A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis, described thus, Fedora, Hydra, Solr, and Blacklight. Called “Ichabod,” this tool has allowed us to ingest, normalize, and enrich metadata from diverse systems of record and make it consumable by our main discovery tool, which is powered by the Ex-Libris product Primo. We developed Ichabod using the Agile methodology and involving developers from three distinct NYU Libraries groups. The software will lay the groundwork for future innovation in the areas of metadata management and discovery for repository content. The relationships we established have already made it possible for a similar collaboration arrangement on two other projects, with more to come in the future., and From DSpace to Drupal, NYU has a variety of systems to ingest and display curated digital content. To make this content discoverable centrally, we developed a tool for metadata ingest, transformation, and discovery based on a popular open-source software stack
Keyword:
Metadata, Workflow, Architecture, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, Blacklight, Digital collections, Fedora, and Solr
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Pechekhonova, Ekaterina, Harper, Corey, Kassel, Carol, and Lovins, Daniel
Indiana University Bloomington Libraries is involved in two new projects to digitize and store content and related metadata. Each of these projects presents unique challenges. We want to use the same technology stack for both, however, so we are choosing Fedora as a storage mechanism, with Hydra-based Sufia as a repository front end. We will discuss our decision, show advantages of this Hydra/Fedora framework, and discuss advantages of moving to Fedora 4. We will also contrast this framework with the way we might have approached these projects in the past with previous versions of Fedora and before Sufia or Hydra were options. and A presentation given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
Keyword:
Fedora, Digital collections, Hydra, Archives, Open Repositories 2015, Sufia, and Metadata
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
To offer an interface for the library’s digital collections and archives, Yale Library has adopted the hydra stack for what are currently 3 access interfaces, findit, an application currently supporting 9 special collections and containing approximately 700k object, the Henry Kissinger Papers which when complete will contain approximately 1.7m images, and the Yale Indian Papers Project, a small collection of approximately 2k objects . This presentation summarizes key customizations and features including ingest, contextual navigation, fulltext search, image and transcript viewing, and ongoing work with authentication and authorization. and A lightning talk given at the Open Repositories conference in 2015 held in Indianapolis described thus
Keyword:
Workflow, Authorization, Lightning talk, Hydra, Open Repositories 2015, and Digital collections
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 presentation given at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 22nd November 2012. The meeting brought together a number of institutions from the UK (and some from Europe more widely) interested in the potential of Hydra. The presentation was one of a number describing the then current use of Hydra in the UK.