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.
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. |
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.
There are a few steps to creating a book using the Book Solution Pack module:
You will now be brought to the Book's object page. From here, you can use the Paged Content module to manipulate the book. Check the Usage section of Islandora Paged Content for more information on how to add and manipulate pages within a book.
The Book Solution Pack configuration page can be found at http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/book, and includes the following configuration options:
This section allows you to configure the Book Solution Pack module to create derivative datastreams for pages. The following derivative datastreams can be set, with their accompanying dependencies:
ImageMagick | |
TN, JPEG, JP2 | Large Image Solution Pack |
OCR, HOCR | Islandora OCR |
These two fields define how Solr is able to find the PID of a page's parent book, and that page's number, respectively. Changing these fields requires a working knowledge of Solr queries and RDF, and for the most part, they should remain untouched.
These two sections change how Islandora handles a request in the the 'View' tab of a Book object and Page object, respectively. Islandora includes out-of-the-box support for the Internet Archive Bookreader and OpenSeadragon as book and page viewers; check the links in the Dependencies section above for more information on installing these components.
The Book Solution Pack comes with the following objects in http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/solution_packs:
A book ingested with all derivative creation options checked will have the following datastreams:
RELS-EXT | Default Fedora relationship metadata |
MODS | MODS metadata form |
DC | Dublin Core record |
TN | Thumbnail image |
PDF derivative created by ImageMagick |
Check Islandora Paged Content for information on an individual page's datastreams.
The Book Solution Pack comes with the Islandora Book MODS form.