Islandora Islandora What's New What's New manez Tue, 05/12/2020 - 14:05 Body Our website has been overhauled in a big way. We have moved to Drupal 8, changed our look, and shifted content around to make it easier to find the Islandora information and resources that you need. Can't find something you expect from the old site? Let us know and we'll get it fixed.     Welcome to the Summer of Islandora Welcome to the Summer of Islandora agriffith Thu, 06/17/2021 - 19:34 Body Today we are officially announcing a summer-long series of specialized Open Meetings we are calling “The Summer of Islandora”. Each month we will be giving our regularly scheduled Open Meetings a theme and bringing together demos & presentations from community members all centered around said theme. As COVID travel restrictions are still making travel difficult in some areas, and in light of the time of year, we have decided to postpone Islandora Online or IslandoraCon until we are more confident in our ability to host an event at the caliber we as Islandorians have come to expect. The Summer of Islandora will replace these events for this year and we hope that showcasing our progress over the past year will get people excited for our next in-person event! What to Expect: Open Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month from 10:00 - 2:00pm Eastern online. The dates for the Summer of Islandora sessions will be: June 29 July 27 August 31 Registration is not required to attend, we just ask that you email community@islandora.ca for a calendar invite or password for the zoom session as we do not want it publicly available for privacy reasons. The theme for June will be: Intro to Islandora Subsequent themes for July and August will follow as we iron out speak we details and agendas, so stay tuned! As always, there will be time to bring your questions and specific use cases to the Open Meetings. We encourage you to join us for any or all parts of the session as part of what makes our community strong is our willingness to help one another! See you all there. Upcoming Testing Sprint Upcoming Testing Sprint agriffith Wed, 06/16/2021 - 19:34 Body We're excited to announce that we've got a testing sprint coming up!  It will run from June 23rd to July 7th.  By setting it up this way we can utilize the regular tech calls to kickoff and wrap up the sprint. If you're interested in helping out, please consider signing up here! Also, here is the list of test cases we'll be working through, which will be cleaned up this week for accuracy. This is a pretty easy way to help out and get your hands on Islandora 8 if you haven't tried it already.  Time commitment, as always, is as much or as little as you want.  We're not asking for your entire work week here, just whatever you can give during your usual juggling of work, life, family, etc... Islandora Open Meeting - May 25, 2021 Islandora Open Meeting - May 25, 2021 agriffith Tue, 05/25/2021 - 02:36 Body This month's Open Meeting will be held on May 25, 2021 between 10:00 - 2:00pm Eastern. As always, it is a drop-in style session open to anyone to attend. We will be live to answer questions, give updates on the state of the software and updates from community members. Please join us and bring your questions or just pop in to see what's up! The more the merrier. More details can be found here. Registration is not required, but if you would like an invite, please email agriffith@islandora.ca. Documentation Interest Group Upcoming Sprint Documentation Interest Group Upcoming Sprint agriffith Thu, 05/13/2021 - 17:54 Body The Islandora Documentation Group is holding a writing/editing sprint as part of the next release of Islandora. From May 19 - June 2, 2021 we will work together to review and update the Islandora documentation. If you can help, please sign up and join us for our Kick-Off on May 19th at 2:00pm Eastern during the regularly scheduled DIG meeting, where we will go over the plan and parcel out some of the work. Can't wait to see you there! Documentation Interest Group Sprint Wrap Up Documentation Interest Group Sprint Wrap Up agriffith Wed, 05/05/2021 - 20:59 Body The Islandora Documentation Interest Group (DIG) held a sprint from April 19-30, 2021 in order to audit the current Islandora documentation in preparation for a second sprint aimed at editing and improving those docs for the upcoming release. After two weeks of work, almost all of the docs have been audited and reviewed, and the DIG has plans for the sections that remain incomplete.  Big thanks to our team of volunteers, especially the University of Texas at Austin, which was very well represented! Melissa Anez (LYRASIS) Amy Blau (Whitman College) Melanie Cofield (University of Texas Libraries) Katie Coldiron (UT Austin School of Information) Morgan A. Colbert (University of Texas Libraries) Cary Gordon (Cherry Hill Company) Mirko Hanke (University of Texas Libraries) David Kwasny (University of Toronto Scarborough) Mandy Ryan (University of Texas Libraries) Yamil Suarez (Berklee College)   Next up will be a sprint focussed on writing and editing those audited docs, and will run from May 19 - 30, 2021. Please sign up now to join us! Code Sprint Wrap Up Code Sprint Wrap Up agriffith Wed, 05/05/2021 - 19:16 Body This past week we had the pleasure of wrapping up a 2-week code sprint where we accomplished a massive list of things and made great headway toward release! I'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who took part. Y'all turned on the fire hose for contributions and we made out like bandits.  Here's a breakdown of everything we received: Advanced Search https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/824 Captions using VTTs (Oral Histories anyone?) https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/830 A new install profile for a better default experience https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora_install_profile_demo A new starter theme based on bootstrap_barrio https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora_starter_theme Default relationship of "Associated Name' for agents https://github.com/Islandora/controlled_access_terms/pull/64 No longer showing Marc relator codes when displaying agents https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_defaults/pull/50 UI for registering namespace prefixes https://github.com/Islandora/jsonld/pull/53 https://github.com/Islandora/jsonld/pull/56 https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/832 Search intervals and faceting for EDTF dates https://github.com/Islandora/controlled_access_terms/pull/68  Bugfix for predicates that contain colons https://github.com/Islandora/jsonld/pull/57 Bugfix for WSOD when source file is missing on Media https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/834 Github Actions instead of Travis https://github.com/Islandora/controlled_access_terms/pull/65 https://github.com/Islandora/jsonld/pull/54 https://github.com/Islandora/carapace/pull/25 And as if that weren't enough amazing contributions, we're still sitting on a pile of more very valuable ones that haven't been merged yet, specifically: Metatag tokens (this unlocks better SEO and Google Scholar Indexing) https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/836 https://github.com/Islandora/controlled_access_terms/pull/66 Refactored islandora-playbook to use install profiles https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook/pull/200/files Refactored ISLE to use the new install profile from ICG / Born Digital https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/isle-dc/pull/160 An improved file upload form.  Just upload your file and it makes all the Drupal entities for you. https://github.com/Islandora/islandora/pull/754 A slew of field and form fixes from the MIG, which have been configured on https://134-122-43-86.traefik.me/ and provided to me as a config export And even more Github Actions instead of Travis https://github.com/Islandora/Syn/pull/27 https://github.com/Islandora/Alpaca/pull/77 https://github.com/Islandora/chullo/pull/94 https://github.com/Islandora/Crayfish-Commons/pull/46 https://github.com/Islandora/Crayfish/pull/113 https://github.com/Islandora/openseadragon/pull/36 https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_defaults/pull/51 I know we were supposed to freeze the code on Monday, but I'd like to give folks some more time to review and respond to feedback on these outstanding issues. We will revisit at the end of the week to wrap things up. It feels foolish to leave such great contributions on the table when they could be part of the software in the upcoming release. Regardless, when you step back and take a look at the volume and quality of contributions that we received in such a short time frame, it's pretty staggering. I'd like to give a BIG thanks to everyone involved and their employers who graciously allowed them to work on Islandora while on the clock. Eli Zoller (Arizona State University) Willow Gillingham (Arizona State University) Seth Shaw (University of Nevada Las Vegas) Alan Stanley Don Richards (Born Digital) Mark Jordan (Simon Fraser University) Alexander O'Neill (University of Prince Edward Island) Nigel Banks (Lyrasis) Kristina Spurgin (Lyrasis) and the Metadata Interest Group, whose recommendations are being implemented Thanks a million! Islandora Open Meeting: April 27, 2021 Islandora Open Meeting: April 27, 2021 agriffith Tue, 04/13/2021 - 16:11 Body We are happy to announce the date of our next Open Meeting! Join us on April 27, 2021 any time between 10:00-2:00pm EDT. The Open Meetings are drop-in style sessions where users of all levels and abilities gather to ask questions, share use cases and get updates on Islandora. There will be experienced Islandora 8 users on hand to answer questions or give demos. We would love for your to join us any time during the 4-hour window, so feel free to pop by any time! More details about the Open Meeting, and the Zoom link to join, are in this Google doc.  Registration is not required. If you would like a calendar invite as a reminder, please let us know at community@islandora.ca. Upcoming DIG Sprint Upcoming DIG Sprint agriffith Thu, 04/08/2021 - 20:03 Body The Islandora Documentation Interest Group is holding a sprint! To support the upcoming release of Islandora, the DIG has planned a 2-week documentation, writing-and-updating sprint to occur as part of the release process. To prepare for that effort, we’re going to spend April 19 – 30th on an Auditing Sprint, where volunteers will review existing documentation and complete this spreadsheet, providing a solid overview of the current status of our docs so we know where to best deploy our efforts during the release. This sprint will run alongside the upcoming Pre-Release Code Sprint, so if you’re not up for coding, auditing docs is a great way to contribute during sprint season! We are looking for volunteers to sign up to take on two sprint roles: Auditor: Review a page of documentation and fill out a row in the spreadsheet indicating things like the current status (‘Good Enough’ or ‘Needs Work’) , the goal for that particular page (e.g., “Explain how to create an object,” or “Compare Islandora 7 concepts to Islandora 8 concepts”), and the intended audience (Beginners, developers, etc.). Reviewer: Read through a page that has been audited and indicate if you agree with the auditor’s assessment, add additional notes or suggestions as needed; basically, give a second set of eyes on each page.  You can sign up for the sprint here, and sign up for individual pages here.   Community Announcement Community Announcement agriffith Wed, 03/31/2021 - 16:49 Body As you know, the Islandora Foundation has recently updated its governance structure to remain compliant with Canadian non-profit regulations. Islandora Foundation members approved these changes at the Annual General Meeting in early March. A summary of these changes is provided here, as well as our emerging roadmap for moving forward. A newly formed “Leadership Group”, composed of representatives from our Partner-level member organizations, replaces the pre-existing Board of Directors, and a smaller Board of Directors remains responsible for Islandora’s administrative and fiscal responsibilities. This Leadership Group met for the first time on Friday, March 26th to begin to discuss their goals going forward, and the ways the Leadership Group will interact with the other governance structures of the Islandora community. The Leadership Group immediately affirmed their commitment to transparent communication and collaboration with the vibrant, robust Islandora community and will be creating a Terms of Reference over the next month. The Terms of Reference will be written with agility and transformation in mind, as we work together to secure a strong future for both the community and codebase. In the meantime, please let us know if you have any questions regarding the formation of the Leadership Group, and stay tuned to hear more about the initial goals of this group.