Islandora Newspaper Ingest

Newspaper Ingest

Please open a Support Center ticket, if you want to add a new newspaper title.

Islandora 2 handles Newspapers differently. One significant change is that Islandora 2 will not convert PDF into individual TIFF pages. Therefore, convert the PDF to individual TIFFs before ingesting or ingesting the PDF document. Depending on the file format, the instructions for ingesting differ. Please follow the instructions based on the file format, TIFF or PDF. 


TIFF Adding an issue to an existing newspaper title

  1. Click to the newspaper title (the screen with years (issues listed).
  2. Click the Children tab
  3. Click +Add Child
  4. Choose Repository Item
  5. Choose Model Publication Issue
  6. Add title of the issue, for example: School Newspaper, March 1, 1923. 
  7. The "member-of" field will be automatically populated. Please do not change the value in the member-of field.
  8. Do NOT select a collection. The main title (parent) is already associated with a Collection.
  9. You MUST fill in the Date Issued field in Year-Month-Day format (1923-03-01). This step enables users to select a specific issue. Further, it enables Islandora to create the Year expand to month display.
  10. Enter metadata associated with the specific issue.
  11. Click Save

TIFF Adding pages to issues

  1. Click on Children tab.
  2. Choose +Batch Upload Children.
  3. Content type select Repository item.
  4. Model select Page.
  5. Media Type select File.
  6. Select the Original File box in the Usage section, if not already selected.
  7. Click next
  8. Select the files/pages to upload
  9. Wait for the spinning wheel to stop spinning and you see a message that the pages were uploaded successfully.
  10. Click finish

PDF Adding issue to existing newspaper title

  1. Click to the newspaper title (the screen with years (issues listed).
  2. Click the Children tab
  3. Click +Add Child
  4. Choose Repository Item
  5. Choose Digital Document
  6. Add title of the issue, for example: School Newspaper, March 1, 1923. 
  7. The "member-of" field will be automatically populated. Please do not change the value in the member-of field.
  8. Do NOT select a collection. The main title (parent) is already associated with a Collection.
  9. You MUST fill in the Date Issued field in Year-Month-Day format (1923-03-01). This step enables users to select a specific issue. Further, it enables Islandora to create the Year expand to month display.
  10. Enter metadata associated with the specific issue.
  11. Click Save

PDF Adding Document

  1. Click on Media tab.
  2. Choose +Add Media
  3. Choose Document from the list.
  4. Choose File to navigate to the document to upload.
  5. Wait for the spinning wheel to stop spinning and you see a message that the pages were uploaded successfully.
  6. Select the Original File box in the Usage section, if not already selected.
  7. Click Safe

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