Detroit Public Library LibraryDAMS
Detroit Public Library needed a digital asset management system to showcase their tens of thousands of photos, brochures, and other excellent media that were not readily available to the public. In collaboration with Cherry Hill, they chose Islandora to make these images available as online Digital Collections.
Some of the customizations we needed to make for DPL included:
- A better zoom viewer than the standard Islandora option
- A custom multi-image object viewer
- Ability for site visitors to mark images as “favorites” and store them for reference
- Image style management using Drupal instead of Islandora
- Inactive object management
- Batch import of existing record data from DPL’s old system, Hyperion
- Solr tuning for improved search results
Cherry Hill offers a pre-built simplified Islandora package for small libraries called LibraryDAMS (for Digital Asset Management System).