Check out Samvera-related presentations from the Open Repositories 2024 conference

The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories took place last month in Gothenburg, Sweden. There are 166 slides, posters, and other materials from OR2024 now uploaded to the OR community repository.

Last week, Robin Ruggaber from UVA presented her talk “Appalachian Research and Value for the Greater Good” at the July Samvera Partners call, and the recording is on the Samvera YouTube channel. 

Recordings of the conference keynote presentations can also be viewed on the Open Repositories Youtube channel:

Monica Granados, Pledging Your Paper for the Planet: Repositories as a tool for climate action 

Gustav Nilssonne, The long road towards open science: strategies for change 

A few of the presentations featuring Samvera adopters and/or technologies were:

• Agility, Growth, and Cooperative Service Design: two teams building a data repository during times of change (Kate Lynch, Meghan Testerman, Princeton University) - In 2024, Princeton University launched new data repository services with the Princeton Data Commons. It spanned many challenges, including departmental restructures, new staff, and support for an existing critical service in brittle legacy architecture while developing a better way to support research data.

• Canopy IIIF: Remix Digital Assets From Cultural Heritage Repositories (Adam Arling and Mat Jordan, Northwestern University) - Canopy IIIF is an open-source static-site generator designed for fast creation, contextualization, and customization of discovery-focused digital scholarship and collections websites using IIIF APIs. 

• Comparing three institutional software repository platforms (Ranganathan, et al.) - This presentation showcases the default functionality offered by three popular open source IR software platforms; DSpace, Hyrax and InvenioRDM when ingesting and publishing typical content.

• Creating Trust in Research Data Repositories via a user-driven implementation: Case study of a Hyrax-based, institutional data repository  (Esser, et al.) - a case study of a research data repository (ReSeeD) operated by Ruhr University Bochum (Germany) and based on the Hyrax platform.

• How to Rebuild a Jumbo Jet at 30,000 Feet: Strategies for Digital Repository Migration (Mike Giarlo, Aaron Collier, Stanford University) - For the past 4 years, SUL has been working towards migrating SDR to a new datastore and data model. We successfully completed the migration this year. In this presentation, we will describe the motivations for this work and the strategies used to accomplish the migration. These strategies may be repurposeable in other production system migrations: adopting a validatable data model, abstracting the datastore behind an API, separating concerns, testing metadata mappings against production, writing reports to understand complex data, templating unit tests, performing a rolling migration, and incorporating migration into ongoing project work.

• Looking up from the weeds: seeing what's next for OA by learning from the past (Richard Jones, Cottage Labs) -  the history of Open Access from the perspective of the author, a software engineer in the sector for nearly 25 years. 

• Open COUNTER-conformant Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS):Thinking Beyond Top 10 Lists (Shelia Rabun, Lyrasis; Paige Morgan, University of Delaware) - This session focuses on how Jisc's Institutional Repository Usage Statistics (IRUS) service has helped US institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Michigan, and University of Delaware to align and assess usage metrics across library resources, benchmark usage against peer repositories at other institutions, and invest in open infrastructure to advocate more effectively about the value of making scholarly research material openly available. 

• The ORA Data Preservation Service – a lightweight, open-source, digital repository solution (Tom Wrobel, University of Oxford) - an open source, decoupled, remote solution for the preservation of repository content in an OCFL (Oxford Common File Layout) file system using the Fedora 6 Repository application to manage ingest and export.

• The Repository Rodeo - representatives from Dataverse, DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, InvenioRDM, Islandora, and Samvera briefly explain what each of our repositories actually does.

• What are the characteristic community smells influencing the sustainability of open-source repository software communities? (Neugebauer, et al.) - The authors summarize some emerging methods used to characterize problems (i.e., "community smells") that open-source software communities face which will affect their sustainability.

A few other presentations on popular repository management topics:

• Lowering the Barrier to Entry for Digital Repository Management by Leveraging Cloud-Native Solutions

• Creating a better balance: the need for tools and practices to combat AI harvests and resource flooding in repository environments

• Automatic detection of duplicate records in institutional repositories

Next year’s conference will be hosted in Chicago June 15th-18th, 2025, so mark your calendars now! 

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