In collaboration with colleagues from Simon Fraser University and the Islandora Foundation, the Robertson Library at UPEI received funding to enhance Islandora 8x to facilitate the creation of a Research Data Management platform. Building on their experience working with research data in Islandora 7x, the group will seek to leverage the new version of Islandora and add functionality that will support the research data lifecycle from planning to publication. The team will present and provide an update on their work on the Islandora 8x RDM platform related to metadata and discovery, data deposit and curation, data privacy and security, persistent identifiers and citability, the use of vocabularies/ontologies and linked data, and data access and analytics. The team will highlight their work on data management planning tools, integration of external identity sources like the Global Research Identifier Data and ORCID, external metadata sources like DataCite and Crossref, external funding sources like the CrossRef Funder Registry, and DOI minters. Likewise, the team will demonstrate external storage methods and support for large datasets.