Imago: An Open-Source Repository for Born-Digital Scientific Collections

Imago is a solution to capture born-digital scientific specimen collections for your institutional repository. Attend this session to learn about our newly developed open-source application powered by a Hydra/Fedora repository solution, the result of a collaboration between research libraries and biological collection curators across two states.

Outcomes: Learn about the open-source Hydra/Fedora repository infrastructure * Understand the importance of specimen collection, management, and preservation * Identify new roles and opportunities for digital collection building in research data programs