Legacy database → Islandora
British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)
The British Institute at Ankara migrated decades of archaeological digitisation — pottery, botanical reference collections, historical photographs and epigraphic squeezes — from an ageing legacy database into Islandora, specifically to bring its records into compliance with FAIR data principles. Using Qualified Dublin Core and MODS with strict controlled vocabularies (Getty AAT, VIAF, LCSH), the institute opened access to its Mediterranean archaeological heritage under Creative Commons licences, laying a durable foundation for linked-open-data humanities work. A Turkey-based research-institute example of Islandora adoption for archaeological collections.
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BIAA Digital Repository Launch
British Institute at Ankara
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