Leveraging the flexibility of Islandora to create a dual-use digital repository

Alicia Esquivel, Tim Fluhr and Adam Strohm
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Alicia Esquivel: Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Tim Fluhr: Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Adam Strohm: Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Journal of Digital Media Management, 2021, vol. 9, issue 2, 153-163

Abstract: In 2019, Paul V. Galvin Library at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago launched a new iteration of the university’s institutional repository. This single instance of Islandora serves as both the traditional institutional repository and a digital collections portal for Illinois Tech’s University Archives and Special Collections. The migration from an existing DSpace repository was completed in-house by librarians without vendor assistance. This paper describes the migration process from DSpace to Islandora and explores some of the issues and decisions that arose when attempting to use a single instance of Islandora for two sometimes conflicting purposes, including questions of user interface, descriptive metadata and treatment of compound objects.

Keywords: institutional repositories; Islandora; migration; collaboration; digital collections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M11 M15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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