Samvera is being used as the basis for a number of institutional repositories (IRs) each of which contains a range of content types. For instance, the University of Hull has one such containing electronic dissertations and theses (ETDs), past examination papers, learning materials, journal articles, small datasets and more; the University of Virginia has another containing ETDs, journal articles and datasets. IRs like these exploit the features of the Samvera software to implement flexible workflows for deposit and flexible display to provide the end-user with different page layouts and content depending on the type of material retrieved.

Indiana University and Northwestern University have used Samvera to develop Avalon, an access platform for online audio and video. WGBH, a public broadcaster in Boston, and Indiana University are co-developing PHYDO, a preservation-oriented digital asset management system for audio and video.

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 can be installed locally or run in the cloud.

Hyrax is 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.  Their project was a finalist in the international Digital Preservation Awards 2016.

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 “Plum” a workflow tool used for the digitization of archival materials.