News and Events

The Samvera Connect 2025 Program Committee has extended the deadline for our Call for Proposals for presentations, panels, lightning talks, and posters to July 28th. This year’s conference will be held in person from October 20–23, 2025, in Mexico City.

The Documentation Interest Group invites you to participate in the ​"Doc Days of Summer​," a series of one-day virtual sprints focused on improving our community documentation! Whether you're a seasoned contributor or brand new to ​t​he Samvera Community, and no matter your role, these days are a great opportunity to ​set aside time to collaboratively improve all types of community documentation.

The Samvera Community is delighted to welcome West Virginia University (WVU) Libraries as our newest Community Partner!

The Hyku Community is fundraising to fast-track critical upgrade work required for platform performance, security, and quality. The goal of this fundraising is to ensure this work is completed by the end of summer 2025. The goal: Release Hyku 7 by the End of Summer 2025 One of our Samvera Community Partner Service Providers, Notch8, has secured Rob Kaufman to lead this essential upgrade work which includes:

You're invited to join us for Samvera Virtual Connect, May 6th - 7th, 2025

We’re excited to invite you to Samvera’s upcoming Community Sprints this May! These virtual sprints bring people together to enhance code and documentation. Whether you're a developer, metadata specialist, repository administrator, or in any other role, there’s a place for you to contribute.

The Sustaining the Hyku Repository Platform Steering Group—a collaborative effort led by the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI) and the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI) in partnership with the Samvera Community—is excited to announce grant support for two recently defined Hyku community positions.

We are pleased to open the Call for Proposals for Samvera Virtual Connect 2025!  

The Samvera Board of Directors, in partnership with the Sustaining Hyku IMLS grant, is seeking a Request for Information from institutions, organizations, and service providers for a developer training program for Hyrax and Hyku development. Both the Samvera Board and the Hyku grant have funds earmarked for a developer training opportunity in 2025.

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.

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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.