Opening Up With Islandora

ARLD DayApril 24, 2015

Pam Sukalski, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Linda Richter

Outline

• Southwest Minnesota State University Archives Repository

• Minnesota State University, Mankato Arch Repository

• Islandora Components and Features• Questions and Discussion

SMSU Digital ArchivesARLD - April 24, 2015

SMSU Digital Archives

•Our Content• Initial Project – Summer 2013

• Alumni Magazine (FOCUS)• Newspaper format• Magazine format• Book Solution pack

•Current project – Summer 2014• Student Newspapers (4 titles)

• Newspaper Solution pack• Bound vs. loose issues

SMSU Digital Archives

•Technical Details• Scanning process• Limited metadata• OCR clean-up

•Funding & Marketing• Grant funded - SMSU Foundation• Local Newspaper, SMSU Newsfeed, upcoming

FOCUS issue, social media

SMSU Digital Archives

•Webpage•Collaboration was key!

• SMSU Web Master • PALS staff• SMSU IT staff• SMSU Marketing staff

•http://archives.smsu.edu/

Quick Overview of our Digitization Experience

• Began working with MDL in 2000

• Started• Digitizing photos in 2006• Digitizing student magazine

and newspaper in 2010• Providing Access to Oral

Histories in 2012

• Access• University Archives Digital

Collections via CONTENTdm• Minnesota Digital Library

(some items)

• Old Main with fence, Mankato State Normal School, 1857

Building Islandora for MSU

• Increased emphasis on digitization efforts @ MSU

• CONTENTdm no longer the best fit

• Islandora by PALS• Trusted relationship• Provided support and

opportunities we were looking for

• Open Source software

• A photograph of the construction on Memorial Library addition; Unidentified workers on

building; Mankato State University, 1991.

Opening ARCH

• Rebranded and new marketing opportunities

• Increased access to school newspapers

• Expanded access to archival collections

• Migrated and metadata cleaned up

• Improved social media connectivity

• Connected with Google Analytics

• A picture of the Mankato State University Alumni Arch and Plaza and the Ostrander

Student Memorial Bell Tower, 1990s.

Social Media Engagement

Easy sharing for Facebook Admins

Anyone can share/tweet

No login required

ARCH: http://arch.lib.mnsu.edu

Next Steps

• Bookmarks/My Favorites

• New Collections• Yearbooks• Oral Histories• Manuscript collections

(multi-format)

Islandora provides access to

• Publications, newspapers, yearbooks• Photographs, videos • Minutes, agendas, reports• Interviews, speeches, oral histories• Web archives

…all from one search point!

Open source advantages• Best practice open source software: powerful,

stable, widely used and supported• Community contributions• Hosted and supported by PALS• Customizable

Drupal

<mods><titleInfo><title>1980-81 Winter Focus</title><subTitle/></titleInfo><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><originInfo><dateIssued>1980-81</dateIssued><edition>Winter</edition><place><placeTerm type="text">Marshall, Minnesota</placeTerm></place><publisher>Southwest State University</publisher></originInfo><name><namePart>SSU</namePart><role><roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm></role></name><physicalDescription><form>Newspaper</form></physicalDescription><part><detail type="volume"><number>1</number></detail><text type="issue"><number>2</number></text></part><location><physicalLocation>McFarland Library Striegel Archives</physicalLocation></location><targetAudience>Alumni</targetAudience><subject><title/><topic/><temporal>1980-1989</temporal></subject><note/></mods>

<mods><identifier type="MDL">msu18232</identifier><relatedItem type="original"><titleInfo><title>msu18232.tif</title></titleInfo></relatedItem><identifier type="local">MSU-UA-309-18232</identifier><location><physicalLocation>07-46</physicalLocation></location><titleInfo><title>Two students embracing one another during commencement at Mankato State University, 1990-06-08.</title></titleInfo><note type="description">Two students embracing one another during commencement at Mankato State University, 1990-06-08.</note><physicalDescription><extent>9 x 13</extent><form>Color photographs</form><internetMediaType>Image/tiff</internetMediaType><note>Image/jp2</note></physicalDescription><typeOfResource>Still Image</typeOfResource><name type="creator"><namePart/><role><roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm></role></name><name type="contributor"><namePart/><role><roleTerm type="text">contributor</roleTerm></role></name><originInfo><dateCreated>1990-06-08</dateCreated><dateOther>2014-11-10</dateOther><publisher/></originInfo><extension type="system"><hardware>Epson Perfection 4990 Photo</hardware><software>VueScan 9 x32 (9.0.50)</software><operatingSystem>Windows 7</operatingSystem></extension><relatedItem type="host"><titleInfo><title>University Photograph Collection, 1868-ongoing. MSU Archives 309.</title></titleInfo></relatedItem><subject><topic authority="msu"/><topic authority="msu">Commencement</topic><topic authority="msu">Mankato State University</topic><topic authority="msu">Students</topic><topic authority="mdl">Education</topic><hierarchicalGeographic><city>Mankato</city><citySection/><county>Blue Earth</county><state>Minnesota</state><country>United States</country></hierarchicalGeographic><geographic/><extension type="coordinates"><geo.lat>44.144187</geo.lat><geo.long>-93.995478</geo.long></extension><note type="geographic">Google Maps</note></subject><language>English</language><name type="contrib_org"><namePart>University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato</namePart><description>University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato, P.O. Box 8419, Mankato, MN 56002-8419</description><role><roleTerm type="text">contributing organization</roleTerm></role></name><relatedItem type="affiliation"><name type="project"><namePart/><role><roleTerm type="text">Project Affiliation</roleTerm></role></name><name type="fiscal"><namePart/><role><roleTerm type="text">Fiscal Sponsor</roleTerm></role></name><name type="scan_center"><namePart>University Archives and Southern Minnesota Historical Center, Memorial Library, Minnesota State University, Mankato, P.O. Box 8419, Mankato, MN 56002-8419</namePart><role><roleTerm type="text">Scanning Center</roleTerm></role></name></relatedItem><accessCondition><copyright><general.note>Creative Commons-BY-NC. This material is usable under a Creative Commons – Attribution – Non-Commercial license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 Visit our website for additional details and suggested citations. http://lib.mnsu.edu/archives/rights/intro.html</general.note><rights.holder><name>Original material located at Minnesota State University, Mankato University Archives</name></rights.holder></copyright></accessCondition></mods>

MSU photograph SMSU magazine

Features• Google Analytics integration• Social media• Bookmarks• GIS integration• Image annotation• Advanced search• Search engine optimization

Preservation

• Technical metadata– generated automatically with Islandora FITS and

PREMIS Modules– extracted from metadata embedded in original file

• Checksum and Checksum Checker • Stores original object and derivatives

Datastreams

http://islandora.mnpals.nethttp://arch.lib.mnsu.eduhttp://archives.smsu.edu

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