Legacy systems → Islandora
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society adopted Islandora to build its collaborative Revolutionary City portal and to improve stewardship of culturally sensitive Indigenous materials, working with the vendor Born-Digital. A grant-funded effort inventoried more than 130,000 images across the collections. Islandora's flexibility let APS implement the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, using Drupal's role-based taxonomy permissions to restrict access to sensitive assets, while exposing Revolutionary-War material to partners via OAI-PMH and IIIF. A US independent-research-library example centred on ethical, permission-aware access control.
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Archival Initiatives for the Indigenous Collections at the American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society
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