Details: October 13-15, 2026

Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm Daily 

Location: Zoom

Cost: FREE

Registration: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZbSdTlRSRpqR9lYukmjyeQ

Tuesday, October 13, 2026

All times listed are in Eastern time zone.

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

All times listed are in Eastern time zone.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

All times listed are in Eastern time zone.

Presentation Abstracts

The National Library of Wales Migration Project

Presented by: Remi Malessa

This presentation follows the National Library of Wales's migration of nearly six million Fedora 3 objects from completed migration to working production service. It covers model simplification, an incremental migration that kept Fedora 3 ingest live, and the operational work that followed. That work included resolving triple store indexing bottlenecks, messaging choices, and the supporting services built around Fedora. This presentation follows on from last year's account of the National Library of Wales's migration plan and looks at what came after.

Second trip to the rodeo: a more complex Samvera Hyrax migration

Presented By: Emily Porter & Brad Watson

After a successful 2026 project to migrate selected Fedora 3 data to Fedora 6 in a Samvera context, the Emory University will discuss recent experiences with the Frigg migration adapter within the context of a Samvera Hyrax 5, Valkyrie, and Fedora 7 and a much larger scale of data stored in Fedora 4. 

A hybrid Fedora 7 AWS Architecture for processing on-prem content

Presented by: Doron Shalvi

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Digital Repository (DR) migrated from Fedora 3 on-prem to Fedora 6 in AWS in 2025, and to Fedora 7 this year.  Our Fedora is in AWS, but we integrate with on-prem systems for content origination and partial preservation services.  This talk will describe our overall architecture, data migration from Fedora 3, processing workflows with OCFL, data replication and service redundancy, issues encountered, and future directions.

Fedora 5 to 7: OCFL and Benchmarking at UNC-Chapel Hill

Presented by: Benjamin Pennell

As UNC-Chapel Hill prepares to upgrade its digital collections repository from Fedora 5 to Fedora 7, our team has worked to address the minimal required changes to use the updated API while using targeted performance benchmarks to inform data modeling and architectural choices in Fedora 7. We will share our findings and lessons learned from the ongoing migration effort.

We will cover:
•        OCFL Modeling & Storage Overhead: How write speed, expected usage, and storage benchmarks informed our use of Archival Groups and decisions about autoversioning versus explicit versioning.
•        Adjustment to searching and indexing: How we are retiring a large Fuseki index in favor of the Fedora Simple Search API and newly efficient Inbound References feature to simplify our architecture.
•        External Binaries: The trade-offs between faster data migration due to our existing external binary usage, and the resulting application-layer complexity and questions of whether it truly takes advantage of OCFL.

We will examine performance differences across Fedora versions and within Fedora 7 based on configuration and usage. We will also show examples of our data models in Fedora and discuss a few less-known API changes that we have needed to accommodate like ghost nodes and restrictions in Archival Groups.

University of Maryland Update

Presented by: Josh Westgard

This presentation will be a brief institutional update on our latest activities related to our Fedora-based digital collections repository, including our current migration, upgrading from version 4.7 to version 7.

Every archived record an RO-Crate: a storage contract for enrichment on Fedora 6/7

Presented by: David Novák

The Archaeological Map of the Czech Republic (AMČR) is the national information system for archaeological fieldwork. It runs on Fedora 6.5 (F7 just being implemented), and each record is one Archival Group, so one OCFL object. In the Horizon Europe project ATRIUM we are adding machine enrichment of the documents it holds: page types, OCR quality, named entities, keywords and English metadata. To keep the results reusable and traceable, we agreed a storage contract before writing the code.

The talk presents that contract as upcoming work. Each enrichment output is either a named distribution beside the original file or a block of the file's enrichment record, itself a distribution; every distribution has its own paradata as an RO-Crate Process Run Crate `CreateAction`. Every archived record carries `ro-crate-metadata.json` at its root. The head version of its OCFL object is then an Attached RO-Crate 1.2 that can be read without Fedora or AMČR, and the same document, served through the File API, resolves to live URLs.

Open University Digital Library Fedora Migration

Presented by: James Alexander

This presentation is an update on the Open University's move of its Digital Archive from an on-premises Fedora 3 service to Fedora 7 running on AWS. It covers the decision to move to the cloud, building environments with infrastructure as code using Terraform and Brainboard, and moving legacy metadata into RDF through a custom ontology. It also addresses recreating access controls as WebAC ACLs, managing streaming media and bot traffic, and enhancing Solr search records. The talk shares practical lessons for institutions weighing a cloud-hosted Fedora repository.

Complex digital objects in e-ARH.si: from ordering to using e-mail stored in the Fedora repository

Presented by: Klavdija Krivec & Miroslav Novak

This presentation will share the workflow and archival process used by the Slovenian Public Archive to preserve email content into their Fedora-based repository.

Integrating Fedora with ArchivesSpace for More Efficient Workflows

Presented by: Dolsy Smith & Dalton Alves

At GW, we use ArchivesSpace for providing access to and discovery of archival collections. Recently, we have begun using our Hyrax-based, Fedora-backed institutional repository to store access copies of digital archival materials. However, because Hyrax lacks a RESTful API, integrating the two systems in order to automate workflows proves challenging, and disposing digital content currently involves synchronized manual updates in both systems. To circumvent this challenge, we are developing lightweight, serverless scripts (using AWS Lambda) to integrate ArchiveSpace directly with Fedora 6. In this presentation, we will describe the use cases and the architecture of our work in progress, and review technical limitations and future potential.

From Fedora 3 to Fedora 7 at Érudit

Presented by: Béranger Enselme

A progress report of Érudit's migration from Fedora 3.8 to Fedora 7 and an overview of choices made about the structure of both data and software.

The Ohio State Showcase

Presented by: Dan Noonan

This presentation will showcase The Ohio State's Gray Repo which is Fedora 6, providing details on the implementation and development of the system. It will also serve to provide information on the initial steps to migrate our Digital Collections from 4.? to 6 or 7.

Indiana University's Avalon Update

Presented by: Jon Cameron

This presentation will discuss recent updates to the Avalon platform, which includes Fedora as a back-end component and how Indiana University is utilizing them in production.