Hyku provided the perfect solution to this requirement, allowing administrators of a Hyrax-based repository software to create multiple individual repositories within. Although the repository contents and tenant-level admin capabilities are unique, Hyku also provides a higher level admin role that allows cross-tenant administration by British Library product owners. Hyku’s easily adaptable UI also facilitated custom theming for each partner repository.

With input from the greater Samvera community, SoftServ implemented the concept of a search-only tenant in Hyku, giving the Shared Research Repository a high level landing page that aggregates search results across all repositories in the system. We also responded to a specific use case that required the ability for individual tenants to opt in or out of the aggregate search.

This requirement gave SoftServ the opportunity to work with other Samvera community institutions to align a DOI (digital object identifier) solution and share code, which was ultimately a group effort that was contributed back to core Hyku. The integration allows for minting of DOIs for new works added to the repository, as well as the ability to populate metadata for works with existing DOIs with a lookup feature.