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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