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The Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack is provides a Paged Content collection that is similar to the Book solution pack, with a few key differences. Unlike a book collection, a newspaper collection is intended to represent a single publication, and each object inside that collection is intended to represent a single issue of that publication. Another level down, each object is intended to represent a page of that particular issuecontent model that assembles Paged Content into newspaper issues, which are then assembled into newspaper objects. A newspaper object corresponds to a specific newspaper publication, such as the Daily Planet, and contains one or more issues, each of which contain one or more pages. The Newspaper Solution Pack is designed to make it easier to navigate between issues and pages of a single publication - closer to the nature of a newspaper or magazine - as opposed to a book, which is more commonly read page-by-page. The newspaper object can be a member of one or more Islandora collections (for example, "Fictional Newspapers").

Dependencies

• Islandora
• Tuque
• Islandora Paged Content
• Islandora OCR is required to create OCR and HOCR derivatives
• Large Image Solution Pack is required to create thumbnails and other image derivatives
• ImageMagick is required to create PDF datastreams
• Ghostscript is required to combine PDF datastreams into one issue-wide PDF

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Release Notes and Downloads

Usage

Adding a

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Newspaper,

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Issue and

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The Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack comes with several different three content models and the associated objects are intended to , corresponding to the newspaper publication, an issue of that publication, and the pages within an issue. They must be ingested in a particular order:

1. First a Newspaper Object is created that represents the publication, such as The Daily Planet. This has the Islandora Newspaper Content Model. To create a Newspaper Object, add an object to a collection where Islandora Newspaper Content Model is allowed by the collection policy. 
2. Within an existing Newspaper object, one or more Issue Objects can be created. An Issue Object represents a single issuance, for example The Daily Planet - June 21, 1955. Issue objects have
3. A child collection is set up and given the Islandora newspaper content model. This represents the publication to which issues will be added.
4. Inside that collection, a new object is created; this will automatically be given the Islandora newspaper issue content model. Within that new object, pages are added. These are automatically given To create an Issue Object, use the Manage tab on a Newspaper object, and select "Add Issue". To create many issues simultaneously, consider the Islandora Newspaper Batch module.
5. Issue Objects contain Newspaper Pages, which have the Islandora newspaper page content model. To create Page Objects:
   1. while creating an Issue Object, you have an opportunity to upload a (multi-page) PDF representing the entire issue, and it will be automatically split up into individual pages.
   2. Manage an existing Issue Object and select "Add Page" to create an individual page.
   3. Manage an existing Issue Object, and from the "Issue" menu, select "Add Zipped Pages" to create multiple pages from a zipped directory of page images.
   4. Use the Islandora Newspaper Batch module, which can automate the process for multiple issues and pages.
      
      

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The Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack configuration page is accessible at http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/newspaper, and includes the following options:

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Create Page Derivatives Locally

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This section changes how Islandora handles a request in the 'View' tab of a newspaper's page object. Islandora includes out-of-the-box support for OpenSeadragon; otherwise, no viewer will be available. Check the OpenSeadragon page for more information on installing this component.

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Content Models, Prescribed Datastreams and Forms

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