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Post-Project Update, June 2022

Our grant and project ended in April 2022! The past few months have been very busy with final project wrap-up and reporting out. Now that most of that is completed, here is a summary of delivered features, documentation, and next steps. Delivered Features Project deliverables introduced significant structural improvements and new features to the SamveraContinue reading “Post-Project Update, June 2022”

Advancing Hyku at Samvera Connect 2021

Samvera Connect 2021 was held virtually from 18 to 22 October with a pre-conference workshop on Friday, 15 October. The programme had a wide range of activities with community building events, presentations, panels, technology and working group updates. The recordings are available as a playlist on the Samvera YouTube channel. Members of the Advancing HykuContinue reading “Advancing Hyku at Samvera Connect 2021”

On the way to the community-owned infrastructures: Code contributions

Community ownership1 over infrastructure is about who controls and maintains the building blocks of the environment for the given technology. This blog post will not examine this term extensively but will look into it in terms of Advancing Hyku’s approach to our stated  project deliverables.  True to our project goals, the Advancing Hyku project hasContinue reading “On the way to the community-owned infrastructures: Code contributions”

Year Two Update at Samvera Virtual Connect

Samvera Virtual Connect meeting took place on 20-21 April with the participation of over 120 Samverans and others with interest in Samvera. The programme was packed with demonstrations of useful applications, different implementations of software components and tools in Hyrax, Hyku, Avalon as well as community and working group updates.  The programme with the linksContinue reading “Year Two Update at Samvera Virtual Connect”

Project Update, February 2021

The Advancing Hyku team is delighted to share our project update for the period ending February 15, 2021. As usual, the up to date roadmap (click image for full resolution view): Community Project Collaboration This round’s update is not just about community collaboration. In true Samvera Community tradition, we wrote it together. Feel free toContinue reading “Project Update, February 2021”

Advancing Hyku Community Survey Results

Results of the survey we conducted last month across current and prospective members of the Samvera Community are in! Top level takeaways: As was our hope, we received confirmation that community contributions of features on our requirements list will allow the Advancing Hyku project jump ahead to other development, and limit creating duplicate implementations ofContinue reading “Advancing Hyku Community Survey Results”

Advancing Hyku at Samvera Connect 2020

Your vote matters in feature prioritization! Samvera Connect 2020 took place virtually between 22-29 October 2020. Of course we missed seeing community friends in person in California, but on the other hand, having it virtual enabled more of us to benefit from Samvera Connect content this year. We met new colleagues, managed to have closeContinue reading “Advancing Hyku at Samvera Connect 2020”

Project Update, June 2020

The Advancing Hyku team is delighted to share our project update for the period ending June 1, 2020. First, the up to date roadmap: Next, context for completed and upcoming segments of work: “Hykurax” Project Collaborations In true Samvera Community tradition, our earlier project updates generated great discussion and collaboration with other community projects. OfContinue reading “Project Update, June 2020”