Conference Program

Day 1: Community — Monday, July 14

  • Plenary: Introduction and Community Showcase
  • Islandora Community
  • Analytics and Security
Title Time
Plenary: Community Showcase (Noah Smith & Aubrey Shanahan, IF) 9-9:50am PDT
Break 9:50am-10am PDT
Islandora Community & Sponsorship Lightning Talks 10-10:45am PDT
   * Islandora Documentation Interest Group (DIG) (Yamil Suárez, Berklee College / Boston Conservatory)  
   * Fedora Community Update (Arran Griffith; Fedora)  
Break 10:45-11am PDT
Islandora Community Session 11-12pm PDT
   * Islandora Workbench: Five Years In, Let’s Think About the Next Five (Mark Jordan, Simon Fraser University Library)  
Breakout groups 12-12:45pm PDT
Analytics and Security Session 12:45-1:45pm PDT
   * Taming the Crawlers: Using Cloudflare to Manage Bots and Optimize Data Aggregation (Don Richards, Johns Hopkins University)  
   * Making Islandora Observable (Jonathan Hunt & Chris Burgess, Catalyst)  

Day 2: Repository Managers — Tuesday, July 15

  • Plenary: Digital Repository Environment Survey
  • User Engagement/Collections Management
  • User Testing/Usability
  • Islandora Views Workshop/HackDoc
Title Time
Plenary Day 2: Digital Repository Environment Survey (Don Richards, Johns Hopkins University) 8-8:50am PDT
Break 8:50am-9am PDT
User Engagement/Collections Management Session 9-10am PDT
   * Multi-Repository Islandora Management at Vassar College (Nicole Scalessa, Vassar College)  
   * APs Leveraging Islandora’s Potential to Enhance Discovery and Foster Civic Engagement in Challenging Times (Sabrina Bocanegra, American Philosophical Society)  
   * Using Islandora in LIS to Teach Information Organization and Repository Collections (Martin Halbert, University of North Carolina Greensboro)  
Break 10-10:15am PDT
User Testing/Usability Session 10:15-11:30am PDT
   * The League of Extraordinary Users: Testing the Islandora 2.0 Starter Site (Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Elisabeth Ball, Simonne Jackson, Kestrel Ward, and Stephen Szanati; Florida Virtual Campus)  
   * The Path They Take: Influencing and Understanding the Use of the Vassar College Digital Library (Nicole Scalessa, Vassar College)  
Break 11:30-11:40am PDT
Workshop/HackDoc 11:40pm-2:15pm PDT
   * Islandora Views Workshop/HackDoc (Amy Blau, Dara Virks, Derek Merleaux, Rosie Le Faive, Don Richards; Whitman College)  

Day 3: Developers — Wednesday, July 16

  • Migrations
  • Integrations
  • Architecture
Title Time
Migration Session 1 8-9am PDT
   * Migrations at Scale: migrating Islandora sites with millions of objects (Luke Taylor, Discoverygarden Inc)  
   * Migrating Metadata to Modern Islandora: Challenges, Strategies, and Lessons Learned (Michael Bolam, Tyrica Terry Kapral, Meaghan Cash; University of Pittsburgh)  
   * Bringing the University of Iowa Libraries into Islandora Modern: Challenges and Opportunities (Natalie Baur, Katherine Peterson, University of Iowa Libraries)  
Break 9am-9:10am PDT
Migration Session 29:10-10:15am PDT  
   * Islandora Upgrade at UPEI’s Robertson Library (Courtney Earl Matthews, University of Prince Edward Island)  
   * A Tale of Migration: Florida Virtual Campus’ (FLVC) Path to Islandora 2.0 (Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Elisabeth Ball, Kestrel Ward, Simonne Jackson, Stephen Szanati, Florida Virtual Campus)  
Break 10:15am-10:30m PDT
Integration Session 10:30-11:15am PDT
   * Bridging Gaps and Building Connections: Islandora Integrations at Pitt (Ruiling Zhang, Brian Gregg; University of Pittsburgh)  
   * Introducing scyllaridae: a new framework for building Islandora microservices (Joe Corall, Lehigh University)  
Breakout groups 11:15-11:45am PDT
Architecture Session 11:45am-1pm PDT
   * Architecting Islandora for Consortia* (Akanksha Singh, Discoverygarden Inc)*  
   * Flipping the Script: Migrating Existing Content to a Node→Media Relationship (Seth Shaw, Arizona State University Libraries)  
   * Islandty: serving repository content as a static site (Rose Le Faive, Alexander O’Neill; University of Prince Edward Island)  
   * Accessibility Audit: An Overview (Derek Merleaux, Born-Digital)  
Break 1pm-1:15pm PDT
Creating an Institutional Repository with Islandora (Akanksha Singh, Discoverygarden Inc) 1:15pm-2pm PDT

Day 4: Hackathon — Thursday, July 17

  • Plenary: Islandora Annual General Meeting
  • Documentation Sprint