Islandora 8 Webinar: The Next Release of Islandora 8

  • What’s in it? (0:51)
    • Talks about what people want/need before they would migrate. The main response was paged content, such as newspapers, serials, etc. This was followed by access restrictions and embargoes and web accessibility.
    • What don’t you need – this wouldn’t mean these things would never be done, just that they don’t need doing right now. The top one was integration with alternate fedora implementations. Multisites was number two, but the team isn’t really sure about this one, because if you need it, it is definitely a must (plus only 17/42 people responded with that). They are also eyeing the Oxford Common Filesystem Layout response (10/42) since that was offered in the free version of Islandora and is conspicuously missing in 8.
    • Nice to haves, but not necessary. The top here was citation generation.
  • Dockerizing Islandora 8 (24:51)
  • Questions (32:52)
    • (33:31) Could you clarify, in regards to page content, what the URL will look like?
    • (35:04) Will compound objects be a part of the paged contents sprint?
    • (36:08) Any consideration being given towards handling of transcripts, TEI specifically with page content (as a lot of the Islandora 7 manuscripts utilize that)? (Not yet)
    • (36:58) Is any progress on figuring out how multisites implementations might be supported?
    • (39:08) Is automatic derivative generation for audio and visual content on the horizon? (You already get this)
    • (40:13) What is involved in the MODS display? Is that display/ability to edit the archival mods or is it a reverse mapping of RDF to MODS needed?
    • (42:13) How will embargoes be handled?
    • (44:23) I’d be interested in modeling serials, especially journals content with more than two levels – you know, journal issue, volume, article, page – each with its own metadata. Is there a use case to find for this already or are you aware of Islandora 7/8 rotations using this kind of modeling?
    • (47:20) What is the status of shipping a shared theme that can be customized by institutions?