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Islandora

Open-Source Digital Asset Management

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Islandora is an open-source framework for building digital collections and institutional repositories, allowing institutions to author, manage, discover, preserve, and disseminate content across data types and knowledge domains. It addresses the need to steward digital content using open standards while supporting metadata discovery, multilingual content, secure authoring workflows, and publication of machine-readable data in formats such as OAI-PMH and RDF.

Built on Drupal, Islandora offers optional integrations with Fedora Commons for a preservation layer and linked-data platform, Apache Solr for enterprise indexing, querying, and its discovery layer, and IIIF for providing access to digital objects at scale. It supports customizable front-ends for presenting collections and repositories.

Islandora is intended for governments, libraries, archives, and museums. It is released under open-source licenses and is free to use, with documentation, tutorials, a sandbox site, and a community of working groups and committees available for support.

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