This presentation answers the questions: Why Use a Digital Asset Management System? and What is Islandora? We also look at customizations that we made to Islandora for the Detroit Public Library Digital Collections at http://digitalcollections.detroitpubliclibrary.org/

1. LITA Forum 2014
Using Islandora
for Digital
Content Delivery
Tommy Keswick
The Cherry Hill Company

2. About Me
Tommy Keswick, MLIS
Drupal Developer
tkeswick@chillco.com
@TommyKeswick
@thecherryhillco
● Librarian by training
● Career began in consortium
● Developing with Drupal since 2008
● Digital collections enthusiast

3. The Cherry Hill Company
We offer a wide range of services, including:
● Drupal and Islandora site packages
(LibrarySite & LibraryDAMS)
● Custom Drupal application development
● User interface design
● Webinar-based and/or on-site training
● Server configuration and management
● Technology consultation

4. Agenda
● Why use a DAMS?
● What is Islandora?
● Detroit Public Library Digital Collections
● Questions / Discussion

5. Why Use a DAMS?

6. Why Use a DAMS?
● Why not a just a CMS or other service?

7. Why Use a DAMS?
● Why not a just a CMS or other service?
○ no consistent data formats
○ not designed for long-term preservation
○ scalability issues

8. Why Use a DAMS?
● Why not a just a CMS or other service?
○ no consistent data formats
○ not designed for long-term preservation
○ scalability issues
● What are the advantages of repositories?

9. Why Use a DAMS?
● Why not a just a CMS or other service?
○ no consistent data formats
○ not designed for long-term preservation
○ scalability issues
● What are the advantages of repositories?
○ established standards
○ data integrity tools
○ extensibility

10. What is Islandora?

11. What is Islandora?

12. What is Islandora?

13. What is Islandora?
● Drupal

14. What is Islandora?
● Drupal
○ Front-end
○ Forms
○ Website structure
○ Module system

15. ● Fedora
What is Islandora?

16. ● Fedora
○ digital repository
○ object relationships
○ scalable
○ APIs
What is Islandora?

17. ● Solr
What is Islandora?

18. ● Solr
○ search solution
○ full-text, stemming,
relevancy
○ highly configurable
What is Islandora?

19. Detroit Public Library Digital Collections

20. Detroit Public Library Digital Collections
● Map metadata to MODS schema
● Customize batch import process
● Implement new image viewers
● Create a favorite images system
● Enhance inactive records management
● Tune Solr search results
● Match theme to library website

21. Detroit Public Library Digital Collections
● Future Plans
○ Improve inactive records management workflow
○ Shopping cart / ordering print copies of images
○ Featured images and collections
○ Exhibit creation and management

22. Thank You!
Tommy Keswick, MLIS
tkeswick@chillco.com
The Cherry Hill Company
Feel free to follow up with any questions!
@TommyKeswick
@thecherryhillco