Apereo Foundation Welcomes the Samvera Community

BEAVERTON, Ore. - July 20, 2026 - PRLog -- The Apereo Foundation is pleased to welcome the Samvera Community to the Apereo ecosystem.

Samvera is an international collaboration dedicated to developing and sustaining open source digital repository technologies used by libraries, archives, and research institutions. Through community governance and collaborative development, Samvera helps organizations preserve and provide access to scholarly publications, research outputs, audiovisual materials, and cultural heritage collections.

Joining Apereo as a comprehensive community, Samvera brings together software platforms, institutional adopters, developers, librarians, archivists, and digital preservation professionals committed to ensuring that knowledge remains accessible for future generations.

"Samvera represents an important expansion of the Apereo community," said Patrick Masson, Executive Director of the Apereo Foundation. "For many years, Apereo has supported open source communities focused on teaching, learning, identity management, calendaring, scheduling, and research. With Samvera joining the Foundation, we now extend that commitment to the libraries, archives, and cultural heritage professionals who play a vital role in preserving and sharing knowledge."

Samvera develops and supports three primary open source platforms:

• Avalon Media System for audiovisual collections
• Hyrax, a flexible repository framework
• Hyku, a turnkey repository solution built on Hyrax

The partnership also marks an important milestone as Samvera becomes Apereo's first community dedicated to library and archival technologies.

"Both Apereo and Samvera believe that essential academic and research infrastructure should be governed by the communities that depend upon it," said Heather Greer Klein, Samvera Community Manager. "Joining Apereo creates new opportunities for collaboration across higher education while helping ensure the long-term sustainability of our community and technologies."

The partnership reflects the growing importance of open source infrastructure across the entire scholarly ecosystem—from teaching and research to digital preservation and public access to knowledge.

Organizations interested in learning more about the Samvera Community can visit https://samvera.org.

About the Samvera Community

The Samvera Community develops and sustains open source repository technologies used by libraries, archives, and research organizations worldwide. Through community governance and collaborative development, Samvera provides flexible solutions for managing, preserving, and sharing digital collections.

About the Apereo Foundation

The Apereo Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that helps open source software projects and communities develop, grow, and sustain themselves over time. Apereo advances education, research, and the public good through open technologies, open practices, and community-led innovation.

Learn more at https://www.apereo.org.