Hydra-In-A-Box Project Update
...
An email newsletter from the Hydra-in-a-Box team with news and information about Hyku and HykuDirect progress, plans, and pilots
HykuDirect Pilot Update
The HykuDirect Pilot program is underway with members testing the fully-hosted service version of Hyku repository software which handles server and storage provisioning, Hyku repository software installation, deployment, upgrades, and scaling. The second pilot cohort begins this week with participants from the University of Miami, PALCI, New Hampshire Digital Project. "Piloters" have been active in identifying issues which have guided technical development.
Eric Williams-Bergen, Director of Digital Initiatives, St. Lawrence University Libraries and member of the first HykuDirect Pilot cohort explained his institution’s interest in participating:
...
These institutions are providing valuable feedback to the hosted service team to help ensure a robust and competitive service will be available to all institutions beginning in the fall of 2017. Pricing and subscriptions for the new service will be available in late summer.
Watch for announcements on Twitter, check out our new HykuDirect web site and for updates on our blog. Please be in touch with any questions by writing to us at hyku-contact@googlegroups.com.
THANKS TO OUR COMMUNITY
The feature-filled Hyku repository is made possible with code contributions from multiple institutions beyond the core project partners. Our community's ongoing involvement helps ensure a successful 2017 Hyku launch, designed to meet a broad set of needs now and into the future. Recent work has focused on:
...
• After four years with DPLA, founding executive director Dan Cohen has moved on to a new opportunity as Vice Provost for Information Collaboration and Dean of Libraries at Northeastern University. Michele Kimpton, DPLA's Business Development Director and Senior Strategist, is serving as interim executive director, bringing significant experience from her work as Chief Strategist for LYRASIS and CEO of DuraSpace. The DPLA board is moving forward with the search for a new executive director. Read more here.
• The Samvera (formerly known as "Hydra") team Samvera team recently announced a new name, log and website for Samvera, formerly known as "Hydra". Read more here.
...
Expanded Language Support in Hyku by Hannah Frost and Mike Giarlo
With English as the starting point, we added Spanish, and soon thereafter Chinese, with the generous contributions of translations provided by native speakers in the Samvera community. Then we got a tip about i18n-tasks. This Ruby gem identifies any missing terms from languages specified in an application’s locale configuration file and then fills in the gaps with values obtained from Google Translate. This simple process makes it amazingly easy to add support for multiple languages. With this enhancement to Hyku, it is now possible to also read the UI in German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. Read more here.
The Latest Technical Sprint Demo by Mike Giarlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS8EE-Pfjws
Watch the Hydra-in-a-Box demo playlist here.
ResourceSync for Harvesting Content from Hyku to DPLA by Hannah Frost, Mike Giarlo, Mark Matienzo, and Scott Williams
ResourceSync is a self-describing set of capabilities designed to keep content in sync between a provider and consumer of that content. The capabilities of a ResourceSync endpoint can be adapted to meet specific community requirements as it extends the Sitemaps protocol used by Google and other search engines. Read more here.
Upcoming Presentations
...
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Hyku, A Repository for All Seasons, Hannah Frost, Mike Giarlo, OR2017 A complete project update on the hydra-in-a-box repository. Slides
HykuDirect, Service Infrastructure and Business Model, Debra Hanken Kurtz, OR2017 An overview of a Hyku hosted service offering a cloud-based version of the application
for use across multiple domains. Slides
SUBSCRIBE
To receive the bi-monthly Hydra-in-a-Box Update featuring news and information about Hyku, HykuDirect and related technologies please sign-up here .