Summary
Hypatia is an initiative to create a Hydra application (Fedora, Hydra, Solr, Blacklight) that supports the acessioning, arrangement / description, delivery and long term preservation of born digital collections. Hypatia is being developed as part of the AIMS Project ("Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship"), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Hypatia is a cross-institutional effort that includes University of Virginia (grant lead), University of Hull, Stanford (Hypatia development lead) and Yale.
Draft Roadmap for Hypatia development
The current phase of Hypatia development will be completed at the end of the current grant on September 30th, 2011. The Hypatia application will not be completely functional at the end of this grant cycle and it is anticipated that we will seek additional funding to finish developing the application. As of early May 2011 we anticipate that by the end of the current development effort the application will be the following
For Hypatia development the following are within scope:
- Bulk load 13 collections into Fedora instances at UVa and Stanford
- Download any file
- SALT like display in archival context: collection, series, folder, file
- Permissions aware discovery and downloading
- Permissions aware editing / annotation
- Polished interface (Libra-like)
- ability to edit individual files
- archivists' dashboard
Nice to Have
- ability to create and edit sets
- ability to add objects to sets
- ability to discover and display sets
- in browser views of common file types
