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I hosted my first Office Hours for Hydra contributors today.  It was pretty fun.  A handful of people dialed in and we even added a long-desired feature to OM. Here’s a quick rundown of what we discussed.  The next Office Hours will be in the first week of January 2011. Blacklight 3.2 As of releasing [...]

Below is the outline of some conventions we’re adopting at MediaShelf as of active-fedora 3.0.0. This is largely a return to Rails conventions. Even within our own projects, these are just recommendations, but I figure there’s benefit in sharing the outline. In short, we treat the CatalogController as a SolrSearchesController and only use Blacklight helpers, [...]

We have a lot of distributed work going on across they Hydra community.  All of this work is coordinated with git using a Git branching workflow that requires you to do all development of new features in feature-specific branches.   Juggling git branches within a single project can be confusing enough, but doing it across [...]

This is the second installment in our series on the Hydra Community Principles. According to Al Gore, there’s an old African proverb “If you want to go fast, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.”  This idea caught our attention early in the Hydra collaboration and has become the driving principle for [...]

This is the first installment in our series on the Hydra Community Principles. One Body, Many Heads references our project’s namesake, Hydra (greek Ὕδρα), the fearsome water beast with more heads than an ancient greek painter could fit on a vase.  Anyone who’s watched Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief knows that it’s really hard to [...]

At the most recent meeting of the Hydra Steering Group, we sketched out the first formal presentation of the Hydra Community principles. These represent the core shared values that have been at play all along in the Hydra project. Up until this year, it was sufficient for the small group of Hydra collaborators to maintain [...]

An overview of the Vision and Implementation of the Hydra Framework.

These two presentations were later merged into the opening presentation at HydraCamp 2010. An overview of the Vision and Implementation of the Hydra Framework; Designing, Building, and Releasing the HydraFramework: laying a foundation for the deep web and the golden age of digital libraries.

Matt’s Open Repositories 2010 presentation on Solrizer.

An introduction to the Hydra Framework and MediaShelf.