Islandora 8 Webinar: Paged and Complex Content in Islandora 8

  • Introduction (1:00)
  • Modeling Paged Content (3:40)
    • There are three new content models for these:
      • Paged Content – for the parent object. In a book, this is the book itself.
      • Page – The parts under the parent object. For the book, its individual pages that you have images of, those would get assigned a page model.
      • Publication Issue – this is there and available to use, but they’re not really doing much with it currently. This would be a sequence of paged content objects.
    • So the order seems to go pages -> paged content -> publication issue. Meaning that a paged content is a sequence of pages and a publication issue is a sequence of paged contents.
    • The main thing that sets paged content modeling apart from other types of content that you can have in Islandora is the ordering of its children, giving them a correct sequence.
    • This ordering is done with a “weight” field.
      • Leaving the weight field empty will result in an unordered child.
      • Filling out the weight field, with positive values only, results in an ordered child.
      • By default, weight is represented by co:index in RDF.
    • Reordering can be done via a UI.
  • IIIF Manifests (8:20)
  • OCR Derivatives (13:32)
    • This is to help with knowing what’s inside the paged content and thus helpful for searching.
  • Versioning (16:43)
  • Demo (21:06)
  • Questions (50:59)
    • (50:59) What would happen to pages serving the same ordering number?
    • (51:59) What are the options for bulk ingest of paged content?
    • (54:10) Will there be any other viewers available soon, like Internet Archive Book Reader?
    • (55:11) When you search for all small, the result was a full page. Is there a way for a single small to be highlighted in the page?
    • (56:08) Will Open Cdragon and this indexing of edited text/OCR work with already OCR PDF files? (Yes)
    • (56:54) Can you have children of children? (Yes)
    • (57:43) Open Cdragon provides a nice interface for image-based complex objects, but have we thought about how non image-based complex objects we’ve rendered at the parent level?
    • (59:08) Can Open Cdragon handle the viewing of PDFs or is it just for image files? (Images files maybe, but they have a PDF handlers already)
    • (59:58) What happens when you upload more than one TIF or file to the same book page? What gets indexed first?