1. Stewarding Research
Data with Islandora
David Wilcox, DiscoveryGarden Inc.
LITA National Forum 2012 - Columbus, Ohio

2. Agenda
• Introducing Islandora
• Research Data Examples
✦ Smithsonian Institution
✦ Computational Chemistry VRE
✦ Editing Modernism in Canada
• Q &A

3. Introducing Islandora

4. Introducing Islandora
• Open source digital asset management
system
• Drupal+Fedora framework from UPEI
• Flexible UI on top of Fedora + other apps
• Deployed in 100+ institutions, growing

5. Introducing 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

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

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

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

9. Solution Packs
• Architecture to support basic content
types
• Default metadata forms (MODS) that can
be modified
• Applications integration based on
experience/best-practices

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. How Islandora
Understands Content

16. Everything is an Object

17. Objects have Persistent
Identifiers (PIDs)

18. Objects have
Datastreams

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

20. 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

21. Research Data
Examples

22. Smithsonian Institution

23. Purpose and Goals
• Implement a flexible, long-term research
data preservation system
• Make research data publicly available in a
useful way
• Provide a framework that integrates well
with existing researcher workflows

24. Tree Viewer

25. Tree Viewer

26. Tree Viewer

27. My Projects

28. My Projects

29. My Projects

30. Exhibition

31. Exhibition

32. Exhibition

33. Metadata Support

34. Metadata Support

35. Computational
Chemistry VRE

36. Molecule Ingest

37. Molecule Ingest

38. Molecule Ingest

39. Molecule Ingest

40. External Datastore
Integration

41. Chemical Structure
Search

42. Chemical Structure
Search

43. Editing Modernism in
Canada

44. Book Reader

45. Book Reader

46. CWRC Writer

47. CWRC Writer

48. Shared Canvas

49. Shared Canvas

50. Questions?