The Hydra Project is a collaboration between the Universities of Hull, Stanford and Virginia working in partnership with Fedora Commons.
The Hydra Project grew out of a meeting held at the University of Virginia in September 2008. The three universities shared a need to develop an end-to-end, flexible, extensible, workflow-driven, Fedora application kit.
But what does that mean? The universities share a view that a repository can potentially be used at all stages in the life-cycle of almost any born-digital material: stages from development, through exposure on the web, to long-term management and preservation. Hydra will provide a 'Lego set' of web-based services and templates that can be configured and reconfigured to suit a wide range of different workflows that institutions might have or might develop to manage their digital content.
Hydra will have configurable interfaces to help authors and creators develop their content, perhaps in collaboration with others, expose it on the web, and for the institution's repository managers to manage and possibly preserve it long-term. Hydra will also have a search and discovery interface through which users can explore appropriate areas of the host institution's repository.
Disclaimer: Information presented in this wiki space is just that - for information. It reflects the thinking of the Hydra collaborators at a moment in time. Nothing here represents a commitment from the team to develop or include any particular feature or process in any outputs that may eventually be made generally available.
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