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The Book Solution Pack module allows for the creation of a book collection, and the ingesting of pages into that book. Essentially, a 'book' object is a special type of collection into which page objects can be ingested and organized.
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While books for Islandora 6 and 7 can exist in the same repository, books ingested through Islandora 6 will not display properly in Islandora 7. A migration script is required. |
Dependencies
- Islandora Paged Content
- Core Collection Solution Pack
- Islandora Internet Archive BookReaderBookreader can be used to view books
- OpenSeadragon can be used to view pages
- Islandora OCR is required for creating OCR datastreams
- ImageMagick is required for creating PDF datastreams
- Large Image Solution Pack is required for creating thumbnail and JPEG datastreamsIslandora Book Batch is required to batch ingest books. Check the Book Batch module's page for more information on how to use it.
Downloads
Release Notes and Downloads
Usage
The Book Solution Pack module functions slightly different than most other solution packs, in that it is a collection that acts similarly to a regular data object. Books exists as a collection, but are able to perform tasks like derivative creation and viewing similar to how other content models function.
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RELS-EXT | Default Fedora relationship metadata |
MODS | MODS metadata form |
DC | Dublin Core record |
TN | Thumbnail image |
PDF | PDF derivative created by Ghostscript | | ImageMagick |
Check Islandora Paged Content for information on an individual page's datastreams.
The Book Solution Pack comes with the Islandora Book MODS form.