Re-imagining the Institutional Repository

Institutional Repositories (IR) are often the first digital collection project an institution undertakes. At the University of Prince Edward Island strategic goals and open access policies have encouraged the development of an Islandora-based IR solution. Participants will gain an understanding of the IR’s development; creation of an open access policy; workflow and batch ingest features; tools for exporting citations as bibliographies and records; integration of Sherpa/Romeo, COiNS, export to RefWorks, and social media tools; repository metrics; authority records and the development of Scholar profiles; and search/discovery and theming layers.