A page to capture questions we are asked about Samvera and/or repositories in general.
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- I've heard people talk about Hyku, Hyrax, Sufia and more. What are they? What's the difference?
-From Samvera FAQ: Hyrax is a relatively new Samvera component that combines the best parts of two previous Ruby gems, Sufia and Curation Concerns. It provides most of the “back-end” functionality that is needed to build a Samvera application. Hyku is the product release from the Hydra-in-a-Box (HyBox) project and it is built using Hyrax as its basis... Hyku is an easily installed “solution bundle” which provides a basic repository system. Hyku can be installed locally or provided as a cloud service; it can be configured for single or multi-tenant use.
- How do we measure Samvera against other (not OS) systems?
- Is there an exit strategy for me when I need to move on?
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-I appreciated this link Chris shared way back at the founding of the Marketing WG: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/marketing-open-source-project/. Perhaps we could paraphrase a few points from this piece, especially with regard to the value of the community as as the identity of the software.
Communication
- How can I connect with the Samvera community and stay up to date on developments?
-For newcomers to the community: Samvera Community Google Group and Slack #general. For Partners: Samvera Partners Google Group and Slack # partners. For Developers, Slack # dev. For attendees at Samvera Connect, Slack # connect.
Technical
- Where can I try/download Samvera?
- My institution/organisation is moving more and more stuff into the cloud. Can I have Samvera in the cloud?
- Does Samvera meet good standards of accessibility/security/...?
- How stable is the code?
- Who else is using it? and how?
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