<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)">June 6, 2017<br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit"><font color="#000000">Read it online: </font><a href="http://bit.ly/2rtHnta" target="_blank"><font color="#3d85c6">http://bit.ly/2rtHnta</font></a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit"><font color="#000000">Contact: </font><a href="mailto:hyku-contact@googlegroups.com" target="_blank"><font color="#3d85c6">hyku-contact@<wbr>googlegroups.com</font></a></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><br></b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>HykuDirect Pilot Program and Hyku Beta Testing Underway</b></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The Hydra-In-A-Box team is pleased to announce that Beta testing for local installs of Hyku repository have begun! </font><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hyku/Hyku+Product+Beta+Test"><font color="#3d85c6">Read all the details on our wiki</font></a><font color="#000000"> and learn how your institution can participate through June 23.</font></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hyku is a digital content repository that provides robust deposit workflows, standards-based metadata management, convenient collection organization, preservation support, as well as integrated search, discovery, and access capabilities.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Pilot Institutions for the HykuDirect pilot program have also been selected, and the pilot is underway. HykuDirect, the fully hosted service version of Hyku repository software, handles all of the server and storage provisioning, all of the Hyku repository software installation, deployment, upgrades, and scaling.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">There was significant interest in the hosted service pilot program from all types of institutions. With thanks to all the institutions who volunteered, we had far more institutions interested than we could accommodate for a limited term pilot. Six institutions representing many different institution sizes and use cases were selected, and asked to contribute $1,000 each to help cover the cost of the pilot.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The following institutions are piloting the HykuDirect service this summer:</font></p><ul style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px 0px 0px 1.2em;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:inherit;list-style-position:initial"><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://www.azlibrary.gov/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Arizona State Library &amp; Archives</font></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="https://cpl.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Cleveland Public Library</font></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;line-height:inherit"><p dir="ltr" style="margin:0px 0px 10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