Overview
Hyku is the polished, turnkey, feature-full repository application product created by the Hydra-in-a-Box project in response to the call by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a National Digital Platform. Hyku offers the Samvera community’s best of breed features, using commonly adoptable components wherever possible in the interest of interoperability and maintenance ease, and at the same time serves as a staging ground for some of the latest innovations developed in Samvera’s growing, collaborative, well-supported software framework.
Hyku is functionally competitive with other top-tier, general purpose, open source repository products. The components at the core of Hyku’s capabilities are Hyrax, Fedora 4 and the Portland Common Data Model. Hyku has been optimized for a scalable, hosted service implementation with support for multi-tenancy and a Super Administrator’s interface (now in development). Hyku is cloud-provider agnostic; CloudFormation templates are available for ready use on Amazon Web Services. Hyku has also been optimized for the Digital Public Library of America’s national network of content contributors by publishing harvestable metadata that easily crosswalks to the DPLA profile.
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Hyku is a Rails application generated from Hyrax (the Samvera community’s follow-on effort to Sufia and CurationConcerns). All of its features come from Hyrax with a few exceptions. Currently these exceptions are: multi-tenancy, IIIF Image & Presentation API support, the Universal Viewer, and bulk import scripts.
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