Innovative
Uses of Islandora
CNI • Seattle • April 2015
Kristian Allen
Programmer Analyst
UCLA Digital Library
Islandora Architecture Overview
Drupal
} View
Solr
} Discovery
Fedora
} Repository
Islandora Architecture Overview
Drupal
Modules
Core Drupal
Islandora
Solution Packs
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Islandora Solution Packs
provide reusable code
for a specific use case
Islandora Architecture Overview
Islandora
Solution Packs
Audio
Image
Video
...
Manuscript
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The Manuscript Solution
Pack is an 'out of the
box' starting point for
presenting archival
materials on the web
Manuscript Solution Pack
Features​
Multiple Image Viewer options
TEI association
Custom XSLT display
Integration with stock components:
• OCR with Tesseract or ABBYY FineReader
• Solr full text search
• Variety of derivatives options - PDF, JPG, JP2
Manuscript Solution Pack
Feature​
Multiple Image Viewer options
Manuscript Solution Pack
Feature​
TEI association
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TEI linked with each
manuscript image
collection
Manuscript Solution Pack
Feature
Custom XSLT Display
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XSLT provides an option
to customize unique
display for each
manuscript collection
UCLA Case Study
Livingstone Online
David Livingstone (1813 - 1873)
Scottish missionary and explorer
Kept extensive writings of travels
UCLA Case Study
Livingstone Online
UCLA Case Study
Livingstone Online
Edit, transcribe and present works
Directed by Prof. Wisnicki (UNL)
UCLA is digital host and publisher
UCLA Case Study
Livingstone Online
UCLA Case Study
Livingstone Online
Faceted Browse
Spectral Image Compare
Next Steps
Planned Enhancements
Increasing TEI / Viewer interaction
Generic batch ingest processes
Additional navigation widgets
Annotation options
Public release in May
Additional Features
Generic Archive Viewer
EAD Finding Aid provides source
Standard view provided
View customization via XSLT
People and Contributors
UCLA Digital Library
Head
Stephen Davision
Project Management
Lisa McAulay
Development Staff
Kristian Allen
Kevin Clarke
Parinita Ghorpade
DiscoveryGarden
GitHub Repository
https://github.com/discoverygarden/
islandora_solution_pack_manuscript