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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.

See also:

  • Hyrax Features: a technical list of those features in Hyrax, the underlying codebase, that Hyku inherits and builds on
  • How is Hyku distinct from Hyrax?

Table of Contents

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.

  • 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 
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