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<Question open={open}>What is Samvera?</Question>
<Answer>
<p>
The name Samvera is an Icelandic term meaning
&quot;togetherness.&quot;  Samvera is a grass-roots,
open-source community of library professionals, including
repository managers, developers, metadata experts, content
owners and users, working together to create best-in-class
digital repository solutions.  The scope of the community
encompasses work for Libraries, Archives, Museums and
others. Read more about the{" "}
<Link href="/who-uses-samvera/community-framework">
Samvera Community Framework
</Link>
on our website.
</p>
Samvera is an Icelandic word meaning “togetherness.” The Samvera Community is a global community of technologists who create and maintain repository software; you can’t install Samvera, but you can install the repository solutions we develop together including <a href="https://www.avalonmediasystem.org/">Avalon Media System</a>, <a href="https://www.hyrax.samvera.org/">Hyrax</a>, and <a href="https://www.hyku.samvera.org/">Hyku</a>. Institutions around the world rely on Samvera Community supported software to provide access to their digital content.
</p>
<p>
Samvera is also a community of practice where software developers and library technologists can support and learn from one another. We have active participation from metadata specialists, repository managers, user experience professionals, and others who contribute their expertise to ensure the software stays relevant and responsive to changing needs.
</p>

<p>
Samvera software is free and open source, available under an
Apache 2 license.  It offers flexible and rich user
interfaces tailored to distinct content types on top of a
robust back end – giving adopters the best of both worlds.
 Samvera is based around a framework that combines four
major components:
</p>

<ul>
<li>
the{" "}
<a href="http://fedorarepository.org/">
Fedora repository software
</a>{" "}
providing a robust, durable digital repository layer for
persisting and managing digital objects.
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/">Solr indexes</a>,
providing fast access to information about an
institution’s resources.
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://projectblacklight.org/">Blacklight</a>, a
discovery interface that sits above Solr and provides
faceted searching, browsing and tailored views on objects.
</li>

<li>
<a href="http://fedorarepository.org/">
Fedora repository software
</a>
, providing a robust, durable digital repository layer for
persisting and managing digital objects.
</li>

<li>
<a href="https://github.com/samvera/">Samvera gems</a>, a
series of components built using the Ruby on Rails
programming language that integrate the building blocks to
form the basis of complete, flexible and extensible
digital repository solutions.
</li>
</ul>

<p>
The combination of the components is consciously modular to
enable individual solutions to make use of alternatives if
they so wish. The Samvera community has worked together to
develop and sustain a number of “solution bundles” —
applications designed to solve a common need in a
generalized yet customizable way with minimal development
effort required — including the Avalon Media System, for
managing and providing access to large collections of
digital audio and video, and Hyrax, a front-end enabling
common digital collections management and institutional
repository features including creation of repository object
types on demand, deposit of content via multiple
configurable workflows, and description of content with
flexible metadata.
</p>
</Answer>
</>
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<FAQItem>
{({ open }) => (
<>
<Question open={open}>Why use Samvera?</Question>
<Question open={open}>Why use Samvera repository solutions?</Question>
<Answer>
<p>
We believe that no single repository system can provide the
full range of repository-based solutions for a given
institution’s needs; likewise, no single institution can
resource the development of a full range of solutions on its
own. Samvera is an open-source repository solution built
own. Samvera Community open-source repository solutions are built
collaboratively to address a broad range of repository
needs. Rather than being one-size-fits-all, Samvera
leverages an ecosystem of components that lets institutions
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<Answer>
<p>
Read about{" "}
<a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/422319621/Samvera+Implementations+In-production">
<a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/422319621/Samvera+Implementations+in+production">
implementations of Samvera
</a>{" "}
on our wiki. At a host of educational and cultural
institutions, Samvera is currently in use to:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Provide a digital repository framework for digitized
archival collections and faculty publications (see{" "}
<a href="http://samvera.org/samvera-flexible-extensible/case-studies/">
Case Studies
</a>
)
</li>
<li>
Provide a platform for scholarly communication through
initiatives like{" "}
<a href="https://www.fulcrum.org/">Fulcrum</a> and{" "}
<a href="https://www.ubiquitypress.com/">
Ubiquity Press
</a>
</li>
<li>
Provide a framework for the management and access of media
collections, research data, and geo-referenced data
</li>
</ul>
<p>
For more details about Samvera use cases and links out to
current Samvera applications, visit{" "}
<a href="http://samvera.org/samvera-open-source-repository-framework/applications-demos/">
our Applications &amp; Demos
</a>{" "}
page.
on our wiki.
</p>
</Answer>
</>
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<p>
Samvera is a community, and, as such, it is governed by
members of the community. The{" "}
<a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/405210590/Samvera+Community+Framework">
<a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/1872461833/About+Samvera+Partners">
Samvera Partners
</a>{" "}
are at the heart of how Samvera operates. They encompass
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development of Samvera, but all are welcome to contribute as
they can. Contributing to the community can take many forms:
developing the codebase, developing metadata, contributing
to documentation and marketing efforts, or simply adopting
to documentation and outreach efforts, or simply adopting
the Samvera technology and communicating about that
experience. The Samvera Community has multiple open{" "}
<a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/422319284/Interest+Group+IG+and+Working+Group+WG+Hub">
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concert with other users to ensure that the Samvera
technology meets as many shared needs as possible.
</p>
<p>
Contributing to the community is not a one-way street—what
we invest in terms of staff time and resources we also take
out, in terms of the combined work of the community on a
shared set of repository solutions meeting ever more complex
needs.
</p>
</Answer>
</>
)}
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other meetings, an organization can be assured that staff
members are supported to learn skills and gain expertise
that directly impacts the development and delivery of their
Samvera-based repository.  We really do go further together.
Samvera-based repository.  
</p>
</Answer>
</>
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{({ open }) => (
<>
<Question open={open}>
Where can I download and try Samvera?
Where can I download and try Samvera repository solutions?
</Question>
<Answer>
<p>
All the software is available through the Samvera
Community&#39;s{" "}
<a href="https://github.com/samvera">Github</a>.
Documentation is available at{" "}
<a href="http://samvera.github.io/">
http://samvera.github.io/
</a>
. A test instance of the Hyrax implementation of the Samvera
framework is made available by Data Curation Experts (DCE)
at{" "}
<a href="https://nurax.curationexperts.com/">
https://nurax.curationexperts.com/
</a>
.
</p>
</Answer>
</>
)}
</FAQItem>
There are many ways to see what Samvera Community repositories can do:
</p>
<ul>

<FAQItem>
{({ open }) => (
<>
<Question open={open}>
Why did Samvera choose the specific components that Samvera
repository solutions are based on?
</Question>
<Answer>
<p>
The components that form the basis of Samvera’s solutions
(Fedora, Blacklight, Solr) were selected as well-designed
services in their own right, and in recognition of their
successful use in existing services. Samvera has created
associated components (Samvera gems) to bring them together
in ways that make them more than the sum of their parts.
</p>
<p>
The Samvera architecture was always designed to allow for
individual components to be replaced with new or preferred
technologies. For example, the Valkyrie initiative is
designing a means through which alternatives to Fedora can
be used if desired.
</p>
<li>Try out Avalon Media System on the <a href="https://www.avalonmediasystem.org/try-out-avalon">Avalon Demo site</a>

<li>See Hyrax in action on the <a href="https://dev.nurax.samvera.org/">Hyrax development site</a>

<li>See the <a href="https://repo.samvera.org/">Samvera Community Repository</a> for an example of a Hyku tenant

<li>Watch the <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvnoImgmm7Cf6K3ZdMiXDSwxhmfN6sQJq">latest Samvera technology and repository demo videos on YouTube</a>

<li>Check out the repository examples below or <a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/422319621/Samvera+Implementations+in+production">view the full list of known repositories using Samvera Community-supported technologies</a> on the Samvera wiki to learn more about the specific repository solutions they use and other implementation details.
</li>
</ul>
</Answer>
</>
)}
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</Question>
<Answer>
<p>
Samvera software is free and open-source, but of course,
this is free in the same way that stray puppies come free:
you will have your own ongoing support and maintenance costs
to look after it. Depending on the complexity and degree of
Samvera software is free and open-source, but
you will have your own ongoing support and maintenance costs
for your repository implementation. Depending on the complexity and degree of
local customization you require in your implementation,
areas of cost to your institution may include:
</p>
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Devoting resources to development using Ruby on Rails is a
requirement, whether that be provided in-house or through
one of the{" "}
<a href="http://samvera.org/communication/service-providers/">
<a href="https://samvera.org/the-community/service-providers">
service providers
</a>{" "}
that support Samvera, in order to capitalise on the
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future of sustainable, values-driven, open-source technology
for scholarly communication and cultural heritage. Learn
more about{" "}
<a href="http://samvera.org/communication/getting-started/">
<a href="https://samvera.org/get-started/getting-started">
getting started with Samvera
</a>{" "}
on our website. Follow{" "}
<a href="http://samvera.org/news-events/">
<a href="https://samvera.org/news-events/">
News &amp; Events
</a>{" "}
to keep in the loop about learning and training
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<a href="https://samvera.github.io/tag_community.html">
Documentation
</a>{" "}
site. Please also note that we require all contributions to
be licensed via a completed{" "}
<a href="https://samvera.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/samvera/pages/405211651/Samvera+Community+Intellectual+Property+Licensing+and+Ownership">
Contributor Licensing Agreement
</a>{" "}
to ensure clarity in how Samvera can continue to make use of
code you created.
site.
</p>
</Answer>
</>
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