bye, contentdm: a migration to islandora

2010 - founding of the Library’s Digital Scholarship Unit. CONTENTdm used due to limited infrastructure resources & gentle learning curve. Workflow utilizes a campus shared drive.

2013 - Collections have about 25,000 digital items

(multipage manuscripts, postcards, and paintings).

Local copies of files remain on shared drive. Filenames

are the identifiers.

1. Metadata mapped & exported to one large DC XML doc per collection

2. Python used to normalize XML and fix errors

PROCESS IS TRIAL & ERROR. EXPOSES METADATA ERRORS &

INCONSISTENCIES

How to migrate? New batch ingest framework

can be run on server using drush. Requires matching filename &

xml file, as well as specialized directory

structure for books

3. XSL transforms DC to MODS, splits file, names file to match .tiff images.

4. Python used to package .tiffs and metadata for book solution pack.

Bye Bye, ContentDM!a migration to Islandora

The Digital Scholarship Unit (DSU):• Part of the University of Toronto Scarborough Library• Formed in 2010 to create unique digital collections and collaborate with faculty using emerging digitally-mediated research practices• Services include: creation and stewardship of collections, digital research methodology, instruction in digital tools for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty

Lingling Jiang Applications DeveloperKim Pham Special Project DeveloperSara Allain Special Collections LibrarianPaulina Rousseau Digital Scholarship LibrarianKirsta Stapelfeldt Coordinator

3 FTE Librarians • Project Management & Instruction1 FTE Applications Programmer • Liaise with IITS - develop & maintain systems/appsCasual & Student staff • Digitization & processing

IITS (Information& Instructional

Technology Services) consists of multiple

coordinated units that serve the UTSC

library & community

Proud hosts of

digitalscholarship@utsc.utoronto.caDIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP UNIT

Why Islandora? Consistent with other UofT campuses; share

expertise & infrastructure; campus website infrastructure

is Drupal; multisite option is attractive

Next step...streaming

server!

Migration project:• Begun January 2014• 25,000 objects in CONTENTdm - metadata exported by practicum student Ned Struthers using CONTENTdm’s metadata mapping and export tools• CONTENTdm also makes available API utilities for directly downloading images from its system - GetFile call can be easily authored for multiple objects in any spreadsheet software• Decided to let Islandora recreate derivatives from locally maintained .tiff files, rather than pulling image files directly from ContentDM

University of Toronto’s digital collections platform

7.x-1.3

fedora server

drupal multisite

application server

staging server