Solution Bundles are applications designed to solve a common need in a generalized yet customizable way, with minimal development effort required for implementation. Solution bundles are often collaborative efforts and have communities of users and contributors from different institutions who support ongoing development. There are currently four Samvera applications offered as solution bundles. In addition to solution bundles, there are many Samvera applications and components from which to draw inspiration or utilize code (see examples).

Self-deposit Institutional Repositories


Hyrax

Github: https://github.com/samvera/hyrax

Website: http://hyr.ax/about/

Origin: Hyrax was created through the consolidation of the Sufia and CurationConcerns gems (see below). (Sufia was originally developed at Penn State University as a shareable generalization of their Samvera-based research repository application, ScholarSphere.) Hyrax, and Sufia and CurationConcerns before it, has been maintained by a growing number of Samvera community developers (with over 80 contributors as of March of 2017. Hyrax is exemplary of Samvera development that has had wide implementation and code contributions to become a truly community-driven, -supported, and -maintained solution bundle.

Sufia  

Github: https://github.com/projecthydra/sufia

Origin: Derived from ScholarSphere which was developed by Penn State.

Contact for more information: hydra-tech@googlegroups.com

Community and product direction:

Sufia is the basis for Penn State’s ScholarSphere, WGBH’s HydraDAM, George Washington University’s GW Scholarship, and University of Washington’s DRUW, to name some of the known instances. The Sufia code base is included in the officially supported and maintained Hydra gems.

Sufia has a growing number of implementers and is under active new feature development to support Fedora 4 and the community defined work-based model -  Hydra:: Works.  

Distinctive features (also see README)

Curate

Github: https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/curate

Origin: Created based on Sufia’s models originally by Notre Dame. In addition, Curate was under active collaborative development for many months by The University of Notre Dame, Northwestern University, Digital Curation Experts, University of Cincinnati, University of Virginia and Indiana University.

Contact for more information: hydra-tech@googlegroups.com

Community and product direction:

Curate is the basis for Notre Dame’s CurateND and the University of Cincinnati’s Scholar@UC. Collaborative efforts on this project have shifted to focus on Hydra::Works and likely an eventual merger with Sufia.

Distinctive features:

 

Worthwhile

Github: https://github.com/projecthydra-labs/worthwhile

Origin: Created by Digital Curation Experts based on the Curate Gem.

Contact for more information: hydra-tech@googlegroups.com

Community and product direction:

Worthwhile is the basis for Case Western’s new Hydra repository, Digital Case (currently in beta). Worthwhile is under active development by Digital Curation Experts to include support for Fedora 4. Worthwhile is likely to merge with Sufia when Hydra::Works are supported.

Distinctive features:

Media Repository Solution


Avalon Media System

Github: https://github.com/avalonmediasystem

Project website:  http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/ 

Origin: Collaborative project between Indiana University Libraries and Northwestern University Library.

Contact for more information:  http://www.avalonmediasystem.org/connect

Community and product direction:

Avalon has been funded in part by multiple grants from IMLS and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, led by project leads Indiana University Libraries and Northwestern University Library. Avalon is the basis for Indiana’s Media Collections Online and Northwestern’s A+V Repository and has a growing number of implementers and contributors at other institutions. See the Avalon Release Road Map for information on upcoming features.

Distinctive features:

End-user functionality

Collection management

Integration with other enterprise systems

Installation