Islandora

Creating a digital archive using Islandora (Drupal + Solr + Fedora)

Drupal Meetup Wellington4 March 2014

David Nind

What I’ll try and cover

• What is Islandora?

• What problem does it solve?

• Some examples

• A quick demo, if time

It’s sort of niche!

Galleries

Libraries

Archives

Museums

+ Universities

Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0

How it works

Fedora repository

- Long-term access to digital resources- Store, manage and maintain all types of digital content and metadata- Scale to millions of objects- Many storage options- OAI-PMH provider service

DrupalIslandora modules and tools

ApacheSolr

- Core module- Solution packs- Applications required for solution packs

Paper files

Scan Process

1. Source format (TIF)

2. Copied for processing e.g. renamed, fix errors in scans

3. Abbyy FineReader document

4. Output formats:- TIFs (single, multipage)- PDFs (PDF/A)- PNG- OCR text…..

Lots of data to manage…..

Examples

http://www.peildo.ca/

http://www3.cec.org/islandora/en

http://www.islandimagined.ca/

http://fsu.digital.flvc.org

Demohttp://islandora.ca/sandbox

Resources

http://islandora.ca/ ← project site

http://sandbox7.islandora.ca/ ← demo

@Islandora ← Twitter

http://discoverygarden.ca

http://fedora-commons.org/ ← Fedora repository

Free and open source software for libraries

Go to: foss4lib.org

Contacting me

• Twitter: @DavidNind

• Email: david.nind@gmail.com