Islandora
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Islandora, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Islandora's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Islandora software | Free | Free to use; released under open-source licenses |
| Adopter membership | C$500 a year | Annual general meeting vote · Personalized onboarding · Service providers not eligible · Billed annually |
| Supporter membership | C$2,000 a year | Annual general meeting vote · 50% off 1 Camp registration or IslandoraCon registration per year · Billed annually |
| Collaborator membership | C$4,000 a year | Annual general meeting vote · 1 free Camp registration per year · 1 free IslandoraCon registration per year · Billed annually |
| Partner membership | C$10,000 a year | Annual general meeting vote · 2 free Camp registrations per year · 2 free IslandoraCon registrations per year · Billed annually |
The facts
Each one read from Islandora's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API access
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Batch processing
- Alpaca, based on Apache Camel, handles messaging and queueing for large batch uploads.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Content
- Islandora uses Drupal nodes, media, files, and taxonomy terms to create preservation-ready digital resources.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The maker recommends Docker deployment and also provides instructions for manual installation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- IIIF
- IIIF support lets images in Islandora be viewed in IIIF-compliant viewers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The Islandora community includes users and developers from galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions worldwide.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Metadata
- Islandora can expose linked data through JSON-LD and configure OAI-PMH harvesting through the Starter Site.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Metadata and tagging
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Microservices
- Islandora's Crayfish microservices synchronize resources into Fedora and generate derivative helper files.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Paid services
- Professional service providers offer installation, migration, custom development, maintenance and support, and training.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Preservation
- Automated installation methods provide Fedora storage and technical metadata generation with FITS.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The Foundation privacy policy says using Islandora does not require providing information to the Foundation and says the software is available to download without a form or data entry.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Islandora is an open-source framework for using a Drupal website as a digital asset management system.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Repository
- Drupal resources can be stored in the Fedora Repository as files and RDF metadata.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Search and analytics
- The documentation identifies contributed Drupal modules including Solr Search API for in-site search and Matomo Analytics for usage metrics.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker directs technical questions to its user support group and lists Google Groups, GitHub Issues, Slack, and GitHub Discussions as communication channels.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported asset types
- Images,documents including PDFs,audio,video,books,newspapers,binary files,compound objects,theses,journal articles,archival media,research datachecked 21 Sep 2026
- Version history
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Approval workflows
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canadachecked 28 Sep 2026
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