Contractors
This wiki page has the beginnings of a directory. If you know of a contractor / firm (or are one yourself!) who doesn’t mind being listed, please list them here. Or if you think they might be OK but would prefer someone from Steering follow up, please email samvera-steering@googlegroups.com and we will inquire on behalf of the community.
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Contractor (with contact details) | Institution | Work done and any other notes |
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Minneapolis-based; contact Mark Bussey: mark@curationexperts.com | March-December 2011 - design and implementation of Hydra@Hull (using Hydra 3 at the time), coupled with training of local staff for ongoing maintenance and development, which enabled subsequent move to Hydra 6 and other developments - http://hydra.hull.ac.uk Summer 2014 - design and implementation of Blacklight index for combination of three archives catalogues at Hull History Centre - http://catalogue.hullhistorycentre.org.uk 2017-present - Hosting an ETD deposit and approval system based on Hyrax. 2018 - Offering Tenejo as a fixed-cost hosted Samvera Repository solution. - https://tenejo.curationexperts.com/ | |
UK based; contact Anusha Ranganathan (anusha@cottagelabs.com) or Richard Jones (richard@cottagelabs.com) See also: http://cottagelabs.com/willow | University of Hull Jisc Stanford University University of Oxford | Summer 2016 - Implementation of an automated workflow to package and deposit research data from cloud-hosted storage (Box) through Archivematica and into Hydra@Hull. March 2017 - June 2019 - Providing an instance of Hydra, with GeoBlacklight and IIIF support to the University of Jisc Research Data Management Framework. Over the course of the contract we will be carrying out various enhancements to the platform, with a view to feeding back general changes to the community. Oct 2015 - Mar 2016 - Development of a prototype discovery index for medieval manuscripts that combines traditional descriptive catalog records with user-enhanced information in the form of transcriptions and annotations.The discovery index is a web application that utilizes a customized Blacklight front-end coupled with a SOLR index. Sep 2015 - Sep 2016 - Design and development of a simple demonstration workflow between a data repository and a data paper publisher, enabling researchers to easily publish datasets as peer reviewed data articles. The implementation takes the form of a API definition along with a reference implementation, in the form of a bridging application allowing researcher to submit references to their datasets from the institution / subject data repositories, create a data paper in accordance to the chosen publisher / journal requirements with the help of the application and once complete, submit the paper to the chosen journal. The application is based on Sufia 6 |
Notch8 Contact: Connect@notch8.com | 2007 to Current - Notch8 was founded as a Rails Consultancy, with extensive experience in solr and complex devops. We have completed several Rails projects with UCSD, and are working with UCLA and UC Merced on a research opportunities portal. | |
King's Fund University of Hull Warburg Institute | The Research Technologies Team have been hosting and developing OS repositories and associated services since 2007. Working with the EU, Jisc, University College London, The Linnean Society and many more along the way. In recent years we have added Samvera to our expertise stack. |
Organizations Offering Hosting Services
Organization | Hosted Product(s) |
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Data Curation Experts (DCE) | Tenejo - Tenejo provides a fully-featured, flexible repository solution to showcase your digital content. You get the benefits of a Samvera-based solution including robust collection building, IIIF integration, workflow management, and many other features. Outsourcing your Samvera hosting eliminates your upgrade, staffing, hardware, bandwidth, backup, and security worries. Hosting for Custom Applications - DCE provides full service hosting for custom developed Samvera applications. |
CoSector, University of London | Hyku - Hyku is an out of the box Hyrax-based repository with support for multi-tenancy created from the 'Hydra-in-a-Box' project. We offer hosting of single- and multi-tenant Hyku instances. HyraxLeaf - we also offer hosting of bespoke, tailored repositories based on our HyraxLeaf instance, including flexible content models and all of the other features of Hyrax such as flexible workflows, IIIF support and more. |
Notch8 | DevOps and Maintenance support: Notch8 provides up time monitoring, error tracking, security monitoring and patching of applications. We can also offer additional help in setting up your deployments and scripts. These services are available on Notch8 managed servers, or for projects hosted on external servers. Coming Soon - Notch8 is currently working on a Hyku backed application for hosting institutional repositories. We expect to launch this fall. |