML
Nokogiri
PCDM
Non- RDF Resource
LDP
Linked Data
RDF
Resque
Questioning Authority
Blacklight
Hydra Core
Devise
Internationalization
Redis
RabbitMQ
FITS
Characterization
Derivative
Hydra-Forms
JQuery
Background Jobs
OpenOffice
ImageMagick
FFMPEG
Ruby
JavaScript
Rails
Camel
Versioning
Fixity
Messaging
ActiveFedora
RSolr
Indexing
TripleStore
Sparql
SQL
WebAC

19. Objects (Resources) in Fedora 4.x
Are described using RDF (“linked-data”)
Are related using RDF
Are controlled using RDF
Can contain non-RDF-Resources Think bitstream – i.e. Files

20. Observation #1
You don’t have to expose your Samvera content as linked data.
BUT
The Samvera + Fedora framework makes it much easier when you do want to share linked data content.

21. Next Up:
What next?
What do I do back home?

22. Community Structure
Steering Group Stewards of the project - individual membership
Partners Formally committed institutional membership
Working & Interest Groups Topically aligned groups that span organizations & roles
Committers Developer community

23. Community Resources Website - for the managers https://samvera.org
Wiki - for the doers
Github - for the makers

24. Try it out github.com/samvera demo.curationexperts.com
ask other partners for demos!
Stanford University
Univ. of Notre Dame
Indiana University
Data Curation Experts
Yale University
Cornell University
Tufts University
University of Michigan
University of York
University of Hull
Northwestern University
London School of Economics
WGBH Boston
Virginia Tech
University of Oregon
Duoc UC (Chile)
Lafayette College
UC San Diego
Digital Repository of Ireland
University of Virginia
Columbia University
Boston Public Library
University of Cincinnati
Oregon State University University of Alberta
University of York
UC Santa Barbara
DuraSpace
Penn State University
Royal Library of Denmark
Duke University
Princeton University Library
Washington U. in St Louis
University of Houston
Digital Public Library of America

25. Questions Thank you samvera-community@googlegroups.com
Last resort…
Thank you

27. Bonus: PCDM Portland Common Data Model
In case you’re interested

28. How Does PCDM Fit? The Portland Common Data Model
Describes relationships between objects
Defines where (but not what) metadata about things can be found – see diagram
Facilitates content interchange between heterogeneous repositories
Makes more code reusable

30. PCDM Benefits Shared Open Standard Promise of richer data interchange
Learn from patterns and practices broader than the Samvera / Repository / LAM community
Reusable developer skills, fewer snowflakes

31. Observation #2
Your end-users should not know your application relies on PCDM, LDP, or RDF
BUT
You can provide your end-users a richer experience because your application relies on PCDM, LDP, and RDF