Hosted Hyku from Notch8
Hosted Hyku repositories, ready to run.
HykuUP gives your library a complete Hyku repository for theses, research, digital collections, and audio and video. We host it, upgrade it, and keep it running. You brand it, fill it, and decide how it works. The price is on the page.
Plans start at $4,500 a year, and you can try it free for 60 days. Run by Notch8, the team that writes most of Hyku’s code.
See it running
One platform, three very different repositories
These demo repositories run on HykuUP today, and you can visit any of them. Each uses one of Hyku’s built-in themes with its own colors and content.
It stays current
Every Hyku release is included, major versions too. We apply security updates, run the upgrades, and watch the servers around the clock, so your team never schedules an upgrade project.
It looks like you
Choose a theme, set your colors, fonts, and logo, and arrange your home page from the dashboard. Add custom CSS if you want to go further.
You can budget for it
Two plans and one storage rate, published on this site. Enrollment and FTE never enter into it, and storage counts only the files you upload.
Deposit and describe
Every kind of work in one repository
Theses, articles, images, open educational resources, and audio and video can live side by side. Flexible metadata profiles let each kind of work carry the fields it needs, so a dissertation and an archival photograph do not have to share a form.
- Mediated deposit, with review and revision requests before anything is published
- Embargoes and leases on individual works
- Collections and nested collections, each with its own banner and logo
Show and stream
Viewers that fit the material
Images open in a IIIF viewer with deep zoom. Audio and video are converted into formats that play in any browser. PDFs display right in the page.
- Universal Viewer, Clover IIIF, and Ramp for audio and video
- PDF display with PDF.js
- Parent and child works for multi-part objects
- A IIIF manifest for every work
Import and share
Bring your records, and take them anywhere
Bulk Import reads CSV files and can harvest records over OAI-PMH, so a sample export from your current system is enough to start. Importers can be edited and re-run, and records that fail can be exported, corrected, and uploaded again.
- CSV, OAI-PMH, BagIt, and XML importers
- Bulk export of your records and files
- An OAI-PMH feed for harvesters and aggregators
- Single sign-on through SAML or OpenID Connect
Pricing
Pick a plan, then pay for the storage you use
Every plan runs the same Hyku software and gets every upgrade we ship.
Leaflet
$4,500 / year
For small collections.
- 100 GB of storage
- Support by ticket on business days
- 5 hours a year of our team’s time
Scroll
$9,500 / year
Our standard plan.
- 1 TB of storage
- Standard support, weekdays 9 to 5 Pacific
- A response within 4 hours, day or night, if your repository goes down
- About 2 hours a month of our team’s time
More storage is $60 per terabyte per month on either plan. Migration is quoted separately. Try it free for 60 days first.
Who runs HykuUP
Built by the people who build Hyku
Notch8 engineers wrote more than 90 percent of the changes to Hyku’s code over the past year. When something needs fixing on HykuUP, the people fixing it are the people who maintain the software, and fixes to Hyku itself go back to the whole Samvera community.
90%+
of the past year’s changes to Hyku came from Notch8 engineers
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search index per repository. Your records never share an index with anyone else’s.
Getting started
From first call to live repository
Talk with us
We walk you through a demo repository and ask about your content, your current system, and your timeline. Your renewal date is the first thing we plan around.
Send a sample
A sample export from your current system tells us how your metadata maps and how much file processing your content needs, which is enough to put dates on the plan.
Review, then launch
We load your content into Hyku first so your team can review it. Your old system keeps running in the meantime.
Questions
Common questions
How is HykuUP priced?
The short answer: pick the plan that fits your size, and pay for the storage you use. Leaflet is $4,500 a year with 100 GB. Scroll is $9,500 a year with 1 TB. Past that, each extra terabyte is $60 a month on either plan. Storage counts the original files you upload, and enrollment and FTE are not part of the calculation.
Do we have to manage upgrades or servers?
No. Hosting, monitoring, backups, security updates, and every Hyku upgrade, including major versions, are part of every plan. You manage your content and your users; we run everything underneath.
What happens to our existing repository links?
They are either retained or redirected. When the repository runs on your own hostname, that hostname can be pointed at Hyku and each old path redirected to its new record, so links that are already cited keep working. The full answer, including what to ask a current vendor, is on the FAQ page.
See your collections in Hyku
Book a demo and we’ll walk you through a repository set up like yours, answer pricing and migration questions, and talk through your timeline.