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Robin, in new role in January which affords me more time to work in collaborative efforts like Fedora. Involved in Fedora Steering since 2012 - when Fedora 4 was being created. UVA and Cornell plus a few that became Fedora Commons -banded together then. The originally to build Fedora. Since then, the community has grown so much since thento become international. I'm from a computer science person and working on background and found that academic research libraries have interesting technical challenges that makes the work interesting. I am particularly interested and involved in open access and community-driven open source in the academic research libraries. I work closely with Erin, David and Andrew as chair of the Leadership/Steering groups. I will be handing that roll role off soon. UVa has a Samvera based IR for open access and ETDs, Samvera's Hyku through Ubiquity for publishing, Dataverse for research data, Blacklight for GIS, and Blacklight/IIIF/Solar for global discovery and access. We also have an inhouse application for digitized workflow and Archivematica for born digital workflow.
Tim Shearer, AUL for digital strategies and IT, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. We have been using Fedora in production for over a decade. Our early strengths were using Fedora for manuscripts and then we built management interfaces for the people who work with archives. There are 650,000 archival materials and the rest are IR materials. The user interface isn't working for both groups so we've been working to separate our archival and IR Materials. The roll-out of the IR was seamless. The Archival interface is coming out soon. I serve on Leaders and Steering. I am working on how Fedora can work with a broader architecture. Nice to meet everyone. Excited to meet all the new people. Also serving on Designing a Migration path IMLS project and have developers contributing code.
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