Digital Archive Basic Training

Digital Archive Basic Training

Who should attend: Library staff that use Islandora for the Marmot Digital Archive.  

Type: On-request

Where: The training is online via Zoom video conferencing and meeting software. 

Registration: You must register for this training by filling out the online registration form.

Trainer: Brandon Cole and/or Ashley Sneesby

If you have any questions, you can email userservices-at-marmot.org. After submitting the training request, you'll be contacted by email to schedule a time and date for the training.

Duration: 1 hour

Training Description

Training Description

Attendees will learn about basic navigation of Islandora, how core functionality and structure impact their use of the Islandora interface, key differences between legacy Islandora and modern Islandora, and a detailed review of taxonomies in Islandora.

Outlines

Outlines

Digital Archive Basic training outline lists the topics that will be reviewed and discussed during training. 

Learning and Application Worksheet can be completed after the training and given to a director/supervisor/manager.

Training Resources

Digital Archive Terminology

Digital Archive Terminology

Islandora : Islandora is the the open-source content management platform that supports the Marmot Digital Archive. Marmot recently updated from the legacy version of Islandora to modern Islandora, which has many upgraded features and utilizes functionality of its underlying Drupal software.

Taxonomy : Controlled vocabulary used by Islandora to define available fields in metadata records and how they behave

Parent and child objects : Islandora’s core structure for objects is built on parent records with child media objects attached.

Collection : Collections contain digital archive objects and are arranged hierarchically, with parent collections and subcollections.