Samvera.orgAs noted in our recent posting, we propose to make significant changes around the weekend 17/18 June in order to move all our systems to “Samvera”. With that in mind, please plan not to use any of our systems from Friday 16th June to Monday 19th June inclusive. In particular, changes made to the wiki… Read more »
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Hydra’s new name is “Samvera”
We are pleased to announce that the “Hydra Project” is to become the “Samvera Community”. Samvera is an Icelandic word which expresses the idea of “togetherness”. It was one of the top scoring names in the Community vote. The change from Hydra to Samvera will take place gradually over the coming weeks but we are… Read more »
UC Santa Barbara joins the Hydra Partners
We are delighted to announce that the University of California at Santa Barbara has become the latest Hydra Partner. UC Santa Barbara has been successfully running the Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL) using a production instance of Hydra since 2013, at http://alexandria.ucsb.edu. The repository initially launched hosting Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) and has grown to include various born… Read more »
Hydra 2016 Annual Report
Since its inception in 2008, Hydra has evolved from a loose consortium of a few like-minded people into a thriving community comprising many, many hundreds of people worldwide. As Hydra has grown it has become more difficult for any one individual to keep track of all that is going on in, and all that has… Read more »
IMLS grants for two Hydra-related projects
We are delighted to announce that the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded grants to two Hydra-related projects. The Boston Public Library and the University of Utah have secured funding for “Newspapers in Hydra”. The project will create: (1) a shareable, system- and programming-language-agnostic RDF-based data model addressing structural and descriptive metadata… Read more »
