1. Using Hydra/Fedora for digital repository infrastructure 5. September 2013 Andreas Borchsenius Westh The Royal Library, Copenhagen

2. Hydra repository framework A framework for building digital library applications Robust and scalable: Building on Fedora Commons object repository Fast web application development using Ruby on Rails Accessible/interoperable: RESTful web service API to all data operations (CRUD) State of the art search and retrieval: Solr & Blacklight Mature and active community: space for more European partners!

3. We use it for… Support of all stages of object lifecycle Deposit/curation/preservation planning Digital object archival Dissemination (web and API) Support of all digital object types Minimal set of common metadata Generic discovery layer (Solr/Blacklight) Generic repository (Fedora Commons) Specialized dissemination applications (Hydra) Interface to bit archival repository Cooperation, code sharing and reuse of other Hydra users’ application gems (”lego bricks”)