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).
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.
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)
rails engine for creating a web application for ingest, curation, search, and display of digital assets.
file based approach to object creation
supports any file type
Fedora 4 support
Version control for deposited files
User profiles with activity streams
Single-use links
Usage statistics graphs in the UI
Integration with cloud storage providers
Full-text indexing and search
Proxy deposit and transfers of ownership
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:
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:
Stripped down fork of Curate with updated versions of Blacklight, Bootstrap and Hydra
Work-based model for content where an intellectual item can have multiple files.
Expanded leasing and embargo support