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Entities can be created in one of two metadata formats: Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS) or Encoded Archival Context - Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAD-CPF). Much of the functionality for batch ingest and autocomplete (to use entities as authority objects) uses the MADS forms provided with the module. EAC-CPF forms are also provided for each entity type.

• People entities comes with a default MADS and EAC-CPF form.
• Places have an EAC-CPF form.
• Events have an EAC-CPF form.
• Organization entities come with a Organization EAC-CPF form and a Department MADS form.

Thumbnails

Custom thumbnails can be added via the manage tab to ingested Events, Places, and Organizations. When creating People entities, a thumbnail can be added at time of object creation. If the thumbnail is not added afterward for the Events, Places, and Organizations Entities, the default icon is the folder icon used for collections.

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Configuration

Solr configuration

The autocomplete for the MADS forms requires that MADS entity values are indexed in Solr.

• Include values. A standard installation should include the XSL transformations in basic-solr-config (example config from discoverygarden) in the appropriate place in your Solr system files.
• The foxmlToSolr.xslt file associated with Solr must contain a link to a MADS transformation (such as in this foxmlToSolr.xslt file from discoverygarden)
• Islandora Solr Metadata must be chosen as the default metadata display in Islandora. This can be set at Administration » Islandora » Metadata Display (admin/islandora/metadata).

The Solr fields for searching entities and the collections that contains contain the entities can be configured at Administration » Islandora » Solution pack configuration » Entities (admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/entities). The configuration fields correspond to options for adding autocomplete fields to the MADS forms packaged with the module. The following autocomplete paths will work using the basic configuration:

• islandora/entities/autocomplete/scholar (for people)

• islandora/entities/autocomplete/department (for organizations)

• islandora/entities/autocomplete/disambiguated (for people in the "disambiguated full name" MADS field)

Configuration Panel:

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Entity Solution Pack - Solr Configuration Fields

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Entity Solution Pack - Entity Collection Configuration Fields

By default, the solution pack creates a single collection for all entities. If entities are divided into several collections, the PIDS for relevant collections can be added here. 

Entity Solution Pack - Autocomplete Configuration Fields

The autocomplete configuration fields correspond to fields indexed in Solr and the MADS forms packaged with the module.

Default configurations:

• Solr field for scholar title: MADS_title_mt
• Solr field for department: MADS_department_mt
• Solr field for disambiguated full name: MADS_disambiguated_fullname_mt
• Solr field for last name: MADS_family_mt

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View EACCPF Person

The default view for an EACCPF person record:

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The default view for a MADS person record (reflecting a "scholar" in an Institution)

Other Views

EACCPF Objects, Events, and Places (after a thumbnail has been affiliated) will look as below:

Content Models, Prescribed Datastreams and Forms

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Batch Ingest for Person Entities

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Prepare a comma-delimited CSV file using the column names below. Only columns with names in the list will be processed; all others will be ignored. Any comma within a field must be replaced with a double pipe ie - . For example, 'Nursing, Department of' must be replaced with 'Nursing|| Department of'.

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