Digital Archive Basic Training Outline

Displays

Boulder-specific display
- Carnegie Library branding
- Search box limited to Boulder archive instance
- Footer links are only relevant for Boulder
Main collections
- Boulder
- Marmot Digital Archive
  - Parent collections for individual libraries/organizations with unique collections nested within

Menus

Drupal basic management menus (Top level)
- Taxonomies, specifically entities
  - Persons, Events, Geo_Locations, Corporate Body
Collection and object management menus (below the search box)
- Functionality carries throughout
- Edit, Children, Parents, Media
Breadcrumb menus for navigation (below the search box)

Basic functionality and structure

Modern Islandora use of parents and children structures
- Discussion of new nomenclature, specifically defining what collections are in Modern Islandora versus the legacy Islandora
- Infinite nestin
- In Marmot Collection, each library has a top-level collection, then subcollections for their own exhibits.
  - There is no limitation to the types of content that can exist in a collection or subcollection
Collection overview
- Basic display
  - Description
  - Images
  - Subjects
- Edit/Add collections available for libraries
- Delete is still reserved for Marmot Admin staff
- Migrated content if library used Legacy Islandora
- Childen/Parent tabs
  - Everything is a collection
  - Objects/Collections nested within a collection are children
Basic object view overview
- Metadata form for objects is the same as the one for Collections
- Viewers
Compound object overview
Islandora use of nodes
- Nodes rather than PIDs for new content
  - Found in the urls of objects/collections
- Taxonomies also have node IDs as well
- Legacy PIDs live with migrated objects
  - Found within the system section of the metadata (edit mode)
Modern Islandora navigation is built on search results
- Use basic search tools e.g. sorting, paging, faceting to narrow in on specific collections
  - Facets are dynamic based on where you are in the collection structure
  - Subjects in facets are collapsed by default but can be expanded
- Grid view vs list view
  - No description in grid. Title only.
- Thumbnail images are not automatically derived from objects or collections at any level
  - Default Folder Image is not present
  - Must upload an image, even if just wanting a placeholder
Taxonomy basics
- How legacy entities translate to modern Islandora taxonomies
- Taxonomies are a general Drupal structured data type. They are a listing of controlled vocabularies that define supplemental content types that enrich an object/collection.
  - Person > Person
  - Event > Event
  - Organization > Corporate Body
  - Place > Geographic Location
  - Subject > Subject
- Searching for taxonomy terms before ingesting new content is important to updated workflows
  - Islandora won’t allow exact duplicates, but there are many spellings of person names, events, organizations, and places, so duplicates are easy to create when not mindful.
- If a library wants to add a new subject to an object, they should go through the Taxonomy and add before adding the object.
Views
- Commonly used views (Marmot will share the direct links)
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/admin/content
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/admin/missing-thumbnails
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/admin/search_pids
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/taxonomy/vocab/person/all
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/taxonomy/vocab/event/all
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/taxonomy/vocab/geo_location/all
  - https://islandoratest.marmot.org/taxonomy/vocab/corporate_body/all
- How to best utilize views for finding content within the /admin/content view

When you open an object, you will be taken to one of its children. To edit the parent, you need to click the parent tab and then edit.

Brief demo with existing collections and objects

Review existing popular collections in the modern Islandora interface to highlight displays and differences between legacy Islandora and modern Islandora.