Hyku Documentation

What is Hyku?

Hyku is a flexible digital repository application based on Hyrax. It offers an easy-to-install, easy-to-configure, feature-rich solution that reduces barriers to effective asset management and preservation for collections and content types of many kinds. It is supported by a vibrant and ever-growing open-source community.

Hyku has all of the features of the Hyrax version it is built on (which is always getting updated), and a long list of additional features and distinctions, including:

  • Flexible Metadata

  • Multi-tenancy, or the ability to host multiple repositories within the same application, each with its own users, workflows, objects, and look & feel

  • Google Analytics 4 for flexible reporting of views and downloads of works and collections

  • Support for the IIIF Image and Presentation APIs

  • Support for harvesting metadata and content via ResourceSync

  • Rich object viewing using the Universal Viewer

  • Four bundled work types: Image Work, OER Work, ETD Work, and Generic Work

  • and more!

https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hyku/pages/3183083523

https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hyku/pages/3185541162

https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hyku/pages/3185639466

https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hyku/pages/3185541188

https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hyku/pages/3185442911

 

Other Documentation and Resources

https://www.youtube.com/@samveracommunity6617
https://github.com/samvera/hyku

History and Latest Releases

Hyku began as the Hydra-in-a-Box project.

Hyku Beta 2.0.0 was released in October 2018 and Hyku was promoted out of Samvera Labs in February 2019. Information about the initial Beta Test can be found below and user documentation is being added to this site regularly.

Hyku 3.0 was released in early 2021, bringing Hyku up to speed with Hyrax, and introducing new theming and other configurations.

Hyku 4.0 was released in May 2022, offering several major new features including cross-tenant search, three new UI theming templates that can be implemented from the Admin appearance dashboard, the ability to make tenants private, to feature collections, and to support multiple domains per tenant.

Hyku 5.0 was released in February 2023, offering the ability to use Solr graph queries to skip having to do nested indexing. Features include Groups with Roles and the ability to implement Google or Motomo analytics. 

Hyku 6.1 was released in May 2025, including 6.0 changes like upgrading to Hyrax 5, adding support for Valkyrie, and adding OER and ETD work types, as well as updating Bulkrax and fixing google analytics.

For the latest releases and notes, please visit the Hyku Github repository releases page.