Islandora CLAW [islandora.ca] is a Collection Management System that uses Drupal 8, and Fedora Commons 4 [duraspace.org], along with other microservices such as SOLR to assist in managing your application through Drupal's Taxonomies.
This talk will introduce CLAW's key concepts to educational establishments, many of whom may already use Drupal for websites, as well as Fedora Commons for their digital asset collections. It will also show how Drupal developers can integrate with Fedora using CLAW, and help use a common interface to help reduce training time for end users such as Librarians and data archivists, as well as making asset retrieval simpler to researchers, and users alike.
Islandora CLAW [islandora.ca] is a Collection Management System that uses Drupal 8, Fedora Commons 4 [duraspace.org] (Not to be confused with the Red Hat based Linux distribution) along with other microservices such as SOLR, BlazeGraph, Alpaca (Islandora based configuration for Apache Camel), and many other services, to assist in managing your application through Drupal's Taxonomies.
Islandora was created by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library to "help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework" (https://islandora.ca/about).
This talk will introduce CLAW's key concepts to educational establishments and NGO's, many of whom may already use Drupal, as well as Fedora as part of their digital strategy. It will also show how Drupal developers can integrate Drupal with Fedora using CLAW, to help create a common interface to help reduce training time for end users, such as Librarians and data archivists. It will also demonstrate the use of Drupal views and SOLR to assist researchers, and users retrieve assets quickly and efficiently.
Upon leaving this session, attendees will come away with an understanding of what Islandora is, and an idea as to how this could help their University, Data Archive, or similar, especially if they already use Fedora.
