Charlottetown, PEI Canada Drupal is a popular put-of-the-box open source content management platform that meets the needs of thousands of different types of web sites from community to news portals, from corporate sites to educational institutions, and from media sites to international sites. The University of Prince Edward Island’s (UPEI) Robertson Library has added Fedora as the digital repository for a Drupal front-end to provide an easy way to build and manage repository content for use by web sites. The project web page is here: http://vre.upei.ca/dev/islandora.
You may download or browse the source code in the Fedora Commons subversion repository here: http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/ISLANDORA/Islandora. Register for the Fedora Commons Wiki here: http://fedora-commons.org/confluence.
At UPEI the Drupal/Fedora combination is being used to support a collaborative Virtual Research Environment that has these open source applications at its core. Developer Paul Pound, University of Prince Edward Island, Roberstson Library explains that the Islandora module is a Drupal module written to allow the Drupal content management system to act as a front end to the Fedora Digital Repository. The module enables viewing and management of Fedora objects. This includes ingest, purge, add data stream, searching and browsing by collection.
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[…] Conference, billed as “The premier library technology conference.” UPEI recently released “Islandora” which is an open source Fedora digital repository for a Drupal front-end that provides an easy […]
A while back I posted an entry asking if anyone was doing any work on integrating the Fedora digital library platform into Drupal. Turns out that Mark Leggott (blog) and his team at the University of Prince Edward Island are. Mark’s group supports the Drupal-based Virtual Research Environment and has already developed a tool in Drupal to ingest content into Fedora. The next phase of this developmedevelopment is to develop tools to allow queries against content managed in Fedora. I’ll be visiting UPEI next month and I’ll keep Drupalib readers posted on this work