Advancing Hyku: Annual Report for Year One, October 2019-August 2020

This report is a deliverable of the Advancing Hyku: Open Source Institutional Repository Platform Development” project, funded by Arcadia—a charitable fund of philanthropists Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

The Advancing Hyku project is designed to complete the design and implementation of specific advances to the open-source community repository product Hyku. Upon project completion, these advances will drive green open access and will increase value to researchers with a combined approach of auto-population and expanding the array of integrated, open source services, making institutional repositories utilizing the Hyku codebase a more attractive dissemination option than current repository interfaces and infrastructures.

The primary institutional partners on the project continue to be the University of Virginia Library and the British Library, both of whom are members of the Samvera community receiving services from Ubiquity Press, which in turn is performing most of the technical development in close coordination with these community partners.

The partners have thus far worked together over the elapsed portion of the grant period to assess requirements and jointly create detailed, component-specific development plans, resulting in new capabilities collaboratively developed by Ubiquity and the two institutions. All code is being released as open source and merged with the Hyku core codebase in accord with the Samvera Community’s practices, including code released as recently as July 2020.