A list of known Samvera applications and the features that have been added to them (newer entries added at the top)
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A list of known Samvera applications and the features that have been added to them (newer entries added at the top)
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Institution name
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contact email
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Product/Service Name
(please link to the live site)
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Code repository
(please provide a link to the code repository if it is public)
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA
Contact: digitalwpi@wpi.edu
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https://github.com/DigitalWPI/digitalwpi
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- Work types: ETD, Student Work, Generic Work
- Batch loader (The George Washington University) that we customized to ingest using a csv or json, logging and other features
- API such that we can auto ingest ETDs and student projects from the ETD/student project submission application that we have.
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- Fedora 4.7.5 backed by PostgreSQL
- Solr 6.6.2
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National Institute for Materials Science
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Materials Data Repository
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Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
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Trinity College Digital Collections
https://digitalcollections.tcd.ie (beta)
https://github.com/joelakes/TCD-Hyrax-Web-App
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Hyrax
Bulkrax
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Fedora 4.7.5
Solr 7.6
Cantaloupe 4.1.2
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Atla (American Theological Library Association)
Karpinski, Christy <ckarpinski@atla.com>
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Atla Digital Library: https://dl.atla.com/
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Hyrax
Bulkrax
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Shared Research Repository
British Library
British Museum
Museum of London Archaeology
Tate
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
National Museums Scotland
Shared Research Repository: https://iro.bl.uk/
BM: https://britishmuseum.iro.bl.uk/
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: https://kew.iro.bl.uk/
MOLA: https://mola.iro.bl.uk/
Tate: https://tate.iro.bl.uk/
Github: https://github.com/ubiquitypress/hyku
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Six individual repositories with a unified search layer over the top.
Built by Ubiquity Press with a number of custom features, including importer tool and public-facing design.
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McGill University, Montreal, Canada
escholarship.library@mcgill.ca
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University repository
https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/?locale=en
Github: https://github.com/mcglib/murax
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- Author ordering implemented from Oregon State's Scholar Archive Repository
- Customized the abstracts to have a language tag at the end of the abstract
- Import scripts from Digitool (Ex Libris)
- Updated edit/deposit form with combined files and metadata tab
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- Hyrax 2.5.1
- Blacklight 6.18
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- Fedora - 7.4
- Solr – 7
- PostgreSQL 9.2.24
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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
shea@sebts.edu
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Featured Collections
CSV Batch Import
PDF viewer (pdf.js)
EDTF dates and date slider
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George Washington University Libraries
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Service: GW ScholarSpace
Repo: https://github.com/gwu-libraries/scholarspace-hyrax
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Fedora 4.7.1
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George Washington University Libraries
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Github repo: Private. Read access available upon request.
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Drop-down menus on the menu bar.
Clicking on a document thumbnail opens document in browser by default (when browser is configured to allow it - otherwise the browser will download the document)
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v3.0.0-beta2
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Fedora 4.7.1
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France
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v3.0.0-beta2
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Fedora 4.7.5
MySQL
High-capacity replicated storage with Active Circle
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New York City Municipal Archives
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Hyku pilot project
Archivematica integration
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries
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People objects
Admin set/work type matching
12 worktypes
Blacklight OAI provider
Custom workflows
Tombstones
Custom permissions for metadata display
Custom permissions for Repo Admin
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University of Hong Kong Libraries
DigitalRepository@HKUL (public access)
(back office )
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DigitalRepository@HKUL is a platform for hosting digital contents received into or developed by HKU Libraries to support teaching, learning, research and knowledge exchange. The repository provides digitized materials including books, manuscripts, journals, articles, photographs, videos, audio, music scores, ephemera, posters, drawings and more.
IIIF Manifest generation
OCR with Abbyy
SAML login
Spotlight for public access interface
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Linn-Benton Community College
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https://github.com/lbcclib/community_archive
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University of California Los Angeles
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UCLA Library Digital Collections
https://github.com/UCLALibrary/californica
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US Department of Agriculture (hosted by Cornell)
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Combination of permissions, user roles to allow agency admins to only have write permissions.
Front end customizations: Modified homepage to focus on search and browse.Only display publications (parent work) in search results.Added subscription feature so users can subscribe and get email notifications (via MailGun API).Customized work creation forms to use multi-step forms.
Other:
Reveresed parent child relationship.
Used collection extensions for 5 agencies with nested collection for one large agency with 4 divisions.
Store files on S3 with external content link in Fedora, links to file download use CloudFront distribution endpoint to S3
Created a read/write API for creating and migrating content
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Fedora 4.5.0
Solr, 7.1.0
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Northeastern
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UC Santa Barbara
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Alexandria Digital Research Library
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Princeton University Library
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A list of known Samvera applications
Institution name and contact email | Product/Service Name | Brief Description | Main Features | Samvera solutions/gems (Please list the gem names like Hyku, Hyrax, Avalon, Sufia, older gems) | Storage Layer (Please list the storage like Fedora 3.2, Fedora 4.3 etc) |
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University of Virginia Ubiquity Press British Library | Project: Advancing Hyku | A collaborative project to support the growth of open access through institutional repositories, by introducing significant structural improvements and new features to the Samvera Community's Hyku platform. The project partners are University of Virginia Library, Ubiquity Press and the British Library, with funding from Arcadia, a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. | Automatic population of repository contents Enhanced metrics to indicate usage of contents Connect and sync with author identification and profile services In-browser display, visualization and annotation Pathways to long-term preservation services | Hyku | |
The California State University System | Scholarship from the California State University on a shared, open platform | ||||
Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas - El Colegio de México | Institutional repository & Digital Collections | ||||
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA | Digital WPI | Institutional repository for theses, dissertations, student projects and cultural heritage works | Work types: ETD, Student Work, Generic Work Batch loader (The George Washington University) that we customized to ingest using a csv or json, logging and other features API such that we can auto ingest ETDs and student projects from the ETD/student project submission application that we have. | Hyrax 2.5.0 | Fedora 4.7.5 backed by PostgreSQL Solr 6.6.2 |
US Department of Agriculture (hosted by Cornell) | 5 USDA Agencies manage usda publications (parent work) and add releases (child works) to publications that contain data files (txt, pdf, csv, xls, xml) for agricultural data. Mostly used by ag-economists, market analysts, researchers, farmers, etc. | Combination of permissions, user roles to allow agency admins to only have write permissions. | Hyrax 2.1.0 | Fedora 4.5.0 | |
University of Hong Kong Libraries | DigitalRepository@HKUL (public access) http://hyrax.lib.hku.hk/ | DigitalRepository@HKUL is a platform for hosting digital contents received into or developed by HKU Libraries to support teaching, learning, research and knowledge exchange. The repository provides digitized materials including books, manuscripts, journals, articles, photographs, videos, audio, music scores, ephemera, posters, drawings and more. | IIIF Manifest generation | Hyrax 2.5.1 | Fedora 4.7.3 |
University of California Los Angeles | UCLA Library Digital Collections | The UCLA Digital Library Program (DLP) serves as the catalyst for the creation, management, and delivery of digital content in support of the UCLA Library mission and goals. The Program provides for the storage and dissemination of digital objects, including text, images, audio, and video in their various digital manifestations and combinations. The UCLA Library provides a web presence for digital collections, and provides storage, backup and digital preservation support for all digital content accepted into, or developed by, the Library. | Hyrax | ||
Hydra at Hull | Digital repository. Most content accessible to the world at large, some restricted to University users. Mediated deposit workflow. | Content largely consists of theses, journal articles and past examination papers (the last restricted to University users only) although many other types of digital content are present in smaller numbers. | hydra | Fedora 3.7 | |
Deep Blue Data | Research data repository for University of Michigan researchers. Deposit is mediated and access is open to all. | Tombstone, DOI, Download all files, Globus Download, Email Subscription, Local Analytics and UI ingest script | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 | |
University of Michigan | Fulcrum | Fulcrum is an open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors' research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form. | Web-based EPUB reader. Works segmented by Publisher with customized branding and publisher specific analytics. Mediated access of subscription materials. Bulk importer. Support for embedded multimedia FileSets in EPUBS. AblePlayer integration for audio/video, Leaflet IIIF for images. Jekyll static site integration. COUNTER P5 analytics tracking and report generation. | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 |
University of Utah | Institutional research data repository. | Hyrax 2.5.1 | Fedora 4.7.5 | ||
University of Virginia | Audio and video collections | Avalon 6.3.2 but migrating to 7.2. Both versions are based on earlier versions of the Hyra framework and using activefedora. | Fedora 4.7.4 but migrating to Fedora 4.7.5 with the 7.2 upgrade. | ||
University of Virginia | Geospatial Datasets | We have an older implementation and are planning an upgrade to 3.1.0 | N/A | ||
University of Virginia | Libra - Scholarly Content Repository | Libra: Institutional Repository research output including dissertations and open scholarship, primarily self-deposit (unmediated workflow) | Content types: theses/dissertations, articles, books/manuscripts, presentations, reports, images, audio, video, supplemental files | Libra: Sufia 7.3 | Fedora 4.7.5 |
University of Alberta | |||||
UC Santa Barbara | Alexandria Digital Research Library | Digital collections system for unique digitized and born-digital library materials including photographs, prints, newspapers, maps, audio, sheet music, manuscripts, ETDs, and more. | Linked data support, controlled vocabularies, pan-and-zoom viewer, , batch ingest via CSV/MARC harvest/MODS, collection landing pages, ARK minting with EZID | Curation Concerns | Fedora 4.6.0 |
UC San Diego | |||||
Tufts University | |||||
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin | Trinity College Digital Collections | Repository of digitised collections for the Library in Trinity College Dublin. Includes national treasures such as the Book of Kells, and Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection. | We remain fairly close to out-of-the-box Hyrax. A customised version of Bulkrax is used for batch ingests (thanks to Notch8). | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.5 |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries | Service: Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) | Institutional Repository for OA articles, journals, student papers, research data, posters, 3d objects, OER and more. | People objects DOIs | Hyrax 2.5.1 | 4.7.x |
Stanford | An IR with support for configurable workflows (deposit, review, edit, publish) | ||||
Stanford | A repository administrator's dashboard for workflow management and reporting | ||||
Stanford | A tool and workflow for accessioning born digital materials into a Library's formally managed collection | ||||
Stanford | ETD deposit, approval & access | ||||
Stanford | Self-Archiving Legacy Toolkit | ||||
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary | Staff uploaded pieces from Archives and Special Collections at Southeastern. | Featured Collections | Hyrax 2.5.1 | Fedora 4.7.5 | |
Shared Research Repository sara.gould@bl.uk | Shared Research Repository: https://iro.bl.uk/ | Institutional repositories for UK cultural heritage organisations, currently all Independent Research Organisations (IROs). Content includes a variety of outputs including published works, datasets, 3D models and exhibition material. | Six individual repositories with a unified search layer over the top. | Hyku 1.0 | Fedora 4.7.4 |
Science History Institute | |||||
Princeton University Library | Figgy | Staff tool for building digital objects, which are served using IIIF, and embedded in our user-facing applications: | Content types: books/manuscripts, maps/geodata, ephemera, audio, numismatics, controlled vocabs | valkyrie |
2.0 |
2.0 | Metadata: Postgres 10 |
hydra
hydra-head
University of Michigan
Princeton | |||||
Penn State | A repository for collections of digital archival materials, automating the management of common preservation activities like file characterization and migration, fixity checking, etc., while preserving the relational and hierarchical connections between files. | Sufia | |||
Penn State | A self- and proxy-deposit repository for access to and preservation of scholarly works and data. | Sufia | |||
Oregon State University | ScholarsArchive@OSU | Institutional repository for scholarly content including graduate theses and dissertations, articles, presentations, technical reports, and research datasets. Migrated from DSpace | Nested and ordered metadata fields; | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7 |
.3 |
Oregon State University |
Oregon |
Northwestern University
davidOregon Digital |
Linked data support, controlled vocabularies, pan-and-zoom viewer, BookReader viewer, bulk ingest from Bags, Collections/Sets landing pages, CONTENTdm URL redirects, OAI | Hydra 6 | Fedora 3 | |||
Notre Dame | A general purpose Institutional Repository with functionality 'similar' to Hyrax | Sufia-models | Fedora 3.x | ||
Notre Dame | A collection building and delivery application for digital library objects | ||||
Northwestern University | Institutional Repository research output including dissertations, data sets, and published articles. | DOI, download all files, AWS hosted | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 | |
Northwestern University |
@david.schober | Avalon-based media system for special collections and course reserves | AWS hosted, Canvas integration | Avalon 7.x | Fedora 4.7.4 | |
Northwestern |
University |
@david.schober | Digital Collections |
(frontend) | Digital Collections contains thousands of items from Northwestern University Libraries. While only a fraction of materials from the Libraries' collections are represented, the site is representative of the distinction and diversity of collections from the |
Northwestern Government and Geographic Information collection, |
Herskovits Library of African Studies, |
Music Library,McCormick Library of Special Collections, |
Transportation Library, and |
University Archives. Meadow is the Digital Collections Backend and staff DAM. | react-iiif-viewer (https://github.com/samvera-labs/openseadragon-react-viewer) | Digital Collections is a React application hosted on S3. It consumes a metadata API powered by Elastic Search (our "common index"). Images are backed by a "serverless" IIIF endpoint hosted on a lambda. Meadow: Elixir-based application with a suite of serverless functions to do the heavy lifting. |
Content types: theses/dissertations, articles, books/manuscripts, presentations, reports, images, audio, video, supplemental files
DOI minting via DataCite
ORCID registration through external service
Libra: Sufia 7.3
Fedora 4.7.5postgres/ s3 |
Oregon State University
(margaret.mellinger@oregonstate.edu)
University of Oregon
(mfgaede@uoregon.edu)
University of Virginia
University of Virginia
Libra - Scholarly Content Repository
Libra: Institutional Repository research output including dissertations and open scholarship, primarily self-deposit (unmediated workflow)
Northeastern | |||||
New York City Municipal Archives | New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) Digital Platform | DORIS Digital Platform houses collections from the New York City Municipal Archives. The platform expands access to all collections to a diverse range of users. | Hyku pilot project | Hyku | |
National Institute for Materials Science | Institutional research data and publications repository with a focus on materials science. | Customized data model with nested properties for materials metadata. DOIs. CSV preview. 'Download all' for multi-file works. | Hyrax 2.6 | Fedora 4.7 | |
McGill University, Montreal, Canadaescholarship.library@mcgill.ca | University repository | Institutional repository containing scholarly publications/materials of the McGill community. Greatest collection is theses and dissertations. Contains also faculty research publications as well as exemplary undergraduate and graduate work. | Author ordering implemented from Oregon State's Scholar Archive Repository Customized the abstracts to have a language tag at the end of the abstract Import scripts from Digitool (Ex Libris) Updated edit/deposit form with combined files and metadata tab | Hyrax 2.5.1 Blacklight 6.18 | Fedora - 7.4 Solr – 7 PostgreSQL 9.2.24 |
MAE, Theater Institute of Barcelona | |||||
London School of Economics and Political Science | |||||
Linn-Benton Community College | CommunityArchive@LBCC | CommunityArchive@LBCC is a tool for showcasing and preserving important content created at Linn-Benton Community College. Our collection focuses on teaching and learning materials (particularly Open Educational Resources) and institutional history. | Hyrax | ||
Lafayette College | Lafayette Digital Repository (LDR) | Institutional repository and digital collections | Permalink minting with Handle server | Hyrax 2.9 | Fedora 4.7.3 |
King's Fund | Digitized publications from the King's Fund from 1898 onwards. | Uses Hyku, plus: | Hyku 1.1 | Fedora 4.7.4 | |
Johns Hopkins University | |||||
Indiana University | Repository for biological research collections. The bulk of the current content is over 150,000 pressed plant specimen images from the Indiana University Herbarium. | Custom ingest routines and integration with digitizing workflow. | Sufia 7 | Fedora 4.7.0 | |
Indiana University |
@Jon Cameron | Central service for AV media collection at Indiana University. Contains media from a large variety of departments and schools at IU, the IU Libraries, and external partners. | Locally hosted | Avalon | Fedora 4.7.5 | |
Indiana University | IIIF integration with Universal Viewer | Curation Concerns (moving to Hyrax currently) | Fedora 4.7.0 |
Source code on GitLab:
HykuUP | HykuUP | Hosted repository service | |||
George Washington University Libraries | Service: GW ScholarSpace |
https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/ddr/ddr-aux
https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/ddr/ddr-core
IIP Image Server + IIIF Image API, custom OpenSeadragon viewer
A/V customizations around streaming, external embedding, Closed Captions, interactive transcripts and clickable timecodes
Custom URLs, per-collection Blacklight & portal configurations
Batch import and metadata updating
Role-based permissions
Integrated ARK minting
PTIF derivative generation
Structural metadata generation & file tree browser for nested folders/files
...and more!
Duke University
moira.downey@duke.edu
Duke Digital Repository – Research Data
Integration with Box.com for file submission
Integration with Globus for large data transfer (both upload and download)
Batch metadata imports via CSV
Versioning for works (datasets)
Vertical breadcrumbs for nested works
Browsing “top-level” works only
Data submission form conditionally presenting a series of triage questions
ARK and DOI minting with EZID and Crossref services
Bulk export of files
Emory University
Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD)
GitHub: Laevigata
Mediated deposit workflows including single and multiple approvals
Primary/supplemental file delineation
File-level descriptive metadata
Box integration
Shibboleth integration
Save self-deposit submission as draft
Customized embargo durations
Customized embargo levels (full work, files, abstract, table of contents)
Submit works to Proquest
Digital Repository of Ireland Stuart Kenny
Support for multiple metadata standards: DC, MODS, MARC, EAD
Batch import
DOI minting with Datacite
IIIF manifest generation and OpenSeadragon
RDF output
hydra-head 10.6
active-fedora 12
Fedora 4.7.5
MOAB
CephFS
Ceph Rados Gateway
UC San Diego
University of Alberta
Princeton
Cornell
Tufts University
Virginia Tech
Penn State
London School of Economics and Political Science
Notre Dame
Sufia-models
Sipity
Curate
Notre Dame
A collection building and delivery application for digital library objects
Stanford
Cincinnati
DOIs
ORCID
Shibboleth sign-on
Hyrax 2.x
Browse-everything
hydra-remote_identifier
MAE, Theater Institute of Barcelona
Australian Department of the Environment
Johns Hopkins University
Science History Institute
Art Institute of Chicago
Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts Collections Online)
Berlin State Library, Germany
Emory University
Generic/abstract work type supporting Emory AIP convention (content/format agnostic)
Support for Emory metadata application profile (Descriptive, Rights, Administrative, Preservation Events, Preservation Workflows, Technical/Characterization)
Customized FileSets for AIP components and derivatives
Automated preservation events and audits metadata
Preservation workflow metadata
Restricted deletion
Descriptive metadata systems of record integration/harvest
Reporting/analytics
Customized access controls (low-resolution, restrict to campus network, Reading Room/IP ranges, etc.)
Abstract/generic work display using Universal Viewer
Emory pattern library integration
Support for customized access controls in IIIF
Navigation for hierarchical/nested objects
Lafayette College
https://github.com/LafayetteCollegeLibraries/spot
Permalink minting with Handle server
Controlled vocabularies (geonames, FAST)
HykuUP
Hosted repository service
Institutional repository for research and scholarly output, including ETDs. | ETD work type (child of Work) | Hyrax 2.9.6 | Fedora 4.7.1 | ||
George Washington University Libraries | https://isisfiles.gwu.edu/ | Curated scholarly repository for documents and analysis reports associated with The ISIS Files project, a partnership between the George Washington University Libraries, the GW Program on Extremism, and the New York Times | Drop-down menus on the menu bar. | Hyrax 3.1.0 | Fedora 4.7.1 |
Emory University | Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) | Mediated self-deposit repository for theses and dissertations, used by multiple Emory University Schools and departments | Mediated deposit workflows including single and multiple approvals | Hyrax | Fedora 4.x |
Emory University | Library/specialist staff curation-focused product for bulk-ingest, digital asset/collections management and preservation, utilized by multiple campus Libraries | Generic/abstract work type supporting Emory AIP convention (content/format agnostic) | Hyrax 3.rc1, Zizia | Fedora 4.7.x object store + files on disk (Amazon S3) | |
Emory University | Front-end consumer product providing discovery, interaction, and delivery of assets in Emory's preservation repository | Abstract/generic work display using Universal Viewer | Blacklight 7, Cantaloupe | SOLR | |
Institutional research data repository. Self-deposit data repository for researchers in humanities and social sciences. | Internal prosopographic referential with Idref integration for authority records | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.5 | ||
Duke University | Duke Digital Repository | Digital repository for digitized and born-digital special collections; library purchased and licensed collections (including some ebooks); select University Archives materials | IIP Image Server + IIIF Image API, custom OpenSeadragon viewer | ||
Duke University | Duke Digital Repository – Research Data Source code on GitLab | Institutional repository for research data | Integration with Box.com for file submission | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.5 |
Digital Repository of Ireland @Stuart Kenny | Digital Repository of Ireland | The Digital Repository of Ireland is a national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. | Support for multiple metadata standards: DC, MODS, MARC, EAD | hydra-head 10.6 | Fedora 4.7.5 |
Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts Collections Online) | |||||
Cornell | A collection of more than 350 European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia | ||||
Cincinnati | Scholar@UC | Self-submission institutional repository | DOIs | Hyrax 2.x | Fedora 4.7.3 |
Berlin State Library, Germany | Closed collection of historic documents | ||||
Australian Department of the Environment | Closed resource | ||||
Atla (American Theological Library Association) | The Atla Digital Library is provides Atla members and other organizations with access to aggregated theological library collections from across the US. | Various customizations and heavy use of Bulkrax for import. | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 |