This page will be used to enumerate a list of features and requirements for robust management, discovery, display, and sharing of digitized newspaper content within a DAMS.
PCDM Mapping for Welsh Newspapers (NLW)
Admin (Ingestion, Metadata management, and Reporting)
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| Feature | Who wants it? | Notes/links/etc. |
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| Search within issue OCR | BPL, Yale, Princeton, Maryland, Alberta, UU, IUPUI, Cornell, Penn State | |
| Highlight search terms on page image | BPL, Yale, Maryland, Alberta; Princeton, UU, IUPUI, Cornell, Penn State | With ability to toggle these on/off |
| Highlight article bounds | Maryland, UU, Cornell, Penn State | Requires OCR in ALTO XML format |
| Download "clipped" article for newspapers with article segmentation | Boston College | Requires METS/ALTO with article segmentation and following "continuations" across pages |
| Download article as PDF | Maryland, UU, Cornell, IUPUI | If issue bounds are available, offer the option to download just the pages containing a particular article |
| Download issue as PDF | BPL, Yale, Princeton, Maryland, UU, IUPUI, Cornell | (from Yale) if the PDF could have a cover page that includes Rights information and metadata it would be ideal. |
| Download item text | BPL | Would allow user to download plain text for item (article, page, issue). |
| If animations are used for page turning, ability to turn them off. | Yale, Maryland, UU | |
| Search using multiple translated languages on a single page | Yale, Penn State | In the event that the OCR/coordinates for a page has been translated into multiple languages. |
| Advanced search - ability to search just the text captions for images | Yale | with understanding that it is possible to code the content in a way that makes this work (PCDM?) |
| Advanced search - ability to search text exclusively for advertisements (or exclude this text from a search including faceting) | Yale, UU | with understanding that it is possible to code the content in a way that makes this work (PCDM?) |
| Filter search by article type (article, obituary, advertisement etc.) where provided in the data | Alberta, UU | |
| Gallery display mode | UU | |
| Advanced search based on regions (city, county, state, country) | Penn State | |
| Calendar browse | Penn State, IUPUI, Boston College | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/issues/ |
| Download visualized snippet | Penn State | |
| Zoom & Pan with ability to serve image files and PDF files | Penn State | |
| Front page views | Penn State | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/issues/first_pages/ (strangely used a lot in user stats) |
| OCR correction functions | Penn State, Boston College, IUPUI, UU |
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| Feature | Who wants it? | Notes/links/etc. |
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| IIIF Presentation API for issue-level objects | BPL, Yale, Princeton, Alberta, Cornell, Penn State | |
| IIIF manifests for newspapers should function in off-the-shelf IIIF viewers (Mirador etc.) without modification or enhancement. | Alberta, UU | |
| Ability to integrate with existing IIIf services (i.e. make support for IIIf and other external services pluggable) | Maryland, Alberta, Penn State, IUPUI | For example, if an institution has a Loris server and a manifest generation app already, this app should support integration of those services |
| Expose PURLs for issues and pages | Maryland, Alberta, IUPUI | |
| Expose PURLs and citation metadata (human and machine readable) for articles where article-level metadata is available | Alberta | |
| Support redirects from legacy URLs for issues, pages, articles | Alberta, IUPUI | |
| API to get just the text | Penn State, UU, Princeton | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/#bulk-data |
| Open Annotations for OCR text, ideally linked in IIIF Presentation API | Penn State | |
| Open Search | Penn State | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/#search |
| Linked Data options | Penn State | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/#linked-data |
| CORS and JSONP support | Penn State | http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/#cors_jsonp |
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