One Body, Many Heads

Hydra is a Repository Solution

Hydra is a repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content.  Hydra provides a versatile and feature-rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike.

Hydra is a Community

Hydra is a large, multi-institutional collaboration. The project gives like-minded institutions a mechanism to combine their individual repository development efforts into a collective solution with breadth and depth that exceeds the capacity of any single institution to create, maintain or enhance on its own. The motto of the project’s partners is “if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

Hydra is a Technical Framework

Hydra is an ecosystem of components that lets institutions deploy robust and durable digital repositories (the body) supporting multiple “heads”: fully-featured digital asset management applications and tailored workflows. Its principal platforms are the Fedora Repository, Blacklight, Solr, and Ruby on Rails.

Hydra is Open Source Software

Hydra software is free and open source, available under an Apache 2 license.