Adopted Islandora
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society adopted Islandora to improve the stewardship of its culturally sensitive Indigenous collections. A grant-funded effort inventoried more than 130,000 images across the collections, and Islandora's flexibility allowed the archive to apply cultural protocols and restricted-access review to sensitive materials rather than exposing everything by default. The move gave APS a standards-based open-source platform for describing and providing appropriate access to Indigenous archival material. A US independent-research-library example of adopting open-source Islandora with careful, culturally aware access controls.
Original source
Archival Initiatives for the Indigenous Collections at the American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society
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