HYKU - The Next-Generation Repository Solution

[Prasanth Kumar]

About Hyku
Hyku is a digital repository application for managing cultural heritage content, which began as the Hydra-in-a-Box project. Based on Hyrax, it offers an easy-to-install, easy-to-configure, feature-rich solution supporting next-generation web technologies. Hyku reduces barriers to effective asset management and preservation for collections and content types of many kinds and is supported by a vibrant and ever-growing open source community.

Building on Hyrax, Hyku has a long list of features and distinctions, including:

Multi-tenancy, or the ability to host multiple repository “slices” within the same application, each with its own users, objects, and look & feel

Support for the IIIF Image and Presentation APIs

Support for harvesting metadata and content via ResourceSync

Rich object viewing using the Universal Viewer

Two bundled work types: Image Work and Generic Work and more!

Hyku Beta 2.0.0 was released on October 2018 and Hyku was promoted out of Samvera Labs in February 2019. Information about the initial Beta Test can be found below and user documentation is being added to this site regularly

Hyku Website: https://hyku.samvera.org/

Hyku Documentation: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hyku/Hyku+Documentation

Hydra in a Box: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1eopKtm-k_f93RTfzHSvMQ/videos?view...

Hyku Github: https://github.com/samvera/hyku

Hyku Development Guide: https://github.com/samvera/hyku/wiki/Hyku-Development-Guide

Duraspace News: https://duraspace.org/hyku-news/

Hyku Features & Metadata Schema: https://bridge2hyku.github.io/hyku/

THE FUTURE OF HYKU: https://hyku.samvera.org/2017/11/06/hyku-future.html

HYKU IN 2019: https://wiki.duraspace.org/download/attachments/104564124/Roadmap_C...

[Prasanth Kumar]

Hyku Open Source Institutional Repository Development partnership awarded $1M Arcadia grant to improve open scholarship infrastructure. (University of Virginia) The University of Virginia is pleased to announce a two-year award in the amount of $1,000,000 from Arcadia—a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—in support of the “Advancing Hyku: Open Source Institutional Repository Platform Development” project.