Over the last two years, the repository ecosystem at our institution has implemented a suite of improvements, focused on three key areas. This presentation will outline the innovative improvements made so that digital collections will be more accessible, better described and findable, and with enhanced functionality. In the realm of accessibility, we will talk about efforts to bring our repository content in closer alignment with upcoming federal requirements. For discoverability, we will talk about the workflows initiated in concert with our metadata librarian to enrich the description of items that are published to our platforms, including a discussion of policy and capacity informed decisions on what and how to describe. And for functionality, we will discuss advances in our interactive transcripts and captioning for audiovisual material, as well as the implementation of a IIIF-compliant viewer. All of the above will also be discussed in the context of our institution's migration to the newest version of Islandora. We will discuss lessons learned in project management, takeaways to apply towards future work, and new directions for these areas.
