Modern Interface and User Experience
- Responsive interface – Displays clearly and is usable on the range of screen sizes and mobile devices
- Redesigned, consolidated dashboard – A single interface with advanced tooling to access all administrative and management tasks and reporting
Now in design:
- Site home page
- Public-facing search and browse pages
- Collection pages
- File management page
- Reports pages
Content Types
Content of any variety is supported, and any file format can be uploaded. Hyku currently has two Work types available.
- Generic Work – - Hyku’s original model for any piece of content , or “work”. Appropriate for any file type. Includes generic, broadly applicable descriptors and provides a menu of common Resource Type values which can be applied to characterize the nature of the content.
- Image Work – The - The first distinct content type developed in Hyku. Similar to the Generic Work, with additional, optional descriptors particularly relevant to works featuring image-based content, such as photographs or illustrations, as distinct from text-based content, time-based media, dataset, etc. Plans to add support for enhanced sequencing and labeling files within an image work.
Content types prioritized for future development:
- Research dataset
- Software
- Thesis / dissertation
- Oral history
- Book
- Newspaper
Content Deposit Options
There are three different ways to deposit content in Hyku.
- Single work upload - Upload one or more files, or folders of files, from the desktop to create a single work
- Batch work upload - Upload multiple files to create multiple works of the same work type
- Bulk import - Use a script to import content files from a directory and metadata in a corresponding file (CSV format).
For future development:
- Add files from a cloud-based storage location
- Bulk editing and review of metadata
- Improved mediated deposit workflow
- Allow deposit of a work without files (metadata only)