June 10, 2021

Islandora 8 Users Call

Time/Place

This meeting is held virtually via Zoom, with an open channel for chatter on Slack. Anyone is welcome to join. Here is the info:

• Time: 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time US (UTC-4)
• Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89540768642
• Join us on the Slack Islandora 8 Channel https://islandora.slack.com/archives/CM5PPAV28
• For a calendar invite to this recurring meeting, contact [email protected]

Attendees

Agenda

1. Check-in/Open Questions
2. End-user oriented pull requests (documentation review, testing UI, etc)
3. ...Feel free to add items...

Notes

1. Reminder of the upcoming "Summer of Islandora" open meetings
2. What's up with there being a "theme"?
   1. Carapace is undead, we thought we were abandoning it because the base theme wasn't going to be ported. It was, now we're not sure.
   2. Olivero has a lot of fans and will become the default Drupal theme with 9.2. We could ship with it as a starter theme
   3. the "Whitman theme" has become a defacto default, which is the theme that Born Digital created for Whitman College and is the default when using the install profile. But it was designed with that institution's needs in mind.
3. A. Blau and D. Richards did a demo of the Whitman site, with custom banners (on collections) and the Whitman theme.
4. What's up with newspapers, has anyone got them working?
   1. A Blau has the navigation sorted but is not happy with the viewer situation in 8 using the OpenSeadragon (Mirador?) viewer. In Islandora 7, we used the IA Bookviewer and could "flip" pages and had text highlighting on the page (and, on objects with many pages, "pins" along the bottom to show where in the book the search hit).
   2. Look into porting the Internet Archive BookReader: https://github.com/internetarchive/bookreader as a Drupal viewer, and implement search highlighting.

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