Conference Program
Note: All times listed below are Eastern, and sessions are provisional.
Schedule
| Time | Monday, July 24 |
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| 02:30 p.m. - 04:30 p.m. | Registration Desk open |
| Time | Tuesday, July 25 |
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| 08:30 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. | Registration Desk open & coffee/snacks |
| 09:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Welcome Address, Introductions & Icebreakers Catalyst Centre |
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Stream one: Introduction to Islandora (Starter Site) (Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Kyle Huyhn) EV Room 140 recorded Stream two: Developing in Islandora and Deploying to Production (Rosie LeFaive, Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan) Catalyst Centre recorded |
| 12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 01:00 p.m. - 02:30 p.m. | Stream one: Community Onboarding (Yamil Suárez, Rebecca Power) EV Room 140 unrecorded Stream two: Introduction to Islandora Workbench (Mark Jordan) Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 02:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. | Islandora Site and Features Demo Catalyst Centre recorded |
| 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. | Stream one: Options for a smaller Islandora (Cary Gordon) EV Room 140 recorded Stream two: Use-a-Thon Projects Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 06:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. | Cocktail/Mixer Ralph Campbell Lounge |
| Time | Wednesday, July 26 |
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| 08:30 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. | Registration Desk open & coffee/snacks |
| 09:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Welcome: Use-a-Thon Projects Catalyst Centre |
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Stream one: Islandora for Metadata Librarians (Chris Day) Catalyst Centre recorded Stream two: Revisiting the Islandora-Fedora Integration (45 mins) (Seth Shaw) EV Room 140 recorded |
| 12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 01:00 p.m. - 02:30 p.m. | Islandora Migrate (Will Panting) Catalyst Centre recorded |
| 02:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. | Islandora AGM (hybrid) (View the Agenda) Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. | Service Provider Showcase - Born-Digital Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 05:00 p.m. - 05:30 p.m. | Library Art Walk |
| 05:30 p.m. | Use-a-Thon Pizza Party (Sponsored by discoverygarden inc) UTSC Library |
| Time | Thursday, July 27 |
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| 08:30 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. | Registration Desk open & coffee/snacks |
| 09:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Welcome: Use-a-Thon Projects Catalyst Centre |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Integrating Mirador and Islandora: Bringing everything we know together (Alexander O’Neill) Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Content Modeling for Derivatives using Islandora Paragraphs (Will Panting) Catalyst Centre recorded |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 12:30 p.m. - 01:30 p.m. | Stream one: Strategies for Digital Preservation in Islandora (Donald Moses, Mark Jordan, Kirsta Stapelfeldt) Catalyst Centre recorded Stream two: Use-a-Thon Projects EV Room 140 unrecorded |
| 01:30 p.m. - 02:30 p.m. | Stream one: Introduction to the Documentation Interest Group (DIG) (Yamil Suárez) EV Room 140 unrecorded Stream two: Supporting Linked Data use-cases in the Digital Humanities (Susan Brown, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Natalie Rothman, Mihaela Ilovan, Bennett Steinburg, Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan) Catalyst Centre recorded |
| 02:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. | Service Provider Showcase - discoverygarden inc Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 6:30-10:30 p.m. | Conference Dinner Offsite Chúuk |
| Time | Friday, July 28 |
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| 08:30 a.m. - 09:30 a.m. | Registration Desk open & coffee/snacks |
| 09:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Final Day Roundup, Use-a-Thon Presentations, Concluding Address Catalyst Centre |
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Community Meeting: Reversing Node/Media Relationship (Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan, Kyle Huynh) Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| 01:00 p.m. - 02:30 p.m. | Community Meeting: Streamlining Islandora Deployment Options (Luke Taylor, Alex O’Neill, Rosie LeFaive) Catalyst Centre unrecorded |
| 02:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 03:00 p.m. - 04:00 p.m. | free time - work time |
Session Descriptions
Introduction to Islandora (Starter Site)
Presenters: Kirsta Stapelfeldt & Kyle Huyhn
Room: EV Room 140
New to Islandora and/or looking for a refresher? Attendees at this workshop will install and learn the basics of the Islandora Starter Site, including a high-level overview of Islandora’s basic architecture and feature set. Users are encouraged to complete basic tasks designed to support a mental model of Islandora.
Note: At Islandora Camp, some users had difficulties stemming from restrictions placed by their institutions on how they use their computers, as well as resource limitations (we recommend a minimum of 4GB that can be dedicated to the installation). To take full advantage, we recommend installing the Portainer Demo prior to the session. For users that are not able to install locally, most of the workshop will be suitable for completing in the Islandora Sandbox.
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Developing in Islandora and Deploying to Production
Presenters: Rosie LeFaive & Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan
Room: Catalyst Centre
Islandora has multiple options for installing a local development environment and deploying to production. Learn about your options, from ISLE to Ansible, and how Islandora can support your use cases. This session will focus on practical demos and advice for institutions maintaining Islandora and developers that seek to develop and customize Islandora.
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Community Onboarding
Presenters: Yamil Suárez & Rebecca Power
Room: EV Room 140
Just getting started with Islandora? Attend a community onboarding session where you can learn about the Foundation, governance model, and options for getting involved. See how Islandora uses Google Groups, GitHub and Slack to connect and collaborate. Users will learn about how the pieces of Islandora’s community come together, and be supported in joining and using Islandora’s communication channels.
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Introduction to Islandora Workbench
Presenter: Mark Jordan
Room: Catalyst Centre
Islandora Workbench is a popular tool for managing content in an Islandora 2 repository. This hands-on workshop will allow participants to gain experience and confidence with Workbench, and to learn about how they can use it to maintain their repositories.
Note: Participants must have a laptop running Starter Site, either the Portainer Demo or Isle-Site Template.
Islandora Site and Feature Demos
Moderators: Marcus Barnes/Eric Luhrs
Room: Catalyst Centre
This session is meant to be an informal look at the latest launches to inspire and build community. Whether you are attending IslandoraCon or not–there’s a way you can participate!
Attendees:
If you are going to be attending IslandoraCon and are willing to do a very brief show-and-tell of your modern Islandora site, write kirsta.stapelfeldt@utoronto.ca to be added to the ‘open mike’ list.
If you are not going to be attending IslandoraCon but are willing to participate, please write kirsta.stapelfeldt@utoronto.ca with your preference for the following:
- Submitting a brief, pre-recorded video (<5 minutes)
- Joining a Zoom call with a member of the program committee (to be recorded and edited by us for use at the meeting)
- Presenting live (we will call you into the session currently scheduled for Tuesday, July 25 at 3p.m. EST)
Note: This is intended to be a recorded session that will be released to the community on YouTube.
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Options for a smaller Islandora
Presenter: Cary Gordon
Room: EV Room 140
I propose a breakout for public libraries, small institutions, vendors to the same, and their friends to discuss current options. Since that landscape is changing as I type, I think that the agenda needs to be flexible, but anything in the realm of Islandora Lite or isle-site-template should be included.
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Use-a-Thon Projects
What is a Use-a-Thon?
The Islandora Use-a-Thon is an opportunity to work with conference participants, learn new things, and configure Islandora to do something new! Even if you are new to Islandora, you are encouraged to join an existing Use-a-Thon in an area of interest to you. Use-a-Thons ideally pair people from different institutions with differing skill sets on a specific goal.
View the Projects
How does it work?
The latest version of Islandora is tightly integrated with Drupal, and very flexible, so many use cases can be solved with a combination of configuration and Drupal contributed modules.
How do you participate?
- Propose your idea!
- Is there something you want to learn how to do? Something you’ve been eager to understand how to do? Propose your idea for the Use-a-Thon or sign up for an existing idea!
- Meet with your team!
- Use-a-Thon projects will be introduced Tuesday, July 25, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Additional scheduled times are:
- Wednesday, July 26 9:30-10:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. (Use-a-Thon Pizza Party)
- Thursday, July 27 9:30-10:30 a.m. & 12:30-1:30 p.m.
- Use-a-Thon projects will be introduced Tuesday, July 25, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. Additional scheduled times are:
- On Friday morning, representatives from each group are asked to present their outcomes.
View the Slides here for the Use-a-Thon
- Add More Lookups to the Linked Data Lookup Field by Donald Moses, Marcia Johnson, Chris Day
- ECA, a Replacement for Contexts? by Kyle Huynh, Seth Shaw, Brandon Weigel
- Research Improvements to Islandora Workbench Install Process by Cary Gordon, Eric Luhrs, Will Panting, Yamil Suárez
- UX Improvements and Wishlist for Islandora by Mihaela Ilovan, Bennet Steinburg, Lina Crowe, Tharschika Ramaneekaran
Islandora for Metadata Librarians
Presenter: Chris Day
Room: Catalyst Centre
This presentation shows the systems, settings, and configurations available in Islandora Modern as they would most apply to Metadata Librarians. This presentation begins with an overview of structural configuration, discusses issues related to migration, and ends with a review of ongoing collection maintenance. Focuses include Drupal Field Types, MODS to Starter Site transition, Bulk Views Editing, Metadata Creation & Ingest, and Indexing. This presentation is based on the work done by the Metadata Interest Group from 2022-2023, and expands on the work done at Islandora Camp in March 2022.
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Revisiting the Islandora-Fedora Integration (45 mins)
Presenter: Seth Shaw
Room: EV Room 140
Recently, the question of Fedora’s role in Islandora has been raised by newcomers to the community. This presentation will discuss Islandora’s optional integration with Fedora as well as theoretical alternatives.
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Islandora Migrate
Presenter: Will Panting
Room: Catalyst Centre
discoverygarden inc. has recently released drush-based tools that support migration from Legacy to Modern Islandora. This session will situate the toolset in a repeatable migration process that any team can adopt. The project lead will be discussing project pitfalls and how to avoid them. The presenter and other team members will be available to answer questions from others planning migrations that might benefit from the use of this tool.
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Integrating Mirador and Islandora: Bringing everything we know together
Presenter: Alexander O’Neill
Room: Catalyst Centre
Several institutions have deployed Mirador with Islandora and made use of some of its various features. This presentation co-locates and reviews all of the knowledge required to integrate Mirador into Islandora and make full use of its plugins. This presentation reviews the steps from compiling and deploying the Mirador React app, to bringing it into Drupal, and its plugin architecture. Attendees will learn how to set up Solr and Islandora to power Mirador’s built-in search feature, bringing together multiple concurrent strands of community discussion and work.
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Content Modeling for Derivatives using Islandora Paragraphs
Presenter: Will Panting
Room: Catalyst Centre
The use of Drupal Paragraphs has the potential to substantially streamline and normalize the way we handle media derivative production in Islandora. Listen to the pitch and weigh in on whether or not this use case works for you!
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Strategies for Digital Preservation in Islandora
Panel Presenters: Donald Moses, Mark Jordan, Kirsta Stapelfeldt
Room: Catalyst Centre
This panel presentation will provide an overview of the ways in which Islandora users and administrators can implement preservation methods for the content they steward.
Presenters will provide examples of how modules, tools, documentation, and policies available to the Islandora community intersect with the levels of digital preservation and how they can be implemented in their own repository. Presenters will include preservation approaches that are in development or production in their own repositories along with examples from the community.
Participants will have a digital take-away that maps the NSDA’s Levels of Digital Preservation matrix with Islandora.
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Introduction to the Documentation Interest Group (DIG)
Presenter: Yamil Suárez
Room: EV Room 140
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Supporting Linked Data use-cases in the Digital Humanities
Panel Presenters: Susan Brown, Kirsta Stapelfeldt, Natalie Rothman, Mihaela Ilovan, Bennett Steinburg, Natkeeran Ledchumykanthan
Room: Catalyst Centre
This panel discusses how Islandora can support the production of customized linked data for digital humanities use cases.
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Service Provider Showcases
Room: Catalyst Centre
Listen to our community service providers as they demonstrate the range of projects and services they develop for the Islandora community. These presentations provide attendees with a strong sense of the range of available supports for institutions installing Islandora.
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