What
Midwest Fedora User Group Meeting. A place to meet in person to discuss topics, share experience and learn about Fedora, Hydra, Islandora, PCDM and other such fun things.
Who
This event is free and open to all who want to participate. Fedora veterans, enthusiasts and curious technologists from the Library, Archive and Museum community are welcome.
Note: registration is required. Register here.
When
22-23 October 2015
Day 1: 9:00am - 5pm
Day 2: 9:00am - 3pm
Start and end times are subject to change depending on schedule. See Agenda below.
Where
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Morton Auditorium
Directions
If you are coming from O'Hare airport the fastest and most convenient way to get to the museum is taking the Blue Line train to the Monroe stop and walk two blocks east on Monroe Street.
Driving directions, parking and other information are found on http://www.artic.edu/visit/directions-and-parking
Enter through staff entrance before 10am. Participants will be escorted through the staff entrance.
The staff entrance is on 125 East Monroe Street. Walk on Monroe past Michigan Avenue and proceed for a few hundred feet and you will see a big loading dock on the right side, just before the train tracks. The staff entrance is a white door to the right of the dock.
Attendees
- Andrew Woods
- Violeta Ilik
- Peter Gorman
- Jeremy Friesen
- Rick Johnson
- Unknown User (steve@northwestern.edu)
- Nathan Books
- Rodney Neace
- Dalal Rahme
- Stefan Elnabli
- Carrick Rogers
- Alex Dolski
- Stefano Cossu
- Don Brower
Agenda
Day 1 (October 22)
Individual presentations
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Description |
9:00 - 10:00 | Welcome and Introductions | ||
10:00 - 11:00 | Andrew Woods (Duraspace) | ||
11:00 - 11:15 | Alex Dolski (UIUC) | ||
11:15 - 11:25 | Fedora-based Digital Asset Management System at the Art Institute | Stefano Cossu (AIC) | |
11:25 - 12:00 | Tech Tour of the Art Institute | Stefano Cosssu | |
12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | ||
1:00 - 1:20 | Fedora and Avalon Media System | Carrick Rogers (Indiana University) | I would be happy to present on Avalon Media System and our usage of Fedora within the project. AMS is currently on Fedora 3 and I'd be happy to talk about our usage of Fedora 3, lessons learned from our data models and what we're looking at improving as we look at a Fedora 4 upgrade. |
1:20 - 1:40 | Galter Health Sciences Library use case | Violeta Ilik (Northwestern University) | Galter Health Sciences Library is running a repository built on Fedora/Hydra (Sufia project) and we would love to share our experience with this outstanding group. we are utilizing external LOD vocabularies, ontologies to better capture the scholarly output on the Northwestern University Medical Campus. Link to slides: https://digitalhub.northwestern.edu/files/k643b116n |
1:40 - 2:00 | Sipity Demonstration | Jeremy Friesen | Sipity: A plugin-ready and extensible Rails application for modeling approval style workflows. |
2:00 - 2:10 | Break | ||
2:30 - 4:30 | Round table discussion: PCDM | ||
4:30 – 4:45 | Discussion and wrap-up | ||
4:45 | Free museum visit | Museum is open till 8pm on Thursdays! Feel free to visit. | |
7:30 | Dinner at Vapiano? | See Dining below |
Day 2 (October 23)
Hands-on workshops
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Welcome and Introductions |
| 9:30 – 11:00 | Fedora 4 core features firsthand |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Migrating from Fedora 3 to 4 |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:30 | External integrations - Apache Camel |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Discussion and wrap-up |
Minutes from discussions
Other Information
Lodging
Fancy hotels near the museum:
Palmer House (Hilton)
Less fancy but convenient locations:
Longman and Eagle – TINY hotel & restaurant on the hip Logan Square neighborhood. Across the Blue Line stop, 20 minutes from downtown
You can also look for Airbnb locations near the California, Western, Damen Blue Line stops.
Dining
GePaDe – my favorite breakfast and lunch place, across the museum entrance. You must try their cannoli and gelato. They serve pizza too.
Museum Cafe – the AIC lower level cafe offers healthy, tasty and convenient lunch options. Can get crowded in the summer.
Vapiano – across the Palmer House. Good pizza & pasta
