About Islandora

Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework. Islandora was originally developed by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library, but is now implemented and contributed to by an ever-growing international community.

Islandora consists of:

Sync - Event driven middleware based on Apache Camel that synchronizes a Fedora 4 JCR with a Drupal CMS.
Islandora - Fedora 4 Repository module
Install - The is a development environment virtual machine for the Islandora and Fedora 4 project. It should work on any operating system that supports VirtualBox and Vagrant.

About this guide

The Technical Design documentation will help you:

Understand the Islandora 7.x-2.x design rationale
Importance of using an integration framework
Using camel
Inversion of control and camel
Camel and scripting languages
Islandora Sync
Islandora (Drupal)
Solr and Triple store indexing

Sync

The Camel section provides and overiew of the camel middleware.

Islandora (Drupal module)

The Drupal section provides an overview of the Drupal modules in the Islandora environment.

Installation (Vagrant)

The installation section will show you how to create a virtual development environment.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please get involved with the Islandora Fedora 4 Interest Group. We love to hear from you!

Maintainers

Licensing

Islandora is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3. See LICENSE for the full license text.