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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.

Dependencies

• Islandora
• Tuque
• Islandora Paged Content - Ready for Review (KS)
• Islandora OCR is required to create OCR and HOCR derivatives
• Large Image Solution Pack - Ready for Review (KS) is required to create thumbnails and other image derivatives
• OpenSeadragon can be used to view pages
• ImageMagick is required to create PDF datastreams
• Ghostscript is required to combine PDF datastreams into one issue-wide PDF

Downloads

As of release, the Newspaper Solution Pack is incomplete and still considered to be in 'beta'. However, a repository exists on Github's Islandora page at https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_solution_pack_newspaper, on the branch 7.x-release. For those interested in trying out the module, it can be cloned from https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_solution_pack_newspaper.git.Release Notes and Downloads

Usage

Adding a newspaper, issue and page

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1. A child collection is set up and given the Islandora newspaper content model. This represents the publication that to which issues will be added to.
2. Inside that collection, a new object is created; this will automatically be given the Islandora newspaper issue content model.
3. Within that new object, pages are added. These are automatically given the Islandora newspaper page content model.
   
   

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• Under 'Create PDF', if Ghostscript is installed on your server, you can use it to concatenate individual concatenate individual PDF page datastreams into one ordered PDF datastream that can be appended to the issue itself
• Under 'Create Images', you can update the issue's thumbnail image if the first page one of the issue has changed.

Page controls

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

• Islandora newspaper content model (islandora:newspaperCModel)
• Islandora newspaper issue content model (islandora:newspaperIssueCModel)
• Islandora newspaper page content model (islandora:newspaperPageCModel)
• Newspaper collection (islandora:newspaper_collection)

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Check Look at Islandora Paged Content - Ready for Review (KS) for information on an individual page's datastreams.

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