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Islandora overview - Drupal Meetup Wellington
1. Islandora
Creating a digital archive using Islandora
(Drupal + Solr + Fedora)
Drupal Meetup Wellington
4 March 2014
David Nind
2. What I’ll try and cover
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What is Islandora?
What problem does it solve?
Some examples
A quick demo, if time
3. It’s sort of niche!
Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums
+ Universities
Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
4. 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
Islandora modules
and tools
Drupal
- Core module
- Solution packs
- Applications required
for solution packs
ApacheSolr
5. Lots of data to manage…..
1. Source format (TIF)
2. Copied for processing e.g.
renamed, fix errors in
scans
Scan
Paper files
Process
3. Abbyy FineReader
document
4. Output formats:
- TIFs (single, multipage)
- PDFs (PDF/A)
- PNG
- OCR text
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