Islandora
This collection brings together 18 source-verified institutional cases involving Islandora: Adopted Islandora (1), CONTENTdm → Islandora (2), CONTENTdm → Islandora 2 (1), DSpace 6 → Islandora 8 (1), DSpace → Islandora (1), DSpace → Islandora 8 (1), Islandora 7 → Islandora 2 (2), Islandora 7 → Islandora 2.0 (2), Kete → Islandora 8 (1), Legacy DAMS → Islandora 2.0 (1), Legacy database → Islandora (1), Legacy portal → Islandora (1), Legacy repositories → Islandora 2 (1), Legacy systems → Islandora 8 (1), Local → Islandora (1). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.
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Arca (BC ELN consortium)
Arca, the collaborative digital-repository network run by BC ELN for post-secondary institutions across British Columbia, is upgrading its end-of-life Islandora 7…
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University in Canada migrated its digital collections from the proprietary CONTENTdm to the open-source Islandora platform — a move driven by the need…
University of Prince Edward Island
The University of Prince Edward Island's Robertson Library — the original birthplace of Islandora — upgraded from Islandora 7 to Islandora 2, consolidating 50-plus…
DABAR (Digital Academic Archives), Croatia
DABAR is the centralised digital-repository infrastructure for Croatia's higher-education and research network. Built on Islandora, it rapidly provisioned…
Czech Digital Mathematics Library (DML-CZ)
The Czech Digital Mathematics Library (DML-CZ) originally ran on DSpace but hit architectural limits with its JSP/XMLUI components when trying to implement the…
Archives Central (MWLASS)
Archives Central — the shared archive of nine councils in New Zealand's Manawatū-Whanganui region (MWLASS) — replaced the ageing Kete system, which had lost…
University of Canterbury (UC QuakeStudies)
The University of Canterbury's Arts Digital Lab, working with Catalyst IT, migrated its QuakeStudies archive — the major record of the devastating 2010–2011…
British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)
The British Institute at Ankara migrated decades of archaeological digitisation — pottery, botanical reference collections, historical photographs and epigraphic…
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society adopted Islandora to improve the stewardship of its culturally sensitive Indigenous collections. A grant-funded effort…
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University consolidated two decades of disjointed digital archives into one browsable Islandora 8 repository — one of the largest in production,…
Johns Hopkins University
To escape the isolated infrastructure and flat metadata strings of its legacy DSpace 6 repository (JScholarship), Johns Hopkins University migrated to Islandora 8,…
Lehigh University
Dissatisfied with siloed repositories spread across proprietary vendors, Lehigh University consolidated its institutional outputs and special collections onto…
Texas State University
Texas State University kept its DSpace repository for institutional scholarship but stood up a dedicated Islandora 8 repository for complex special-collections…
The Wolfsonian–FIU
The Wolfsonian–FIU, holding highly visual modern-design material from 1850–1950, worked with the vendor Born-Digital on a fully customised Islandora 2.0 build…
TriCollege Libraries (Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore)
The TriCollege consortium — Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges — migrated from Islandora 7 to a unified Islandora 2.0 interface holding 415,000+ top-level…
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa moved its digital collections off CONTENTdm to Islandora to extend discovery and reuse, contracting the specialist vendor discoverygarden to…
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas moved its special-collections digital assets off CONTENTdm to Islandora 2 to build a unified discovery portal and escape…
Whitman College
Whitman College's Arminda repository was a pilot for migrating from Islandora 7 to Islandora 2.0, work funded in part by IMLS to validate Fedora migration paths.…