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#access2009pei – Donald Moses & Paul Pound – Islandlives
1 Oct 09
(Donald) Privately funded project to digitize PEI books, running mostly on OS software. At it’s heart is Islandora.
Community pieces: created the repository of bib records first, began local promotion through newspaper and others, building community support. Then needed to connect with rights holders. Contact authors for copyright-protected items, are some challenges with handling orphan works. “Post-it note” method of tracking rights holders! Have a notice and takedown page for individuals who believe they have rights in incorrectly categorized orphans can contact. Allow community contributed metadata for photographs, which are cropped without metadata from books.
Develope TEI viewer, page viewer. Used Google Forms for QA process.
(Paul) Islandora is a Drupal module. Drupal manages users, roles, permissions. Connects to Fedora Drupal filter. Can use Drupal’s LDAP without having to build into Islandora. Use Drupal permissions to manage permissions for data operations. Drupal also provides themes, easily customized. Some installs use out-of-the-box themes, others minor customizations. Islandora actually six modules; also leverages Lucene, Djatoka, OpenOffice.
– Fedora Repository module
– Scholar module
– Fedora-Attach module, extends Drupal’s file attach module
– Fedora Imageapi module, building on D’s imageapi to manipulate image streams
– Islandlives module: several book object datastreams
– that’s only 5, did I miss one?
Use Fedoragsearch to index MODS, TEI, and DC datastreams. Untokenized fields for lists (place names, etc.); tokenized fields indexed for searching.
IslandLives JP2 viewer using djatoka, openlayers, jquery to view jpeg2000 images. djatoka is an OS jp2000 image server. Some issues with djatoka and Fedora.
IslandLives TEI Editor is a separate Drupal module. GUI to mark up TEI, lots of js
Tagging application: where to store tags? usually choose Fedora: have many Drupals hitting on Fedora. Tag xml can be indexed in Lucene.
For the future:
– use Drupal’s Solr module to combine Drupal/Fedora searching in one index.
– take advantage of Drupal hooks to sync data between Fedora and Drupal
There’s an Islandora google group, and FedoraCommons hosting. Islandora team is eight people.
Posted by pzed on October 1, 2009 at 12.25pm
Categories: access 2009, conferences, libraries, twitter
