Islandoracon Workshops

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Thursday, May 18th is a full day of 90-minute workshops where you can learn more about Islandora from expert in the Islandora community.

Location: Liuna Station Grand Central Ballroom & King George Breakout Room

Rough guide to levels:

Beginner: No prior experience with Islandora needed
Intermediate: Improve your skills, learn about new tools, deepen your knowledge. Some knowledge of Islandora is useful.
Developer: Focus on code and back-end tweaking and customization. Some familiarity with Islandora code is useful.

Time	Track A: Grand Central	Track B: Breakout
9:00 - 10:30 AM	Islandora 101 Level: Beginner Instructor(s): Melissa Anez (Islandora Foundation) & Jennifer Eustis (University of Connecticut) Description: An introduction to how Islandora works and the basics of site building.	Infrastructure and Performance Level: Developer Instructor(s): Gavin Morris (Common Media / Born-Digital) & Luke Taylor (discoverygarden, Inc.) Description: A review on some of the ways the Islandora platform can be built, scaled for performance along with troubleshooting tips and strategies.
10:30 - 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Intro to Islandora CLAW Level: Beginner Instructor(s): Danny Lamb (Islandora Foundation) & Nick Ruest (York University) Description: A look around the first release of Islandora CLAW, based on the MVP.	Solr Tuning and Solr Views Level: Intermediate Instructor(s): Mark Jordan (Simon Fraser University) & Rosie LeFaive (University of Prince Edward Island) Description: Learn how to get full control of your metadata! We'll cover the A-Z (and a-z) of solr search: from how your metadata datastreams are indexed in Solr, to understanding the power of the Solr admin interface, to pretty displays of custom metadata. Topics include: Solr field types (text and string, date and number fields, multi-value vs single-value, stored vs indexed) and how fields are processed for searching (stemming, stop words, etc) Basic (dismax) vs advanced (field) searching, and how to configure relevancy weighting in your Basic Islandora Search. How Gsearch's XSLT transforms pick out and organize metadata (learn to SLURP!), and how to modify these to really master your indexing Configuring metadata display using Islandora Solr Metadata (briefly) Creating Views using Islandora Solr, including how to integrate thumbnail images, links to content, and contextual filters (i.e making views of related islandora objects).
12:30 - 1:30 PM	Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 PM	Working with Linked Data and Ontologies Level: Intermediate Instructor(s): Nick Ruest (York University) & Christina Harlow Description: This hands-on workshop aims to introduce the fundamentals of linked data technologies and related data modelling questions by walking through creating RDF data.	Working with Form Builder Level: Intermediate Instructor(s): Diego Pino & Chris Stanton (Metro.org) Description: Using the XML Form Builder to create and edit XML Forms for use in Islandora.
3:00 - 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 - 5:00 PM	Islandora Scholar Level: Intermediate Instructor(s): Bryan Brown (Florida State University) Decription: This workshop will focus on Islandora Scholar and its many, many features for turning your Islandora instance into an Institutional Repository, as well as best practices and strategies for using Islandora as an IR solution.	Querying and SPARQL Update Level: Developer Instructor(s): Jared Whiklo (University of Manitoba) & Alan Stanley (Agile Humanities) Description: A discussion of the Fedora Resource Index, what it is, how Islandora uses it and what you can do with it.