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IslandLives: A Flexible Digital Repository Framework (Donald Moses & Paul Pound)

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In 2008 the Robertson Library received a private donation “to develop a rich repository of the history of the people of Prince Edward Island”. We have completed the first stage of the project - the digitization of all of the published community histories on Prince Edward Island - and have been focused on developing and integrating a storage, search, and discovery system based on Islandora - middleware that connects the Drupal CMS and the Fedora repository framework. We'll discuss various facets of the project including: digital rights, automating workflows for data processing, developing user tools (image viewer and metadata editor), engaging the community, security and issues we have had along the way.