ISLANDORA

Open-source digital repository framework

We create innovative digital repository solutions using the open-source Islandora digital asset management framework.

What is Islandora?

Islandora is an open-source framework for creating institutional repositories and digital collections. With Islandora, institutions can collaboratively author, manage, discover, and steward digital collections across various data types and knowledge domains.

Known for its infinite customization possibilities, rich feature set, and strong community, Islandora has become the platform of choice for Universities, libraries, museums and other institutions to manage and access their digital assets. Discovery Garden leverages the robust Islandora framework to build outstanding institutional repositories and digital collections.

Visual of Islandora's colletions interface.

Search and Explore

With Islandora, assets are easily discoverable based on a number of configurable metadata fields. It uses Apache Solr search engine to index all data, and configurable facets to facilitate precise and accurate searching.

Organize and Catalogue

Add, compare and catalogue assets across and within your collections easily and intuitively; Enhanced search and filter tools make it easy to find what you’re looking for.

Visual of Islandora's main content interface.

Inspect and Compare

Enhanced controls allow you to preview and review files of all types while comparing metadata. You can also download and share assets within your organization or with the public.

Innovative Features

Configurable Homepage

Configure your site to match your brand and enable blocks to show featured and recent items.

Structured Metadata

Use Drupal's powerful field management system and views to capture and display your metadata.

Search

Integrated with Apache Solr search engine to allow for fast searching, even over many millions of objects.

Managed Hosting

Enhanced preservation storage with versioning and AWS S3 replication options.

Access Control

Intelligent control over who can view repository content.

Collections

Organize objects into collections and subcollections to allow your users to easily find what they are looking for.

Configurable Faceting

Configurable facets let your users narrow their search based on object metadata.

Single Sign-on

Integrate with your existing identity provider and user role to simplify user management.

Bulk Ingest

Import data quickly from a CSV file or with our improved custom ingest tools.

Integrations

Islandora features robust APIs that allow you to integrate with existing systems.

Institutional Repository

IR modules allow you to create submission workflows, track downloads and citations, and more.

Digital Preservation

We help you meet NDSA Levels of Preservation and Trusted Digital Repository requirements.

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