Tufts University Becomes 25th Hydra Partner

Tufts University officially became the 25th Hydra partner on November 18, 2014. The full list of partners and Hydra adopters wishing to be publicly recognized may be viewed here: Hydra Partners.

In addition, I wanted to provide a link to the November Partner Phone call notes. Some highlights below:

• The Hydra Steering group elected two new members: Jon Dunn, Indianna University and Michael Giarlo, Penn State University.
• The Steering group will undertake a process to draft a set of bylaws for governance of the project given its rapid growth.
• The Steering group is also beginning to look at contract services for banking and other legal activities such as trademark and intellectual property.
• Significant expansion of Hydra adoption in Europe was reported as well as a successful Hydra UK event at the University of Hull.
• Hydra had excellent presence and reception at DLF in Atlanta this past October.
• DuraSpace conducted a Fedora 4 webinar which is now available online.
• A proposal for formalizing the creation of Hydra special interest groups is near ratification.
• The Hydra Archivists Working Group (HAWG) has reformed under the new leadership of Ben Goldman, Penn State University.
• Stanford announced ArcLight as a formal project that is kicking off and seeking partnerships for planning and development. In short, ArcLight is an effort to build a Blacklight-based environment to support discovery and digital delivery of information in Archives. Which also includes integration with ArchivesSpace and EAD support.
• Hydra expansion into South America is underway and several universities (wishing to remain anonymous at this time) are beginning Hydra development. Another major milestone is the work they are taking on to translate all of the Hydra documentation written in English into Spanish.