Entities Solution Pack

Overview

This module allows you to add entities of type person, place, event, and organization to an Islandora repository. Entities consist of metadata only, and can be used as authority records in a repository. 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. People entities comes with a default MADS and EACCPF form. Events, and Places have an EACCPF form. Organization entities come with a Organization EAC-CPF form and a Department MADS form. If the thumbnail is not added afterward for the Events, Places, and Organizations Entities, the default icon is the folder icon used for collections. The Entity content model does not come with a form, but a form can be associated with this content model. 

The default "Entities" collection that is created does not include a policy for including the generic "entity" content model. If you wish to ingest generic entities via the interface, this content model needs to be added to the collection policy. 

 Entities can be batch uploaded. Batch ingested entities have a default association with the person entity cmodel. 

Entity content model does not have a default form and cannot be ingested. 

Dependencies

• Islandora
• Tuque
• ImageMagick

• Islandora
• Islandora Basic Collection
• Islandora Solr
• Islandora Solr Metadata
• Islandora Bookmark

Downloads

Release Notes and Downloads

Configuration

The autocomplete for the MADS forms requires solr values. A standard installation should include the transformations in basic-solr-config (example config from discoverygarden)

The link to the MADS transformation in foxmlToSolr.xslt must be uncommented. This will be either or depending on your installation.

The Solr field for searching entities and the entity collection are configurable at Administration » Islandora » Solution pack configuration » Entities (admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/entities).

Islandora Solr Metadata must be chosen as the default metadata display. This can be set at Administration » Islandora » Metadata Display (admin/islandora/metadata).

On installation, the module creates an entities collection, but not sub-collections to ingest person entities into. 

View EACCPF Person

View MADS Person

View EACCPF Event/Place (with a thumbnail added afterward)

Content Models, Prescribed Datastreams and Forms

The Entities Solution Pack comes with the following objects in http://path.to.your.site/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/solution_packs:

• Islandora Entity Content Model (islandora:entityCModel)
• Islandora Place Content Model (islandora:placeCModel)
• Islandora Person Content Model (islandora:personCModel)
• Islandora Event Content Model (islandora:eventCModel)
• Islandora Organization Content Model (islandora:organizationCModel)
• Entity Collection (islandora:entity_collection)

Entity objects created using these content models will have the following datastreams:

The Basic Image Solution Pack comes with the Basic image MODS form.