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Digital Repository Experts for Forward-Thinking Institutions
We help institutions create living digital repositories that scholars actually use
Since 2009, we have been developing and transforming institutional repository software, built repositories that serve millions of objects and hundreds of terabytes of scholarly content, and democratized access to humanity's cultural and intellectual heritage.
Who we work with
Notch8 has helped us build and run ScholarWorks, California State University's system-wide repository, since 2020. When we moved off DSpace, they built the features our campuses needed, including thesis deposit and campus-only access, and their engineers still work alongside our team every week.
David Walker
Director, Systemwide Digital Library Services
California State University
We contracted Notch8 to upgrade our instance of Arclight and carry over a long list of customizations over two week-long sprints. They fulfilled our original request in half the expected timeline and were able to start chipping away at our backlog of issues. Notch8 optimized their contracted time and accomplished far more in two weeks than I thought possible. From start to finish the Notch8 team communicated swiftly and worked with great precision, ensuring they met our needs.
Brianna McLaughlin
Digital Collections Librarian
Indiana University-Bloomington
James Halliday
Head of Software Development, Library Technologies
Indiana University-Bloomington
Notch8 took our high-level requirements and transformed them into a production-ready platform through thoughtful product thinking. Instead of just delivering against specifications, they anticipated needs, proposed better solutions, and delivered features that made the platform genuinely usable. The dual-track approach kept us aligned while maintaining development momentum. They consistently overdelivered value within our budget constraints.
Lisa Becksford Russell, MA, MSLS, CPACC
Head, Learning Design Initiatives
Liaison to Education and Engineering Education
University Libraries, Virginia Tech
Why Libraries Trust Notch8
Notch8 has transformed institutional repository software for academic institutions around the world, including R1 institutions, major university consortia, and special or sensitive collections.
As a Samvera Partner, since 2016 we have completed more than 100 projects that serve millions of objects and hundreds of terabytes of scholarly content, and maintained high-availability infrastructure for digital collections and scholarly research.
No More Uncertainty About Getting Your Needs Met — We are Customer-Obsessed.
Notch8 combines full-stack software development expertise with decades of collective experience working with organizations like yours to:
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Understand your unique repository needs and challenges
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Work effectively within your budget constraints
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Create secure, robust, maintainable repository solutions
Our engineering teams specialize in delivering scalable institutional repository software solutions for education, cultural institutions, and public media that stand the test of time.
We are contributors to open-source repository software projects like Hyku and Hyrax. We can transform your current resources from MARC, XML, CSV and numerous custom formats into easily discoverable and interoperable IIIF manifests with facet-able metadata that make your collections accessible.