DLF Forum 2018

Presentations
 
Hyrax in Production
Bess Sadler
Data Curation Experts, United States of America
 
Despite widespread interest in Hyrax, Samvera’s new flagship repository solution, there is a dearth of documentation about how to run a production instance. We’ll cover the lessons we’ve learned from a year of building and hosting Hyrax, including our new project checklist, logging and monitoring practices, and data migration paths.
 
 
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Multimedia Publishing Platform
Ahmed Omar, Ahmed Samir
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
 
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Multimedia (BAMM) publishing platform allows publishing and managing multimedia objects in a repository, through grouping media objects into collections and publishing each group to an independent website. All websites are derived from a template website client to the BAMM repository.
 
 
Fedora Project Update: Current Developments and Future Plans
David Wilcox(1), Daniel Bernstein(2), Bethany Seeger(3)
1: DuraSpace, Canada; 2: DuraSpace, USA; 3: Amherst College
 
Fedora is a flexible, extensible, open source repository platform for the management and dissemination of digital content. This presentation will summarize recent accomplishments and next steps for Fedora, including the publication of an API specification, the development of alternate community implementations, the next software release, and project direction going forward.
 
 
Islandora for All: Adding Digital Scholarship Tools and IR Experience with LASIR Phase II
Mark Christel(1), Joanna DiPasquale(2), David Keiser-Clark(3)
1: Grinnell College, United States of America; 2: Vassar College, United States of America; 3: Williams College, United States of America
 
The LASIR project is developing a comprehensive suite of Institutional Repository features enhancing those already within Islandora. The project will build critical digital scholarship features that include: improved author profiles; usage statistics; network maps; integration with other resources; a self-submission workflow; and the ability to contribute to larger disciplinary networks.