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Leveraging the flexibility of Islandora to create a dual-use digital repository
Journal of Digital Media Management,
9
(2),
153-163
(2021)
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
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Author's Biography
Alicia Esquivel is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She previously worked as a National Digital Stewardship Resident at Chicago Botanic Garden. She holds a MSIS from the University of Texas and a BA from the University of Houston.
Tim Fluhr is the Systems and Institutional Repository Librarian at Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds a master of science in information from Florida State University and a master of arts in social justice and community development from Loyola University, Chicago. Prior to joining IIT, he worked in the information technology field for over 15 years.
Adam Strohm is the Director of University Archives and Special Collections at Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Adam has also worked at the Newberry Library and Northwestern University Library. He earned his BS from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and his MSLIS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
