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Long-desired options beyond Fedora 4 for existing Samvera users, including Postgres or Fedora 6 backed Hyrax
Removal of what has been a “let’s wait” blocker for institutions who have delayed upgrades
Attractiveness of Samvera solutions to potential adopting institutions who have been hearing about Valkyrie and waiting to act
Interest from service providers and a path to keep their engagement in the community viable
Scope:
There are three main milestones that we as a community want to accomplish, to be targeted in this order of priority:
Milestone 1 is to create a fully functioning version of Hyrax that is backed by Postgres.
Milestone 2 is to pave a well-established workflow for live-migrating an existing Fedora 4 backed Hyrax repository to Valkyrie Postgres backed Hyrax repository.
Milestone 3 is to have the Fedora 6 Valkyrie adapter fully working in Hyrax.
There are two ways you can contribute to this work if Hyrax is important to your institution:
Contribute developer and/or software testing time to the community effort: Multiple institutions will be leading sprints in July and August 2023.
Contribute financially to fund contractors under a Samvera contract: :
The Hyku for Consortia group (PALNI and PALCI) are leading a pledge drive to raise funds to support work sprints through SoftServ to move the Valkyrie for Hyrax work forward in a May-June 2023 series of sprints. The goal is to collect $50,000 - $100,000 in funds to move this work forward as soon as possible.
The pledge drive is focused on Milestone 1 with any remaining funds dedicated to Milestone 2 in the May-June 2023 period.
If you have end of year funds, and would like to support immediate work on this project, please consider joining the pledge. See the scope of work document for full details and how to pledge.