Samvera Hyrax
Front-end for the Samvera framework, which itself is a Ruby on Rails application for browsing and managing Fedora-based digital repositories.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 65% of tracked projects; popularity more than 11%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 201 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | hyrax-chart-4.1.0 · 18 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Built with | Ruby |
Is Samvera Hyrax actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 533 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 225 of them.
The most recent tagged release, hyrax-chart-4.1.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 6 projects we track in Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software, Samvera Hyrax ranks #2 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Samvera Hyrax actually does
Samvera Hyrax provides a web front-end interface for browsing and managing digital repositories built on the Samvera framework. It runs as a Ruby on Rails application designed to interact with Fedora-based backend storage systems. The software is targeted at organisations needing to organise, curate and serve academic or cultural heritage collections.
Best fit: It suits university libraries and archival institutions implementing institutional repositories using the Samvera and Fedora stack.
Worth knowing: You face a complex operational stack due to the dependency on both the Ruby on Rails application layer and the underlying Fedora repository architecture.
Deployment notes
You will typically need to provision a relational database, a persistent storage volume for uploaded assets, and configure a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination for the Ruby application.
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