The Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack is 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 issue. 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 Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack comes with several different content models that are intended to be ingested in a particular order:
Because you will be ingesting multiple issues of a publication that contains extremely similar MODS records, it is recommended to install the MARCXML Module so that the MARCXML record from one issue can be uploaded into other issues. Check the MARCXML Module page for more information on downloading and ingesting MARCXML files. |
Once pages are added and sorted in an issue, you can use the 'Collection' section of the issue's 'Manage' tab to create derivatives:
When looking at an individual page, navigation options will be given above the viewing window, listed below from left to right:
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:
This section allows you to configure the Newspaper 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 |
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.
The Newspaper Solution Pack comes with the following objects in http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/solution_packs:
A newspaper issue 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 |
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Look at Islandora Paged Content for information on an individual page's datastreams.
The Newspaper Solution Pack comes with the Islandora Newspaper MODS form.