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Samvera Europe

Chris Awre

Fedora Showcase

September 2023

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Samvera Europe?

  • A regional grouping of those organizations participating in the Samvera community within Europe
    • And I include the UK in that definition of Europe!
  • A number of those organizations also participate in the Fedora community
  • Focus of activity is within the broader Samvera channels, e.g., mailing lists, Slack, wiki, etc.
    • Periodic meetings help to coalesce specific areas of focus for European organisations and foster sharing of experience

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Who’s involved?

University of Hull

University of Oxford

University of York

Durham University

The King’s Fund

Ruhr- University Bochum

Trinity College, Dublin

British Library

CoSector

Antleaf

Ubiquity

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Samvera and Fedora

  • Key topic of conversation at this week’s meeting
  • Everyone still using Fedora within their Samvera applications
    • A mixture of Fedora 3 and Fedora 4
  • Strong interest in the Samvera Valkyrie initiative
    • A mixture of interest for migrating to Fedora 6 and migrating off Fedora (e.g., to Postgres)
    • Mostly wary of ‘going first’
  • Dan Field provided valuable insight on the current state of play to inform the group
    • Ongoing testing and gathering of feedback re: migrations will be very helpful
  • Desire to understand more about role and use of linked data within Fedora 6

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Additional themes

Open research

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How can our repositories best serve open research?

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Need to capitalize on open interfaces

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Make use of available services to streamline management of content from open research

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Interest in viewing packaged files and use of different identifiers

Media presentation

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Use of IIIF now considered the norm, but different paths to making this work in context of overall repository management

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Viewing multiple media types attached to the same repository object

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Linked into consideration of creating derivatives and preservation of originals

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Institutional updates

  • British Library – looking at growing the number of UK independent research organizations (IROs) using their Hyku instance
  • Oxford – finding additional ways of enhancing the metadata they hold for research outputs; developing a Fedora 6 backed OCFL digital preservation system
  • York – addressing issues related to older, customized versions of Hyrax and how to migrate to newer versions
  • CoSector – a number of clients making use of Archivematica as part of digital preservation workflows in tandem with Hyrax

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Thank you

c.awre@hull.ac.uk