Overview

The Islandora Collection Solution Pack implements a the collection content model as an Islandora object, allowing users to create and manage collections and their contents. 

 

Without the Islandora Collection Solution Pack, end-users will not be able to create new collections.

Dependencies

NOTE: The collection solution pack requires that the resource index is enabled in Fedora, as it does all of its queries using the resource index.

Downloads

Release Notes and Downloads

Usage

Information about basic usage of collection objects can be found throughout the Getting Started with Islandora section of the Islandora documentation.

Configuration

Configuration options for the Collection Solution Pack can be found at http://your.site.here/admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/basic_collection

Display Generation Options

The Collection Solution Pack gives you multiple options when it comes to configuring how the children of a collection should be sorted and displayed in the parent collection view. Choose from one of the following options:

SPARQL (Legacy)

'SPARQL (Legacy)' is the default option, and uses a simple SPARQL query to find the children of the current collection and sorts them in alphabetical order by object label.

SPARQL

This option is similar to 'SPARQL (Legacy)' but has the ability to provide additional bits of metadata to the display when the 'Display object metadata' option at the bottom of the form is selected. 

Solr

This option will require additional configuration elements when selected:

Additionally, like the 'SPARQL' option discussed above, the 'Solr' option has the ability to provide additional bits of metadata to the display when the 'Display object metadata' option at the bottom of the form is selected. 

Content Models, Prescribed Datastreams and Forms

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

A collection created using the Basic Collection Solution Pack's content model will have the following datastreams:

RELS-EXT

Default Fedora relationship metadata

COLLECTION_POLICY

The collection's policies regarding applied content models and membership

TN

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DC

Dublin Core record

MODSMODS metadata record

The Collection Solution Pack comes with the Collection MODS form.