Hyrax
Samvera Rails application providing deposit, workflow, discovery, and admin UI on top of Fedora repositories.
Why it is included
Primary open Ruby stack for Fedora-based IR and digital collections with an active contributor community.
Best for
Institutions committed to Fedora who want a maintained community front end.
Strengths
- Samvera ecosystem
- Workflows
- IIIF integrations (with setup)
Limitations
- Full stack ops: Rails + Fedora + Solr + workers
Good alternatives
DSpace · InvenioRDM · custom Blacklight
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