What is Islandora?

Islandora is an open-source digital repository management software for preserving, sharing, and managing digital assets. 

Built on Open-Source

The core technology stack in Islandora consists of Drupal (front end), Solr (search), Fedora Commons (repository backend).

Islandora Delivers Digital Collections

Islandora can securely store, collaboratively manage, and provide access to, a wide variety of digital collections.

Islandora Defines Preservation

Islandora adheres to the Open Archives Information System (OAIS) reference model, supporting all the concepts, terminology, and best practices for long term preservation of information.

Islandora Uses Open Standards

Islandora supports the use of open standards for encoding and transmission of metadata to ensure that you are never locked-in to proprietary systems.

Islandora Provides Flexibility

Islandora is flexible and versatile, implementing Modules and Solution Packs that bundle tools to support specific types of content and knowledge domains.

Islandora Simplifies Migrations 

We have migrated assets from MANY other platforms into Islandora and have developed a standardized set of migration tools to help get your data into Islandora quickly!

Effeciently Manage Many Assets

As your digital landscape expands, Islandora provides the tools you need to effectively manage your objects and enable collaboration with stakeholders.

Steward Any Type of File

Ingest and transform virtually any type of file including books, newspapers, images, audio, documents, video, binary and easily manage it via Islandora. 

Centralize Assets

Turn disparate collections of materials across your organization into a central repository of digital objects easily searchable via Islandora's rich interface.

Maximize Exposure

Instantly disseminate and share your digital objects for reuse, repurposing or re-expression and leverage the power of Linked Open Data.

Extend Functionality

Islandora offers robust integration capabilities so you can easily integrate existing 3rd party software applications and tools you already use.

Simplify Metadata Management

Islandora's support for any metadata format can evolve to fit the needs of your organization and industry over the long-term.

Find. 

Protect.

Islandora utilizes the open source Fedora Commons repository system to bring powerful curation and preservation functions to your digital content. 

Share.

By utilizing Drupal as the presentation layer of Islandora, and built-in support for harvesting protocols your digital collections can be disseminated using the latest web standards, increasing your collections' and creators' exposure and citation impact.

Islandora OnDemand

Islandora OnDemand is our cloud offering. We take care of all the technical stuff PLUS you get enhanced functionality that is exclusive to Islandora OnDemand.

Islandora OnPremise

We offer customizable installation services to get Islandora configured and optimized to your exact specifications, and on your own infrastructure. 

Custom Hosting

We work with a number of hosting partners to offer custom hosting options for customers who have special privacy, security or geographical requirements. 

OAIS Adherence

Islandora’s adherence to the OAIS conceptual framework means:

• It is designed with long-term preservation in mind (and that can mean “indefinite”), taking into account that there will be changes in data formats, technology, and the communities (creators and users) it serves.
• It implements a standard for the concepts, terminology, best practices in long-term digital preservation and meets the functional requirements of a robust OAIS: Ingestion, Archival Storage, Data Administration, and Access.
• Islandora’s approach to packaging your content (whether SIPs, AIPs or DIPs) reflects the standards and requirements of the Designated Community, whether that is an academic library or a biotech research team, and you know your long-term preservation is at the core.

Metadata Flexibility

Islandora, by default, uses MODS and DC  for descriptive metadata and PREMIS for preservation metadata. Islandora can also support any XML-based metadata standard and offers tools for automating the creation and maintenance of metadata, as well as the bulk ingestion of object records.

Some other metadata standards we work with daily include: 

Professional Services

Have a piece of custom functionality or a custom integration you want to develop? Require the implementation of a custom metadata standard? Want to migrate your data from an existing system? Need training for your team? We can help!