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Islandora/Opendora
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PALS Quarterly Newsletter, May 2023 Update
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Starting Fresh with Islandora
When last we provided an update about the transition from Islandora 7, we were working with information regarding the early phases of community-led development. If you know anything about the open source world, you know that it can change quite a bit, and now seems like a good time to update you on the project. Recent Progress: We’ve had some recent successes with new users: MN Department of Transportation and Minnesota State Law Library and we are currently working with […]
MnDOT Goes Live on Islandora 2
After a rigorous development and review process, the PALS Islandora team, consisting of Rod Bruce, Dani Kroon, and Simon Mai, is pleased to announce that the department’s first Islandora 2 site has gone live. Click here to view The team has worked diligently over the last few months to accommodate unexpected delays in community-led development due to the pandemic, changes to responsibilities, and other major PALS-related initiatives to successfully bring the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) project to fruition. Dani, […]
PALS Quarterly Newsletter, February 2023 update
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Content in Islandora 8
The organization of an Islandora 7 site’s content is defined by the Fedora Object to Object Relationship Metadata (RELS-EXT). Every object in an Islandora 7 repository has a RELS-EXT datastream that defines the object’s relationship(s) within the repository. For example, the RELS-EXT for a newspaper issue contains information about the newspaper object of which it is a member. In Islandora 8, these relationships are defined within Drupal. The Islandora 8 default configuration adds to Drupal the content type of Repository […]
Building Resources in Islandora 8
In Islandora 8 traditional objects such as video files, audio files, PDFs, and photographs become Drupal resource nodes. Resource nodes are different from the “regular” Drupal nodes we described in our Drupal nodes post. Regular Drupal nodes include content on a site such as a page, poll, article, or blog entry. These nodes make up the parts of an Islandora 8 site that are not repository objects. While using the term “object” is traditional with Islandora it can get in the […]
Islandora Objects
Everything in an Islandora repository is an object. In Islandora, an object is a collection of properties describing something. Since Islandora 7 was built on top of Fedora an object in Islandora 7 is essentially a Fedora object. In Islandora 8, Drupal, and not Fedora, is the primary source of all aspects of an Islandora object. In Drupal terms, an Islandora 8 object is a node. As we learned in last week’s post on Drupal Nodes, nodes have properties that […]
Drupal Nodes
Drupal nodes are an integral part of how a Drupal 8 site works. Understanding them will help understand how an Islandora 8 site functions. All content on a Drupal site is stored and treated as nodes. Regular Drupal nodes include any individual content on a site such as a page, poll, article, or blog entry. The content type of the node will define what fields (or specific information) that node displays. For example, a basic Page content type has (minimally) two fields: title and body. Node management and […]
An Engaged, International Islandora Community
The Islandora community consists of implementers, developers, service companies, and users working as transparently and collaboratively as possible towards better documentation and an always open-source code base. The community operates under a Code of Conduct. Involvement is formalized through various levels of membership and helps provide financial support. The community remains engaged through several ways, including: CallsThe community holds regular tech calls and user calls, and monthly committer calls. In these calls, developers, testers, users, and others discuss tickets, issues, and developmental goals. Committees and […]
