Hyku Features

Modern Interface and User Experience

• Responsive interface – Displays clearly and is usable on the range of screen sizes and mobile devices
• Redesigned, consolidated dashboard – A single interface with advanced tooling to access all administrative and management tasks and reporting

Now in design:

• Site home page
• Public-facing search and browse pages
• Collection pages
• File management page
• Reports pages

Content Types

Content of any variety is supported, and any file format can be uploaded. Hyku currently has two Work types available.

• Generic Work - Hyku’s original model for any piece of content or “work”. Appropriate for any file type. Includes generic, broadly applicable descriptors and provides a menu of common Resource Type values which can be applied to characterize the nature of the content.
• Image Work - The first distinct content type developed in Hyku. Similar to the Generic Work, with additional, optional descriptors particularly relevant to works featuring image-based content, such as photographs or illustrations, as distinct from text-based content, time-based media, dataset, etc. Plans to add support for enhanced sequencing and labeling files within an image work.

Content types prioritized for future development:

• Research dataset
• Software
• Thesis / dissertation
• Oral history
• Book
• Newspaper 

Content Deposit Options

There are three different ways to deposit content in Hyku.

• Single work upload - Upload one or more files, or folders of files, from the desktop to create a single work
• Batch work upload - Upload multiple files to create multiple works of the same work type
• Bulk import - Use a script to import content files from a directory and metadata in a corresponding file (CSV format).

For future development:

• Add files from a cloud-based storage location
• Bulk editing and review of metadata
• Improved mediated deposit workflow
• Allow deposit of a work without files (metadata only) 

Deposit Workflow Options

Out of the box, Hyku offers two workflow configurations. Deposit workflow is configurable for each administrative set in Hyku. With back-end customization, the out-of-the-box options can be modified or other workflows can be added.

• One-step deposit workflow (default) – the work is saved to the repository as it is submitted by the depositor
• Two-step (mediated) deposit workflow – the work is submitted by the depositor for review and approval before it is saved  to the repository

Content Organization

Hyku is flexible in how content can be organized and arranged. There are 4 primary units of organization:

• Work – A single organizational unit of content capable of containing 1 or more files or  folders of files
• Nested works - Depositor may put deposited works in an arbitrary hierarchical arrangement
• Collection – Assemblage of one or more works. A collection can be created by a depositor for private use, shared with individual users or groups, the institution, or made publicly discoverable. A single work can be a member of one or more collections. Only required metadata is title, but full set of optional descriptive fields are available.
• Administrative set – An organizing mechanism of one or more works in the repository, providing settings to configure workflow as well as release and visibility for works in the set, and to assign users and groups to deposit and manage works in the set.
  
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• Nested Collections – Allowing hierarchical grouping and arrangement of works within an overarching collection