The Hyku digital repository offers a healthy, ever-growing list of features. This page outlines and describes the features, providing a brief but thorough overview of the application’s capabilities. The information is useful to anyone interested in learning more about Hyku or considering adopting Hyku.
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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 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)
Deposit Workflow Options
Out of the box, Hyku offers two workflow configurations. Deposit workflow is configurable for each administrative set in Hyku. With back-end customization, the out-of-the-box options can be modified or other workflows can be added.
- One-step deposit workflow (default) – the work is saved to the repository as it is submitted by the depositor.
- Two-step (mediated) deposit workflow – the work is submitted by the depositor for review and approval before it is saved to the repository.
Content Organization
Hyku is flexible in how content can be organized and arranged. There are 4 primary units of organization:
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Content Management
Hyku offers a variety of features to help users manage their content.
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For future development:
- Advanced version control for content files and metadata, maintaining version history as changes occur to files and works over time
- Import existing access derivative files (by disabling automatic processing of derivatives from imported masters)
Descriptive Metadata
Hyku supports a set of 17 metadata elements for describing collections and works.
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For future development:
- Ability to customize field labels for public display
- Improved approach to capture resource type and genre
- More support for managing local and external vocabularies
Access Controls
Hyku offers many ways to control access to repository content
- Three visibility levels are possible:
- Open Access – any public user can discover and download the work.
- Institution – any user authenticated as a member of the repository institution can discover and download the work.
- Private – Available only to the depositor and those users or groups with whom the depositor has shared the work.
- Flexible assignment – Set visibility at four levels: Administrative Set, Collection, Work, or File.
- Special access settings and tools
- Embargo – Delay the release of a work so it is discoverable and accessible at a future date.
- Lease support – Provide access to a work for a limited time period.
- Single-use links – Provide file access to a user through a direct link that expires after one use or 24 hours.
Discovery and Use
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For future development:
- Export citations to Mendeley, Zotero – Now in testing
- Full-text indexing and search – Now in testing
- Display work’s microdata with search results
- Enable display of social media buttons with works in search results
- Further optimize for indexing and discovery of works in Google Scholar
- Audit of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) compatibility
User Features
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For future development:
- More language support
- Integrated access to profile information maintained in institution directory is potential future enhancement.
- Email notifications of repository activity
- Periodic summary reports of content usage delivered by email
Configuration Panels
Lots of options to easily make the repository yours
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For future development:
- Configure Contact form and page details
- Enable FFMPEG transcoding of audio and video files
- Configure deposit workflow via UI-based workflow builder
Administrative Dashboard
The Administrator’s work is made easy with a dashboard for easily configuring, monitoring, and managing content overall
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For future development:
- Usage analytics
User, Group, & Role Management
Hyku has four users roles currently implemented - Repository Administrator, Manager, and Depositor - and interface tools to assign them to users.
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File Management
- File Manager – An easy-to-use interface for labeling files, ordering a sequence of files, and selecting a file to represent the work on public facing pages.
- Derivatives – Processed automatically for online access.
- File version support – If a new version of a file is added to a work, the existing, now superseded file version is retained and maintained in the repository.
Persistence & Preservation Support
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Interoperable Services
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