Thank you to all the attendees of the Blacklight Summit! Special thanks to the planning committee.
This YouTube playlist includes recordings of the institutional demos and lightning talks at the summit. The community notes include details of discussions we had during the non-recorded sessions.
We had 81 people register for the summit with 20 institutional affiliations and 1 independent affiliation. Day 1 saw between 47 and 57 attendees depending on session and time. On day 2, we had between 47 and 56 attendees. On day 3, we had between 44 and 56 attendees, with around 35 attendees at the closing session.
We had a total of 12 institutional demos and 5 lightning talks. Including the sessions for demos and lightning talks, the summit had a total of 12 sessions.
Below is a high level overview of the sessions along with links to videos and slides where available.
University of Pennsylvania (Video)
Harvard (Video)
University of Georgia, GALILEO (Digital Library of Georgia, Civil Rights Digital Library, and GALILEO Search, Video)
Penn State (Video)
Boston Public Library (Video)
Notch8 (Video)
Canadian Research Knowledge Network (Video)
What’s new in Blacklight 9, Justin Coyne, Stanford
Bot protection with AWS WAF Beth Crompton, Emory
Implementing search suggestions Michael Kanning, U Penn
Profiling with Vernier Jane Sandberg, Princeton
Notch 8, Nick Steinwachs
Lightning talk recordings are available here and here.
Session: Intro to summit/Blacklight
Review of institutional summit expectations and community structure. Slides
Session: Blacklight related communities
Overview of ArcLight, Spotlight, and Geo4Lib (GeoBlacklight) communities - communication, contribution method
Discussion: Implementing view components and debugging across multiple layers
Session: Solr and search
Scaling up Solr
Analysis tools
Spellcheck tuning and configuration within Blacklight
Evaluating effects of changing Solr configuration
Managed schema
Session: Interface customization
Prioritizing and deciding customizations
Managing customizations across upgrades
Customizations vs maintenance upgrades
If starting from scratch
Session: Usability
User testing conducted in the past year
Community page to share UI research (Duke)
UI improvements
Session: State of the Blacklight Community
Contribution process and possible community sprint
Blacklight 9 release overview
Newer adopters/examples: UGA, Notch8 Pokemon
Maintenance: Several institutions
Moving away:
Emory: consultant review, existing vendor packages
Princeton: Moving away from DHH/Rails -> Elixir, basic Rake apps, Hanami
Consider: Survey for community
Session: Project Blacklight Plugins
Reviewing status of various plugins and updating the wiki accordingly
Session: Supporting AI, IIIF, linked data
IIIF integration examples: Harvard, Notch8, U Penn
Discussions: Manifest generation, OCR, ranges, PDF generation, Allmaps
AI: Model Context Protocol (VuFind example), Ivy Plus discovery days examples such as Yale, vector based search. Solr with some additional support now in this area. Natural language queries. Metadata enrichment.
Community notes with more details for the above sessions are available here.