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Islandora Lite Wiki

• Documentation Notes

We are grateful for the excellent work in Islandora 2.0! But, in reviewing our functional requirements, we just didn't need it all. Islandora Lite is an UTSC-developed implementation of Islandora that does not use Fedora and is motivated by the following values and goals. In Summer 2021 we are in a prototyping phase.

Values/Goals/Strategies

• Adhere to Drupal’s way of doing things (work with 5,862 modules)
• Prefer modular to monolithic out of the box.
• Consider accessibility first.
• Prioritize and test for multilingual support.
• Focus on supporting migration from an Islandora 7 multisite before derivative creation.
• Preservation is practice, not software. We will monitor the health of content in the system using checksum checking and will serialize to a OCFL object that complies with the bagit specification.
• We will maintain a playbook to simplify deployment and testing for us and others.

Proposed Migration path

In this first phase (2021) we are focused on how to bring content from an Islandora 7 repository into Drupal 9 starting with Fedora 3.x’s native atom.zip exports, processing them using Python in Jupyter Notebooks, and then importing them using the Islandora Workbench integration.

Dependencies

• Drupal 9 installation
• View Mode Switch
• Ark Minting and Binding Service
• Triple-store Indexer