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Building Digital Archival Collections with Islandora

October 22, 2015 Martha Tenney digitalcollections.barnard.edu @barnardarchives

Administrative stuff

• Talking with other institutions
• Buy-in from IT
• Hiring a developer
• Install in March 2014, launch in October 2014
• New developer: Welcome Ben!
• A few really important pieces: dev site, sustainable workflow for pushing code,

project management platform

Building our collections

• Unique in that we weren’t migrating from another repository
• Two large collections: digitized yearbook and school newspaper

○ Scripted metadata ○ Import via customized drush scripts adapted from Ryerson Library ○ Check your metadata a billion times

• Also built out photograph collection using XML form builder, simple workflow

module, and many hours of undergraduate labor

• When we have time we build new collections: student publications, oral

histories, etc.

Custom development

• Front page: Drupal functionality
• Exhibits: also Drupal
• Landing pages

○ Modification of default Islandora behavior--not using default root collection page ○ Leads to other necessary changes: breadcrumbs, XACML policies, etc.

• Small changes to object pages
• Hoping to contribute more of this back, like the OpenSeadragon paged viewer

Looking forward

• Improving mobile experience
• User testing
• Manuscript materials

○ Adapted existing module or new module to handle collections of multi- page, handwritten or typewritten materials ○ Functional requirements: transcripts/OCR, choice of viewer, side-by-side transcription ○ Talk with me if you want to chat this out more!

• Fedora 4 and integrating custom development with the stack

Thanks!

digitalcollections.barnard.edu custom code is on github: https://github.com/BarnardArchives @barnardarchives mtenney@barnard.edu