What is Hypatia?

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.

Current Status of Hypatia development

This 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 continue developing the application.  As of early May 2011 we anticipate that by the end of the current effort the application will be in the following state:

• a demonstration Hypatia application hosted by Stanford that contains a subset of AIMS born digital collections from University of Hull, University of Virginia, Yale University and Stanford.  This demonstration application will only contain born digital materials that do not have intellectual or privacy concerns.  The demonstration application will not be complete so we've made the conscious decision to not load sensitive collection materials into this application.
• a companion Hypatia application will be hosted by the University of Virginia.  The collections ingested into this Hypatia instance may not be public available.  
• a set of functional requirements that have been translated into stories, user interface mock-ups in the Hypatia Duraspace JIRA project that supports future application development.

Hypatia Features and Functionality that will Likely be Complete by September 2011

• The immediate goal

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