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	https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ 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		Remove images Reorder images Insert images

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.