[atjamielittle]

You could think about it as MediaGoblin, but for academic institutions.

A place to store images, video, or other kinds of digital stuff.

Hyrax comes with an interface for uploading/searching/viewing the files that are stored in the repository.

In a certain sense it is like VCS in that it does versioning.

[vortico]

This is a much better description than what is on the homepage. Why doesn't it just say this??