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Ryan's pedantic responses
Alicia's rewrite
General
- What is Samvera?
Samvera is an open source digital repository framework that is community driven. The software technology stack utilizes four major components: Fedodra repository software, Solr indexes, Blacklight and Samvera gems. A Samvera repository provides functionality for a flexible and extensible digital repository solution. From the beginning, Samvera has been envisioned as a collaborative effort sustained by a vibrant community of developers, repository managers, metadata experts and users working together to develop a repository solution. The name Samvera is an icelandic term meaning "togetherness."
(-A community and a technology stack. or solution? for managing access to digital objects/materials. Samvera is a community driven framework for creating digital asset management systems [should we tread carefully with the idea that Samvera can be a DAMS? Some institutions (including mine) are trying to use Hyrax for light digital asset management, but at this point Samvera seems most developed for access repos, less so for preservation repos or DAMS] and well-described repositories of digital objects. -The Icelandic term for 'togetherness')
- What is Samvera being used for?
Samvera is being used to support a variety of needs at educational and cultural institutions including digital repositories for access copies of faculty publications and cultural heritage items, as a platform for scholarly communication through projects like DPLA, Fulcrum and Ubiquity Press,
-Digital repositories for access copies of faculty publications and cultural heritage items; platforms for scholarly communication. (Highlight public/high profile projects like DPLA, Fulcrum, Ubiquity Press?) Maybe touch on how some institutions use Hyrax for light digital asset management and workflow management?
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