[smarx007]

This project needs a heavy redesign of the landing homepage and it should change the language not to confuse the developers.

Hyrax is a frontend of Hydra with CMS and social features. It's a merger of https://github.com/projecthydra/sufia and https://github.com/projecthydra/curation_concerns

Hydra is a web applications framework based on the digital asset management repository (Fedora) and the search index (Solr). Demos: https://projecthydra.org/apps-demos-2-2/

Fedora stands for Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture. Its repository is based on the Linked Data Platform (5-star linked data according to Tim Berners-Lee http://5stardata.info/en/). An intro presentation: http://fedorarepository.org/presentations.

In regard to the name:

In 1997 a research project at Cornell University was named the Flexibile Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (Fedora). In 1998 the Fedora name was used in article published by Payette and Lagoze and in research software that was released to the public under the Fedora name.

In 2005 Red Hat, Inc. filed a trademark request for the name "Fedora" to be associated with their Linux operating system project. Cornell and UVA formally disputed the request and, as a final settlement, all parties settled on a co-existence agreement [...]

[BlackLotus89]

This is a good but incomplete summary.

1) the project before was called Hydra, but couldn't use the name anymore because of prior art

1.2) hyrax is a frontend for hyku which is basically a split of Hydra into 2 projects

2) the whole thing stores everything in fedora (fcrepo4/fedora commons 4) which is basically a data/key storage that calls itself repository

2.1) it is used to store the data with the according "metadata"

3) the idea behind hyrax is for scientists to work on their research and collaborate with other scientists

3.1) that is why the project was called Hydra because every researcher could work on their own "head" and the heads could collaborate with each other

3.2) the hyrax project now supports multi tenancy so that multiple people can work on it simultaneously

4) after the research is done the whole thing can be published with backlight

This project is a collaboration of multiple universities and entered beta on the third of may to collaborate on the testing/documentation

Disclaimer: I'm not associated with this project, but setup a test system for the university I work at.

PS yes this is all pretty confusing and hard to work with, but a worthwhile cooperation

[crosbyar]

swing and a miss on choosing new names without prior uses

[dom0]

How about Hyrothrax? That name got a fine Anthrax-vibe going for it!

[graysonk]

They should hire you to write this because I read that entire about page and was still wondering what this had to do with a Linux distro. Thanks for the clarification!