Archipelago Presentations, Events, and Additional Resources

Important General & Internal Recordings Notes

Please be aware that some of the presentation documents shared above may contain links to older documentation resources that have since changed or are no longer available. We recommend referring to the latest documentation versions available on this site whenever needed.

METRO's Digital Services Team facilitated many different internal training sessions throughout 2020-2022. If you and your team need access to any of these sessions that were recorded, please contact us. Thank you!

2025

• Open Repositories Annual Conference (June 2025):

  • Archipelago Commons: blooms, new growth and healthy trees from the community garden. Allison Sherrick, Diego Pino Navarro.
  • A year of Hybrid ML/AI cataloging aid in Archipelago Commons: The state, the lessons and probable future(s) explained through a real production implementation. Diego Pino Navarro, Allison Sherrick.
  • Managing Access to Open Repositories in the Age of Generative AI. Allison Sherrick, Scott Prater, Martin Klein, Petr Knoth, Matteo Cancellieri.
  • Helping to preserve and share Oaxaca's history. Lisa Lamont, Matt Ferrill.

• 🍓Archipelago 1.5.0 Release Announcement (June 2025) and detailed change log document

• IIIF Annual Conference (June 2025):

  • "Flitting" the Digital Collections overhaul at Edinburgh. Scott Renton, Lucy Pennington.
  • 📺 Recording made available on the IIIF Youtube channel.

2024

• Archipelago Summer Workshop Series (August 2024) : registration details here

  • Session 1: Archipelago 1.4.0 Local Deployment & Features Tour
    • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)
  • Session 2: Review of Display/View Modes and Strawberryfield Formatters
    • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)
  • Session 3: Search & Solr Overview
    • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)

• 🍓Archipelago 1.4.0 Release Announcement (June 2024)

• IIIF AI/ML Community Group (July 2024)

  • Creating a Better Balance: Respectful Reuse & ML/AI Tags in IIIF Manifests. Allison Sherrick.

• IIIF Annual Conference (June 2024)

  • Creating a Better Balance: Respectful Reuse & ML/AI Tags in IIIF Manifests. Allison Sherrick, Diego Pino Navarro.
  • Transdimensional mutations for audio/moving media annotations in IIIF Content Search. Allison Sherrick, Diego Pino Navarro.
  • 📺 Recordings made available on the IIIF Youtube channel.

• Open Repositories Annual Conference (June 2024):

  • Hybrid ML/AI driven search as cataloging aid in Archipelago Commons. Diego Pino Navarro.
  • Creating a better balance: the need for tools and practices to combat AI harvests and resource flooding in repository environments. Diego Pino Navarro, Allison Sherrick.
  • Collaboration Across Borders. Jessica Barlow, Lisa Lamont, Matt Ferrill, Hilario Castillo Castillo, Kristofer Patrón Soberano.

• Public Release of IOI's InfraFinder Tool (Spring 2024): Archipelago Commons on Infrafinder

2023

• IIIF Search API and Dynamic/evolving Manifest Generation: Facing the Unknown. Diego Alberto Pino Navarro, Allison Sherrick.

  • 📺 Recording available

• DLF Forum (November 2023)

  • Working and Learning the IIIF Search API in Archipelago. Diego Pino Navarro, Allison Sherrick.
  • Working with Open-Schema JSON in Archipelago. Allison Sherrick, Diego Pino Navarro, Martha Tenney, Joanna DiPasquale, Corinne Chatnik.
  • Slaying the Migration Dragon: Approaches to Navigating an Open Source System Migration. Lisa McFall, Sarah Walden McGowan, Brenden McCarthy, Shay Foley.

• 🍓 Archipelago 1.3.0 Release Announcement (October 31, 2023)

• IIIF Annual Conference (June 2023)

  • Experimental IIIF Kitchen using Archipelago. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick, Allison.
  • Mapping an Engineer Through IIIF. Monger, Jenifer J.; McCarthy, Brenden; Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick, Allison.

• Into Archipelago Commons: Access, Innovation and Community in Modern Archives. Monger, Jenifer J.; McCarthy, Brenden; Corinne Chatnik. (June 2023)

• Implementing Archipelago: An Innovative, Community Driven, Open-Source Repository. Corinne Chatnik, Union College; Martha Tenney, Barnard College. (June 2023)

• 🍓 Archipelago 1.1.0 - Release Announcement (June 2023)

• For the Love of Data and Ourselves: The Bumpy, Technical Road to Modern Archives. Monger, Jenifer J.; McCarthy, Brenden. (January/February 2023)

2022

• Archipelago Late 2022 Workshop Series:

  • Session 1 : AMI Essentials and Tricks of the Trade. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison; Romabiles, Katie. (November 2022)
    • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)
  • Session 2: Twig Templating and Metadata Display Preview for AMI Ingest. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison; Romabiles, Katie; Min, Albert. (December 2022)
    • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)
  • Session 3: AMI Set Processing and Advanced Find + Replace (December 2022)
    • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)

• McCarthy, B. J. (2022). Archipelago Commons: Using the Archipelago and AMI software to provide access to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's engineering drawings, a pilot project. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 101. https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2717

• Open Perspectives Forum. Monger, Jenifer J.; McCarthy, Brenden. (November 2022)

• Migration, Collaboration and Innovation with Archipelago Commons. Monger, Jenifer J. (September 2022)

• 🍓 Archipelago 1.0.0 - Release Announcement (August 2022) and updated Specs and Features List

• Open Repositories June 2022

  • Collaborative W3C Web Annotations using Annotorious in Archipelago and computer vision explorations as cataloger aids. Pino Navarro, Diego; Simon, Rainer.
  • Modern Web Archiving with Archipelago and Webrecorder : WACZ, Replay.web and Deep Discovery in Digital Repositories. Pino Navarro, Diego; Kreymer, Ilya.
  • Working with IIIF Manifests in Archipelago. Sherrick (Lund), Allison.

• Formation of the Archipelago Working Group (April 2022)

  • In the Spring of 2022, METRO supported the creation of a select group of both early adopters and longtime members of the Archipelago community to provide a dedicated space for Archipelago power users to build upon their demonstrated use-explorations, contribute further to the platform and have a direct influence on roadmap code, direction, and timeline. This group will also work on documentation needs, use cases and outreach (including public showcases, trainings/workshops, and other events).

• Toward Empathetic Digital Repositories: An Interview with Diego Pino Navarro (January 2022)

2021

• 🍓 Archipelago 1.0.0-RC3 and 1.0.0 Release Announcement - November 2021

• AMIA Conference Workshop: Building a Web Archive-Capable Digital Repository with Webrecorder and Archipelago. Kreymer, Ilya; Ramirez-Lopez, Lorena; Dickson, Emma; Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison. (November 2021)

• Solr Importer AMI Migrations, Showcase and Roundtable. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison. (July 2021)

  • Please see latest I7 Solr Importer and AMI LoD Reconciliation documentation.

• IIIF Annual 2021 Conference:

  • Learning & Working with IIIF in Archipelago - 2021 IIIF Annual Conference. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison. (June 2021)
  • Editing a IIIF Manifest in Archipelago. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison.

• June 2021 Open Repositories Conference:

  • Europeana Data Model (EDM) Workflows in Archipelago. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison.
    • 📺 Recording available
  • 'Broken for All' Persistent Identifiers Panel Discussion. Kunze, John; Holmes-Wong, Deborah; Rafique, Zahid; Lohnash, Megan; Sherrick (Lund), Allison; Turner, Adrian; McKinley, Matthew.
    • 📺 Recording available

• WebRecorder + Archipelago Workshop. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison; Kreymer, Ilya; Ramirez-Lopez, Lorena; Dickson, Emma. (May 2021)

  • 📺 Recording available

• Twig Templates and Archipelago. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison. (May 2021)

  • Review of the core role Twig templating plays in Archipelago, introduction to the basics of Twig, and demonstration of editing Twig templates in Archipelago to refine metadata displays and AMI ingests.
  • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)

• 🍓Archipelago 1.0.0-RC2 Release Announcement (May 2021) and Archipelago RC2 Specs and Features List

• Working with Archipelago Multi-Importer (AMI). Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison. (April 2021)

  • Introduction to AMI, discussion of ingest strategies and options, and demonstration of an AMI ingest.
  • 📺 Recording available

• Archipelago Digital Objects Repository (an) architecture to last. Pino Navarro, Diego. (DrupalCon North America 2021)

  • 📺 Recording available

• Metadata, Schemas and Media in Archipelago. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison (February 2021)

  • Exploration of the flexible and extensible ways Archipelago manages Metadata, Schemas, and Media.
  • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)

• Deploying Archipelago 1.0.0-RC1. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison. (February 2021)

  • Demonstration of a complete walkthrough of a local Archipelago 1.0.0-RC1 deployment.
  • 🎥 Recording available (registration required)

2020

• 🍓 Archipelago 1.0.0-RC1 Release Announcement (December 2020)

• Webforms in Archipelago. Pino Navarro, Diego; Sherrick (Lund), Allison; Palmentiero, Jennifer. (December 2020)

• IIIF and Archipelago - Community Call. Pino Navarro, Diego. (October 2020)

• Archipelago : an empathic Digital Repository Architecture (September 2020)

• 🍓 Archipelago 8.x-1.0-beta3 Release Announcement (July 2020)

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