News and Events

The Avalon Media System team is proud to announce Avalon 8!

The Samvera Community is seeking a volunteer Hyrax Technical Lead for 2026, and we’re excited to offer mentorship and training for the role in 2025. This is an excellent opportunity for a developer to gain valuable experience in community leadership, technical decision-making, and open-source contribution, all with the support of a skilled and collaborative team.

Thank you to everyone in the Samvera Community for your incredible commitment to building and sustaining our work throughout the year. Your activities -- sharing your knowledge in interest groups, leading community initiatives, participating in community sprints, and attending community events - are what keeps this community so vibrant and welcoming. I am truly excited and grateful to help facilitate it all.

The Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI) and the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) are proud to announce the successful transition of Hyku for Consortia from pilot phase to full production—now serving 40 libraries across four prominent partners in the Hyku Commons: PALCI, PALNI, the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), and the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA).

The Samvera Community is thrilled to announce that The Ohio State University Libraries has officially joined as a new Samvera Partner. University Libraries joins thirty other partner organizations in this commitment to the ongoing sustainability of the Samvera Community’s innovative open source repository solutions.

The Award Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 202​4 Julie Allinson Award is Daniel Pierce from Indiana University.

In this issue:

The Avalon Media System team is proud to announce Avalon 7.8!

The Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI) and the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) are pleased to announce that they have been awarded a $248,600 grant for Sustaining the Hyku Repository Platform: Addressing Hyku’s Unique Community Coordination and Collaboration Challenges. 

Samvera's Annual Report for 2023 is now available from the Samvera Wiki.

The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories took place last month in Gothenburg, Sweden. There are 166 slides, posters, and other materials from OR2024 now uploaded to the OR community repository.

The Samvera Community is delighted to announce that Antleaf Ltd, a technical consultancy and development company based in the United Kingdom, has officially joined as a Samvera Partner. This partnership highlights Antleaf's commitment to advancing open-source repository systems and contributing to the Samvera ecosystem.

Is your institution a Samvera Partner? 

The full Samvera Virtual Connect 2024 Program is now available!

We are pleased to announce the full release of Hyrax 5.0.0. Hyrax v5 is the culmination of effort over the past several years by numerous members of the Samvera community to convert Hyrax to use the Valkyrie data mapper, and move away from the ActiveFedora mapper. This change will provide Hyrax and Hyku implementations the ability to choose their own persistence layer and no longer be limited to Fedora 4 or 5. 

Save the date for Samvera Virtual Connect 2024, May 7th and 8th -- the call for proposals is open now! The Community is also calling for host locations for an in person event, our next volunteer leaders for Hyrax, and nominees for a vacancy on the Samvera Board. Read on for all the details on those calls, plus the release of Avalon 7.7 and the final release candidate for Hyrax 5.

We are pleased to open the call for presentation and breakout session proposals for Samvera Virtual Connect 2024!  

The Samvera Community is excited to announce the Call for Host Locations for the Samvera Connect conferences for 2024 and 2025. This is a fantastic opportunity to support our open source community. Hosting comes with no financial risk to your institution and the events are in-person and capped to 75 attendees, making accommodations easier to arrange for many organizations.

The Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) and The Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI) are pleased to announce the successful completion of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant to fund the project, "Hyku for Consortia: Removing Barriers to Adoption."

The Samvera Community is proud to celebrate a remarkable period of collaboration and support that has led to significant advancements in open source digital preservation and storage flexibility. The community rapidly organized both funded and volunteer development to complete the implementation of the Valkyrie open source data mapper in the upcoming Hyrax 5.0 release.