DSpace 6 → Islandora 8
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, prioritising Linked Open Data. By converting flat strings into JSON-LD entity graphs via Drupal taxonomy vocabularies, the team markedly improved the findability and reusability of thousands of assets, including historical maps, and built a batch-ingest workflow letting non-technical catalogers update collections via CSV. A US research-library example of moving from DSpace to Islandora specifically to adopt linked, reusable metadata.
Original source
From Siloed to Reusable: The Opening of Digital Collections at Johns Hopkins University
International Journal of Digital Curation
The archived copy opens a snapshot on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, preserved for when the original moves or disappears.
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