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Samvera is being used as a base for a number of institutional repositories (IRs) each of which contains a range of content types. Many of the Samvera partners have developed IR with Hyrax. For instance, George Washington University, UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Hull, UK cultural heritage organisations, and many others have an IR containing electronic dissertations and theses (ETDs), past examination papers, learning materials, journal articles, small datasets and more. For more information visit Samvera Wiki Implementations Information Page.

Avalon, an access platform for online audio and video was developed by Indiana University and Northwestern University using the Samvera stack. Amongst others, WGBH, a public broadcaster in Boston, the University of Virginia, the University of Houston and Washington University are utilizing Avalon and Samvera to manage their digital media content.

The Avalon Media System is a collaborative Samvera-based project for managing and providing online access to digital video and audio. It is now available as a Samvera “solution bundle”.

Hyku is the result of a collaboration to extend the existing Samvera project codebase to build, bundle, and promote a feature-rich, robust, flexible digital repository that is easy to install, configure, and maintain.  Hyku is a solution bundle that can be installed locally or run in the cloud.  It is based on Hyrax, a Community-developed Ruby gem that allows users to design and build their own, customized installation of our software.

The Samvera software is being used as the basis for data repositories, for instance “Deep Blue Data” at the University of Michigan and “Imago” at Indiana University.  The Digital Repository of Ireland is “a national repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences and cultural heritage data.”

A number of Samvera Partners are investigating the use of our software for dealing with the long-term preservation of research data.  In the UK, the Universities of York and Hull have been integrating the open-source preservation system Archivematica into their Samvera workflows.

Samvera is being used in conjunction with archives and special collections.  The University of York in the UK has used it as the basis for their Archbishops’ Registers site, providing access to more than 20,000 pages of early manuscripts.  Princeton University has used Samvera to create “Figgy”, a workflow tool for digitizing a wide range of formats including archival materials, ephemera, maps, audio, and coins.

Fulcrum is a community-based, open source publishing platform based on Samvera that helps publishers present their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form. It is hosted on the University of Michigan library infrastructure, specifically designed to curate digital objects. Interoperable with other publishing tools and integrated into the information supply chain, Fulcrum ensures that content is discovered by readers and impact is tracked. Fulcrum aims to implement accessible systems and features and effect change by sharing and maintaining a high standard of accessibility.