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Hello Islandora Community!
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I’m so excited to share some of the many accomplishments from 2025 with you all. This also serves as the return of a regular newsletter, which you can expect every quarter.
It has been such an honor to be your Community Manager this year, and I’m hopeful that the groundwork we are laying with our committees, interest groups & working groups will set us up for success going into 2026 & beyond. Enjoy these highlights from your peers, and look forward to all that’s coming next year!
| | | -Aubrey Shanahan
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I’m so excited to share some of the many accomplishments from 2025 with you all. This also serves as the return of a regular newsletter, which you can expect every quarter.
It has been such an honor to be your Community Manager this year, and I’m hopeful that the groundwork we are laying with our committees, interest groups & working groups will set us up for success going into 2026 & beyond. Enjoy these highlights from your peers, and look forward to all that’s coming next year!
| | | -Aubrey Shanahan
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Documentation Committee
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Chair - Yamil Suárez
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| • | Reviewed and approved new Terms of Reference to formally move from an Interest Group to a Committee.
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| • | Reviewed and merged necessary documentation pull requests (including EDTF date processor).
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| • | Began work to move recipes documentation from Islandora Labs to the Islandora Documentation Repository.
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| • | Looking to FLVC documentation as potential model for improvements to Islandora end-user documentation.
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Metadata Committee
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Chair - Rosie LeFaive
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| • | Reviewed and approved new Terms of Reference to formally move from an Interest Group to a Committee.
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| • | Began working toward metadata documentation that is more user friendly.
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| • | Ongoing review of best practices around metadata & taxonomies.
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| • | Held discussions around post-migration metadata cleanup.
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| • | Started work to add “volume” and “issue” fields to Repository Item.
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Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
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Chair - Annie Oelschlager
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| • | Welcomed Josh d'Entremont as a new Islandora committer
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| • | Streamlined Islandora's backlog management by implementing GitHub's Stalebot, which helps keep GitHub issues and pull requests fresh, and fosters better community engagement during Islandora’s weekly tech calls.
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| • | Reviewed two new repositories that have been donated to the Islandora Foundation:
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| ○ | Lehigh University donated scyllaridae. Scyllaridae is Islandora’s new microservice framework, replacing Crayfish.
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| ○ | University of Prince Edward Island donated mirador-integration-islandora. This project builds the mirador webpack that is used to embed Mirador on Islandora sites.
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| ○ | The short-term solution has been to create and merge PRs, unlocking the ability to add PDF generation for books. We are currently working to implement this feature.
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| ○ | The long-term architectural vision is to shift Islandora's event management entirely into Drupal (PHP), which will greatly simplify debugging, and lower the barrier to community contributions.
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Code of Conduct Committee
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Chair - Amy Blau
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| • | Assisted in running IslandoraCon with the help of committee members and designated volunteers.
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Roadmap Committee
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Est. September 2025 | Co-chairs - Natalie Baur & Akankasha Singh,
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| • | Completed an initial list of priorities.
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| • | Surveyed the community about the initial list and compiled the results.
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| • | Currently finishing up a public version of the roadmap to be released early in 2026.
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Events Committee
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Est. September 2025 | Chair - Aubrey Shanahan
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| • | Completed initial assessment for events in 2026 & 2027.
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| • | Plans are beginning for a return to Camps in summer 2026 as well as the 2027 20th Anniversary IslandoraCon.
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| • | Finalized plans for conference attendance in 2026.
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Membership & Fundraising Committee
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Est. October 2025 | Chair - Aubrey Shanahan
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| • | Completed a review of current membership offerings and suggested changes to the Leadership Group.
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| • | Created a plan to bolster membership in early 2026.
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LAC-GLAM Interest Group
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Co-Conveners: Nicole Scalessa, Emily Higgs Kopin
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| • | Helped us build community by hosting a variety of presentations and discussions. Highlights include a case study from Lehigh University, a taxonomies demonstration from the University of Pittsburgh and several conversations on topics like OCR and Theming.
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New Working Groups
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| • | Adoption & Workbench working groups also spun up this year.
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| • | The focus for Adoption is removing barriers to entry & improving ease of use. There is a work plan in place with deliverables coming in early 2026.
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| • | Workbench aims to take some of the work off the shoulders of Mark Jordan by assisting in development and support for this key piece of software.
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IslandoraCon 2025
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Many thanks again to the IslandoraCon Planning Committee for their work to make this conference a success, despite the need to pivot to virtual. And thanks to all of our presenters, panelists, and workshop leaders. We had 124 attendees registered, with over 100 attending each day. All IslandoraCon 2025 presentations are now available for you to view on our YouTube channel.
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Thank you to our members:
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McMaster University
| | | University of Prince Edward Island
| | | York University
| | | Born Digital + Discovery Garden
| | | British Columbia Electronic Library Network
| | | Florida Virtual Campus
| | | Leiden University
| | | Lehigh University
| | | University of Iowa
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| | Lib4RI
| | | Masaryk University
| | | PALS
| | | University of Nevada, Las Vegas
| | | Vassar College Libraries
| | | Chinese University of Hong Kong
| | | University of Connecticut
| | | University of Saskatchewan
| | | Whitman College
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McMaster University
| | | University of Prince Edward Island
| | | York University
| | | Born Digital + Discovery Garden
| | | British Columbia Electronic Library Network
| | | Florida Virtual Campus
| | | Leiden University
| | | Lehigh University
| | | University of Iowa
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| | | Lib4RI
| | | Masaryk University
| | | PALS
| | | University of Nevada, Las Vegas
| | | Vassar College Libraries
| | | Chinese University of Hong Kong
| | | University of Connecticut
| | | University of Saskatchewan
| | | Whitman College
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Thank you Islandora Community!
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A year like this would not be possible without everyone’s individual contributions. The time and effort you share with us helps to make Islandora stronger, and we are so grateful for you. See you in 2026!
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Questions/Comments
Reach out to me directly at aub...@islandora.ca or via direct message on Slack.
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Questions/Comments
Reach out to me directly at aub...@islandora.ca or via direct message on Slack.
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