Samvera Implementations: In-production
A list of known Samvera applications and the features that have been added to them (newer entries added at the top)
A list of known Samvera applications and the features that have been added to them (newer entries added at the top)
Institution name and contact email | Product/Service Name and Code repository | Brief Description (what is it used for and by whom?) | Main Features (any customized features or additions to base gems) | Samvera solutions/gems (Please list the gem names like Hyku, Hyrax, Avalon, Sufia, older gems) | Storage Layer (Please list the storage like Fedora 3.2, Fedora 4.3 etc) |
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA Contact: digitalwpi@wpi.edu | Institutional repository for theses, dissertations, student projects and cultural heritage works |
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National Institute for Materials Science | Materials Data Repository | Institutional research data and publications repository with a focus on materials science. | Customized data model with nested properties for materials metadata. DOIs. CSV preview. 'Download all' for multi-file works. | Hyrax 2.6 | Fedora 4.7 |
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin | Trinity College Digital Collections | Repository of digitised collections for the Library in Trinity College Dublin. Includes national treasures such as the Book of Kells, and Clarke Stained Glass Studios Collection. | We remain fairly close to out-of-the-box Hyrax. A customised version of Bulkrax is used for batch ingests (thanks to Notch8). | Hyrax Bulkrax | Fedora 4.7.5 Solr 7.6 Cantaloupe 4.1.2 |
Atla (American Theological Library Association)Karpinski, Christy <ckarpinski@atla.com> | Atla Digital Library: https://dl.atla.com/ | The Atla Digital Library is provides Atla members and other organizations with access to aggregated theological library collections from across the US. | Various customizations and heavy use of Bulkrax for import. | Hyrax Bulkrax | Fedora 4.7.4 |
Shared Research RepositoryBritish LibraryBritish Museum Museum of London Archaeology Tate Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew National Museums Scotland | Shared Research Repository: https://iro.bl.uk/ BM: https://britishmuseum.iro.bl.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: https://kew.iro.bl.uk/ MOLA: https://mola.iro.bl.uk/ Tate: https://tate.iro.bl.uk/ | Institutional repositories for UK cultural heritage organisations, currently all Independent Research Organisations (IROs). Content includes a variety of outputs including published works, datasets, 3D models and exhibition material. | Six individual repositories with a unified search layer over the top. Built by Ubiquity Press with a number of custom features, including importer tool and public-facing design. | Hyku 1.0 | Fedora 4.7.4 |
McGill University, Montreal, Canada | University repository https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/?locale=en Github: https://github.com/mcglib/murax | Institutional repository containing scholarly publications/materials of the McGill community. Greatest collection is theses and dissertations. Contains also faculty research publications as well as exemplary undergraduate and graduate work. |
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Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminaryshea@sebts.edu | Repo: https://archives.sebts.edu/ | Staff uploaded pieces from Archives and Special Collections at Southeastern. | Featured Collections CSV Batch Import PDF viewer (pdf.js) EDTF dates and date slider | Hyrax 2.5.1 | Fedora 4.7.5 |
George Washington University Libraries | Service: GW ScholarSpace | Institutional repository for research and scholarly output, including ETDs. | ETD work type (child of Work) | Hyrax 2.8.0 | Fedora 4.7.1 |
George Washington University Libraries | Github repo: Private. Read access available upon request. | Curated scholarly repository for documents and analysis reports associated with The ISIS Files project, a partnership between the George Washington University Libraries, the GW Program on Extremism, and the New York Times | Drop-down menus on the menu bar. Clicking on a document thumbnail opens document in browser by default (when browser is configured to allow it - otherwise the browser will download the document) | Hyrax v3.0.0-beta2 | Fedora 4.7.1 |
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France | Didómena | Institutional research data repository. Self-deposit data repository for researchers in humanities and social sciences. | Internal prosopographic referential with Idref integration for authority records Autocomplete for several referentials : Rameau, Glottolog, Geoethno, Thesaurus of online medieval images (TIMEL)... Optional metadata areas by discipline Full internationalization of free text fields (RDF Langtag support) DOI On the fly OCR with tesseract / full text search Chained authentication protocols with LemonLDAP::NG | Hyrax v3.0.0-beta2 | Fedora 4.7.5 MySQL High-capacity replicated storage with Active Circle |
New York City Municipal Archives | New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) Digital Platform | DORIS Digital Platform houses collections from the New York City Municipal Archives. The platform expands access to all collections to a diverse range of users. | Hyku pilot project Archivematica integration | Hyku | |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries | Service: Carolina Digital Repository (CDR) App: hy-c | Institutional Repository for OA articles, journals, student papers, research data, posters, 3d objects, OER and more. | People objects Admin set/work type matching 12 worktypes Blacklight OAI provider Custom workflows Tombstones Custom permissions for metadata display Custom permissions for Repo Admin EDTF dates | Hyrax 2.5.1 | 4.7.x |
University of Hong Kong Libraries | DigitalRepository@HKUL （public access） （back office ） | DigitalRepository@HKUL is a platform for hosting digital contents received into or developed by HKU Libraries to support teaching, learning, research and knowledge exchange. The repository provides digitized materials including books, manuscripts, journals, articles, photographs, videos, audio, music scores, ephemera, posters, drawings and more. | IIIF Manifest generation OCR with Abbyy SAML login Spotlight for public access interface | Hyrax 2.5.1 | Fedora 4.7.3 |
Linn-Benton Community College | CommunityArchive@LBCC is a tool for showcasing and preserving important content created at Linn-Benton Community College. Our collection focuses on teaching and learning materials (particularly Open Educational Resources) and institutional history. | Hyrax | |||
University of California Los Angeles | The UCLA Digital Library Program (DLP) serves as the catalyst for the creation, management, and delivery of digital content in support of the UCLA Library mission and goals. The Program provides for the storage and dissemination of digital objects, including text, images, audio, and video in their various digital manifestations and combinations. The UCLA Library provides a web presence for digital collections, and provides storage, backup and digital preservation support for all digital content accepted into, or developed by, the Library. | Hyrax | |||
US Department of Agriculture (hosted by Cornell) | Economics, Statistics and Market Information System | 5 USDA Agencies manage usda publications (parent work) and add releases (child works) to publications that contain data files (txt, pdf, csv, xls, xml) for agricultural data. Mostly used by ag-economists, market analysts, researchers, farmers, etc. | Combination of permissions, user roles to allow agency admins to only have write permissions. Front end customizations: Modified homepage to focus on search and browse.Only display publications (parent work) in search results.Added subscription feature so users can subscribe and get email notifications (via MailGun API).Customized work creation forms to use multi-step forms. Other: Reveresed parent child relationship. Used collection extensions for 5 agencies with nested collection for one large agency with 4 divisions. Store files on S3 with external content link in Fedora, links to file download use CloudFront distribution endpoint to S3 Created a read/write API for creating and migrating content | Hyrax 2.1.0 | Fedora 4.5.0 Solr, 7.1.0 |
Northeastern | Repository | ||||
UC Santa Barbara | Digital collections system for unique digitized and born-digital library materials including photographs, prints, newspapers, maps, audio, sheet music, manuscripts, ETDs, and more. | Linked data support, controlled vocabularies, pan-and-zoom viewer, , batch ingest via CSV/MARC harvest/MODS, collection landing pages, ARK minting with EZID | Curation Concerns | Fedora 4.6.0 | |
Princeton University Library | Staff tool for building digital objects, which are served using IIIF, and embedded in our user-facing applications: Blacklight: Catalog, Latin American Ephemera, and Digital Cicognara Library GeoBlacklight: Digital Maps & Geospatial Data Spotlight: Digital PUL | Content types: books/manuscripts, maps/geodata, ephemera, audio, numismatics, controlled vocabs ARK minting with EZID BagIt import/export BrowseEverything ingest Drag-and-drop page reordering, table-of-contents building GraphQL API IIIF Manifest generation MARC & EAD metadata import OCR with Tesseract PDF generation with Prawn RabbitMQ event publishing Workflows with AASM | valkyrie 2.0 valkyrie-sequel 2.0 browse everything hydra-access-controls hydra-derivatives hydra-editor hydra-role-management | Metadata: Postgres 10 Primary Storage: CIFS-mounted Isilon Preservation Storage: Google Cloud | |
| Digital repository. Most content accessible to the world at large, some restricted to University users. Mediated deposit workflow. | Content largely consists of theses, journal articles and past examination papers (the last restricted to University users only) although many other types of digital content are present in smaller numbers. | hydra hydra-head | Fedora 3.7 | ||
University of Michigan | Research data repository for University of Michigan researchers. Deposit is mediated and access is open to all. | Tombstone, DOI, Download all files, Globus Download, Email Subscription, Local Analytics and UI ingest script | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 | |
| Fulcrum is an open source publishing platform that helps publishers present the full richness of their authors' research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form. | Web-based EPUB reader. Works segmented by Publisher with customized branding and publisher specific analytics. Mediated access of subscription materials. Bulk importer. Support for embedded multimedia FileSets in EPUBS. AblePlayer integration for audio/video, Leaflet IIIF for images. Jekyll static site integration. COUNTER P5 analytics tracking and report generation. | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 | ||
Northwestern University | ARCH | Institutional Repository research output including dissertations, data sets, and published articles. | DOI, download all files, AWS hosted | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 |
Northwestern University | AVR | Avalon-based media system for special collections and course reserves | AWS hosted, Canvas integration | Avalon | Fedora 4.7.4 |
Northwestern University | https://github.com/nulib/next-gen-front-end-react and DONUT https://github.com/nulib/donut | Digital Collections contains thousands of items from Northwestern University Libraries. While only a fraction of materials from the Libraries' collections are represented, the site is representative of the distinction and diversity of collections from the Northwestern Government and Geographic Information collection, Herskovits Library of African Studies, Music Library,McCormick Library of Special Collections, Transportation Library, and University Archives. DONUT is the Digital Collections Backend and staff DAM. | Digital Collections: Elastic Search Indexer DONUT: ARK minting, tiled tif generation. | Digital Collections is a React application hosted on S3. It consumes a metadata API powered by Elastic Search (our "common index"). Images are backed by a "serverless" IIIF endpoint hosted on a lambda. DONUT: customized Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.4 |
| Institutional repository for scholarly content including graduate theses and dissertations, articles, presentations, technical reports, and research datasets. Migrated from DSpace | Nested and ordered metadata fields; | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.3 | ||
Oregon State University (margaret.mellinger@oregonstate.edu) University of Oregon (mfgaede@uoregon.edu) | Collaborative digital collections system for unique digitized and born-digital materials including photographs, articles, sheet music, manuscripts, ephemera, and more. Migrated from CONTENTdm | Linked data support, controlled vocabularies, pan-and-zoom viewer, BookReader viewer, bulk ingest from Bags, Collections/Sets landing pages, CONTENTdm URL redirects, OAI | Hydra 6 | Fedora 3 | |
| The Hive | Institutional research data repository. | Hyrax 2.5.1 | Fedora 4.7.5 | ||
University of Virginia | Avalon | Audio and video collections | Avalon 6.3.2 but migrating to 7.2. Both versions are based on earlier versions of the Hyra framework and using activefedora. | Fedora 4.7.4 but migrating to Fedora 4.7.5 with the 7.2 upgrade. | |
University of Virginia | GeoBlacklight | Geospatial Datasets | We have an older implementation and are planning an upgrade to 3.1.0 | N/A | |
Libra - Scholarly Content Repository | Libra: Institutional Repository research output including dissertations and open scholarship, primarily self-deposit (unmediated workflow) | Content types: theses/dissertations, articles, books/manuscripts, presentations, reports, images, audio, video, supplemental files DOI minting via DataCite ORCID registration through external service | Libra: Sufia 7.3 | Fedora 4.7.5 | |
King's Fund(hosted by CoSector, University of London) | King's Fund Digital Archive | Digitized publications from the King's Fund from 1898 onwards. | Uses Hyku, plus: Work types: Published Work, Conference Item (via dog_biscuits) Front-page carousel IIIF search Data imported from EPrints (via importer in leaf_addons gem) | Hyku 1.1 Hyrax 2 blacklight-range-limit dog_biscuits leaf_addons | Fedora 4.7.4 |
Indiana UniversityJim Halliday (jhallida@indiana.edu) | Imago | Repository for biological research collections. The bulk of the current content is over 150,000 pressed plant specimen images from the Indiana University Herbarium. | Custom ingest routines and integration with digitizing workflow. Use of persistent URL's to integrate digital content with external systems. | Sufia 7 | Fedora 4.7.0 |
Indiana University | Media Collections Online | Central service for AV media collection at Indiana University. Contains media from a large variety of departments and schools at IU, the IU Libraries, and external partners. | Locally hosted Canvas Integration | Avalon | Fedora 4.7.5 |
Indiana University Jim Halliday (jhallida@indiana.edu) | Page turning application for uploading, describing, structuring, and providing access to digitized multi-page items from the IU Libraries collections. Based on Princeton University's Plum | IIIF integration with Universal Viewer HOCR derived using Tesseract with "Search Within" available in the Universal Viewer (select items) Structural editor to provide hierarchy and labeling within an item | Curation Concerns (moving to Hyrax currently) | Fedora 4.7.0 | |
Source code on GitLab: https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/ddr/ddr-xenon https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/ddr/ddr-admin https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/ddr/ddr-aux https://gitlab.oit.duke.edu/ddr/ddr-core | Digital repository for digitized and born-digital special collections; library purchased and licensed collections (including some ebooks); select University Archives materials | IIP Image Server + IIIF Image API, custom OpenSeadragon viewer A/V customizations around streaming, external embedding, Closed Captions, interactive transcripts and clickable timecodes Custom URLs, per-collection Blacklight & portal configurations Batch import and metadata updating Role-based permissions Integrated ARK minting PTIF derivative generation Structural metadata generation & file tree browser for nested folders/files ...and more! | |||
Duke Digital Repository – Research Data | Institutional repository for research data | Integration with Box.com for file submission Integration with Globus for large data transfer (both upload and download) Batch metadata imports via CSV Versioning for works (datasets) Vertical breadcrumbs for nested works Browsing “top-level” works only Data submission form conditionally presenting a series of triage questions ARK and DOI minting with EZID and Crossref services Bulk export of files | Hyrax | Fedora 4.7.5 | |
Emory University | Emory Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) GitHub: Laevigata | Mediated self-deposit repository for theses and dissertations, used by multiple Emory University Schools and departments | Mediated deposit workflows including single and multiple approvals Primary/supplemental file delineation File-level descriptive metadata Box integration Shibboleth integration Save self-deposit submission as draft Customized embargo durations Customized embargo levels (full work, files, abstract, table of contents) Submit works to Proquest | Hyrax | Fedora 4.x |
Digital Repository of Ireland Stuart Kenny | The Digital Repository of Ireland is a national digital repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences, and cultural heritage data. | Support for multiple metadata standards: DC, MODS, MARC, EAD Batch import DOI minting with Datacite IIIF manifest generation and OpenSeadragon RDF output | hydra-head 10.6 active-fedora 12 | Fedora 4.7.5 MOAB CephFS Ceph Rados Gateway | |
UC San Diego | Library Digital Collections | ||||
University of Alberta | Education & Research Archive | ||||
Princeton | Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera | ||||
Cornell | Southeast Asia Visions | A collection of more than 350 European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia | |||
Tufts University | Tufts Digital Library | ||||
Virginia Tech | VTechData | A platform for openly publishing datasets or other research products created by Virginia Tech faculty, staff, and students | |||
Penn State | ArchiveSphere | A repository for collections of digital archival materials, automating the management of common preservation activities like file characterization and migration, fixity checking, etc., while preserving the relational and hierarchical connections between files. | Sufia | ||
| Penn State | ScholarSphere | A self- and proxy-deposit repository for access to and preservation of scholarly works and data. | Sufia | ||
London School of Economics and Political Science | LSE Digital Library | ||||
Notre Dame | CurateND | A general purpose Institutional Repository with functionality 'similar' to Hyrax | Sufia-models Sipity Curate | Fedora 3.x | |
Notre Dame | A collection building and delivery application for digital library objects | ||||
Stanford | Hydrus | An IR with support for configurable workflows (deposit, review, edit, publish) | |||
| Stanford | Argo | A repository administrator's dashboard for workflow management and reporting | |||
| Stanford | EEMs - Everyday Electronic Materials | A tool and workflow for accessioning born digital materials into a Library's formally managed collection | |||
| Stanford | ETD's - Electronic Theses & Dissertations | ETD deposit, approval & access | |||
| Stanford | SALTworks | Self-Archiving Legacy Toolkit | |||
Cincinnati | Self-submission institutional repository | DOIs ORCID Shibboleth sign-on | Hyrax 2.x Browse-everything hydra-remote_identifier | Fedora 4.7.3 | |
MAE, Theater Institute of Barcelona | http://colleccions.cdmae.cat/ | ||||
Australian Department of the Environment | Closed resource | ||||
Johns Hopkins University | Lester S Levy Sheet Music Collection | ||||
Science History Institute | Digital Collections | ||||
Art Institute of Chicago | |||||
Digital Commonwealth (Massachusetts Collections Online) | www.digitalcommonwealth.org/ | ||||
Berlin State Library, Germany | Closed collection of historic documents | ||||
Emory University | Curate (GitHub) | Library/specialist staff curation-focused product for bulk-ingest, digital asset/collections management and preservation, utilized by multiple campus Libraries | Generic/abstract work type supporting Emory AIP convention (content/format agnostic) Support for Emory metadata application profile (Descriptive, Rights, Administrative, Preservation Events, Preservation Workflows, Technical/Characterization) Customized FileSets for AIP components and derivatives Automated preservation events and audits metadata Preservation workflow metadata Restricted deletion Descriptive metadata systems of record integration/harvest Reporting/analytics Customized access controls (low-resolution, restrict to campus network, Reading Room/IP ranges, etc.) | Hyrax 3.rc1, Zizia | Fedora 4.7.x object store + files on disk (Amazon S3) |
| Emory University | Emory Digital Collections | Front-end consumer product providing discovery, interaction, and delivery of assets in Emory's preservation repository | Abstract/generic work display using Universal Viewer Emory pattern library integration Support for customized access controls in IIIF Navigation for hierarchical/nested objects | Blacklight 7, Cantaloupe | SOLR |
Lafayette College | Lafayette Digital Repository (LDR) https://github.com/LafayetteCollegeLibraries/spot | Institutional repository and digital collections | Permalink minting with Handle server Controlled vocabularies (geonames, FAST) | Hyrax 2.9 | Fedora 4.7.3 |
HykuUP | HykuUP | Hosted repository service |