*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

Nov. 7, 2017

Read it online: http://bit.ly/2zkhtgr; http://bit.ly/2zpdPSa


*Hydra-In-A-Box Project Accomplishments and What’s Next*

“Hyku” is the result of a thirty-month project to develop a scalable,
performant, and multi-tenant digital content repository solution within the
Samvera (previously known as Hydra) framework. This work was announced
<http://duraspace.org/node/2527> in 2015 by Stanford University, DuraSpace,
and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) through a generous grant
from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

The grant project is now drawing to a close. The list of accomplishments
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/12DfqnfEluvcK2VuUg_knlCXhtHJT72YIq7adDEgETL0/edit#heading=h.919brtih03c9>
over
the past two and a half years has exceeded expectations and spurred
momentum for Hyku to continue past the grant term.

DuraSpace CEO, Debra Hanken Kurtz says, “I’m heartened by the pledges of
continued financial and development support we’ve received for the next
phase of Hyku. The mix of participation and ownership we’re seeing is
really exciting.”

Details of the work complete, pending, and news about next steps for the
project are on the DuraSpace <http://duraspace.org/articles/3299> and
Samvera <http://hydrainabox.samvera.org/2017/11/06/hyku-future.html>
community blogs. Highlights
include results from the HykuDirect Pilot Program and Gap Assessment
Report, a new IMLS grant pre-proposal, a pledge program, and news of two
service providers launching Hyku services.

Hannah Frost, Manager, Digital Library Product and Service Management at
Stanford Libraries says “Clearly there is a great deal of momentum and
drive among the community to continue moving Hyku forward.”

Frost and Mike Giarlo, Technical Manager on the project, will present
at Samvera
Connect <https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/samvera/Samvera+Connect+2017> to
share with the Samvera community the outcomes and lessons of the project in
order to inform and align the Samvera development roadmap with feedback
collected during this project.

DPLA’s interim Executive Director Michele Kimpton says “We believe
supporting Hyku,an open source community based platform, that can be run in
the cloud, will be of great utility to our network. It will increase access
to content by connecting key infrastructural pieces with DPLA hubs, current
Samvera partners, and prospective adopters to create a vibrant,
participatory community of adopters and contributors.”

All granting partners feel the outcomes of this grant period strongly
support the objectives of developing a national, digital platform to equip
all libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions with a
community-based repository system, enabling discovery, interoperability,
and reuse of digital resources by people from this country and around the
world.

If you’re interested in Hyku and its mission of lowering the barrier of
entry to open-source digital repository services, please contact
[log in to unmask] to discuss an investment of staff time or funds to
the project. We look forward to working together with you!


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Carol Minton Morris
Communications and Marketing Director
DuraSpace
duraspace.org
607 592-3135