Virtual Research Environments

The VRE is an active Robertson Library development project and sites are often in a state of flux. Here is a list of active sites as of August 2010.

General/Library/Digital Archives Islandora Sites: 

http://www.livingarchives.ca/ - Living Archives CCOP Project site. First implementation of Islandora, running Drupal 5/Fedora.

http://islandarchives.ca - Island Archives umbrella site for a wide range of digital collections produced by UPEI and partners.

http://islandlives.ca - Island Lives is a collection of digital books (local histories) and includes some community collaboration functions. IslandLives uses the most recent Islandora installation and one that uses the latest Drupal 6/Fedora 3 release, including sophisticated workflows, Djatoka JPEG2000 integration and more.

http://vre.upei.ca/uasc - The Red and White collection provides access to the complete collection of UPEI's student newspaper. This runs the Drupal 5/Fedora 2 Islandora release and serves data as PDF.

http://islandscholar.ca - The Island Scholar site is UPEI's implementation of the Islandora Institutional Repository solution pack. The live version uses the Drupal 5/Fedora 2 Islandora release, which has been fully ported to Drupal 6/Fedora 3. A generalized version of IslandScholar will be released in October 2009 as the first Islandora Solution Pack.

http//lmmontgomery.ca - Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute website. Undergoing an update to the look and feel; an Islandora site that uses the Uber Cart Drupal module. 

http://islandstudies.ca - Institute of Island Studies - Island Studies Journal and Blog. Currently running Drupal 5/Fedora 2.

http://vre.upei.ca/apla - Atlantic Provinces Library Association website. A Drupal-only Islandora implementation.

http://vre.upei.ca/bas - The Basic Academic Skills site provides a sample of Flash object stored in Fedora and serviced up using a specific player application. BAS uses the Drupal 5/Fedora 2 Islandora implementation.

http://vre.upei.ca/riri - Home of the Red Island Repository Institute (Fedora Workshop). RIRI uses the latest Islandora release and is also a test community for the latest releases.

http://vre.upei.ca/dev - The original UPEI VRE/Islandora development site. This site will soon be removed as it is replaced by the Islandora.ca site

Research-Focused Islandora Sites

Many of these sites are focused on collaborative research and require a login and password.  

http://vre.upei.ca/acbv - Atlantic Centre for Bioactive Valuation.

http://vre.upei.ca/accbr - Atlantic Centre for Comparative Biomedical Research.

http://vre.upei.ca/amars Movement and Resource Selection.

http://vre.upei.ca/airs - Annabel Cohen's AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing) site. This is our exemplar when it comes to the number of collaborators, with over 50 researchers in more than 15 countries. The Islandora site is currently being ported to the latest Islandora Drupal 6/Fedora 3 release and will also implement Groups functions using taxonomies and Panels. It will also have exemplar Fedora collections for complex audio and video data.

http://www.chbmr.ca/ - Juergen Krause's Centre for Health Biotechnology Management Research. This site will be using Drupal forms to capture survey data and store it in Fedora.

http://vre.upei.ca/cmtc - Annabel Cohen's CMTC (Culture, Multimedia, Technology, and Cognition) site. the CMTC project provided the basis for the Islandora/VRE developments, including the original hardware platform.

http://vre.upei.ca/greenchem - Michael Shaver's Green Chemistry site.

http://vre.upei.ca/iis - The Institute of Island Studies site.

http://vre.upei.ca/itl - The Invasive Tunicates Lab site includes an online store for requesting DNA samples.

http://vre.upei.ca/mhl - The Mollusc Health Lab site was the exemplar site for the development of many of the features that made it to our standard VRE Islandora installation.

http://vre.upei.ca/mnpl - Russ Kerr's Marine Natural Products Lab is our current research exemplar Islandora site and provides some advanced content models stewarding biological data, including sample descriptions, bioassays, NMS, Mass Spectrometer data and more.

http://vre.upei.ca/morphospace - Christain Lacroix's Morphospace site. This site provides some more recent Islandora features (such as Coverflow-style views direct from Fedora) for working with image data, in this case electron microscopy.

http://vre.upei.ca/mqm - The Maritime Quality Milk site.

http://vre.upei.ca/mprg -  The Marx and Psychology site.

http://vre.upei.ca/recd/ - The Research in Early Child Development site.

http://discoveryspace.upei.ca/theriowiki - The Theriowiki site is currently a Drupal-only installation with a large community that is building a veterinary medicine textbook. The future version of the site will dynamically sync content from Drupal to Fedora.