Islandora Foundation LSAP: scyllaridae

[Joe Corall]

Lehigh University's scyllaridae repository is a rewrite of Islandora's Crayfish microservice framework (presented at IslandoraCon 2025).

I'd like to propose that the scyllaridae repository moves to the Islandora GitHub org, to be owned by the Foundation and maintained by myself (Joe Corall). If that is acceptable, we can then replace the existing crayfish derivatives with scyllaridae: Islandora-Devops/isle-buildkit#432. That PR provides more of the technical reasons for this change for those interested. A release of that PR would include documentation for existing Islandora installs to migrate from crayfish to scyllaridae.

I am confident if this proposal were to be accepted we could provide community support fairly easily by leveraging scyllaridae to introduce some and/or all of the microservices we've made with this new framework including:

• OpenAI Whisper for automatic A/V transcripts
• Generate PDFs of paged content items
• Streaming Video Derivatives
• Audio thumbnails
• ZIP thumbnails
• WARC Thumbnails
• Convert Microsoft Documents to PDFs
• Many more!

Respectfully,
Joe Corall