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Overview

The Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack provides a content model that assembles Paged Content into newspaper issues, which are then assembled into newspaper objects. A newspaper object corresponds to a specific newspaper publication, such as the Daily Planet, and contains one or more issues, each of which contain one or more pages. 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 newspaper object can be a member of one or more Islandora collections (for example, "Fictional Newspapers").

Dependencies

• Islandora
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• Islandora Paged Content
• Islandora OCR (Copy) is required to create OCR and HOCR derivatives
• Large Image Solution Pack is required to create thumbnails and other image derivatives
• ImageMagick (Copy) is required to create PDF datastreams
• Ghostscript (Copy) is required to combine PDF datastreams into one issue-wide PDF

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Usage

Adding a Newspaper, Issue and Page

The Islandora Newspaper Solution Pack comes with three content models, corresponding to the newspaper publication, an issue of that publication, and the pages within an issue. They must be ingested in a particular order:

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Creating issue derivatives

Once pages are added and sorted in an issue, you can use the 'Issue' section of the issue's 'Manage' tab to create derivatives:

• Under 'Create PDF', if Ghostscript is installed on your server, you can 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 of the issue has changed.

Page controls

When looking at an individual page, navigation options will be given above the viewing window, listed below from left to right:

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• A drop-down menu to quickly select a page in the current issue
• Options to view the entire issue or the entire publication
• Links to download any created derivatives
• A link to download the original image

Configuration

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:

Create Page Derivatives Locally

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:

Page Viewers

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.

Content Models, Prescribed Datastreams and Forms

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

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The Newspaper Solution Pack comes with a MODS form that can be used to describe the Newspaper object and another form that can be used to describe Issue objects.  Both of these forms are considered suggestions and users will want to review and update based on their own requirements.

Solution Pack Demonstration Video

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