Islandora is a digital archiving solution integrating Drupal, Solr, and Fedora, ideal for galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and universities. It offers long-term storage and management of digital resources, scalable to millions of objects, and connects with various output formats. A demonstration and resource links were provided during a presentation at a Drupal meetup in 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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6. Examples

7. http://www.peildo.ca/

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

9. http://www.islandimagined.ca/

10. http://fsu.digital.flvc.org

11. Demo
http://islandora.ca/sandbox

12. Resources
http://islandora.ca/ ← project site
http://sandbox7.islandora.ca/ ← demo
@Islandora ← Twitter
http://discoverygarden.ca
http://fedora-commons.org/ ← Fedora
repository

13. Free and open source software for
libraries
Go to: foss4lib.org

14. Contacting me
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Twitter: @DavidNind
Email: david.nind@gmail.com