Samvera is being used as a base for a number of institutional repositories (IRs) each of which contains a range of content types. Many of the Samvera partners have developed IR with Hyrax.

Fulcrum is a community-based, open source publishing platform based on Samvera that helps publishers present their authors’ research outputs in a durable, discoverable, accessible and flexible form. It is hosted on the University of Michigan library infrastructure, specifically designed to curate digital objects.

Samvera is being used in conjunction with archives and special collections.  The University of York in the UK has used it as the basis for their Archbishops’ Registers site, providing access to more than 20,000 pages of early manuscripts.  Princeton University has used Samvera to create “Figgy”, a workflow tool for digitizing a wide range of formats including archival materials, ephemera, maps, audio, and coins.

The Samvera software is being used as the basis for data repositories, for instance “Deep Blue Data” at the University of Michigan and “Imago” at Indiana University.  The Digital Repository of Ireland is “a national repository for Ireland’s humanities, social sciences and cultural heritage data.”

The Avalon Media System is a collaborative Samvera-based project for managing and providing online access to digital video and audio. It is now available as a Samvera “solution bundle”.

Avalon, an access platform for online audio and video was developed by Indiana University and Northwestern University using the Samvera stack. Amongst others, WGBH, a public broadcaster in Boston, the University of Virginia, the University of Houston and Washington University are utilizing Avalon and Samvera to manage their digital media content.