Roots & Routes - Introduction to Islandora
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Transcript of Roots & Routes - Introduction to Islandora
Roots & Routes - 2014Kirsta StapelfeldtCoordinator, USTC Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit
Introduction to
Workshop Outline
● Logging into the Islandora Sandbox
● Islandora’s Architecture and Goals
● Adding content to Islandora
● Resources for working with Islandora
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/
Navigate here for access to a live installation of basic Islandora.
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/
Login here
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/
You’re logged in as an administrator
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/
Click “Islandora Repository”
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/
Content Types supported by
Islandora
Islandora is a suite of Drupal Modules
Drupal is...
● open Content Management Framework software maintained and developed by 630,000+ users and developers.
● endlessly customizable via Modules - functional plugins that either come with drupal or are developed by the community.
Drupal is...
● the "website" side of Islandora. Non-repo pages, menus, site theme, users - These are all managed by Drupal.
http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/sealed/
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.louvre.fr/
Islandora uses Drupal, but provides additional features
http://sandbox.islandora.ca/
Click on the Book Collection
A thumbnail image represents the book cover.
Click it.
the Internet Archives book
reader
Open Seadragon Image Viewer
Drupal is only part of the
architecture
Select the manage tab
the book “object,” which is comprised of “datastreams” - this package of content is
FedoraCommons
FedoraCommons is...
● a general-purpose, open-source digital object repository system.
● originally developed by researchers at Cornell University as an architecture for storing, managing, and accessing digital content in the form of digital objects.
FedoraCommons is...
● a unique content and relationship modeling framework that preserves the integrity of collections and can be modified to manage any digital asset.
● the storage layer of Islandora. Objects ingested into and managed with Islandora are stored in a Fedora repository - not in Drupal.
● Why is FedoraCommons important?
Select the “MODS” hyperlink
Other Types of Metadata
● Provenance: who owns this? Where did it come from? Who has touched it?
● Technical: What is needed to render, interact with and use the digital object?
● Rights management: What intellectual property rights must be observed?
RDF or “Relationship” metadata allows for the creation of graph-like data structures
Short break?
http://islandora.ca/downloads
From a book, select “pages”
click on an image thumbnail to access a single “page”
Select “manage”
Select “datastreams” (the theme makes it a little hard)
Multiple datastreams make up each page
Security
Access control for people - multiple roles, with permissions written to the datastream level.
Versioning for datastreams (so that any error can be removed)
Can be extended
Because it is open source, it can be modified by a developer for additional functions & themed to suit a specific community.
Metadata that contains dates or geographic coordinates can be indexed and rendered in maps and timelines
Add something to Islandora
Add a simple image to Islandora
go to google images and grab an image of .jpeg, .png, or .gif type
Navigate to basic image collection
Select “manage” tab
Select “Add an object to this Collection”
If you had a library catalogue record, you could upload it here.
Just select “next”
Type a title for your image
Then scroll down & select “next”
Choose and upload the file that you just
saved
Then select “Ingest”
Image appears with a message that the object has been
ingested
Selecting the Manage tab, and
“datastreams” will show you all the files
that have been created.
Search & Indexing
Simple search for “Prince”
Solr: Open-source searching platform
Fast and flexible search powering numerous sites with different data
● Netflix● Internet Archive● the Smithsonian● Instagram● eHarmony● JSTOR● reddit● Public Library of Science
Multiple options to configure advanced
search
What have we covered?
● Logging into the Islandora Sandbox
● Islandora’s Architecture and Goals
● Adding content to Islandora
● Resources for working with Islandora
http://islandora.ca/
Go to your library or ITS department to see if you can get support. Thanks for listening to me!
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