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Hydra in a box workshop for OR 2017

Introductions

• Who are you?
• Where do you come from?
• What do you do?
• What do you want to learn?

What is Hydra in a Box

• IMLS Grant with 3 partners, improve access to Samvera (formerly Hydra)
• Study the landscape, formulate use cases and personas.
• Feature development on the Hyku application.
• One aspect is HykuDirect. Multi-tenant software as a service
  • In the AWS cloud
• Another aspect is "easy to install".

What is Hyku

• A Samvera application based on the Hyrax library.
  • More about the relationship between Hyku ahd Hyrax:
    • Hyku and Hyrax: How are they related and how are they different?
    • Where do I start?
  • Full feature list
• Recipes for Docker (easy to install)
• Multi-tenanted (to support the HydraDirect service; not limited to AWS)
• Architectural components: Fedora, Solr, Redis, PostgreSQL, background workers
• Characterizing and transforming files: FITS, imagemagick, openoffice, ghostscript, ffmpeg

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