The Hydra Project started in 2008 through a partnership between the University of Hull, the University of Virginia, Stanford University and Fedora Commons (now DuraSpace) to create tools that support use of the Fedora digital repository. Hull adopted the software outputs from this collaboration for its institutional repository in 2011 and remains an active Partner in the community, serving on the Steering Group and fostering development of the community and software in the UK and mainland Europe and The community now has 35 formal Partners and over 70 known adopters internationally. In June 2017 Hydra changed its name to Samvera, Icelandic for 'being together', to recognize the value gained from multiple institutions working together to create the underlying common basis upon which multiple different repository solutions have been implemented. Samvera can be adopted through a set of tools to develop your own repository (using a package called Hyrax as the starting point) and is also available as a complete repository solution, hosted or local, through the use of Hyku. The community has been at the heart of making Samvera a success, and will continue to underpin its future direction.
A presentation given to the joint meeting of the Fedora UK and Ireland, and Fedora EU User Groups on 8th December 2009 in Oxford. The presentation was part of the 'scholars workbench' strand.
A presentation given at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 22nd November 2012. The meeting brought together a number of institutions from the UK (and some from Europe more widely) interested in the potential of Hydra. The presentation was one of a number describing the then current use of Hydra in the UK.
Keyword:
Community, Architecture, Repository, Hydra, and Fedora
A poster given at the 2014 Open Repositories held in Helsinki. This poster will demonstrate the breadth of usage of the Hydra open repository solution within Europe, and highlight how the institutions using it have engaged with the Hydra community to establish their own repositories and fed into ongoing development. Readers will become aware of the use of Hydra within Europe, and how this relates to the Hydra project overall.
Keyword:
Community, Repository, Hydra, Blacklight, and Fedora
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Conrad, Anders, Wright, Nicola, Awre, Christopher L, Frost, Dermot, and Arambudo, Roger Guash
Contributor:
London School of Economics and Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, Theater Institute of Barcelona, and University of Hull
Blacklight, Fedora, Collaboration, Connect #2 (Fall 2014), Hydra, and Community
Subject:
Hydra Project
Creator:
Arambudo, Roger Guash, Awre, Christopher L, Conrad, Anders, Frost, Dermot, and Wright, Nicola
Contributor:
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, Theatre Institute of Barcelona, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, London School of Economics and Political Science, and University of Hull