We are very excited to see the initial release of the Move to Islandora Kit tool (v0.9.0). Our very own developer Marcus Barnes along with Mark Jordan from Simon Fraser University are the current maintainers for this module.
The unit is proud to announce that we have an article published in the most recent issue of Code4lib (37). Our Article is titled Annotation-based enrichment of Digital Objects using open-source frameworks and describes the technical details of the Unit's work on the Web Annotation Utility Module in more detail.
There is now a release of our Oral History Module and Web Annotation Utility Module compliant with the 7.x-1.9 version of Islandora - Take a look, and let us know if you notice any issues.
Oral History Module
This week we're attending the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, an international conference jointly sponsored by IEEE-CS and ACM. This year, the conference is being held at the University of Toronto. Kim served on the organizing committee as Tutorial Chair to evaluate and select tutorial proposals for the conference. The schedule is packed with a number of interesting sessions with great topics such as web archiving, indexing and enhancing digital collections.
We're back from IslandoraCon in Hamilton, ON and had a great time collaborating with over 100 local and international library and memory institution colleagues. Our presentations on the Oral History Solution Pack and Web Annotation Solution Pack are now in Tspace. Thanks as always to our UTSC Faculty collaborators for providing the use cases for this software.
If you are at the University of Toronto and attending this year’s TechKnowFile conference (“everything IT at U of T”) then we'll be presenting on the unit in IC 212 (4-4:50).
If you’d like to see our slide deck from the presentation, we’ll upload it this week to our Tspace collection.
We’re in full on Islandora testing mode in preparation for the upcoming 7.x - 1.9 release and the release of our Web Annotation Utility Module and our Oral History Solution Pack prior to IslandoraCon.
As part of our testing, we found we needed the ability to have multiple users simultaneously accessing the same VM. Our systems administrator showed us a neat trick for those of you using Islandora VMs for testing and development. So, here it is:
We're happy to announce that a new publication by the unit, titled Supporting Oral Histories in Islandora is available in the January issue of Code4Lib
