Community Programs

​Lyrasis brings communities supporting open-source technologies and research infrastructure together under one roof.

Lyrasis provides a home to many collaborative communities working to develop and sustain open-source and open-access technologies, infrastructures and research practices in areas aligned with the Lyrasis mission. Find out more below about the programs Lyrasis supports with its shared infrastructure for membership, collaboration and software development.

Lyrasis is the Organizational Home to:

Built for archives by archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives information management application for managing and providing access to archives, manuscripts and digital objects.

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CollectionSpace is web-based, open-source collections management software for cultural heritage organizations, museums and more.

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DSpace is the software of choice for academic, nonprofit and commercial organizations building open digital repositories.

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Fedora is the flexible, standards-based, open-source repository software built to support long-term digital preservation.

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VIVO facilitates the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at your institution.

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What is an Organizational Home?

As an Organizational Home, Lyrasis provides resources and services to help grow, support and amplify these communities, enabling them to focus on program-specific needs and priorities, free from the burden of building common types of infrastructure that are necessary for long-term success and sustainability. These services include, but are not limited to fiscal services, internal IT support, human resources and other critical supportive infrastructure. Each program operates independently and has its own model to support individual sustainability. Membership or affiliation to each program is separate from membership to Lyrasis.

Lyrasis is the U.S. home supporting global research infrastructure and open access through the following communities:

The ORCID US Community is a national consortium and community of practice for nonprofit organizations that are members of ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor Identifier).

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​The Lyrasis DataCite US Community is a national consortium and community of practice for nonprofit organizations assigning DataCite DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) to their local research and scholarly materials.

Visit the Lyrasis DataCite US Community

The IRUS (Institutional Repository Usage Statistics) US Community allows participating organizations to gather open, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics for materials in repositories.

Visit the IRUS-US Community

In addition to serving as home for these programs, Lyrasis also has created a model to bring together open-source programs serving cultural and scientific heritage to develop shared sustainability strategies.

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