At the end of 2019, we posted an introduction to our Hyku project, Scaling Up a Collaborative Consortial Institutional Repository (made possible with support from IMLS). Now we are sharing some of the high-level goals and phases for the project, as well as a status update. Stay tuned for progress on these activities!
Goals:
1. Contribute an affordable open source IR tool to consortial communities
2. Develop a model for collaboration and shared infrastructure that is easily adoptable
3. Further grow the Hyku community
Activities:
Phase 1: Specification – In progress
Phase 2: Development – to start in April 2020
Phase 3: Pilot and Communication
Update:
Working with our Product Management Team’s use case scenarios, we are currently defining improvements we want to make to Hyku to support consortial workflows. So far, we’ve identified the need for more levels of user permissions than standard Hyku offers, and tools to assign users to roles across more than one tenant. These will allow consortia to collaborate together on things like collection development or metadata creation, if they so desire.
Our next big area for exploration are the needs for easy look and feel customization and feel, and non-repository features of each tenant (things like widgets for displaying featured items, or social media feeds, etc.). Soon we’ll move on to development of these first two areas, while we continue to flesh out our needs for an ETD worktype and DOI services, among other features. Check back in on this space for more on these in the future.