islandora

Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions and organizations and their audiences collaboratively manage, and discover digital assets using a best-practices framework.  Islandora was originally developed by the University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library, but is now implemented and contributed to by an ever-growing international community.

Islandora is an open source project designed to create a robust digital repository ecosystem that builds on the best of the open source community. The Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is UPEI's instantiation of the Islandora framework, and is designed to reflect the specific needs of the UPEI community (as well as being a test bed for the development of Islandora). The following describes the values that guide us as we continue to grow: