| 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 |