Valkyrized Hyrax
Pledge Drive

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Pledge Drive Scope

Contact:

Kirsten Leonard, PALNI Executive Director, kleonard@palni.edu or (317) 752-6831

How to Pledge:

  • Email Kirsten Leonard, PALNI Executive Director kleonard@palni.edu
    • Include: Your name, contact information, institution, amount of pledge, and instructions for invoicing, including whether your institution chooses to be invoiced by PALNI, Samvera, or SoftServ. 

Pledge Request:

The Hyku for Consortia group (PALNI and PALCI) are facilitating a pledge drive to raise funds to support work sprints through SoftServ to move the Valkyrie for Hyrax work forward in a May-June 2023 series of sprints. 

The goal is to collect $50,000 - $100,000 in funds to support developer hours to move this work forward as soon as possible with check-ins to ensure the viability of the Milestone completion.

Pledges Received to Date (May 18, 2023): Total of $51,000

  • Amigos (consortium implementing Hyku): $7500 (Contact: Christine Peterson)
  • Dickinson College (Hyku for Consortia project participant): $500 (Contact: Susan Vandale)
  • Indiana University: $15,000 (Contact Jon Dunn)
  • Northwestern University: $5,000 (Contact Carolyn Caizzi and David Schober)
  • PALNI/PALCI (Hyku for Consortia): Updated to a total of $10,000 (Contact Kirsten Leonard)
  • Samvera Board: $5,000 (Contact Esme Cowles)
  • University of Michigan: $8,000 (Contact Bohyun Kim, John Weise)

Timeframe: 

Target as soon as possible for pledges, desired by May 15th. Invoices from PALNI can be issued late May early June.

Why are we doing a community funding pledge to move forward on Valkyrization?

Valkyrie for Hyrax has been a promise to Samvera users for a few years.  So much excellent work has been done here, but community resources have been constrained to get it across the line.  Completing this work would provide a number of important benefits to the community:

  • Long-desired options beyond Fedora 4 for existing Samvera users, including Postgres or Fedora 6 backed Hyrax
  • Removal of what has been a “let’s wait” blocker for institutions who have delayed upgrades
  • Attractiveness of Samvera solutions to potential adopting institutions who have been hearing about Valkyrie and waiting to act
  • Interest from service providers and a path to keep their engagement in the community viable

Valkyrize Hyrax Deliverables:

  • Milestone 1. Create a fully functioning version of Hyrax that is backed by Postgres.  This is work that will be accomplished within the nurax-pg/koppie test app environment.  Acceptance criteria:
    • CRUD and display of Collections/Works/Fileset/Files is complete. Files are the main missing piece here, but there is some work in progress already.
    • IIIF manifests are generated and displayed via UniversalViewer.
    • Object permissions/visibility/embargoes are all working properly.
    • Admin Sets/workflows are working.
    • Specs are updated to pass in this environment (the *-valkyrie tests run on CircleCI still have ActiveFedora in the mix)
    • Anything required to start work on the other milestones.

If there are funds and time remaining:

  • Milestone 2. Pave a well-established workflow for live-migrating an existing Fedora 4 backed Hyrax repository to Valkyrie Postgres backed Hyrax repository. 
    • Hyrax/Bootstrap/Rails
    • Repo.samvera.org valkyrization could be done here to create a path for upgrade from a fedora 4 backed Hyrax instance that also supports Hyku

Note: Milestone 3 (have the Fedora 6 Valkyrie adapter fully working in Hyrax) will be carried forward by subsequent sprints in late summer/fall

Ticket Board: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax/projects/20 

Other Contributions Needed:

  • An active, populated Hyrax repository for testing purposes
  • Testers, which is an excellent opportunity for non-developer library staff to contribute
  • A current Hyrax user willing to participate in sprint meetings

Contract Structure:

SoftServ Will:

  • In May and June 2023, commit hours per provided funding levels pledged to complete work in Milestone 1. Any remaining funds will be directed towards work in Milestone 2.
  • Contract with PALNI and PALCI for the work to be completed
  • Invoice PALNI for work completed on a monthly basis
  • Provide a project manager to maintain communication with PALNI and PALCI and the Samvera Community on progress and goal alignment
  • Participate in a handoff meeting with other efforts to complete all three milestones

PALNI & PALCI Will:

  • Invoice, gather, and report on pledged funds, expenses and remaining funds, provide contractual and financial oversight for the project
  • Communicate with the funders and Samvera community to gather follow-up specifications, provide updates, and communicate with SoftServ
  • Attend weekly sprint meetings and gather and provide community feedback and direction, with assistance from another member of the community and Heather Greer Klein
  • Support efforts to pass the baton to subsequent later sprints to be coordinated by others