Welcome to Islandora Camp UK

London, May 7-9, 2014

Our Day

๏ Who are we? Logistics: Wireless (11-12 session)

๏ Schedule for the camp available here: http://islandora.ca/camps/uk2014/schedule

๏ Overview of the Software and Community

What is Islandora?

๏ A Digital Asset Management system to manage and archive large amounts of digital data, no matter what the format

๏ Drupal on the front-end, Fedora on the back-end, ecosystem of applications and services

Islandora 7.x-1.3

๏ Latest Islandora release; 3rd for Islandora 7/Fedora 3

๏ Just Released

๏ Community-driven release model

๏ Volunteers from more than a dozen institutions

๏ Release Manager, Component Managers, Testers, Documentation

Gurus (16 core, + dozens)

Code Management

๏ Best-practice open source tools

๏ GitHub code repository

๏ Jenkins and Travis CI continuous integration

๏ JIRA ticket management

๏ Confluence Wiki for documentation

๏ LSAP, CLA/CCLA

Community

๏ Estimated 150+ sites worldwide

๏ Mostly libraries (public and higher-ed), museums, archives, government agencies, a few private companies

๏ 500+ members on Google Groups

๏ Increasing contributions from larger community

๏ Provider community growing (commercial/non-profit/consortia)

Community

Training

๏ Formerly yearly on PEI, now 5+ per year

๏ Two days of sessions, one day of workshops. Training from experienced Islandora instructors.

๏ 20 - 40 people. Developers, current users, new users, prospective/adopters.

๏ Upcoming Camps: Toronto (August 6 - 8), Denver (October 13 - 15), Florida+Boston+Australia/NZ

Islandora Foundation

๏ Non-profit Islandora Foundation: help maintain code, documentation, training, community participation and more

๏ Writing documentation, planning camps, updating social media, facilitating connections, developing training material

๏ Revenue from Memberships (90%), Camps (7%), Other (3%)

๏ Future revenue from Crowd Funding Projects and Grants, PM for special projects

๏ 1 FT staff person, anticipated max is 2 FT (Product & Community Manager + Developer)

Islandora Foundation Bylaws๏ Community-based ecosystem, welcomes all organizations

๏ Islandora Foundation (Federally Incorporated Soliciting Non-Profit)

■ Board of Directors

■ Roadmap Committee

■ Committers Group

■ Interest Groups

๏ Vendors/Consortial Organizations

๏ Institutions members & non-members

Islandora Foundation

๏ Founded in July, 2013 as a member supported soliciting non-profit

○ Partner: $10,000○ Collaborator: $4,000○ Member: $2,000○ Individual: $?

๏ 15 members: 2 Partners, 6 Collaborators, 8 Members

๏ Membership benefits: Committee nominations, reduced/free camp registrations, printed documentation, website listing

discoverygarden inc.

๏ Commercial UPEI spin-off - full service

๏ Installation, Configuration, Customization

๏ Support, System Audit, Consulting

๏ Hosting, Platforms, Vendor partnerships

๏ Primary codebase contributor

LYRASIS๏ Non-profit membership

organization

๏ Provides members with a range of services, including Islandora hosting/setup

๏ Shared/Individual/Group repositories

๏ Partnership opportunities with discoverygarden & others to provide customization services when desired/needed

Consortial Implementations๏ Increasing number of consortia offering

Islandora to members

๏ METRO NY, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Florida Virtual Campus, Council of Atlantic University Libraries, 10+ new

๏ Ability to serve multiple requirements and branding in a single framework

๏ discoverygarden soon to release Islandora OnDemand Consortia

Community Contributions

๏ WARC SP & Checksum (Nick Ruest, York)

๏ Windows Patches (Stefan Langer, Worthington Libraries)

๏ Relationship Editor/Ontology Management (Giancarlo Birello and Rosie Le Faive)

๏ PREMIS (Mark Jordan, Nick Ruest, Don Moses)

๏ Checksum Checker & BagIt Module (Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University)

๏ Sync Module (UCLA & discoverygarden)

๏ Solr Metadata (Jordan Dukart, discoverygarden)

๏ One-click Chef install (MJ Suhuons, Ryerson University)

Sam Fritz is actingMelissa Anez - Project & Community Manager, Islandora Foundation

manez@islandora.ca

Mark Leggott - Board Chair, Islandora Foundation mleggott@islandora.ca