Islandora for OER Discussion

Waite Park, St. Cloud, March 30, 2018

Alex is a former archivist from the MN Historical society

statistics, custom interface, preservation tools, automatic processes, multiple formats, metadata – core features

My Q/s to Alex/Tim:

1. at the August OER meeting: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/08/28/oer-workday-librarians/ there were more contenders to house OER. E.g., the Minnesota Library Publishing Project is based on Edublog, thus more familiar platform
   What makes Islandora a better choice?

Additional question related: why not use already existing solutions, as used across the world. Alex response: open source. Tim: content available across institutions. text banks and other data can be grouped by disciplines. Follow up q/n: MLNC, OER Commons. Solution already exists and why don’t we use existing accumulated work. Answer by Karen: pulling many resources, promoting collaboration btw 2 and 4 year institutions. Bigger then just having a repository, collaborative effort on different levels

1. Access to a “sandbox” to test Islandora: who to contact when and how.

Alex response to “estimated date for faculty upload” – August 2018 approximately

1. Transferability/ compatible: how east it is to migrate Islandora content to a different platform (e.g. the Minnesota Library Publishing Project) shall other platform is chosen as MN OER platform?
2. How will this structure ensure that the OER initiative (Islandora in particular) is not “owned” by one branch on campus (e.g. librarians) but it is a mutual effort by faculty and staff (e.g. ATT) in terms of access, e.g. access to different admin levels in Islandora?

From the Adobe COnnect online attendees:

Barbara Sandarin: Regarding “Admin. Rights,” does this restrict who may upload items?

Maintenance: weeding out old materials

the history of Islandora: who when developed. 2009, U of Rhode Island

Branding (Tim)

Stephen Kelly: how does Inslandora integrate video. microsite solutions

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structure of repository:

Islandora only stores, but the actual creation is outside of Islandora adoption scope
how do the individual teams are built, communicate with

open pedagogy: students creating open textbooks. creating of D2L courseroom. Karen: learning circles. Gary Hunter’s form regarding copyright issues etc.

storage: unlimited yet, but might be if file size are big.

Robert Bilyk: Look at OpenStax on how they handle derivative content

Tim: what do we want to be able to search for: 1. Title 2. subject 3. Format 4. type 5. permission to modify or not 6. keywords 7. author 8. home institution of author 9. peer revieewd 10. author info (advanced feature) 11. Robert Bilyk: Assurance of accessibility — tables, images, etc. 12. course 13. hashtags

Robert Bilyk: Curriki allows any submission — but their editorial board eventually gets around to review — and then this is indicated

OTL (Open textbook library): https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

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http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/products/primo-library-discovery/

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more about Islandora in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=islandora