1. Melissa Minds VandeBurgt
Collaboration and Compromise: State Universities of Florida Islandora Implementation
Melissa Minds VandeBurgt
Islandora Camp GTA
August 8, 2014

2. Florida 65,755 sq miles (170,304 km²) Population of +19 million
Not just Disney World & alligators

5. In March 2012, the State University Libraries of Florida selected Islandora as the common digital library platform.
Implementation challenges:
Varying degrees of experience with digital library platforms
Varying amounts of content to be migrated from previous platforms
Varying degrees of in-house support
Facilitating collaboration and compromise

6. Varying degrees of experience with digital library platforms
State colleges = little to no experience building digital collections
Universities = had experience or bring in someone with experience
Ultimately no one from any of the institutions had experience with Islandora
The universities along with FLVC would implement Islandora, creating the structure and the standards which would then be provided to the state colleges.

7. Varying amounts of content to be migrated from previous platforms
Digitool, ContentDM, Sobek
Digitool Migration
·         FSU:  16,000 objects
·         FAMU:  objects
·         FAU:  9,000 objects
·         UCF:  1,000 objects
· FGCU: 2,000 objects

8. Varying degrees of in-house support
FSU had a developer to dedicate to the implementation & a web designer to assist FLVC
The rest of us didn’t
Have FSU work with FLVC and Discovery Garden; share resources!

9. Facilitating collaboration and compromise
Multi-teared collaboration =
11 universities > FLVC > Discovery Garden
Needed:
Tools
Documentation
Patience

12. Additional Tools Weekly meetings Glossary of terms
Ranking features - readdress annually
Issue tracking - priority
FL Islandora listserv

15. ~Things we kept in mind~
decision making process continually asked “Is this sustainable long term?”
If no, Don’t do it!
cost effective - DGI services
continuity of multiple university sites
sites go live one at a time allowing for changes to be made while still having DGI services
don’t reinvent the wheel

17. Pros not sitting in the boat alone mix of experience and perspectives
FLVC developers allowed all universities to implement sites
FLVC will populate our catalogs with Islandora content & add content to FDA
Cost sharing of DGI services

18. Cons compromise for continuity lack of access to form builder
do not have instant access to all of Islandora’s capabilities - file tickets
migration issues

19. Assess to the Form Builder

22. What is next? FGCU and FAU go live with sites in the next few months.
Other universities are continuing to develop their instance.
Will begin collective development of IslandScholar.
The State Colleges will begin learning about Islandora
Wish us luck!

23. Questions? http://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3Aroot