Features & Requirements
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)
| Feature | Who wants it? | Notes/links/etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Split PDF into page-level images | BPL, UU, Alberta, Penn State, IUPUI | |
| Ingest from CONTENTdm export | Yale, IUPUI | |
| Bulk ingest of NDNP-compliant data | UU, Maryland, Penn State | specification doc https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/guidelines/NDNPTechSpecs_Overview.pdf |
| Manage content according to alternative orderings/groupings (e.g. microfilm reel, or book for bound sets) | Maryland | This would support cases where issue-level metadata is not (yet) available |
Bulk ingest of "generic" METS/ALTO data *including METS/ALTO with article segmentation | Alberta; Princeton, UU, Cornell, Penn State *Boston College | Supporting tweaking of params to address minor differences |
| Bulk ingest of Olive data | Alberta | Anyone? |
Bulk ingest of PDFs | Penn State; Alberta | |
| Generate a report for collections like item counts and usage statistics | IUPUI; Alberta | |
| Admin dashboard | IUPUI, UU; Alberta | |
| Google Analytics Support | UU; Alberta; IUPUI | Or Piwik |
| Edit metadata records | UU, BPL, Alberta, IUPUI | Individual record editing; and bulk record updating |
| Modify images | rotate, regenerate derivatives, etc. | |
| Edit image sequence |
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User
| Feature | Who wants it? | Notes/links/etc. |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
API
| Feature | Who wants it? | Notes/links/etc. |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Non-Functional
| Feature | Who wants it? | Notes/links/etc. |
|---|---|---|
| Page turning is high performing | Yale, Cornell, Boston College | Less than 1 second to navigate page to page |
| every web page should be able to be bookmarked | Yale, Cornell, Penn State | meaning pages should not use session variables that construct page contents. A user should be able to email a link and the receiver sees the page same as the sender. |