This slideshow was presented at the Introduction to Islandora workshop at Open Repositories 2012. It contains some basic information and resources for anyone who is unfamiliar with Islandora.

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Mark Leggott, President, DiscoveryGarden Inc.
David Wilcox, Islandora Training/Support Coordinator
Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Islandora Repository Manager
Alan Stanley, Islandora Developer

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Agenda
๏ 9:30-9:45 Introductions
๏ 9:45-10:15 Introducing Islandora
๏ 10:15-11:00 Solution Packs
๏ 11:00-11:15 Break
๏ 11:15-11:45 Collection Management
๏ 11:45-12:15 Islandora Tools & Configuration
๏ 12:15-12:30 Roadmap Preview

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Introductions
1. Who are we?
2. Who are you?

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Introducing Islandora

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Islandora
๏ Designed to support 3 “landscapes”
๏ Admin (Committees, Documents/Records)
๏ Learning (Images, SCORM)
๏ Research (Data, Collaborative groups)
๏ System designed to support any Digital Asset
Management (DAM) requirement, including stewardship
and collaboration

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Drupal
๏ Collaborative layer
๏ Easy branding
๏ New functionality &
modules
๏ Web 2/3 savvy
๏ Robust community

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Fedora
๏ Repository layer
๏ Data, metadata, workflow/
permissions layer
๏ Work with any data asset/
schema
๏ Content Model Architecture
๏ Semantic support (RDF)

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Islandora
๏ Glue that binds Drupal &
Fedora
๏ Drupal modules, additional
applications
๏ Open Source
๏ Sustainability Model (soft
money, operational funds, &
private services company)

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DiscoveryGarden
๏ discoverygarden.ca
๏ installation
๏ hosting
๏ customization
๏ migration from other
systems

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Solution Packs
๏ Architecture to support
basic content types
๏ Default metadata forms
(MODS) that can be
modified
๏ Applications integration Solution packs support basic
content, and can be modified/
based on experience/best- extended
practices

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Drupal UI
FormsAPI LDAP
CSS/Themes
ImageAPI FCK
Editorial WorkFlow User Roles/Permissions
Tabs BibUtils
Modules (LDAP/BibUtils/Etc
SPARQL
HTML Hooks

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Drupal UI
FormsAPI LDAP
CSS/Themes
ImageAPI FCK
Editorial WorkFlow User Roles/Permissions
Tabs BibUtils
Modules (LDAP/BibUtils/Etc
SPARQL
HTML Islandora Hooks
Djatoka Tika
Code Snippets/Applications
Tesseract Kakadu
JMS Micro Services Engine JMS
R SWFTools
Wowza XSLTs PHP/Python Snippets OOffice

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Drupal UI
FormsAPI LDAP
CSS/Themes
ImageAPI FCK
Editorial WorkFlow User Roles/Permissions
Tabs BibUtils
Modules (LDAP/BibUtils/Etc
SPARQL SOAP
REST
SPARQL
HTML Hooks
Mulgara Solr/Lucene
Islandora
Djatoka Fedora Tika
Code Snippets/Applications
Tesseract Kakadu
Content Models
JMS Micro Services Engine
XACML Policies
JMS
R SWFTools
Wowza XSLTs PHP/Python Snippets OOffice
Process
Any Metadata
MySQL & GSearch
Any Data

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Drupal UI
FormsAPI LDAP
CSS/Themes
ImageAPI FCK
Editorial WorkFlow User Roles/Permissions
Tabs BibUtils
Modules (LDAP/BibUtils/Etc
SPARQL
HTML Hooks
Islandora
Djatoka Tika
Code Snippets/Applications
Tesseract Kakadu
JMS Micro Services Engine JMS
R SWFTools
Wowza XSLTs PHP/Python Snippets OOffice
SPARQL SOAP
REST
Mulgara Solr/Lucene
Fedora
Content Models XACML Policies
Process
Any Metadata
MySQL & GSearch
Any Data

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Community Resources

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Google Groups for Users & Developers
post a question to the lists,
or search for the answer to a
question that you have.

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help.islandora.ca
this site houses resources
you can use to play with
Islandora, as well as some
links to tutorials, etc. and
useful links.

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sandbox.islandora.ca
๏ image refreshed daily
๏ installations of current
๏ solution packs
๏“vanilla” islandora

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How Islandora Understands
Content (Fedora’s CMA)

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Everything is an Object

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Objects Have Persistent
Identifiers (PIDs)

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Objects Have Datastreams

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CMA
Object Model - IslandImagined/Large Image
imagined:208361 (PID) Digital Object Identifier
Object Properties System Properties
๏ CMA is key to the Islandora
Manage & Track Object
Relations (RELS-EXT)
Dublin Core (DC) Reserved Datastreams
Key Object Metadata
architecture and roadmap
Audit Trail (AUDIT)
๏ Complete digital archive
JP2K Web (JP2)
with assets & metadata
JP2K Archival
๏ Sharing content models
(LOSSLES_JP2)
Datastreams
Low Res JPEG (JPG)
makes Fedora ecosystem
Aggregates Content Items
Thumbnail (TN)
Descriptive Metadata
(MODS)
very compelling

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Root Collection islandora:collectionCModel
DC DC
RELS-EXT
Has Model RELS-EXT
COLLECTION_POLICY ISLANDORACM
Basic Image Collection
islandora:collectionCModel
TN
DC
DC Has Model RELS-EXT
RELS-EXT
ISLANDORACM
COLLECTION_POLICY
Image
DC
islandora:sp_basic_image
MODS
DC
RELS-EXT Has Model RELS-EXT
OBJ
ISLANDORACM
MEDIUM_SIZE
TN

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Solution Packs
๏ Basic Image
๏ Large Image
๏ PDF
๏ Book
๏ Audio
๏ Video

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Collection Management

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Islandora Configuration

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Roadmap Preview

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Institutional Repositories

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Drupal 7

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Questions?
Kirsta Stapelfeldt - kstapelfeldt@upei.ca
David Wilcox - dwilcox@upei.ca