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. 2016 - Created a Detailed Server Architecture Plan and set up production servers with Fedora, Solr, Hydra, and Sufia. Servers are set up with Ansible scripts to create automation for easy redeployment for any outages or changes. Currently working with the American Theological Library Association and interested in working with more organizations. 2018 - 2019 - Partnered on two major Hyku pilot projects: the New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS); and a joint project with the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) and the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). As part of these developments, we have made some significant contributions to the Hyku code, notably Bulkrax for import and export. As 2020 progresses, Notch8 is proud to continue new phases of work with long-standing Samvera partners Atla and PALNI/PALCI. Additionally, we are contributing to major implementations with the US Department of Transportation's National Transportation Library and Yale University (the later in cross-community partnership with DCE). We are currently in development with Washington University in St. Louis on two Samvera projects: the Newman Numismatic Portal, and WUL's repository for ETD's and other research works. | |
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. | |
Based in the UK and US. Contact: Brian Hole brian.hole@ubiquitypress.com | Ubiquity provides development services relating to the Hyku platform and more broadly in regard to scholarly publishing and communications. Recent work has been to bring Hyku to an MVP level and launch the UK Shared Research Repository with the British Library and five other UK institutions, to achieve feature parity with the bepress Digital Commons platform and migrate and launch Pacific University's Common Knowledge repository, and to add a wide range of new features under the Advancing Hyku project. We provide expertise in the following areas:
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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 | In June of 2019, Notch8 is launching a hosted version of Hyku called HykuUP. Check out HykuUP.com for pricing and to sign up for the beta version today. 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. |
| Ubiquity Press | Ubiquity repositories (based on Hyku) are cloud hosted and open source, with no lock-in. Suitable for both large and small institutions, they provide high-quality hosting of publications, special collections, theses, Open Educational Resources and research data all in one place. The repositories are designed to be reputation-enhancing with attention to design, metrics and researcher engagement. The platform is particularly well suited to multi-tenant solutions (for example see the UK Shared Research Repository) and as an open alternative to Bepress (for example see Pacific University's Common Knowledge repository, which is a successful migration). The platform also benefits from ongoing development of new features in the Advancing Hyku project. Ubiquity offers full support for migration, manages all cloud hosting, provides robust SLAs, as well as complete training and support. We also provide a dedicated account manager to assist with the ongoing development of your repository to ensure you get the most out of it. |