ABOUT US
Meet Discovery Garden
Discovery Garden builds and runs institutional repositories & digital collections for libraries, galleries, museums, and archives to preserve and access their prized digital assets. From scans of Babe Ruth’s telegrams held at the Baseball Hall of Fame Archives to historic construction photos of the Golden Gate Bridge at the San Francisco Public Library, Discovery Garden is dedicated to helping organizations safeguard and share their prized digital assets.
For more than 15 years, Discovery Garden has been building these systems using the open-source Islandora framework. In fact, in 2010 the founders of Islandora started Discovery Garden to grow and support the Islandora community by providing end-to-end Islandora implementation services.
As of September 2025, Discovery Garden has merged with Born-Digital, uniting two experienced Islandora focused teams into a single organization dedicated to supporting clients, the community, and the broader sector at the highest level.
Discovery Garden’s decades of experience and unparalleled expertise with Islandora and the digital needs of libraries, galleries, and museums, make them the organization of choice to create flexible solutions for any organization.
The Evolution of Discovery Garden
About Islandora
Islandora is an open-source framework for creating institutional repositories and digital collections. With Islandora, institutions can collaboratively author, manage, discover, and steward digital collections across various data types and knowledge domains.
Known for its infinite customization possibilities, rich feature set, and strong community, Islandora has become the platform of choice for Universities, libraries, museums and other institutions to manage and access their digital assets. Discovery Garden leverages the robust Islandora framework to build outstanding institutional repositories and digital collections.
Why Discovery Garden?
Transform digital collections and repositories from clunky, inflexible, end-of-life systems to innovative, modern solutions that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
Customization
Your digital assets are unique and your system for organizing and accessing them should be too. From custom branding, to design, to metadata standards, our team will help you build a one-of-a-kind system.
Islandora Expertise
Discovery Garden is a founding member of Islandora and it’s still our flagship offering today. Our team has decades of experience building and supporting Islandora systems. No one knows it better.
User-friendly Design
Make the move away from expensive and inflexible software or home-grown piecemeal solutions, and join hundreds of organizations benefiting from robust digital collections and repositories that stand the test of time.
Industry Experts
From metadata librarians to software engineers and solution architects, our team has the skillset required to scope, build, and run a system that fits your current and future needs.
Integrations
Robust APIs and in-house expertise power seamless integration with your other systems so you can modernize your tech stack and streamline your work.
Our Team
We have team members in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Costa Rica, and we are always looking for new talent! Check out our careers page for open positions.
Ready to transform your repository or digital collection?
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