Hello Code4lib, I'm pleased to announce that last night after a year of research and development the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) released the first beta of Archipelago, a new open source repository system. Tremendous thanks to Diego Navarro, our lead developer on the project, as well as Giancarlo Birello and many others.
https://github.com/esmero/archipelago-deployment Over the course of the next three years, METRO is committed to building a constellation of Archipelago repositories for our membership as a core service: multi-tenancy is at the heart of the Archipelago concept. Most importantly for those on this list, we will be working to build a robust and healthy community of users and contributors. We hope that many of you will deploy and use this architecture to suit your own unique use cases. If you are already using open source repository software.... Samvera, Islandora, or others... we invite you to take a look at this new architecture, one that was fresh-built with a clean slate, from the ground up. Archipelago is the result of years of our shared experience interacting with myriad different systems. If you deploy right now, you'll be able to work with: - Image/Images (1 or more sequences) with IIIF enabled viewer/Openseadragon and Simple HTML as formatters. Archipelago managed images, External referenced Images or mixed. - Audio/Audios using HTML5 tags and subtitle tracks + future IIIF AV - Video/Videos using HTML5 tags and subtitle tracks + future IIIF AV - Panorama(s) via Panellum with hotspots that connect to any other DO. - Book(s) via IABR V4 using IIIF, either generated internally from Archipelago managed images, Internal IIIF manifest (via our twig template caster), External referenced Images or even an External Manifest URI too. - PDF(s) via IABR V4 using IIIF (we like the idea of unifying displays, no more PDF viewers v/s book viewers) - 3D Models. STL, OBJ via custom Three.js scripts. - much more coming with the next release Explore it. Join our Google Group to learn more. http://bit.ly/archipelago-list I hope this system will be of great benefit to the GLAM community at large. Thanks Nate -- Nate Hill natehill.net
