The Islandora 8 RDM Project, funded by CANARIE, is pleased to announce that it is now possible to extract, edit and index text from images and PDFs on an Islandora 8 installation.
This Text Extraction module implements a new Media type called Extracted Text for both OCR and PDF extracted text. This module consists of two parts:
OCR Text…
Hello! My name is Mengyu Zang and I am a third year Computer Science student at the University of Prince Edward Island. I am currently working with the Islandora RDM Team as a Student Developer. For me, the most exciting part of this job is to participate in this local born project and to contribute to an ever-…
We are aiming to build our Research Data Management platform in a modular fashion, so that we can contribute useful parts to the Drupal community so it may be used and improved upon by others.
Our first contribution is the LC Subject Field module. The Library of Congress provides a controlled vocabulary of subject headings. LCSHs are applied to every item in a collection, and…
What is an Islandora 8 Microservice?
A Microservice will create a derivative file and attach it to an Islandora node as media object. The microservice requires:
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A Drupal Action - defined in code, usually a bespoke Drupal module.
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