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FL-Islandora Guide: XIV. How to Add Books

A guide for FL-Islandora users.

How to Create a Book

How to Create a Book and Add Pages to it 

1. Logged in, navigate to the collection where you want to add a book. Click on Children near the top of the screen. Click on the Add Child button in the mid left of the screen. Click on Repository Item

First Click Children

Click Add Children Button

Click Repository Item

2. Select Page Content from the Model drop-down menu. Type in the name of the book in the Title box.

Select Page Content and type in Title

3.  Scroll down to Contributors and click on it. There are 2 parts to adding a contributor. If a name is just typed in and the Save button at the bottom is clicked an error message will appear at the top.

Green Arrow pointing to Name Stephen

Green Arrow pointing to Error message

4.  To add a Contributor first click “person” in blue font in the paragraph just under the Contributors boxes.

Green Arrow pointing to the word person in blue

4a.  Clicking on the person link or the other 2 links, will bring you to a Add term page for either person, family or corporate body. For this example, Add term for Person is used. Click into the Name box and type in the name. The Source default Canadian Subject Headings can be kept as long as no URL or Alternate link text is added. If a URL is added select an item from the Source drop down menu. Add any other info scrolling down to the bottom. Click the Save button when done.

Green Arrow pointing to Name box on Add term page

Green arrow pointing to Save button on Add term page

5.  Back at the Contributors boxes, select an item from the Relationship Type drop-down menu. In the second box, start to type in the name that was added and then select it.

Green Arrow point to box with name below Author

6.  Click on Publication Details and Dates to add a date if desired. Scroll down to the area where the date is to be added. Type the date in the form of YYYY-MM-DD. If you only have the year, then just put in the 4 digit year.  

Click on Publication Details and Dates

Type in Date info

 

7.  Click on Type and Extent. Choose Collection from the Type drop-down menu.

Click Type and Extent

Select Collection from Type

8.  Click on other items to add more information.  Click on Rights to add a rightsstatments or other Rights.

Click Rights to add Rightsstatement

9.  Click System. You can select from the Viewer Override drop-down menu either None or Mirador. The viewer for books defaults to Mirador.

Screenshot of green arrows pointing to System and None in Viewer Override box

10.  Click the Save button at the bottom.

Screenshot of green arrow pointing to Blue Save button

 

Congratulations you have now created your first Book! Now you can add a thumbnail and pages to the book. 

How to add a thumbnail

1. Click on Media. 

Click Media to add Thumbnail

2. Click on the Add Media button. 

Click the Add Media button

3. Click on Image. 

Click Image for Thumbnail

4. Click on the Browse Button to select the cover image of the book. Select Thumbnail Image under Media Use. Scroll down and click the Save button.

Adding a Thumbnail image picture

Adding a Thumbnail clicking the save button.

5. Click the Back to site in the upper left of the screen. It will bring you back to the book.

Click Back to site after adding Thumbnail

How to add pages to the book

1. Click on Children on the book that needs pages added to it.

Click on Children to add pages

2. Click on the Add Child button.

Click Add Child buton

3. Click Repository Item 

Click Repository Item

4. Select Page from the Model drop-down menu. Type in title of the page 1 of the book. So, for example: Page 1 of Gee Whoa.

Select Page and put in title for book pages

5. Scroll down click on Type and Extent and choose Text from the drop-down menu.

Select Text from Type drop-down menu for pages

6. Click on System.  In the Custom Sort Value box, either type in 1 or use the up arrow in the box to choose 1. For each additional page, increase the number by 1 for the Custom Sort Value box. For this example, the next page would be 2 and so forth for each additional page. Click the Save button at the bottom.

Click in Custom Sort Value

Click Save Button

Adding the Media

1. Click on Media.

Click Media for Pages

2. Click the Add Media button.

Click Add Media button

3. Click on File (for JP2s and TIFFs) or Image (for JPEGs). For instructions on using a PDF, click on the Using PDF's for Book pages

Click File or Image picture

4. The Name of the page is prefilled in. Click the Browse button to add the page. Click Original File under Media Use. 

Click Original File

Click Save button to save media

5. Click Back to site in the upper left of the screen to bring you back to the page that was just added. Click on the name of the book just above the title of the page to bring you back to the book.

Click Back to site

Click title of book

 

Repeat the steps under How to add pages to the book above for each additional page. 

Once you are done, you can click into the book. To page through the content, click the arrows at the bottom of the image. You can zoom in either with the mouse wheel To make the book page full screen by clicking the [  ] box on left side of viewer and click it again to exit the full screen.  The viewer is Mirador. For more info on the viewer go here: IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework).

Mirador Book Viewer

The other controls are as follows. Along the top right:

Top right controls of Miradora viewer

 

The rectangle with the line in when clicked allows the user to choose how the thumbnails are viewed. The choices are Off, Bottom or Right. Next the 3 dots when clicked, allows the user to show or hide image tools. The tools allow the users to rotate to the right, the left, Flip, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Greyscale, Invert colors, and Revert image. Next is a square box that when click on, is Maximize window or Minimize window. The last is a X that when clicked on, closes the window. You click the +START HERE button and then the thumbnail of the item to get back to viewer before the X was clicked. 

The Left side icons are:

The side Mirador Viewer Icons

A Blue Circle with white plus sign, when clicked Adds a resource. It brings up a window with the thumbnail of the item. Click the X in the blue circle to close that window. Next on the menu is an icon with 1 next to it that says it jumps to window. When clicked it shows a IIIF Manifest, which would be the book you are on.  Next is a gear icon that when clicked gives the following workspace settings: Show zoom controls, Select workspace type, Language, and Change theme.

 

 

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How to Batch Load Pages

Doing a Batch load of pages via the GUI using the instructions below is meant for small batch loads. Big batch loads please use Workbench. Additional information on the Paged Content page of Islandora Git Documentation.

 1. Create the book using steps 1-9 above. After the book is created, click into the book, and click Children. 

Click Children

2. Click the Batch Upload Children button.

3. Select Repository Item from the Content type drop-down menu. Select Page from the Model drop-down menu. Select Image or File from the Media type (image for jpgs and file for JP2 and Tiffs). Select Original File from under Usage. Click Next button.

4. Click the Browse button to select an image or a file. Type in an Alternative text. Repeat for each image or file you add. When done, click the Finish button.

Click Browse button picture

Click the Finish Button

5. After clicking the Submit button, the initializing bar comes up.

Bulk creating progress bar

6. When it finishes, it returns to the Add Child screen with the pages that you uploaded.

Manage members page with batch pages just uploaded

7. If needed, click on the Reorder Children button to reorder the pages to appear in the correct order. You can click on the image and drag to the order that you want. When done, click the Save button.

Click the Reorder Children Button

Click on image name to move picture

8. Click on the collection name in the breadcrumbs to get to the collection. You can then click into the book that you just uploaded.

Click on collection name

Click on the book picture

Now your book has the pages you batch uploaded.

Hymns for the Nightwatch book top portion

Hymns for the Nightwatch bottom portion showing pages

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How to Use PDF's for Book Pages

You must have only 1 page per PDF as you would for a JPG, JP2 and TIFF. You might try Adobe Acrobat Professional to separate your PDFs to 1 page per PDF.  Follow the sections on the Creating A Book and Adding Pages, above. However, on Step 9 under Creating A Book, choose PDF.js from the drop-down menu under Viewer Override. Click on System and 1 under Custom Sort Value for the first page. Add 1 for each additional page, so the next page would be 2.  Then click the Save button.

1. Once you create the book, click on Media to add the PDF pages. 

2, Click on the Add Media button.

3. Click on Document.

Click Document Picture

4. Click on the Browse button to select the PDF page. Select Original File under Media Use. Click the Save button.

Add PDF picture

5. Click the Back to site in the top left of the screen to bring you back to the page that you just uploaded. Then click on bread crumb for the name of the book just above the title of the page. This will you bring back to book. Click Children to add the rest of the pages of the book.

Click Back to Site Picture

6. When you are done adding the pages of the book, click into the book. You will see all the pages added in the book viewer.

PDF Book picture

 

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How to change a book page with a new page

There might be a time when a page in a book needs to be replaced with another page or the wrong page was added by mistake and the correct page needs to be added. Follow the instructions below to do this.

How to change a book page with a new page

1.  Logged in, navigate to the book that needs the page changed with a new page. Click Children.

Screen shot of book page with green arrow pointing to Children

2.  Click the name of the book page that you want to change.

Screen shot of manage member page with green arrow pointing to name of book page

3.  Click Media.

Screen shot of book page with green arrow pointing to Media

4.  On the Edit button, click on the down arrow and select delete.

Screen shot of Manage Media page with green arrows pointing to down arrow and delete on book page

5.  Click Delete on the Are you sure pop-up window.

Screen shot on  Are you sure you want to delete page pop up window with green arrow pointing to Delete

6.  After a Status message will appear stating the page has been deleted. Click Add Media button to add new page.

Screen shot of Status Message of page deleleted. With green arrow pointing to Add Media button.

7Click on File (for JP2s and TIFFs) or Image (for JPEGs). For instructions on using a PDF, scroll to the section How to Use a PDF for a Book.

Click File or Image picture

 

8.  The Name of the page is prefilled in. Click the Browse button to add the page. Click Original File under Media Use.

Click Original File

Adding a Thumbnail clicking the save button.

 

9.  Click Back to site in the upper left of the screen to bring you back to the page that was just added. Click on the name of the book just above the title of the page to bring you back to the book.

Click Back to site

Click title of book

The book will now be updated with the new page.