Advanced Islandora Workshop

Workshop at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Workshops and Tutorials

Islandora is a digital asset management system that provides out-of-the-box repository solutions (Solution Packs) for a wide range of digital collections and research domains. Islandora combines the Drupal CMS and Fedora Commons repository software, together with additional open source applications (including Solr), to deliver a wide range of functionality. The proposed workshop will give participants a chance to explore some of the advanced features of Islandora, including the Solr client and the XML Form Builder. Learning outcomes include: - Users understand the basic Solr and XML Form Builder technologies as they relate to Islandora, and sources for support and additional documentation. - Users can configure a basic Solr installation (using Islandora) and conduct searches of repository content. - Users are introduced to some of the ways Solr can be customized to suit the needs of their own collections. - Users can clone and edit a metadata form using XML Form Builder.