Opening Up With Islandora ARLD Day April 24, 2015 Pam Sukalski, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Linda...

Opening Up With Islandora

ARLD DayApril 24, 2015

Pam Sukalski, Daardi Sizemore, Anne Stenzel, Linda Richter

Outline

• Southwest Minnesota State University Archives Repository

• Minnesota State University, Mankato Arch Repository

• Islandora Components and Features• Questions and Discussion

SMSU Digital ArchivesARLD - April 24, 2015

SMSU Digital Archives

•Our Content• Initial Project – Summer 2013

• Alumni Magazine (FOCUS)• Newspaper format• Magazine format• Book Solution pack

•Current project – Summer 2014• Student Newspapers (4 titles)

• Newspaper Solution pack• Bound vs. loose issues

SMSU Digital Archives

•Technical Details• Scanning process• Limited metadata• OCR clean-up

•Funding & Marketing• Grant funded - SMSU Foundation• Local Newspaper, SMSU Newsfeed, upcoming

FOCUS issue, social media

SMSU Digital Archives

•Webpage•Collaboration was key!

• SMSU Web Master • PALS staff• SMSU IT staff• SMSU Marketing staff

•http://archives.smsu.edu/

Quick Overview of our Digitization Experience

• Began working with MDL in 2000

• Started• Digitizing photos in 2006• Digitizing student magazine

and newspaper in 2010• Providing Access to Oral

Histories in 2012

• Access• University Archives Digital

Collections via CONTENTdm• Minnesota Digital Library

(some items)

• Old Main with fence, Mankato State Normal School, 1857

Building Islandora for MSU

• Increased emphasis on digitization efforts @ MSU

• CONTENTdm no longer the best fit

• Islandora by PALS• Trusted relationship• Provided support and

opportunities we were looking for

• Open Source software

• A photograph of the construction on Memorial Library addition; Unidentified workers on

building; Mankato State University, 1991.

Opening ARCH

• Rebranded and new marketing opportunities

• Increased access to school newspapers

• Expanded access to archival collections

• Migrated and metadata cleaned up

• Improved social media connectivity

• Connected with Google Analytics

• A picture of the Mankato State University Alumni Arch and Plaza and the Ostrander

Student Memorial Bell Tower, 1990s.

Social Media Engagement

Easy sharing for Facebook Admins

Anyone can share/tweet

No login required

ARCH: http://arch.lib.mnsu.edu

Next Steps

• Bookmarks/My Favorites

• New Collections• Yearbooks• Oral Histories• Manuscript collections

(multi-format)

Islandora provides access to

• Publications, newspapers, yearbooks• Photographs, videos • Minutes, agendas, reports• Interviews, speeches, oral histories• Web archives

…all from one search point!

Open source advantages• Best practice open source software: powerful,

stable, widely used and supported• Community contributions• Hosted and supported by PALS• Customizable

Drupal

<mods><titleInfo><title>1980-81 Winter Focus</title><subTitle/></titleInfo><typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource><originInfo><dateIssued>1980-81</dateIssued><edition>Winter</edition><place><placeTerm type="text">Marshall, Minnesota</placeTerm></place><publisher>Southwest State University</publisher></originInfo><name><namePart>SSU</namePart><role><roleTerm type="text">creator</roleTerm></role></name><physicalDescription><form>Newspaper</form></physicalDescription><part><detail type="volume"><number>1</number></detail><text type="issue"><number>2</number></text></part><location><physicalLocation>McFarland Library Striegel Archives</physicalLocation></location><targetAudience>Alumni</targetAudience><subject><title/><topic/><temporal>1980-1989</temporal></subject><note/></mods>

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MSU photograph SMSU magazine

Features• Google Analytics integration• Social media• Bookmarks• GIS integration• Image annotation• Advanced search• Search engine optimization

Preservation

• Technical metadata– generated automatically with Islandora FITS and

PREMIS Modules– extracted from metadata embedded in original file

• Checksum and Checksum Checker • Stores original object and derivatives

Datastreams

http://islandora.mnpals.nethttp://arch.lib.mnsu.eduhttp://archives.smsu.edu

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