I recently spent some time installing Islandora (Drupal 7 plus a Fedora Commons repository = open-source, best-practices framework for managing institutional collections) as part of my digital dissertation work, with the goal of using the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) digital edition modules (Islandora Critical Edition and Critical Edition Advanced) as a platform for my Infinite Ulysses participatory digital edition.
If you’ve ever thought about creating your own digital edition (or edition collection) website, here’s some of the features using Islandora plus the EMiC-developed critical edition modules offer:
- Upload and OCR your texts!
- Batch ingest of pages of a book or newspaper
- TEI and RDF encoding GUI (incorporating the magic of CWRC-Writer within Drupal)
- Highlight words/phrases of text—or circle/rectangle/draw a line around parts of a facsimile image—and add textual annotations
- Internet Archive reader for your finished edition! (flip-pages animation, autoplay, zoom)
- A Fedora Commons repository managing your digital objects
If you’d like more information about this digital edition platform or tips on installing it yourself, you can read the full post on my LiteratureGeek.com blog here.
