Nick Ruest
Digital Assets Librarian
York University
Melissa Anez
Project and Community Manager
Islandora Foundation
Adam Traub
Director, Information Discovery Team
University of Rochester
The Islandora Foundation: Creating and Sustaining an Open Source Community (Ruest, Anez)
Three years have passed since the formation of the Islandora Foundation was announced at Open Repositories 2013. Since that time, the project has welcomed more than two dozen supporting institutions, hosted Islandora Camps all over the world, and completed four fully community-driven software releases with dozens of new modules built and contributed by the Islandora community. The Islandora project has made the journey from a grant-funded project incubated in a university library, to a vibrant and global community facilitated by a non-profit that exists only by symbiosis with the community it serves. This presentation will provide a general overview of that journey, the current status of the Islandora project (including Islandora CLAW) and community. As the Islandora Foundation enters its fourth year, with a staff of two and a truly community-driven development process, membership in the Islandora Foundation provides the shared governance structure that allows for a sustainable open source repository platform for the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) community.
Presentation (Anez)
The May Bragdon Diaries Project: Islandora Turned Exhibit (Traub)
The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries assembled a collaborative team of Digital Humanities practitioners, a manuscript librarian, web developers, and graduate students to create the May Bragdon Diaries Project. This project focuses on May Bragdon, sister of famed architect Claude Bragdon, and her diaries; unlike most diaries, May had pasted inclusions (photographs, correspondence, ephemera, etc.) right on top of her manuscript. These diaries feel like a diary-scrapbook mashup, and they required a unique data model and viewer to retain their physical context. Built on Islandora, the team built a platform that immerses the user into the world of May’s diaries while empowering the editor and curator to continually enhance and update the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) that powers the rest of the site.
http://www.islandora.ca
https://maybragdon.lib.rochester.edu/