CONTENTdm → Islandora
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 for scalability (a use case cited as 1.3 million objects) and a non-disruptive replacement that preserved old URLs. The library mapped 130 CONTENTdm collections to the MODS metadata standard and developed the Move to Islandora Kit (MIK), an ETL tool, to package legacy content for ingest. A large Canadian university-library example of leaving proprietary CONTENTdm for open-source Islandora at scale.
Original source
SFU Library's Migration to Islandora
Simon Fraser University (CNI)
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