A page to capture questions we are asked about Samvera and/or repositories in general.
- What is Samvera?
- What is Samvera being used for?
- Why don't we just put the content on a shared drive/webpage/SharePoint, etc.?
- What is Samvera going to cost us?
- Where are you off to this time (and why)? - in relation to travelling to events/meetings
- What does Samvera give us that DSpace/EPrints/ContentDM/Islandora, etc. doesn't?
- How much work will it take us to implement Samvera?
- I've heard people talk about Hyku, Hyrax, Sufia and more. What are they? What's the difference?
- Where can I try/download Samvera?
- My institution/organisation is moving more and more stuff into the cloud. Can I have Samvera in the cloud?
- Does Samvera meet good standards of accessibility/security/...?
- Who owns the IPR? (internal question)
- Why are we giving things away? (with regard to community contributions of many kinds, not just code)
- How do we measure Samvera against other (not OS) systems?
- How do we know it will be around in 5 or 10 years?
- What do you mean when you say you are part of a community? How does that work? (with regard to trying to explain OS and Samvera and other communities we belong to as a team)
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