Islandora is an open-source framework that provides the necessary tools to use a Drupal website as a fully-functional Digital Assets Management System. See Quickstart to get started.
Islandora:
Can handle messages at scale - Islandora created Alpaca, an integration middleware based on Apache Camel, to handle messaging and queueing at an enterprise scale. To the user, this means large batch uploads can be processed gracefully.
Offers digital preservation features - Using a robust storage layer for preservation (Fedora), and generating technical metadata with FITS, are digital preservation tools provided by our automated installation methods. Community members have created additional features for doing digital preservation using Islandora, which are not yet part of our automated setup.
The Islandora community is an active group of users, managers, librarians, documenters, and developers from galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions worldwide. We welcome discussion and contribution through various mailing lists, channels, interest groups, and calls. The Islandora community operates under the Islandora Code Of Conduct. See our Contributing Guidelines for more information.
Documentation for previous versions
Documentation for Islandora Legacy (6 and 7) is on the Lyrasis documentation wiki.
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Interested in contributing to the Islandora documentation? Join the Community!
The Islandora community is an active group of users, managers, librarians, documenters, and developers from GLAM (and beyond!) institutions worldwide. We welcome discussion and contribution through various mailing lists, channels, interest groups, and calls. The Islandora community operates under the Islandora Code Of Conduct. See our Contributing Guidelines for more information, or drop by a meeting of the Documentation Interest Group for a helping hand.
Documentation for previous versions
Documentation for Islandora 6 and 7 is on the Lyrasis documentation wiki.
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$ cd activemq_install_dir/bin\n$ ./activemq start\nWhen ActiveMQ gets started, go to http://localhost:8161/admin/. You can login using admin:admin.
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Islandora Starter Site provides:
field_member_of field, so that users may add nodes of this type to a collection (or paged content, or compound resource),For more details, see the tutorial on How to create and add to a collection
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There are two schemes you can use for derivatives:
Derivative configuration is stored using Drupal's Actions. This means that all derivative configuration, such as parameters dictating the derivative size and quality can be edited by a repository administrator in the Drupal GUI under Manage > System > Actions.
As Actions, they can be executed on nodes manually using Views Bulk Operations. They can also be configured to run automatically on media save thanks to Islandora's additions to the Drupal [Contexts] module.
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You can set up as many of these as you like, with \"and\" or \"or\" logic between them.
In the \"Reactions\" section is where you can set up derivatives. For standard model derivatives, choose the \"Derivatives\" reaction. This lists all actions, including derivative actions. Note that multifile derivatives won't work here.
Multi-file media
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Within a single content type (i.e. metadata profile), Islandora provides the ability to designate some objects as different \"types\" than others. Key behaviours, such as what derivatives are created or what viewer is used, can be configured (see Contexts) based on this value. The available values are taxonomy terms in the Islandora Models vocabulary, and they are attached to nodes via the special mandatory field, \"Model\" (field_model), which must be present on all Islandora content types. These values are installed through a Drupal Migration after the Islandora module is installed. All installation methods perform this migration, so out of the box, the following values should be available in the Islandora Models vocabulary:
With Islandora alone, choosing a value from this list will have zero effects. The contingent behaviour must be configured during repository implementation. Islandora Starter Site provides an example of what behaviours are possible for these types.
The External URI field
This vocabulary, like many others in Islandora, includes an External URI field. This is intended to be used when transforming Islandora content into RDF, but also serves to make it easier to share configuration. Islandora provides code so that context conditions and derivative configs can be created without referencing the taxonomy term by ID, rather, using the taxonomy term's External URI. Since terms IDs are likely to change across sites, this makes our configs more portable.
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Then, the media \"of\" an Islandora node (if any) will appear in that node's \"Media\" tab. From this tab, there are also links to add new Media, individually or in batch. When media are created this way, their \"Media of\" field is automatically populated with the current node.
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Nodes, Media, and taxonomy terms can have their RDF (per their mappings) exposed to the world as RDF formatted in the JSON-LD syntax thanks to the Islandora-built JSON-LD Drupal module. The JSON-LD module converts the RDF metadata, with some alterations, to a JSON-LD format that can be consumed by RDF consumers such as Fedora and Blazegraph.
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The Islandora Starter Site contains no code, only references to other modules and lots of Drupal configuration. A very motivated person could re-create the Starter Site just by installing and configuring modules. This means there's nothing tying you to using the Starter Site. There's also nothing tying you to doing things in a particular way. Also, it means that you won't be getting any \"updates\" - there's no code to update.
To experience the full Islandora Starter Site, it requires access to external services such as Solr, Fedora, Alpaca, and Matomo. It is therefore suggested to deploy the Starter Site using one of our deployment platforms: ISLE-DC (using the make starter or make starter_dev commands), ISLE Site Template, or the Islandora Playbook (using the starter (default) or starter_dev option in the Vagrantfile).
If you are reading this document then you are interested in contributing to Islandora. You do not need to be a programmer to speak up! By joining the Islandora community, you agree to abide by the Islandora Code of Conduct.
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Slack: Use this invite link to join our Slack workspace. If you're not sure what channels you're looking for, get started by asking your questions in the #general channel!
Google Group: Subscribe to the mailing list by joining the Google Group.
Github: Although you can participate without a Github account, having one ensures you can be made a member of the Islandora General Members team to better enable your access to the Islandora project. Additionally, it will allow you to be tagged on relevant issues or pull requests that are of interest to you! To become a part of the Islandora General Members Github team, email community@islandora.ca or use the Onboarding form.
Attend our weekly Zoom meetings on Wednesdays at 1:00 PM EST! You can access these meetings through our Agendas or our Community Calendar. We discuss the past week's Github activity in Issues and Pull Requests, and any other topics that are raised. Anybody is welcome to join the call, and add items to the agenda.
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Issue templates are provided for the following:
Issues are reviewed during the Weekly Open Tech Call every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
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Committers are supported in their specific work by having permissions to do things like merge code as well as manage Github, Slack, and the Website. The current list of committers is managed as a group in Github, and can be viewed in the Github repository by existing members. A separate list of committers is publicly available at the bottom of this page. If a committer does not make a contribution in a year (without known mitigating circumstances) they are usually moved out of the committers GitHub group and listed as an Emeritus committer. There are subgroups with specific enhanced access depending on their skills and levels of commitment to the codebase. These are more fully explained in this spreadsheet of keys and permissions. If you have questions about committers, you can send them to the Chair of the TAG committee, or to community@islandora.ca
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The following is an alphabetized list of the current Islandora committers:
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A great maintainer also communicates important changes within the component to the community.
As maintainer, you are empowered to:
If these responsibilities are not being performed, and/or you choose to step down as maintainer, the TAG will attempt to find another maintainer. If no maintainer can be found, and the TAG/Committers do not elect to jointly maintain the component, it may be deprecated.
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Upon receiving a nomination:
Checklist for a new committer (can be completed by sponsor or designate):
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The Islandora community uses GitHub issues to track bug reports, requests for improvements, requests for new features, and use cases. Issues are welcome from anyone who works with Islandora.
The Islandora issue queue is maintained in the Islandora Documentation repository on GitHub. Issues posted to the queue are reviewed weekly on the Islandora Tech Call. Members of the Islandora community can then respond to posted issues by replying with comments, taking on the assignment to do the work described in the issue, or making pull requests relating to the issue.
Video version available
The material in this tutorial is presented in our video, Create a GitHub Issue.
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Submit documentation formatted in Markdown format.
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*italic text* or _italic text_, for UI elements that have a label or title if you need to reference them in the documentation. For example, a title of a screen or page that will visit should be made italic in Markdown.>> and **bold text** to indicate clicking through nested menu items, and also include the direct path. Example: **Administration** >> **Structure** >> **Views** (/admin/structure/views)\n- instead of * for bulleted lists. Indent four (4) spaces for nested lists (Github renders nesting in markdown with 2 spaces, but mkdocs needs 4). Example: - I am a list item\n - And I am a sub-item.\nExample:
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The Islandora Documentation Interest Group holds regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each month between 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST to discuss how to improve and expand Islandora's documentation. If you are interested in becoming involved, all are welcome to join! You can view DIG meetings on the Islandora community calendar and add them to your own calendar by clicking the event and selecting \"copy to my calendar\". If you just want to make a contribution to the existing documentation, that process is outlined here.
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\u2192 If you are not a member of the Islandora GitHub organization, GitHub will create a new fork of the documentation repository in your GitHub account. From there you can make a pull request to have your changes sent back to the main Islandora documentation repo to be reviewed and accepted.
\u2192 If you are a member of the Islandora GitHub organization, you will be able to create a new temporary branch within the main Islandora documentation repo, and then create a pull request by selecting Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request. Give your branch a brief name starting with your username, with no spaces, indicating what it is for. Then click Commit changes.
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Learn more about Islandora's Versioning Policy
Note to module maintainers specifying composer requirements: please familiarize yourself with the Next Significant Release Modifiers so that module dependencies are as permissive as possible. Most often dependency versions should be tagged using the caret (^) so that bug-fixes and minor releases can be pulled in without updating their module\u2019s composer file.
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~/.gradle/gradle.properties) exists and includes the following: ossrhUsername = jiraname\nossrhPassword = jirapass\nsigning.keyId = pubkeyid\nsigning.password = keypassphrase\nsigning.secretKeyRingFile = /your/home/.gnupg/secring.gpg\ngit is configured (locally or globally) to cache github credentials for https or use sshNote: As of GPG 2.1 secring.gpg has been removed so you need to export secret keys to create the secret key ring.
gpg --export-secret-keys -o secring.gpg\nThe following assumes you are using ssh (e.g. git@github.com for authentication).
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The release process will also generate documentation at ./docs/<new-version>. This will need to be added to the git repository and pushed to the master branch:
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Release the jsonld module by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
Release the openseadragon module by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
Release the islandora_mirador module by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
Release the migrate_islandora_csv module by creating a new release for it in Github. This module is minimally maintained on Drupal.org and if you are updating it, consider editing that.
Release chullo by creating a new release for it in Github.
Crayfish commons depends on the chullo library, and must have its dependencies updated before release.
islandora/chullo from dev-dev to the release you just made in the previous step.composer update -Wcomposer.json and composer.lock files to Github.crayfish-commons by creating a new release in Githubislandora/chullo back to dev-devcomposer update -W againcomposer.json and composer.lock files to Github with a commit message of \"Preparing for next development iteration\".Crayfish depends on the crayfish-commons library, and must have its dependencies updated before release.
islandora/crayfish-commons in each composer.json for each microservice except for Houdini. Houdini needs the dev-symfony-flex branch of Crayfish Commons, so just leave that dependency alone for now.composer update -W on each microservice. I did this with a little bash-fu: for D in */; do (cd $D; composer update -W) donecomposer.json and composer.lock files to Github.islandora/crayfish-commons back to dev-dev except for Houdini.composer update -W on each microservice again. for D in */; do (cd $D; composer update -W) done makes this easy.composer.json and composer.lock files to Github with a commit message of \"Preparing for next development iteration\".Release controlled_access_terms by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
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git tag -d TAG_NAME; git push --delete origin TAG_NAMEYou cannot follow these steps when publishing to Sonatype with Alpaca, but this should rarely be an issue. Instead, increment the version number and tag a new release.
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If you are testing a pull request, or for other reasons need to replace the \"official\" code with code that's in a PR, or a different branch or fork, this page offers three methods: using Composer Patches, using Composer to require the branch and/or fork, or installing source repositories with Composer.
This documentation applies to Drupal modules, themes, and recipes, or any other project that is managed by Composer.
Can't I just git clone?
When managing a non-developmental site with Composer, it's very fragile to use commands like git clone to obtain code, as it can be overwritten by a composer update.
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Run the following commands from within your site's root folder. They will update your composer.json file.
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If you don't have a PR, you could create a patch using diff. However, this patch will be static and will need to be updated manually if your code changes. You can put patches in a folder in your root directory such as [COMPOSER_ROOT]/assets/ and then the patch location would be assets/my_patch_name.patch.
This one-liner, with the substitutions above, will add the patch to your composer.json:
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composer update MY_PACKAGE\nThe patch should apply, and then you will be running a patched version! If you're using a dynamic patch, then running composer update again should pull in changes to the code.
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Prepare the following replacement tokens before adding a repository:
REPO_NAME: a name for this repository (mandatory if using the composer one-liner), e.g. rosiel-islandoraREPO_URL: the URL to the repository, e.g. https://github.com/rosiel/islandora# Add custom repo\ncomposer config repo.REPO_NAME vcs REPO_URL\ncomposer.json file should now contain {\n...\n\"repositories\": {\n...\n\"REPO_NAME\": {\n\"type\": \"vcs\",\n\"url\": \"REPO_URL\"\n}\n}\n}\nOrder of precedence of repositories
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composer require MY_PACKAGE:dev-MY_BRANCH_NAME\nwith the following replacements:
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composer reinstall MY_PACKAGE --prefer-source\nMY_PACKAGE: the full Composer name of the package. Example: drupal/islandoraThis will pull the code from the source repository (i.e. including the .git files) and add the package code at the same version of the MY_PACKAGE that was previously installed and is in the lock file.
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composer reinstall \"drupal/islandora\" --prefer-source --no-cache\nFollow Github's documentation to pull the code from the pull request to review.
Now you can test your specified code, as well as edit the code and create commits. Note that if you're doing this in a throwaway environment such as a VM or a Docker Container, you will need to configure authentication (e.g. install an SSH key with Github) before you can push your commits.
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This list includes four different kinds of components:
Combined together, Apache, PHP, and MySQL/PostgreSQL comprise a LAMP or LAPP server used to provide end-user-facing components - namely, the website.
Apache is the webserver that will serve up webpages to the public. It will also manage some internal functionality provided by Crayfish, and will expose Cantaloupe to the public. We\u2019ll be making changes to the VirtualHost entry, enabling some modules, and modifying the ports configuration. The VirtualHost entry will eventually be modified when we need to expose other services like Cantaloupe to the public.
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Syn is the authorization piece that allows Fedora to connect to other components.
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Solr will be installed as a standalone application. Nothing of particular importance needs to happen here; the configuration will be applied when search_api_solr is installed.
search_api_solr is the Drupal module that implements the Solr API for Drupal-side searches. After installing and configuring the module, the drush solr-gsc command will be used to generate Solr configs, and these configs will be moved to the Solr configuration location.
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To test out Islandora, there is a Starter-Site based Portainer demo available (Download the .zip file). This demo is loaded with sample content to demonstrate features of Islandora and provide a starting point for exploration. Follow the instructions in the README.md.html file provided in the download.
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If no content is showing up in your local installation when on islandora.io in a browser, you may need to wait longer for the deployment process to complete. 1. Go to \u2018containers\u2019, click the \u2018logs\u2019 for \u2018sandbox-drupal-1\u2019 to see the deployment process. When completed you will see:
#####################\n# Install Completed #\n#####################\nIf Docker Desktop and Virtual Machine (Vmmem in Task Manager) are taking up too much CPU and RAM, you can create a .wslconfig file to limit how much of your computers resources are allocated to these processes: 1. Open Notepad++ and type the following:
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You can quickly create a new \"out of the box\" Islandora VM by just re-doing the last step (provisioning Islandora) while using your existing base box. In doing this, you will destroy your existing VM, and all of its configuration and data. This will not upgrade PHP, apache, or other back-end services (see below, \"Refreshing your base box.\")
vagrant destroy\nvagrant up\nIf you want to use the Playbook to rebuild the base box (e.g. if this playbook now includes updated versions of PHP or Apache), then you will need to take some extra steps to ensure that Vagrant sees your new base box.
vagrant destroy # Delete your existing VM\nvagrant box remove islandora_base # clear Vagrant's cached version of islandora_base\nISLANDORA_BUILD_BASE=true vagrant up # and proceed to package the box, as above.\nThis is because once you use the base box once, it is stored in the vagrant box list under your home directory. While subsequent builds of ISLANDORA_BUILD_BASE=true vagrant up will build a new box and you can package it, but that file does not update the cached box and consequently you still get the old base box when you try build a VM. See vagrant box documentation for more useful commands for managing base boxes.
The ansible-playbook command using playbook.yml can provision a remote environment. First, you will need to create a new folder in inventory/ with the details of your remote deployment. This includes:
Before beginning, you may want to:
sudo) as this user. See Ansible Docs on Understanding privilege escalation: becomeWe're going to build up this new remote environment configuration from the default provided Vagrant configuration. To start, take the inventory for the vagrant development environment and make a copy of it. Be sure to give it an appropriate name. Here we're using production.
$ git clone https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook\n$ cd islandora-playbook\n$ cp -r inventory/vagrant inventory/production\nThen you can update the following entries in the following files using your own information. If an entry does not exist in a file, just add it. Ansible will then use the value you provide instead of relying on its defaults.
We're using changeme to represent passwords and assume the server will be available at example.org, but you'll want to provide your own values.
# Drupal\ndrupal_db_password: changeme\ndrupal_account_pass: changeme\n\n# MySQL/Postgres\nislandora_db_root_password: changeme\n\n# Tomcat\nislandora_tomcat_password: changeme\n\n# Syn\nislandora_syn_token: changeme\n\n# Cantaloupe\ncantaloupe_admin_password: changeme\n\n# Fedora\nfcrepo_db_password: changeme\nThis is where we specify that the webserver is listening on the default port 80, instead of the development machine port 8000.
apache_listen_port: 80\nYou will have to add the matomo line.
matomo_site_url: http://example.org\nIf you have a domain name, change the default to your domain name.
- servername: \"myactualddomain.com\"\nIf you have a domain name, change the default to your domain name. And set the Drupal site name to whatever you need it to be.
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$ rm -rf roles/external\nWhen provisioning using a local environment, you should be aware of any ports that are already in use by your computer that are also going to be used by Vagrant, as these may clash and cause problems during and after provisioning. These include:
If there are port clashes for any of these, you will need to either find and replace them in the configuration .yml files under inventory/vagrant/group_vars, or provide new values for the different playbooks that support changing the ports (for example, postgresql_databases supports adding a port property which is currently simply unused). You will also need to replace the port forwarding values in Vagrantfile.
Additionally, Ansible attempts to use port 2200 for SSH. If this port is already in use, your local environment cannot be provisioned. To change this, set a new value for ansible_port in inventory/vagrant/hosts.
If you run into any issues installing the environment, do not hesitate to email the mailing list to ask for help. If you think you've stumbled across a bug in the installer, please create an issue in the Islandora issue queue and give it an ansible tag.
There are several ways to try Islandora, which are presented here in order of increasing sophistication. By default, they all install the Islandora Starter Site which is a starting place for customizing your own site, as well as our suite of external services.
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Follow the instructions in the Site Template README to create a new site from the Islandora Starter Site
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Replace the Starter Site's composer.json and composer.lock files with yours, and install the correct Drupal modules using Composer
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If you have custom modules and/or themes that are not installed via Composer you will need to install those as well.
Compare your old Dockerfile with the one in the Site Template repository. If you have made customizations, you may want to replicate them in the new Dockerfile.
Backup your ISLE-DC site's Fedora, Drupal database, and public/private files.
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Delete your Solr core, and regenerate new configs.
The main difference between ISLE-DC and the Site Template is the way the docker-compose.yml file is generated. In ISLE-DC we generate it based on your .env variables and a make command, but in Site Template it is ready to go out of the box.
This means that in ISLE-DC you had separate docker-compose.yml files for development and production, but in site template there is one file for both, which contains instructions for a \u201cdev\u201d and \u201cprod\u201d profile. The end result is the same set of containers, but instead of running docker compose up you would run docker compose --profile dev up
You should compare the environment sections of your docker-compose.yml files. You may have some variables set in your ISLE-DC docker-compose.yml that will need to be added to the docker-compose.yml in the new Site Template site.
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Because ISLE-DC and Site Template use the same containers, much of what is in an ISLE-DC Makefile will work within the site template environment. The main differences that need to be addressed are with the way new sites are built, and the name of the containers.
Commands to build a site, like make starter and make production are not necessary with the Site Template, so they can be removed from your Makefile.
Many of the other commands specify which containers to run commands in, for example docker compose exec drupal, but in the Site Template environment you need to specify -dev or -prod, so that would be changed to docker compose exec drupal-dev or docker compose exec drupal-prod.
If you have modified your ISLE-DC repository, those modifications will need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. This includes editing the Dockerfile and environment variables mentioned above, as well as any other customizations you may have made, such as to settings.php, robots.txt, nginx configs, etc.
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"},{"location":"installation/docker/docker-introduction/#why-use-isle","title":"Why use ISLE?","text":"ISLE's architecture using Docker separates out the \"state\" of your site (i.e. all the content, files, and configurations that you've entered) from the underlying software that runs it (e.g. webserver, database, microservices, etc). This allows for easier upgrades, faster development, and more flexible deployment. It is hands down the easiest way to install, run, and maintain and Islandora instance.
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The following pieces of software are not unique to Islandora, and there are many great resources online to learn more about them. Below is a brief introduction to each piece and how they fit into your Islandora site. There are also many great videos on the Islandora Foundation's YouTube page if you would like to learn more about how they are used within the context of Islandora.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/docker-prereq/#git","title":"Git","text":"Git is a version control system that is used to store the code for Islandora. When you first download ISLE you will be downloading it using Git. Git is also useful for managing your site's Drupal codebase, once you have a site up and running.
More about using Git for Drupal sites can be found in the Drupal documentation.
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The three main components of Docker are Images, Containers, and Volumes.
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"},{"location":"installation/docker/docker-prereq/#requirements-for-using-isle-with-docker-compose","title":"Requirements for using ISLE with Docker Compose","text":"sudo apt update and sudo apt install make to installWhat are we missing?
Are you, or your computer, new to spinning up development sandboxes? Do you have wisdom about installing make on Windows? We suspect these requirements may be incomplete and your experience would be appreciated at Issue #1640.
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Memory, Processors, and Swap Requirements
To run ISLE on Docker Desktop, you must increase the resources allocated to the software. See Docker docs on setting resources on Windows (see note on how to allocate/restrict memory when using WSL 2) or setting resources on Mac.
CPUs (processors): The CPUs allowed to Docker Desktop are still shared with the host machine, so increasing this to the maximum value should allow both the Docker containers and your host machine to run simultaneously.
Memory (RAM): This memory is completely dedicated to Docker while Docker Desktop is running, so do not allocate more than you can spare and still run your host machine. Windows users may not require as much memory for Docker as Mac users. Current suggestions for memory allocated to Docker Desktop are below, but please edit this document if you have new information.
Swap: Swap space is space borrowed from your hard disk drive to serve as makeshift RAM as needed. If you cannot provide as much RAM as you would like, increase this as is reasonable given your free disk space.
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make -B docker-compose.yml will rebuild your docker-compose.yml file based on configuration in your .env file. make demo and make local will automatically do this for you, but if you change configuration at a later point in time, you'll need to run this command to see your changes reflected.
make config-export will export your site's configuration to your site's config sync directory (usually config/sync inside your Drupal root folder).
make config-import will import site's configuration from your site's config sync directory (usually config/sync inside your Drupal root folder).
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make reindex-solr will rebuild rebuild Solr search index for your repository.
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ISLE Docker Compose has a single configuration file, .env. Within it, here is all the values you can set and their effects. This list is subjectively sorted in order of importance and usefulness.
Setting the ENVIRONMENT changes how your docker-compose.yml file gets constructed. When you switch from a demo to development to production environment, this is the variable to change.
Available values for this setting are
demo - For demo environments where you do not need access to the codebaselocal - For development environments where you need edit the codebasecustom - For production environments where your codebase gets baked into a custom containerBy default, this is set to demo.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
What domain your Islandora site will be available at. If you are deploying anywhere other than your personal machine, you'll probably want to change this.
By default, this is set to islandora.traefik.me.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Changing this after installation has consequences
If you are indexing RDF metadata in Fedora and/or a triplestore, please be aware of the implications of changing this once you have installed. By changing your domain, all of the subjects of your triples will be incorrect and you will have to reindex. There are make commands to streamline this process, but if you have lots of data it can potentially be costly in terms of time and effort.
Repository to use for pulling isle-buildkit images.
By default, this is set to islandora. Change to local to use images you have built locally with isle-buildkit, or use your custom docker registry if you have set up one.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
The version of the isle-buildkit images to use. Non isle-buildkit images have their versions specified explicitly in their respective docker-compose files.
By default, this is set to the latest stable release of isle-buildkit.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Whether or not you want to use secrets. For demo and development environments, secrets are not required. They are essential if you are running a production environment, though.
Secrets are contained in the secrets folder within your isle-dc installation. Each file represents an individual secret, and its contents are the value you're trying to protect.
Available values for this setting are:
truefalseIf you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Which install profile to use when making an initial installation. Valid values for this setting are the machine names of any Drupal profile.
By default, this is set to standard.
Set this to true if you want to install an existing Drupal site whose configuration was exported with drush config:export
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to false.
If you set this to true, be sure to set DRUPAL_INSTALL_PROFILE to minimal.
Whether or not to include Watchtower as a service. When developing isle-buildkit, this is extremely useful and will auto-deploy new containers as you make changes. You should not use watchtower on production environments, though.
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to true.
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Whether or not to include etcd as a service.
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to false. If you don't know what etcd is, then leave this be.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Whether or not to include the coder IDE as a service. If you're developing on Islandora, this can be pretty useful when developing. You should not deploy this service on production environments.
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to false.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Which database engine to use for Drupal.
Available values are - mariadb - postgres
By default, this value is set to mariadb.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
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If you are changing from mariadb to postgres or vice versa, you MUST migrate your data yourself. ISLE will not convert your database from one to the other, and it's generally not advised to change this once you've installed.
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"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-available-configuration/#compose_project_name","title":"COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME","text":"Used for naming services in traefik as well as defining network alias and urls. For example the drupal service will be found at ${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}_drupal_1. This is useful to change if you are running multiple ISLE instances on one machine.
By default, this value is set to isle-dc.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Allows building your custom image when setting ENVIRONMENT=custom
By default, this is set to 1.
You most likely will never have a need to change this.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-available-configuration/#docker_buildkit","title":"DOCKER_BUILDKIT","text":"Instructs Docker to use buildkit when building your custom image.
By default, this is set to 1.
You most likely will never have a need to change this. Trust us, you want buildkit.
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By default, this is set to Dockerfile.
You most likely will never have a need to change this.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Set this to true to disable JWT authentication for Fedora. This is necessary when performing a Fedora import using their import/export tools.
By default, this is set to false.
Whether or not to use Fedora 6. If you set this to false, you will be given Fedora 5. In general, unless you already have an existing site on Fedora 5, you'll want Fedora 6.
By default, this is set to true.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
After you've finished installing Islandora using ISLE, here's some useful information to keep close at hand about running your site.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-basic-usage/#important-files","title":"Important Files","text":"The make commands that you used to install Islandora will leave you with two very important files.
.env A configuration file that is yours to customize. This file controls how the docker-compose.yml file gets generated to meet your use case.It also allows you to set variables that make their way into the final docker-compose.yml file, such as your site's domain. docker-compose.yml A ready to run docker-compose.yml file based on your .env file. This file is considered disposable. When you change your .env file, you will generate a new one."},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-basic-usage/#available-services","title":"Available Services","text":"Here's a list of all the available services. Note that there are some services over http and not https. Those aren't meant to be exposed to the public, but internally people from your organization will want to access them. In practice, you can restrict access to these services using firewall rules to just those who you trust.
If you want to stop Islandora, you can bring down all the containers with
docker-compose down\nIf you want to start Islandora back up after stopping it, use
docker-compose up -d\nIf you want to stop Islandora and delete all of its content, use
docker-compose down -v\nIf you make changes to configuration in the .env file, you may need to regenerate your docker-compose.yml file so that those changes take effect.
make -B docker-compose.yml\nOnce you have a new docker-compose.yml file, you'll need to restart your containers that have had configuration change. You can do this easily with
docker-compose up -d\nEven if the site is up and running, that command will only restart the containers it needs to.
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docker ps -a\nYou can tail logs using
docker-compose logs service_name
For example, to tail nginx logs for Drupal, use docker-compose logs drupal.
If you don't know what you're looking for exactly, you can turn on the fire hose and look through all logs by dropping the service name and simply using
docker-compose logs
If you are deploying Islandora on a server that is publicly accessible, there are extra precautions you should take for performance and security reasons.
For local development we bind mount our codebase (Drupal) folder so that we can do development work locally, outside of our Docker container. For a production site we don\u2019t want to do this. Instead, we make changes to our development site, then build a Drupal image with our changes that we can use on our production site instead of the default Islandora Drupal image.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-custom/#creating-your-image","title":"Creating your Image","text":"In order to generate that custom Drupal image we need to set up a development environment. You will do this on your development computer, rather than your production server.
Once your development site is set up you will need somewhere to store your custom Drupal image. You should create a private repository in your container registry of choice (Dockerhub, GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
Once you have a place to store it, you can create your custom Drupal image by editing your .env to set CUSTOM_IMAGE_NAMESPACE to your dockerhub username or the URL and username for your container repository, and CUSTOM_IMAGE_NAME to the name of the repository you just created.
Once this is done you can run make build to create the image from a Dockerfile. If you don't have a custom Dockerfile, it will create one from sample.Dockerfile. This will create a new image from the Islandora Drupal image, with your codebase folder copied into the image during the build process.
You should now have a custom Drupal image on your local machine. You will need to docker login to your container registry to push your image, so make sure to do that if you haven't yet (you should only need to do this once). You can then push this image to your container registry by running make push-image.
Now that you have a development site set up with your own codebase folder, you should create a new git repository for your site. This way you can easily spin up a new site based on your modules and configuration, instead of the Islandora Starter Site. This will also allow you to sync changes between your production, staging, and development sites.
You will likely want to include the Isle-dc directory as well as your codebase folder in your git repository. This will allow you to make modifications to your Makefile, Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, etc. and keep those modifications alongside your Drupal files in the codebase folder. To store these files in your own private repository you should change the git remote repository URL from the Isle-DC URL to the URL for your private repository.
Note that Isle-DC has the codebase folder in its .gitignore, so you will want to remove codebase* from your .gitignore. You don't need the web or vendor directories to be stored in your repo, since they will be added when you do a composer install during the site setup, so you can add those into your .gitignore as codebase/vendor/* and codebase/web/*.
At this point you should have a custom git repository and a custom Drupal image, and both should be accessible by your production server. On your production server you will need to clone your custom copy of Isle-dc, copy the sample.env file, and name it .env.
In that .env you should set the following variables:
ENVIRONMENT=custom\nCOMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=(same as dev site)\nCUSTOM_IMAGE_NAMESPACE=(same as dev site)\nCUSTOM_IMAGE_NAME=(same as dev site)\nDOMAIN=your-domain.com\nOnce this is set up, run make production to install your drupal site. You can generate new secrets for your production passwords, or copy them from your dev server if you would like them to be the same.
At this point, your site is ready, but you won't be able to access it at your URL until you update the SSL certificates (see TLS section below).
Codebase Folder
Because your codebase folder is in your git repository it will be cloned to your development server, but unlike in your development environment, it is not bound to the Drupal container. This means that any change you make to those files will not be represented in your Drupal site.
You can also use this folder to build your Drupal image on the production server instead of on your development server if you like.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-custom/#secrets","title":"Secrets","text":"Sensitive information, such as passwords, should never be built into a container. It also shouldn't ever be bind-mounted in like we do with our codebase folder. If you use secrets, it's like bind-mounting in a file, except that file is provided from the host machine to the container using an encrypted channel.
Secrets are on by default. They can be toggled in your .env file, but you should never turn them off for production sites.
USE_SECRETS=true\nThe secrets themselves are stored in the secrets/live folder of isle-dc. If you navigate to that directory, you'll see several small files, where each file represents a different password. When you run make production you can choose whether to generate new random secrets or create them yourself.
All public facing sites need to use HTTPS, and it's definitely a stumbling block for the uninitiated. Fortunately, isle-dc is set up to use HTTPS by default. Even when running make demo, your site runs over HTTPS at https://islandora.traefik.me.
The default certificates are stored in the certs folder of isle-dc, and you can simply overwrite them with certificates from your certificate authority. As long as the certificates match the DOMAIN variable in your .env file, that is. Changing the files in the certs folder requires restarting the Traefik container, which you can do by running docker-compose restart traefik.
To use Let's Encrypt to acquire your SSL Certificate, set the following in your .env file and run make -B docker-compose.yml && make up.
USE_ACME=true\nACME_EMAIL=your-email@example.org\nBe sure to replace your-email@example.org with the email address you've associated with Let's Encrypt.
The way this is setup, is it performs an HTTP Challenge to verify you are in control of the domain. So your system will need to be accessible at http://DOMAIN/.
??? warning \"Let's Encrypt Rate Limit\" If you aren't careful, you can hit Let's Encrypt's rate limit, and you'll be locked out for up to a week! If you want to use their staging server instead while testing things out, add the following to your .env file
```\nACME_SERVER=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory\n```\nYou'll still get security exceptions when it's working, but you should be able to check the certificate from the browser and confirm you are getting it from the staging server.
\nIf you are still getting security exceptions, check what certificate is being used through your browser. Setting TRAEFIK_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG in your .env file will help out greatly when debugging Traefik. You can tail the logs with docker-compose logs -tf traefik.
The *.traefik.me certificate that covers islandora.traefik.me will need to be redownloaded occasionally, due to the certificate expiring or possibly being revoked. You can download the updated certificates by performing the following commands:
rm certs/cert.pem\nrm certs/privkey.pem\nmake download-default-certs\ndocker-compose restart traefik\ntraefik.me Certificate Note
Please note that sometimes the upstream provider of the traefik.me certificate takes a couple of days to update the certificate after it expires or is accidentally revoked.
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Once you have added these commands you will need to run the following commands:
make -B docker-compose.yml\nmake up\nWhen developing locally, your Drupal site resides in your isle-dc/codebase folder and is bind-mounted into your Drupal container. This lets you update code using the IDE of your choice on your host machine, and the changes are automatically reflected on the Drupal container.
Use Git to install the ISLE Docker Compose tool:
git clone https://github.com/islandora-devops/isle-dc
Tagged versions are available here.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-local/#getting-started","title":"Getting Started","text":"If you don't already have a Drupal site, you'll be given a basic setup using Drupal 10 and the Islandora Starter Site.
If you do already have a Drupal site, use git to clone it into place as the codebase folder.
cd /path/to/isle-dc\ngit clone https://github.com/your_org/your_repo codebase\nNow you'll need to tell isle-dc to look for it by setting the ENVIRONMENT variable in your .env file. If you don't have one, copy over sample.env and name it .env. Then set
ENVIRONMENT=starter\nYou should also change the COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME variable. This determines the name of the Docker containers and volumes that are created when you run make starter. If you leave this as the default you will need to be careful not to overwrite the containers with another install of isle-dc later.
COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=isle-dc\nIf your site includes exported configuration from drush config:export, then you'll also need to set
INSTALL_EXISTING_CONFIG=true\nDRUPAL_INSTALL_PROFILE=minimal\nOnce you are ready, run
make starter\nto install the Drupal site in your codebase folder and spin up all the other containers with it.
Enjoy your Islandora instance! Check out the basic usage documentation to see all the endpoints that are available and how to do things like start and stop Islandora. Your passwords, including the Drupal admin password, can be found in the secrets/live directory after you run make starter.
To populate your site with some demo content, you can run make demo_content. This will import some sample objects into your Islandora site.
Drupal has a dedicated security team, and regularly produces updates to address security issues that are discovered. You should always keep your Drupal site up to date so that you are protected against known vulnerabilities. Updating Drupal can be intimidating, but we have step-by-step instructions to help you do it safely.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-maintain-drupal/#note-on-production-sites","title":"Note on Production Sites","text":"Please note that maintaining Drupal should be done on your development site. For production sites, you should build an image from the codebase folder on your development machine, and run that image in production. For more information on this, please see the production install instructions.
Once you have a codebase folder, how do you maintain it and keep it up to date? The quick answer is \"the same way you maintain any Drupal site with Composer and Drush\"... with one small caveat. You most likely do not have PHP or Composer on your machine, and even if you do, you want to make sure you're using the exact same version that your Docker container is using. So to ensure all the versions of things line up, we use Docker to execute Drush and Composer from the Drupal container. The general template for running a command in your Drupal container looks like this:
docker compose exec -T drupal with-contenv bash -lc 'YOUR COMMAND'\nYou can also just shell into the Drupal container and run commands as well, just be aware that if you shut down your container for any reason, you'll lose your bash history. If you want to shell in to run commands, drop the -T and -lc 'YOUR COMMAND' bits.
docker compose exec drupal with-contenv bash\nUse Composer to update your site's modules and their dependencies. The working directory of the Drupal container is the Drupal root (a.k.a. codebase), so you don't need to cd into any other directory before running the command. The following command will update all modules and their dependencies that are not pinned to specific versions.
docker compose exec -T drupal with-contenv bash -lc \"su nginx -s /bin/bash -c 'composer update -W'\"\nWhen running Composer commands you may come across the following error
[ErrorException]\nfile_put_contents(/var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/settings.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted\nAfter getting the newest code, you'll want to use Drush to update the Drupal database and run any other update hooks that have been introduced. However, YOU SHOULD BACK UP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER. You never know when something will go wrong and you don't want to be stuck with an unusable database and no plan B.
make drupal-database-dump DEST=/path/to/dump.sql\nNow you can safely update the Drupal database with Drush via
docker compose exec -T drupal with-contenv bash -lc 'drush updb'\nIf for any reason, something goes wrong, you can Restore the Drupal database at any time by running
make drupal-database-import SRC=/path/to/dump.sql\nYou will regularly be updating your Drupal site as security patches and module updates are released. Less often, you will also need to update the rest of your Islandora installation. ISLE makes this easy. In fact, it was specifically designed to streamline this process.
Since Islandora is not a single piece of software, but instead many pieces of software working together in concert, maintaining all of it is a daunting task. There's nginx, tomcat, karaf, etc... Then there's everything needed for the authentication layer and JWT keys. Plus there's all the microservices. You can see that all this adds up to a significant maintenance burden.
Now imagine if all that time and effort spent on security updates and getting the newest versions could be boiled down to a handful of simple commands. That's exactly what ISLE does!
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Before we update ISLE we should pull the most recent version of the isle-dc repository. This ensures that our docker-compose.yml file has any new additions that the new version of ISLE will need.
You may also want to check your .env file against the sample.env found in the repository to see if there are new variables you wish to make use of.
Updating ISLE is easy. When a new release is made available, you update the TAG variable in your .env file to the latest version. Suppose you are on ISLE 1.0.0, and ISLE 1.1.0 has been released. Then we would set
TAG=1.1.0\nBefore we update our docker-compose.yml file we want to stop the running containers with
make down\nWe'll then generate a new docker-compose.yml file that includes the new tag with
make -B docker-compose.yml\nAfter that, we pull the new containers with
make pull\nAnd finally we deploy the updated containers by running
make up\nYou can check that everything is running at the version you've specified with
docker ps -a\nThe version that's running can be confirmed by looking at the IMAGE column in the output.
Major version updates may require a bit more work after the new containers are up and running, if the new images are running higher major versions of software. For example, if there has been an update to PHP or Solr.
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First, remove the old solr data. This will remove everything that has been indexed, so we will have to reindex our site in a later step.
docker compose exec -T solr with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r server/solr/ISLANDORA'\nNext, recreate our solr core with a new set of config files.
make solr-cores\nFinally, we reindex our site.
make reindex-solr\nDrupal updates will be handled by your composer.json file, but you may require a certain version of ISLE in order to have the correct version of PHP. Once you have the correct PHP version installed, you can update Drupal to a new major version in the same way you normally update modules. It may be helpful to reference the Starter Site's composer.json file at https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-starter-site/blob/main/composer.json
Once you have done this on your development site, the process for your production site is the same as any other Drupal updates.
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You can run this from your isle directory with
docker compose exec mariadb mariadb-upgrade\nUpgrading ISLE from 1.x to the next major version requires the TAG be set to 2.0.5 or higher. Once you create your containers you will need to follow the above instructions for Mariadb, Solr, and Drupal.
ISLE 2.0 bumps PHP up to version 8.1, which allows you to upgrade to Drupal 10.
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If you get an error such as: ERROR: Version in \"./docker-compose.activemq.yml\" is unsupported., then you need to upgrade Docker. Enter the command make clean before re-attempting to make demo.
make demo","text":"If make fails for any reason, enter make clean before attempting to make again. If not, you may see an error such as: ERROR: Top level object in './docker-compose.yml' needs to be an object not '<class 'NoneType'>'.
If you notice some Docker containers drop (exited(0)), and (in Docker Desktop) the isle-dc app icon is yellow instead of green, try increasing the resources allocated to Docker (see note above).
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-troubleshooting/#connection-timed-out-mac","title":"Connection timed out (Mac).","text":"If you are using Docker Desktop for Mac, and get timeout errors when spinning up the containers (during docker-compose up -d or during make local) such as this:
ERROR: for isle-dc_mariadb_1 UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=480)\nyou can try quitting Docker completely (make sure there is no whale icon in your top toolbar - may need to select \"Quit\" from the whale icon itself) and then restart Docker.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-troubleshooting/#504-bad-gateway","title":"504 Bad Gateway","text":"If you get a white screen with a 504 Bad Gateway error, this means your containers haven't finished initializing themselves yet. If you've waiting an appropriate amount of time (2-5 minutes), then there is most likely an error in a container's startup script. Use docker ps -a to see which services have Exited status, and then tail their logs with docker-compose logs service_name.
The following instructions describe how to back up and restore an islandora site. This is also used to transfer data between a development and production site, or to sync a staging site with a production site.
Note that containers are named with a suffix of -dev or -prod depending on your environment. For example, backing up your development site\u2019s Drupal database requires running the command on the drupal-dev container, but backing up the production site\u2019s database requires running the command on the drupal-prod container. The following instructions are mostly written for development sites, but the same commands will work on production containers.
Before attempting the following commands, you should familiarize yourself with running commands inside a container and with docker compose cp
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git pull\ndocker compose --profile prod build\ndocker compose --profile prod down\ndocker compose --profile prod up -d\nOnce this is done, your config files will be included in the container. You can then import them by running
docker compose exec -T drupal-prod drush -l default config:import -y\nThe Drupal database contains all your Drupal settings and content. If you want to move configuration settings from development to production you should use the Drupal Configuration instructions above.
These instructions can also be used to move your content from production to staging or development.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/site-template/backup/#back-up","title":"Back Up","text":"Backing up the Drupal database involves doing a database dump in the drupal container:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'mysqldump -u ${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_USER} -p${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_PASSWORD} -h mariadb ${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_NAME} > /tmp/dump.sql'\nand then copying that dump from the container to the host machine:
docker compose cp drupal-dev:/tmp/dump.sql [path/on/host/dump.sql]\nRestoring from a database dump requires copying the dump file into the drupal container:
docker compose cp [path-to/dump.sql] drupal-dev:/tmp/dump.sql\nThen replacing the database with the dump:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'chown root:root /tmp/dump.sql && mysql -u ${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_USER} -p${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_PASSWORD} -h mariadb ${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_NAME} < /tmp/dump.sql'\nAnd finally, rebuilding the Drupal cache:
docker compose exec drupal-dev drush cr\nDrupal's public files contain any files used on static pages. This is also where your Islandora derivatives are stored, which includes FITS, thumbnails, etc.
These instructions can also be used to move your content from production to staging or development.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/site-template/backup/#back-up_1","title":"Back Up","text":"Drupal public files can be compressed to a tgz file in the Drupal container:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zcvf /tmp/public-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files .'\nThen copied to the host machine:
docker compose cp drupal-dev:/tmp/public-files.tgz [path/on/host/public-files.tgz]\nDrupal files can be restored from a tgz file by copying them into the Drupal container:
docker compose cp public-files.tgz drupal-dev:/tmp/public-files.tgz\nThen placed in the correct directory inside the Drupal volume:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zxvf /tmp/public-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files && chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files && rm /tmp/public-files.tgz'\nNote
This will overwrite existing files if they have the same filename, but does not remove existing files otherwise. If you want to make sure that the public files directory does not contain anything but the newly imported files, you will want to empty the directory before copying the new files in.
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files/*'\nThese instructions can also be used to move your content from production to staging or development.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/site-template/backup/#back-up_2","title":"Back Up","text":"Drupal public files can be compressed to a tgz file in the Drupal container:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zcvf /tmp/private-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/private .'\nThen copied to the host machine:
docker compose cp drupal-prod:/tmp/private-files.tgz [path/on/host/private-files.tgz]\nDrupal files can be restored from a tgz file by copying them into the Drupal container:
docker compose cp private-files.tgz drupal-dev:/tmp/private-files.tgz\nThen placed in the correct directory inside the Drupal volume:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zxvf /tmp/private-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/private && chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/drupal/private && rm /tmp/private-files.tgz'\nNote
This will overwrite existing files if they have the same filename, but does not remove existing files otherwise. If you want to make sure that the private files directory does not contain anything but the newly imported files, you will want to empty the directory before copying the new files in.
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r /var/www/drupal/private/*'\nFedora 6 uses a file structure called OCFL to store files and metadata. The Fedora database is built based on this OCFL file structure, so we don't actually back up our fedora database. Instead, we back up the files and let Fedora rebuild the database based on them.
Note
These instructions involve moving the entirety of your Fedora data. For small sites this is fine, but you may find this becomes cumbersome as your site grows. You may wish to bind your oclf-root directory as a volume to eliminate the need to run the docker compose cp commands.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/site-template/backup/#back-up_3","title":"Back Up","text":"To back up Fedora we create a .tgz file from the ocfl-root directory in the Fedora container:
docker compose exec -T fcrepo-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zcvf /tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz -C /data/home/data/ocfl-root/ .'\nThen we copy that file to the host machine:
docker compose cp fcrepo-dev:/tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz [path/on/host/fcrepo-export.tgz]\nTo restore our fedora database we need to copy the backup into the Fedora container:
docker compose cp [path-to/fcrepo-export.tgz] fcrepo-dev:/tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz\nEmpty the existing ocfl-root directory:
docker compose exec -T fcrepo-dev bash -lc 'rm -r /data/home/data/ocfl-root/*'\nPut our backup files in the ocfl-root directory:
docker compose exec -T fcrepo-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zxvf /tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz -C /data/home/data/ocfl-root/ && chown -R tomcat:tomcat /data/home/data/ocfl-root/ && rm /tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz'\nDrop the existing Fedora database:
docker compose exec -T mariadb-dev bash -lc 'mysql -e \"drop database fcrepo;\"'\nRestart Fedora to reinitialize the database from the ocfl-root directory:
docker compose --profile dev restart fcrepo-dev\nNote
It may take a while for the database to be restored. In the meantime, you may see error messages that say Fedora is not connected.
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Islandora Buildkit provides several environment variables that can be modified when creating containers.
Please see the README for the different buildkit images to see what is available:
You can add these environment variables to your docker-compose.yml in order to change their values. For example, if you want to increase the PHP memory limit in your production Drupal container, you can do so like this:
drupal-prod:\n <<: [*prod, *drupal]\n Environment:\n PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT: 1G\nYou may not want to use all the images that are included in the Site Template\u2019s docker-compose.yml. You can remove containers by deleting their sections in the docker-compose.yml file.
For example, to remove Fedora, you would delete the services called fcrepo-dev and fcrepo-prod.
Depending on the container you are removing, you may need to delete references to it as well. For example, some containers are referenced by others in the depends_on field. You will need to also delete these references, so if you delete the fedora-dev service, you will need to remove the rule that traefik-dev depends on it.
If you are removing a container which is referenced by Drupal, ensure that you update Drupal as well (e.g. if removing Fedora, ensure your Media's files are not writing to the Fedora filesystem).
After doing docker compose down, run docker compose up -d --remove-orphans to remove the containers you removed from the docker-compose.yml file.
Instructions for creating your site can be found in the project's README file
This page lists a few things to note about the process, but is not meant to be a replacement for the instructions in the README file.
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Note for those coming from ISLE-DC
In ISLE-DC, we only use a custom image in production, but in the ISLE Site Template, we use it for both.
Building your custom Drupal image is done by running
docker compose --profile dev build for your development image
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docker compose --profile prod build for your production image
This builds the docker image based on the Dockerfile in the drupal directory, which uses your composer files to pull the Drupal modules it needs into the image. Because the Dockerfile and composer files are part of the git repository, you can build your Drupal image locally, or on your production server.
This documentation assumes you will be building your production image on the production server. If you do it this way, it is not necessary to push your image to a container registry. Instead you just pull your git repository anytime you make changes to your composer files, and run docker compose build again.
Using a Container Registry
If you want to build your production images somewhere other than on your production server, you can do so. The .env file allows you to set your image repository URL, which will allow you to push / pull your Drupal image to / from your container registry. If you do this, you can then run docker compose pull instead of docker compose build on your production server, to pull the already built image to that server.
For more information please see the documentation on docker compose pull and docker compose build
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Restricting Access to Staging Servers
Using letsencrypt to generate your certs requires port 80 to be accessible on your server. If you would like to keep your site private by limiting access to certain IP addresses, you can still firewall port 443, but you will have to leave port 80 open. If you need to firewall port 80 as well, you will have to either use your own certs or look into another method of generating certs.
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Isle Site Template provides directories at drupal/rootfs/var/www/drupal/web/modules/custom and drupal/rootfs/var/www/drupal/web/themes/custom for you to add your custom themes and modules.
These directories are mounted in development, so any changes to them will be shared between your host machine and your Drupal container.
In production, these themes and modules will be included when the Drupal image is built.
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curl and installed either manually or automatically.Instead, follow the instructions in the ISLE Site Template's README.md and README.template.md files.
dev and prod environments, with different services available on each.During installation, you will install a copy of the Islandora Starter Site.
Customizing your site can be persisted to your own repo.
The following sections describe how to keep your Islandora install up to date with current versions of Drupal modules and Docker images.
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For example, to upgrade from Buildkit 2.0.0 to 3.0.0 you would do the following steps:
Change your .env file to say ISLANDORA_TAG=3.0.0
Stop your Docker containers
docker compose --profile dev down
Pull the new Docker images (except the Drupal image)
docker compose --profile dev pull --ignore-buildable --ignore-pull-failures
Build your custom Drupal image
docker compose --profile dev build
Start your containers from the new images
docker compose --profile dev up -d
Once you have upgraded your images, you may need to perform extra steps for Solr and Mariadb, depending on whether these have new versions in the new images.
Production Sites
Upgrading a production site works the same way, just replace dev with prod in the above instructions.
You may need to regenerate your Solr configs if Solr has been updated to a new version, or when the Search API Solr Drupal module has been updated. If you visit /admin/config/search/search-api/server/default_solr_server on your Islandora site it will tell you if the configs need to be updated.
To generate new configs perform the following steps:
Remove existing solr configs
docker compose exec -T solr-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r server/solr/default/*'
Restart the Solr container
docker compose --profile dev restart solr-dev
Recreate solr configs for new solr versions
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc \"for_all_sites create_solr_core_with_default_config\"
Reindex Solr through the admin page or via Drush
After updating MariaDB, you may need to run mariadb-upgrade inside your MariaDB container, to update your system tables. This should be safe to run any time, but it is a good idea to back up your database first, just in case.
You can run this with
docker compose exec mariadb-dev mariadb-upgrade
Traefik is not updated with the other buildkit images. It is recommended that you periodically update Traefik by changing the image version in your docker-compose.yml file to the current version in use by Isle Site Template
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Composer commands need to run in your Drupal container. For example:
\u200b\u200bdocker compose exec drupal-dev composer update -W
Or
docker compose exec drupal-dev composer require 'drupal/islandora:^2.11'
Running database updates is also done in the container like this:
docker compose exec drupal-dev drush updb
Note
You should backup your database before running database updates
If you are enabling or uninstalling modules, you will also need to export your Drupal configuration.
Once you have finished your composer changes you can commit and push your repository with the new composer.json and composer.lock changes.
First you will git pull to get the composer.json and composer.lock changes you made in development.
Next you build your Drupal image again, which will install the modules specified in those files:
docker compose --profile prod build
Then you stop and start your containers to get the new image:
docker compose --profile prod down
docker compose --profile prod up -d
And if necessary, run database updates:
docker compose exec drupal-prod drush updb
Needs Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
After all of the above pieces are in place, installed, configured, started, and otherwise prepared, the last thing we need to do is to finally configure the front-end Drupal instance to wire all the installed components together.
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Some additional settings will need to be established in your default settings.php before Drupal-side configuration can occur.
The below configuration will establish localhost as a trusted host pattern, but on production sites this will need to be expanded to include the actual host patterns used by the site.
/opt/drupal/web/sites/default/settings.php
Before (at around line 789):
'driver' => 'mysql',\n);\nAfter:
'driver' => 'mysql',\n);\n\n$settings['trusted_host_patterns'] = [\n 'localhost',\n];\n\n$settings['flysystem'] = [\n 'fedora' => [\n 'driver' => 'fedora',\n 'config' => [\n 'root' => 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest/',\n ],\n ],\n];\nOnce this is done, refresh the cache to take hold of the new settings.
cd /opt/drupal\ndrush -y cr\nSkip this by using the Islandora Starter Site
The Islandora Starter Site, which was presented as an option in the \"Installing Composer, Drush, and Drupal\" step, installs Islandora and other modules and configures them, allowing you to skip this section. You may want to use this manual method in the case where you want to pick and choose which Islandora modules you use.
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Take note of some of the other comments in the below bash script for an idea of what the other components are expected, and which may be considered optional.
cd /opt/drupal\n# Since islandora_defaults is near the bottom of the dependency chain, requiring\n# it will get most of the modules and libraries we need to deploy a standard\n# Islandora site.\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/flysystem:^2.0@alpha\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"islandora/islandora:^2.4\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"islandora/controlled_access_terms:^2\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"islandora/openseadragon:^2\"\n# These can be considered important or required depending on your site's\n# requirements; some of them represent dependencies of Islandora submodules.\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/pdf:1.1\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/rest_oai_pmh:^2.0@beta\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/search_api_solr:^4.2\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/facets:^2\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/content_browser:^1.0@alpha\" ## TODO do we need this?\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/field_permissions:^1\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/transliterate_filenames:^2.0\"\n# These tend to be good to enable for a development environment, or just for a\n# higher quality of life when managing Islandora. That being said, devel should\n# NEVER be enabled on a production environment, as it intentionally gives the\n# user tools that compromise the security of a site.\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/restui:^1.21\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/console:~1.0\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/devel:^2.0\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/admin_toolbar:^2.0\nComponents we've now downloaded using composer require can be enabled simultaneously via drush, which will ensure they are installed in the correct dependent order. Enabling islandora_defaults will also ensure all content types and configurations are set up in Islandora. The installation process for all of these modules will likely take some time.
Notice
This list of modules assumes that all of the above components were downloaded using composer require; if this is not the case, you may need to pare down this list manually. It also includes devel, which again, should not be enabled on production sites.
cd /opt/drupal\ndrush -y en rdf responsive_image devel syslog serialization basic_auth rest restui search_api_solr facets content_browser pdf admin_toolbar controlled_access_terms_defaults islandora_breadcrumbs islandora_iiif islandora_oaipmh\n# After all of this, rebuild the cache.\ndrush -y cr\nTo allow our installation to talk to other services via Syn, we need to establish a Drupal-side JWT configuration using the keys we generated at that time.
Log onto your site as an administrator at /user, then navigate to /admin/config/system/keys/add. Some of the settings here are unimportant, but pay close attention to the Key type, which should match the key we created earlier (an RSA key), and the File location, which should be the ultimate location of the key we created for Syn on the filesystem, /opt/keys/syn_private.key.
Click Save to create the key.
Once this key is created, navigate to /admin/config/system/jwt to select the key you just created from the list. Note that before the key will show up in the Private Key list, you need to select that key's type in the Algorithm section, namely RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-256 (RS256).
Click Save configuration to establish this as the JWT key configuration.
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Notice
Any other Drupal content types you wish to synchronize with Fedora should also be checked off here.
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Next, configure OpenSeadragon by navigating to /admin/config/media/openseadragon and ensuring everything is set up properly.
Navigate to /admin/config/media/file-system to set the Default download method to the one we created in our settings.php.
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cd /opt/drupal\nsudo -u www-data drush -y urol \"fedoraadmin\" islandora\nFinally, to get everything up and running, run the Islandora Core Features and Islandora Defaults migrations.
cd /opt/drupal\nsudo -u www-data drush -y -l localhost --userid=1 mim --group=islandora\nSome views provided by Islandora are not enabled by default.
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sudo apt-cache policy activemq\nWrite down the version listed under Installed:.
Git the latest ActiveMQ 5.x version number from https://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq which will be put in place of [ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER].
cd /opt\nsudo wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq/[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]/apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]-bin.tar.gz\nsudo tar -xvzf apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]-bin.tar.gz\nsudo mv apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER] /opt/activemq\nsudo addgroup --quiet --system activemq\nsudo adduser --quiet --system --ingroup activemq --no-create-home --disabled-password activemq\nsudo chown -R activemq:activemq /opt/activemq\nsudo rm -R apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]-bin.tar.gz\nAdd ActiveMQ as a service: `/etc/systemd/system/activemq.service | root:root/644
[Unit]\nDescription=Apache ActiveMQ\nAfter=network.target\n\n[Service]\nType=forking\nUser=activemq\nGroup=activemq\n\nExecStart=/opt/activemq/bin/activemq start\nExecStop=/opt/activemq/bin/activemq stop\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\nUpdate the WebConsolePort host property settings in /opt/activemq/conf/jetty.xml from <property name=\"host\" value=\"127.0.0.1\"/> to <property name=\"host\" value=\"0.0.0.0\"/> so that you can access the dashboard from outside the local machine.
Optionally, change the dashboard user credentials in /opt/activemq/conf/users.properties.
Security Warning
Updating the web console port and user properties are potential security holes. It is best to restrict the host setting and create a more secure username/password combination for production.
Set the service to start on machine startup and start it up:
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Install Java 11+ if you haven't already.
Make a directory for Alpaca and download the latest version of Alpaca from the Maven repository. E.g.
sudo mkdir /opt/alpaca\ncd /opt/alpaca\nsudo curl -L https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/ca/islandora/alpaca/islandora-alpaca-app/2.2.0/islandora-alpaca-app-2.2.0-all.jar -o alpaca.jar\nAlpaca is made up of several services, each of these can be enabled or disabled individually.
Alpaca takes an external file to configure its behaviour.
Look at the example.properties file to see some example settings.
The properties are:
# Common options\nerror.maxRedeliveries=5\nThere are also common ActiveMQ properties to setup the connection.
# ActiveMQ options\njms.brokerUrl=tcp://localhost:61616\nThis defines the url to the ActiveMQ broker which you installed earlier.
jms.username=\njms.password=\njms.connections=10\nThis service manages a Drupal node into a corresponding Fedora resource.
It's properties are:
# Fcrepo indexer options\nfcrepo.indexer.enabled=true\nThis defines whether the Fedora indexer is enabled or not.
fcrepo.indexer.node=queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-content\nfcrepo.indexer.delete=queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-delete\nfcrepo.indexer.media=queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-media\nfcrepo.indexer.external=queue:islandora-indexing-fcrepo-file-external\nThese define the various queues to listen on for the indexing/deletion messages. The part after queue: should match your Islandora instance \"Actions\".
fcrepo.indexer.milliner.baseUrl=http://localhost/milliner\nfcrepo.indexer.concurrent-consumers=-1\nfcrepo.indexer.max-concurrent-consumers=-1\n-1 means no setting is applied. fcrepo.indexer.async-consumer=false\nThis property allows the concurrent consumers to process concurrently; otherwise, the consumers will wait to the previous message has been processed before executing.
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It's properties are:
# Triplestore indexer options\ntriplestore.indexer.enabled=true\nThis defines whether the Triplestore indexer is enabled or not.
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triplestore.baseUrl=http://localhost:8080/bigdata/namespace/kb/sparql\nThis defines the location of your triplestore's SPARQL update endpoint.
triplestore.indexer.concurrent-consumers=-1\ntriplestore.indexer.max-concurrent-consumers=-1\nThese define the default number of concurrent consumers and maximum number of concurrent consumers working off your ActiveMQ instance. A value of -1 means no setting is applied.
triplestore.indexer.async-consumer=false\nThis property allows the concurrent consumers to process concurrently; otherwise, the consumers will wait to the previous message has been processed before executing.
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The routes to be configured are defined with the property derivative.systems.installed which expects a comma separated list. Each item in the list defines a new route and must also define 3 additional properties.
derivative.<item>.enabled=true\nThis defines if the item service is enabled.
derivative.<item>.in.stream=queue:islandora-item-connector-<item>\nThis is the input queue for the derivative microservice. The part after queue: should match your Islandora instance \"Actions\".
derivative.<item>.service.url=http://example.org/derivative/convert\nThis is the microservice URL to process the request.
derivative.<item>.concurrent-consumers=-1\nderivative.<item>.max-concurrent-consumers=-1\nThese define the default number of concurrent consumers and maximum number of concurrent consumers working off your ActiveMQ instance. A value of -1 means no setting is applied.
derivative.<item>.async-consumer=false\nThis property allows the concurrent consumers to process concurrently; otherwise, the consumers will wait to the previous message has been processed before executing.
For example, with two services defined (houdini and crayfits) my configuration would have
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request.configurer.enabled=true\nThen set the next 3 timeouts (measured in milliseconds) to the desired timeout.
request.timeout=-1\nconnection.timeout=-1\nsocket.timeout=-1\nThe default for all three is -1 which indicates no timeout.
By default, Alpaca uses two settings for the HTTP component, these are * disableStreamCache=true * connectionClose=true
If you want to send additional configuration parameters or alter the existing defaults. You can add them as a comma separated list of key=value pairs.
For example
http.additional_options=authMethod=Basic,authUsername=Jim,authPassword=1234\nThese will be added to ALL http endpoint requests.
Check Camel Configuration Parameters
We are currently running Camel 3.7.6, some configuration parameters on the above linked page might not be supported.
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> java -jar /opt/alpaca/alpaca.jar -v\n2.0.0\nTo start Alpaca you would pass the external property file with the -c|--config flag.
For example if you are using an external properties file located at /opt/alpaca/alpaca.properties, you would run:
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[Unit]\nDescription=Alpaca service\nAfter=network.target\n\n[Service]\nType=simple\nExecStart=java -jar /opt/alpaca/alpaca.jar -c /opt/alpaca/alpaca.properties\nExecStop=/bin/kill -15 $MAINPID\nSuccessExitStatus=143\nRestart=always\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=default.target\nNow you can start the service by running sudo systemctl start alpaca and set it to come up when the system reboots with sudo systemctl enable alpaca. Check the status by running sudo systemctl status alpaca.
Needs Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
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curl \"https://getcomposer.org/installer\" > composer-install.php\nchmod +x composer-install.php\nphp composer-install.php\nsudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer\nAt this point, you have the option of using the Islandora Starter Site, with its pre-selected modules and configurations which function \"out of the box,\" or build a clean stock Drupal via the Drupal Recommended Project and install Islandora modules as you desire.
On a default Ubuntu install the /var/www directory is owned by root, but we want the webserver to control this space, so we'll give it ownership:
sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www\nNavigate to the folder where you want to put your Islandora project (in our case /var/www/html). You can give your site any name you like, but for these instructions we will simply call it \"drupal\":
cd /var/www/html\nsudo -u www-data mkdir drupal\nsudo -u www-data composer create-project islandora/islandora-starter-site drupal\nThis will install all PHP dependencies, including Drush, and scaffold the site.
Drush is not accessible via $PATH, but is available using the command composer exec -- drush
Navigate to the folder where you want to put your Drupal project (in our case /var/www/html), and create the Drupal Recommended Project:
cd /var/www/html\nsudo -u www-data composer create-project drupal/recommended-project drupal\nBefore we can proceed with the actual site installation, we\u2019re going to need to make our new Drupal installation the default web-accessible location Apache serves up. This will include an appropriate ports.conf file, and replacing the default enabled site.
Notice
Out of the box, these files will contain support for SSL, which we will not be setting up in this guide (and therefore removing with these overwritten configurations), but which are absolutely indispensable to a production site. This guide does not recommend any particular SSL certificate authority or installation method, but you may find DigitalOcean's tutorial helpful.
/etc/apache2/ports.conf | root:root/644
Listen 80\nRemove everything but the \"Listen 80\" line. You can leave the comments in if you want.
Create a drupal virtual host: /etc/apache2/sites-available/islandora.conf | root:root/644
<VirtualHost *:80>\nServerName SERVER_NAME\n DocumentRoot \"/var/www/html/drupal/web\"\n <Directory \"/var/www/html/drupal/web\">\nOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews\n AllowOverride all\n Require all granted\n </Directory>\n# Ensure some logging is in place.\n ErrorLog \"/var/log/apache2/localhost_error.log\"\n CustomLog \"/var/log/apache2/localhost_access.log\" combined\n</VirtualHost>\nSERVER_NAME: localhost - For a development environment hosted on your own machine or a VM, localhost should suffice. Realistically, this should be the domain or IP address the server will be accessed at. Set permissions and enable the virtual host:
sudo systemctl restart apache2\nsudo a2ensite islandora.conf\nsudo systemctl reload apache2\nWe're going to create a user in MySQL for this Drupal site. Then create a database that we can use to install Drupal.
The following values can (and in the case of the password, should) be changed to local values.
DRUPAL_DATABASE_NAME: This will be used as the core database that Drupal is installed intoMYSQL_USER_FOR_DRUPAL: Specifically, this is the user that will connect to the MySQL database being created, not the user that will be logging into DrupalMYSQL_PASSWORD_FOR_DRUPAL: This should be a secure password; it\u2019s recommended to use a password generator to create this such as the one provided by random.orgsudo mysql -u root\nCREATE DATABASE [DRUPAL_DATABASE_NAME];\nCREATE USER '[MYSQL_USER_FOR_DRUPAL]'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '[MYSQL_PASSWORD_FOR_DRUPAL]';\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [DRUPAL_DATABASE_NAME].* TO '[MYSQL_USER_FOR_DRUPAL]'@'localhost';\nexit\nThe Drupal installation process can be done through the GUI in a series of form steps, or can be done quickly using Drush's site-install command. It can be invoked with the full list of parameters (such as --db-url and --site-name), but if parameters are missing, they will be asked of you interactively.
Follow the instructions in the README of the Islandora Starter Site. The steps are not reproduced here to remove redundancy. But specifically,
/var/www/html/drupal/web/sites/default/settings.php.sudo -u www-data composer exec -- drush site:install --existing-config.When this installation is done, you'll have a starter site ready-to-go. Once you set up the external services in the next sections, you'll need to configure Drupal to know where they are.
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FITS itself wraps other file identification and metadata tools which may require installing additional libraries. On Ububtu 20.04, the version this guide is using, we will install a few:
sudo apt install mediainfo python3-jpylyzer\nTo set up the FITS application, first find the latest FITS version on GitHub to replace the [FITS_VERSION_NUMBER] and then run the following commands:
cd /opt\nsudo wget https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases/download/[FITS_VERSION_NUMBER]/fits-[FITS_VERSION_NUMBER].zip\nsudo unzip /opt/fits-[FITS_VERSION_NUMBER].zip -d /opt/fits\nSimilarly with the FITS webservice, get the current service version number to replace [FITS_SERVICE_WAR_VERSION_NUMBER]:
Download the FITS webservice:
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fits.home=/opt/fits\nshared.loader=/opt/fits/lib/*.jar\nRestart Tomcat:
sudo systemctl restart tomcat\nWait for a few minutes to let the service start up the first time and then visit http://localhost:8080/fits/ to ensure it is working. You can also follow the catalina logs to see how tomcat is progressing in setting up each service it is running: sudo tail -f /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out. To stop following the logs, hit control-C.
Some packages need to be installed before we can proceed with installing Crayfish; these packages are used by the microservices within Crayfish. These include:
apt-get, and a list of available packs can be procured with sudo apt-cache search tesseract-ocrsudo apt-get install software-properties-common\nsudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:lyrasis/imagemagick-jp2\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get -y install imagemagick tesseract-ocr ffmpeg poppler-utils\nWe\u2019re going to clone Crayfish to /opt, and individually run composer install against each of the microservice subdirectories.
cd /opt\nsudo git clone https://github.com/Islandora/Crayfish.git crayfish\nsudo chown -R www-data:www-data crayfish\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Homarus\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Houdini\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Hypercube\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Milliner\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Recast\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/CrayFits\nNot much needs to happen here; Crayfish opts for a simple logging approach, with one .log file for each component. We\u2019ll create a folder where each logfile can live.
sudo mkdir /var/log/islandora\nsudo chown www-data:www-data /var/log/islandora\nEach Crayfish component requires one or more .yaml file(s) to ensure everything is wired up correctly.
Update the defaults to meet your needs
The following configuration files represent somewhat sensible defaults; you should take consideration of the logging levels in use, as this can vary in desirability from installation to installation. Also note that in all cases, http URLs are being used, as this guide does not deal with setting up https support. In a production installation, this should not be the case. These files also assume a connection to a PostgreSQL database; use a pdo_mysql driver and the appropriate 3306 port if using MySQL.
Using JWT for Crayfish Authentication
For Crayfish microservices use the lexik_jwt_authentication package. They are configured to use the JWT_PUBLIC_KEY environment variable to find the public key we created earlier (/opt/keys/syn_public.key). Later on in this guide we will add the environment variable to the Apache configs, but you may alternatively write the path to the key in the lexik_jwt_authentication.yaml file that resides along-side the security.yaml files we edit in this section.
Enable JSON Web Token (JWT) based access to the service by updating the security settings. Edit /opt/crayfish/Homarus/config/packages/security.yaml to set firewalls: main: anonymous to false and uncomment the provider and jwt lines further down in that section.
Edit /opt/crayfish/Homarus/config/packages/monolog.yaml to point to the new logging directory:
homarus:\n type: rotating_file\n path: /var/logs/islandora/Homarus.log\nEdit the commons config to update it with Fedora's location (if necessary) and enable the apix middleware in /opt/crayfish/Homarus/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml:
crayfish_commons:\n fedora_base_uri: 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest'\n apix_middleware_enabled: true\nCurrently the Houdini microservice uses a different system (Symfony) than the other microservices, this requires different configuration.
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# This file is the entry point to configure your own services.\n# Files in the packages/ subdirectory configure your dependencies.\n# Put parameters here that don't need to change on each machine where the app is deployed\n# https://symfony.com/doc/current/best_practices/configuration.html#application-related-configuration\nparameters:\napp.executable: /usr/bin/convert\napp.formats.valid:\n- image/jpeg\n- image/png\n- image/tiff\n- image/jp2\napp.formats.default: image/jpeg\nservices:\n# default configuration for services in *this* file\n_defaults:\nautowire: true # Automatically injects dependencies in your services.\nautoconfigure: true # Automatically registers your services as commands, event subscribers, etc.\n# makes classes in src/ available to be used as services\n# this creates a service per class whose id is the fully-qualified class name\nApp\\Islandora\\Houdini\\:\nresource: '../src/*'\nexclude: '../src/{DependencyInjection,Entity,Migrations,Tests,Kernel.php}'\n# controllers are imported separately to make sure services can be injected\n# as action arguments even if you don't extend any base controller class\nApp\\Islandora\\Houdini\\Controller\\HoudiniController:\npublic: false\nbind:\n$formats: '%app.formats.valid%'\n$default_format: '%app.formats.default%'\n$executable: '%app.executable%'\ntags: ['controller.service_arguments']\n# add more service definitions when explicit configuration is needed\n# please note that last definitions always *replace* previous ones\n/opt/crayfish/Houdini/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml | www-data:www-data/644
crayfish_commons:\nfedora_base_uri: 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest'\nsyn_config: /opt/fcrepo/config/syn-settings.xml\nsyn_enabled: True\n/opt/crayfish/Houdini/config/packages/monolog.yaml | www-data:www-data/644
monolog:\nhandlers:\nhoudini:\ntype: rotating_file\npath: /var/log/islandora/Houdini.log\nlevel: DEBUG\nmax_files: 1\nThe below files are two versions of the same file to enable or disable JWT token authentication.
/opt/crayfish/Houdini/config/packages/security.yaml | www-data:www-data/644
Enabled JWT token authentication:
# To disable Syn checking, set syn_enabled=false in crayfish_commons.yaml and remove this configuration file.\nsecurity:\n# https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html#where-do-users-come-from-user-providers\nproviders:\nusers_in_memory: { memory: null }\njwt:\nlexik_jwt: ~\nfirewalls:\ndev:\npattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/\nsecurity: false\nmain:\n# To enable Syn, change anonymous to false and uncomment the lines further below\nanonymous: false\n# Need stateless or it reloads the User based on a token.\nstateless: true\n# To enable JWT authentication, uncomment the below 2 lines and change anonymous to false above.\nprovider: jwt\njwt: ~\n# activate different ways to authenticate\n# https://symfony.com/doc/5.4/security.html#firewalls-authentication\n# https://symfony.com/doc/5.4/security/impersonating_user.html\n# switch_user: true\n# Easy way to control access for large sections of your site\n# Note: Only the *first* access control that matches will be used\naccess_control:\n# - { path: ^/admin, roles: ROLE_ADMIN }\n# - { path: ^/profile, roles: ROLE_USER }\nDisabled JWT token authentication:
security:\n# https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html#where-do-users-come-from-user-providers\nproviders:\njwt_user_provider:\nid: Islandora\\Crayfish\\Commons\\Syn\\JwtUserProvider\nfirewalls:\ndev:\npattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/\nsecurity: false\nmain:\nanonymous: true\n# Need stateless or it reloads the User based on a token.\nstateless: true\nEnable JSON Web Token (JWT) based access to the service by updating the security settings. Edit /opt/crayfish/Hypercube/config/packages/security.yaml to set firewalls: main: anonymous to false and uncomment the provider and jwt lines further down in that section.
Edit /opt/crayfish/Hypercube/config/packages/monolog.yaml to point to the new logging directory:
hypercube:\n type: rotating_file\n path: /var/logs/islandora/Hypercube.log\nEdit the commons config to update it with Fedora's location (if necessary) and enable the apix middleware in /opt/crayfish/Hypercube/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml:
crayfish_commons:\n fedora_base_uri: 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest'\n apix_middleware_enabled: true\nEnable JSON Web Token (JWT) based access to the service by updating the security settings. Edit /opt/crayfish/Milliner/config/packages/security.yaml to set firewalls: main: anonymous to false and uncomment the provider and jwt lines further down in that section.
Edit /opt/crayfish/Milliner/config/packages/monolog.yaml to point to the new logging directory:
milliner:\n type: rotating_file\n path: /var/logs/islandora/Milliner.log\nEdit the commons config to update it with Fedora's location (if necessary) and enable the apix middleware in /opt/crayfish/Milliner/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml:
Finally, we need appropriate Apache configurations for Crayfish; these will allow other services to connect to Crayfish components via their HTTP endpoints.
Each endpoint we need to be able to connect to will get its own .conf file, which we will then enable.
Possible Route Collisions
These configurations would potentially have collisions with Drupal routes, if any are created in Drupal with the same name. If this is a concern, it would likely be better to reserve a subdomain or another port specifically for Crayfish. For the purposes of this installation guide, these endpoints will suffice.
/etc/apache2/conf-available/Homarus.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/homarus\" \"/opt/crayfish/Homarus/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Homarus/public\">\n FallbackResource /homarus/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/Houdini.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/houdini\" \"/opt/crayfish/Houdini/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Houdini/public\">\n FallbackResource /houdini/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/Hypercube.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/hypercube\" \"/opt/crayfish/Hypercube/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Hypercube/public\">\n FallbackResource /hypercube/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/Milliner.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/milliner\" \"/opt/crayfish/Milliner/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Milliner/public\">\n FallbackResource /milliner/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/CrayFits.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/crayfits\" \"/opt/crayfish/CrayFits/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/CrayFits/public\">\n FallbackResource /crayfits/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\nEnabling each of these configurations involves creating a symlink to them in the conf-enabled directory; the standardized method of doing this in Apache is with a2enconf.
sudo a2enconf Homarus Houdini Hypercube Milliner CrayFits\nFinally, to get these new endpoints up and running, we need to restart the Apache service.
sudo systemctl restart apache2\nWe're going to stop the Tomcat service while working on setting up Fedora to prevent any autodeploy misconfigurations.
sudo systemctl stop tomcat\nFedora\u2019s configuration and data won\u2019t live with Tomcat itself; rather, we\u2019re going to prepare a space for them to make them easier to manage.
sudo mkdir -p /opt/fcrepo/data/objects\nsudo mkdir /opt/fcrepo/config\nsudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/fcrepo\nThe method for creating the database here will closely mimic the method we used to create our database for Drupal.
sudo mysql -u root\nCREATE DATABASE [FEDORA_DB];\nCREATE USER '[MYSQL_USER_FOR_FEDORA]'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '[MYSQL_PASSWORD_FOR_FEDORA]';\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [FEDORA_DB].* TO '[MYSQL_USER_FOR_FEDORA]'@'localhost';\nFEDORA_DB: fcrepoFEDORA_DB_USER: fedoraFEDORA_DB_PASSWORD: fedorafedora is not recommended.The Fedora configuration is going to come in a few different chunks that need to be in place before Fedora will be functional. We\u2019re going to place several files outright, with mildly modified parameters according to our configuration.
The basics of these configuration files have been pulled largely from the templates in Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook internal Fedora role; you may consider referencing the playbook\u2019s templates directory for more details.
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<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<tomcat-users xmlns=\"http://tomcat.apache.org/xml\"\nxmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"\nxsi:schemaLocation=\"http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd\"\nversion=\"1.0\">\n<role rolename=\"tomcat\"/>\n<role rolename=\"fedoraAdmin\"/>\n<role rolename=\"fedoraUser\"/>\n<user username=\"tomcat\" password=\"TOMCAT_PASSWORD\" roles=\"tomcat\"/>\n<user username=\"fedoraAdmin\" password=\"FEDORA_ADMIN_PASSWORD\" roles=\"fedoraAdmin\"/>\n<user username=\"fedoraUser\" password=\"FEDORA_USER_PASSWORD\" roles=\"fedoraUser\"/>\n</tomcat-users>\nTOMCAT_PASSWORD: tomcatFEDORA_ADMIN_PASSWORD: islandoraFEDORA_USER_PASSWORD: islandoraFedora .war files are packaged up as releases on the official GitHub repository. You should download the most recent stable release.
sudo wget -O fcrepo.war FCREPO_WAR_URL\nsudo mv fcrepo.war /opt/tomcat/webapps\nsudo chown tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps/fcrepo.war\nFCREPO_WAR_URL: This can be found at the fcrepo downloads page; the file you're looking for is:As before, start the Tomcat service to get Fedora up and running.
sudo systemctl start tomcat\nNote: sometimes it takes a while for Fedora and Tomcat to start up, usually it shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes.
Once it starts up, Fedora REST API should be available at http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest. The username is fedoraAdmin and we defined the password before as FEDORA_ADMIN_PASSWORD (default: \"islandora\").
A compiled JAR of Syn can be found on the Syn releases page. We\u2019re going to add this to the list libraries accessible to Tomcat.
sudo -u tomcat wget -P /opt/tomcat/lib SYN_JAR_URL\n# Ensure the library has the correct permissions.\nsudo chmod -R 640 /opt/tomcat/lib\nSYN_JAR_URL: The latest stable release of the Syn JAR from the releases page. Specifically, the JAR compiled as -all.jar is required.For Islandora and Fedora to talk to each other, an SSL key needs to be generated for use with Syn. We\u2019re going to make a spot where such keys can live, and generate one.
sudo mkdir /opt/keys\nsudo openssl genrsa -out \"/opt/keys/syn_private.key\" 2048\nsudo openssl rsa -pubout -in \"/opt/keys/syn_private.key\" -out \"/opt/keys/syn_public.key\"\nsudo chown www-data:www-data /opt/keys/syn*\nSyn sites and tokens belong in a settings file that we\u2019re going to reference in Tomcat.
/opt/fcrepo/config/syn-settings.xml | tomcat:tomcat/600
<config version='1' header='X-Islandora'>\n<site algorithm='RS256' encoding='PEM' anonymous='true' default='true' path='/opt/keys/syn_public.key'/>\n<token user='islandora' roles='fedoraAdmin'>ISLANDORA_SYN_TOKEN</token>\n</config>\nISLANDORA_SYN_TOKEN: islandoraReferencing the valve we\u2019ve created in our syn-settings.xml involves creating a <Valve> entry in Tomcat\u2019s context.xml:
There are two options here:
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<Context>\n<Valve className=\"ca.islandora.syn.valve.SynValve\" pathname=\"/opt/fcrepo/config/syn-settings.xml\"/>\n</Context>\nYour Fedora web application needs to be deployed in Tomcat with the name fcrepo.war. Otherwise, change the name of the above XML file to match the deployed web application's name.
Finally, restart tomcat to apply the new configurations.
sudo systemctl restart tomcat\nNote: sometimes it takes a while for Fedora and Tomcat to start up, usually it shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes.
Note: after installing the Syn valve, you'll no longer be able to manually create/edit or delete objects via Fedora Web UI. All communication with Fedora will now be handled from the Islandora module in Drupal.
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/opt/fcrepo/config/fcrepo-logback.xml | tomcat:tomcat/644
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE configuration>\n<configuration>\n<appender name=\"STDOUT\" class=\"ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender\">\n<encoder>\n<pattern>%p %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] \\(%c{0}\\) %m%n</pattern>\n</encoder>\n</appender>\n<appender name=\"FILE\" class=\"ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender\">\n<file>${catalina.base}/logs/fcrepo.log</file>\n<append>true</append>\n<rollingPolicy class=\"ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy\">\n<fileNamePattern>${catalina.base}/logs/fcrepo.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log.%i</fileNamePattern>\n<maxFileSize>10MB</maxFileSize>\n<maxHistory>30</maxHistory>\n<totalSizeCap>2GB</totalSizeCap>\n</rollingPolicy>\n<encoder>\n<pattern>%p %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] \\(%c{0}\\) %m%n</pattern>\n</encoder>\n</appender>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.auth\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.auth:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.config\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.config:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.event\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.event:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.http.api\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.http.api:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.http.commons\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.http.commons:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.jms\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.jms:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.kernel\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.kernel:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.persistence\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.persistence:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.search\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.search:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.storage\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.storage:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log:-INFO}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<root level=\"${fcrepo.log.root:-WARN}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</root>\n</configuration>\nThen alter your $JAVA_OPTS like above to include
-Dlogback.configurationFile=/opt/fcrepo/config/fcrepo-logback.xml\nThis will generate a log file at ${catalina.base}/logs/fcrepo.log and will rotate each day or if the logs reaches 10MB. It will maintain 30 days of old logs, or 2GB whichever comes first.
Blazegraph needs a space for configurations and data; we\u2019re going to create this space in /opt.
sudo mkdir -p /opt/blazegraph/data\nsudo mkdir /opt/blazegraph/conf\nsudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/blazegraph\nThe Blazegraph .war file can be found in a few different places, but to ensure we\u2019re able to easily wget it, we\u2019re going to use the maven.org repository link to grab it.
cd /opt\nsudo wget -O blazegraph.war BLAZEGRAPH_WARFILE_LINK\nsudo mv blazegraph.war /opt/tomcat/webapps\nsudo chown tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps/blazegraph.war\n.war file within that version folder.Once this is downloaded, give it a moment to expand before moving on to the next step.
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/opt/blazegraph/conf/log4j.properties | tomcat:tomcat/644
log4j.rootCategory=WARN, dest1\n\n# Loggers.\nlog4j.logger.com.bigdata=WARN\nlog4j.logger.com.bigdata.btree=WARN\n\n# Normal data loader (single threaded).\n#log4j.logger.com.bigdata.rdf.store.DataLoader=INFO\n\n# dest1\nlog4j.appender.dest1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender\nlog4j.appender.dest1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout\nlog4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p: %F:%L: %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p: %r %l: %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p: %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r(%d) [%t] %-5p %c(%l:%M) %x - %m%n\n\n# Rule execution log. This is a formatted log file (comma delimited).\nlog4j.logger.com.bigdata.relation.rule.eval.RuleLog=INFO,ruleLog\nlog4j.additivity.com.bigdata.relation.rule.eval.RuleLog=false\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.Threshold=ALL\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.File=/var/log/blazegraph/rules.log\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.Append=true\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.BufferedIO=false\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%m\nOur configuration will be built from a few different files that we will eventually reference in JAVA_OPTS and directly apply to Blazegraph; these include most of the functional pieces Blazegraph requires, as well as a generalized configuration for the islandora namespace it will use. As with most large configurations like this, these should likely be tuned to your preferences, and the following files only represent sensible defaults.
/opt/blazegraph/conf/RWStore.properties | tomcat:tomcat/644
com.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.file=/opt/blazegraph/data/blazegraph.jnl\ncom.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.bufferMode=DiskRW\ncom.bigdata.service.AbstractTransactionService.minReleaseAge=1\ncom.bigdata.journal.Journal.groupCommit=false\ncom.bigdata.btree.writeRetentionQueue.capacity=4000\ncom.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=128\ncom.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.initialExtent=209715200\ncom.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.maximumExtent=209715200\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.truthMaintenance=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.quads=true\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.statementIdentifiers=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.textIndex=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.axiomsClass=com.bigdata.rdf.axioms.NoAxioms\ncom.bigdata.namespace.kb.lex.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=400\ncom.bigdata.namespace.kb.spo.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=1024\ncom.bigdata.journal.Journal.collectPlatformStatistics=false\n/opt/blazegraph/conf/blazegraph.properties | tomcat:tomcat/644
com.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.textIndex=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.axiomsClass=com.bigdata.rdf.axioms.OwlAxioms\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.isolatableIndices=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.justify=true\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.truthMaintenance=true\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.namespace=islandora\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.quads=false\ncom.bigdata.namespace.islandora.lex.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=400\ncom.bigdata.journal.Journal.groupCommit=false\ncom.bigdata.namespace.islandora.spo.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=1024\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.geoSpatial=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.statementIdentifiers=false\n/opt/blazegraph/conf/inference.nt | tomcat:tomcat/644
<http://pcdm.org/models#memberOf> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#inverseOf> <http://pcdm.org/models#hasMember> .\n<http://pcdm.org/models#fileOf> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#inverseOf> <http://pcdm.org/models#hasFile> .\nRWStore.properties in JAVA_OPTS","text":"In order to enable our configuration when Tomcat starts, we need to add the location of RWStore.properties to the existing JAVA_OPTS environment variable that Tomcat uses in /opt/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh: -Dcom.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.ConfigParams.propertyFile=/opt/blazegraph/conf/RWStore.properties -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/opt/blazegraph/conf/log4j.properties
Finally, restart Tomcat to pick up the changes we\u2019ve made.
sudo systemctl restart tomcat\nThe two other files we created, blazegraph.properties and inference.nt, contain information that Blazegraph requires in order to establish and correctly use the datasets Islandora will send to it. First, we need to create a dataset - contained in blazegraph.properties - and then we need to inform that dataset of the inference set we have contained in inference.nt.
curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: text/plain\" --data-binary @/opt/blazegraph/conf/blazegraph.properties http://localhost:8080/blazegraph/namespace\ncurl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: text/plain\" --data-binary @/opt/blazegraph/conf/inference.nt http://localhost:8080/blazegraph/namespace/islandora/sparql\nNeeds Maintenance
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# While generally we download tarballs as .tar.gz files without version\n# information, the Solr installer is a bit particular in that it expects a .tgz\n# file with the same name as the extracted folder it contains. It's odd, and we\n# can't really get around it.\ncd /opt\nsudo wget -O SOLR_TARBALL SOLR_DOWNLOAD_LINK\nsudo tar -xzvf SOLR_TARBALL\nSOLR_DOWNLOAD_LINK: NOTICE: This will depend on a few different things, not least of all the current version of Solr. The link to the .tgz for the binary on the downloads page will take you to a list of mirrors that Solr can be downloaded from, and provide you with a preferred mirror at the top. This preferred mirror should be used as the SOLR_DOWNLOAD_LINK. - SOLR_TARBALL: The filename that was downloaded, e.g., solr-9.6.1.tgz"},{"location":"installation/manual/installing-solr/#running-the-solr-installer","title":"Running the Solr Installer","text":"Solr includes an installer that does most of the heavy lifting of ensuring we have a Solr user, a location where Solr lives, and configurations in place to ensure it\u2019s running on boot.
sudo UNTARRED_SOLR_FOLDER/bin/install_solr_service.sh SOLR_TARBALL\nUNTARRED_SOLR_FOLDER: This will likely simply be solr-VERSION, where VERSION is the version number that was downloaded. The installer will start the service for you. Check the status and stop and restart if needed:
sudo systemctl status solr\nsudo systemctl stop solr\nsudo systemctl start solr\nIf you want to use the web dashboard (for development only) you can edit the solr.in.sh file to make it more accessible.
Find #SOLR_JETTY_HOST=\"127.0.0.1\" and change it to SOLR_JETTY_HOST=\"0.0.0.0\". (Note the lack of # now.)
Restart Solr sudo systemctl restart solr and go to http://localhost:8983/solr.
Solr's installation guide recommends that you increase the open file limit so that operations aren't disrupted while Solr is trying to access things in its index. This limit can be increased while the system is running, but doing so won't persist after a reboot. You can hard-increase this limit using your system's sysctl file:
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Add the following line to the end of the file:
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sudo sysctl -p\nsearch_api_solr","text":"Rather than use an out-of-the-box configuration that won\u2019t be suitable for our purposes, we\u2019re going to use the Drupal search_api_solr module to generate one for us. This module was already installed if you used the starter site, but you can install it if you didn't:
cd /var/www/html/drupal\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/search_api_solr:^4.2\ndrush -y en search_api_solr\nYou should see an output similar to this:
The following module(s) will be enabled: search_api_solr, language, search_api\n\n // Do you want to continue?: yes.\n\n [success] Successfully enabled: search_api_solr, language, search_api\nBefore we can create configurations to use with Solr, the core we created earlier needs to be referenced in Drupal. Again, the starter site provides this already; but if you installed it yourself, the directions below should help.
Log in to the Drupal site at /user using the sitewide administrator username and password (if using defaults from previous chapters this should be islandora and islandora), then navigate to /admin/config/search/search-api/add-server.
Fill out the server addition form using the following options:
SERVER_NAME: islandoramachine_name generated next to the server name you type in; this will be used in the next step.As a recap for this configuration:
Click Save to create the server configuration.
NOTICE You can ignore the error about an incompatible Solr schema; we're going to set this up in the next step. In fact, if you refresh the page after restarting Solr in the next step, you should see the error disappear.
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cd /var/www/html/drupal\ndrush solr-gsc SERVER_MACHINE_NAME solrconfig.zip\nunzip -d ~/solrconfig solrconfig.zip\nsudo -u solr /opt/solr/bin/solr create_core -c SOLR_CORE -d ~/solrconfig -n SOLR_CORE\nsudo systemctl restart solr\nSERVER_MACHINE_NAME: This should be the machine_name that was automatically generated when creating the configuration in the above step. The starter site uses default_solr_server."},{"location":"installation/manual/installing-solr/#adding-an-index","title":"Adding an Index","text":"The site template provides an index for us; but if you didn't use it, you need to set up your index configuration. Navigate to /admin/config/search/search-api/add-index and check off the things you'd like to be indexed.
NOTICE You should come back here later and reconfigure this after completing the last step in this guide. The default indexing configuration is pretty permissive, and you may want to restrict, for example, indexed content to just Islandora-centric bundles. This guide doesn't set up the index's fields either, which are going to be almost wholly dependent on the needs of your installation. Once you complete that configuration later on, re-index Solr from the configuration page of the index we're creating here.
Click Save to add your index and kick off indexing of existing items.
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sudo addgroup tomcat\nsudo adduser tomcat --ingroup tomcat --home /opt/tomcat --shell /usr/bin\nYou will be prompted to create a password for the tomcat user; all the other information as part of the adduser command can be ignored.
Tomcat 9 itself can be installed in several different ways; while it\u2019s possible to install via apt-get, this doesn\u2019t give us a great deal of control over exactly how we\u2019re going to run and manage it; as a critical part of the stack, it is beneficial for our purposes to have a good frame of reference for the inner workings of Tomcat.
We\u2019re going to download the latest version of Tomcat to /opt and set it up so that it runs automatically. Bear in mind that with the following commands, this is going to be entirely relative to the current version of Tomcat 9, which we\u2019ll try to mitigate as we go.
cd /opt\nsudo wget -O tomcat.tar.gz TOMCAT_TARBALL_LINK\nsudo tar -zxvf tomcat.tar.gz\nsudo mv /opt/TOMCAT_DIRECTORY/* /opt/tomcat\nsudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat\nTOMCAT_TARBALL_LINK: No default can be provided here; you should navigate to the Tomcat 9 downloads page and grab the link to the latest .tar.gz file under the \u201cCore\u201d section of \u201cBinary Distributions\u201d. It is highly recommended to grab the latest version of Tomcat 9, as it will come with associated security patches and fixes. - TOMCAT_DIRECTORY: This will also depend entirely on the exact version of tomcat downloaded - for example, apache-tomcat-9.0.50. Again, ls /opt can be used to find this."},{"location":"installation/manual/installing-tomcat-and-cantaloupe/#creating-a-setenvsh-script","title":"Creating a setenv.sh Script","text":"When Tomcat runs, some configuration needs to be pre-established as a series of environment variables that will be used by the script that runs it.
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export CATALINA_HOME=\"/opt/tomcat\"\nexport JAVA_HOME=\"PATH_TO_JAVA_HOME\"\nexport JAVA_OPTS=\"-Djava.awt.headless=true -server -Xmx1500m -Xms1000m\"\nPATH_TO_JAVA_HOME: This will vary a bit depending on the environment, but will likely live in /usr/lib/jvm somewhere (e.g., /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64); again, in an Ubunutu environment you can check a part of this using update-alternatives --list java, which will give you the path to the JRE binary within the Java home. Note that update-alternatives --list java will give you the path to the binary, so for PATH_TO_JAVA_HOME delete the /bin/java at the end to get the Java home directory, so it should look something like this: export JAVA_HOME=\"/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64\"\nTomcat includes two shell scripts we\u2019re going to make use of - startup.sh and shutdown.sh - which are light wrappers on top of a third script, catalina.sh, which manages spinning up and shutting down the Tomcat server.
Debian and Ubuntu use systemctl to manage services; we\u2019re going to create a .service file that can run these shell scripts.
/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service | root:root/755
[Unit]\nDescription=Tomcat\n\n[Service]\nType=forking\nExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh\nExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh\nSyslogIdentifier=tomcat\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\nWe\u2019re going to both enable and start Tomcat. Enabling Tomcat will ensure that it starts on boot, the timing of which is defined by the [Install] section\u2019s WantedBy statement, which specifies what it should start after. This is separate from starting it, which we need to do now in order to get Tomcat up and running without requiring a reboot.
sudo systemctl enable tomcat\nsudo systemctl start tomcat\nWe can check that Tomcat has started by running sudo systemctl status tomcat | grep Active; we should see that Tomcat is active (running), which is the correct result of startup.sh finishing its run successfully.
Since version 5, Cantaloupe is released as a standalone Java application and is no longer deployed in Tomcat via a .war file. Even so, we can still fine-tune how it runs and even install it as a service.
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If you have trouble connecting, check the status of your port and allow it if necessary:
sudo ufw status verbose\nsudo ufw allow 8182/tcp\nNeeds Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
Notice
The manual installation guide is not intended to describe the Islandora installation but rather an Islandora installation. The server created using this guide is not hardened, will not be easily scalable, and the components may not be configured in a way you consider easy to work with. A production instance of Islandora should be installed and maintained by a professional with an understanding of Linux and server administration.
This guide will contain generalized steps on installation and configuration of the various components, but will contain specific example commands for executing these steps on an Ubuntu 20.04 Server.
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root[mysql_root_password][mysql_drupal][mysql_drupal_password][mysql_fedora][mysql_fedora_password]tomcat[tomcat_user_password]fedoraAdmin[fedora_admin_password]fedoraUser[fedora_user_password][activemq_user][activemq_user_password]The most common issues you will likely run into when manually provisioning a server are:
ls -la, and ensure their ownership using chown USER for files, and chown -R USER for directoriesFor any other issues, don't hesitate to email the mailing list to ask for help. If you think that a part of the installation documentation is incorrect or could be improved, please create an issue in the documentation issues queue and give it a documentation tag. Bear in mind that this guide is built for Ubuntu 20.04 and attempts to give generalized instructions; you will likely naturally encounter situations where your own environment needs to differ from the guide.
Needs Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
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The resultant location of the java JRE binary (and therefore, the correct value of JAVA_HOME when it\u2019s referenced) will vary based on the specifics of the machine it\u2019s being installed on; that being said, you can find its exact location using update-alternatives:
update-alternatives --list java\nApache can typically be installed and configured outright by your operating system\u2019s package manager:
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systemd service that will ensure Apache can be stopped and started, and will run when the machine is powered on/etc/apache2, including the basic configuration, ports configuration, enabled mods, and enabled sites/var/www/html, configured to be the provided server on port :80 in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf; we\u2019ll make changes and additions to this file laterwww-data, which we will use to read/write web documents.We\u2019re going to enable a couple of Apache mods that Drupal highly recommends installing, and which are de-facto considered required by Islandora:
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N.B. This code block uses backticks, not single quotes; this is an important distinction as backticks have special meaning in bash.
Note If doing this in the terminal, replace \"whoami\" with your username and remove the backticks
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Although the instructions below will install PHP 8.3, the instructions should work for future versions by replacing the 8.3 with whatever version you are attempting to install.
If you're running Ununtu 20.04+ you should be able to install PHP 8 from the apt packages directly, although the ondrej/php repository provides additional libraries:
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sudo systemctl restart apache2\nInstallation directories created:
/etc/php/8.3 (this is where you can edit PHP settings, such as timeouts, as needed for your site)/usr/bin/php8.3sudo apt install mysql-server\nThere are a few ways to check the MySQL status:
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Islandora uses Homarus (ffmpeg as a microservice) to create audio derivatives. Islandora Starter Site sets you up to create:
-codec:a libmp3lame -q:a 5, stored in the public filesystemThese parameters can be changed in the configuration for the Drupal Action that Islandora uses to generate an Audio derivative.
Islandora Starter Site sets up a context to automatically create this derivative when:
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If you're using Islandora Starter Site, you can expect to see an audio player on your node. This is done with a special view (an EVA view) that displays service files, which is configured to show on Repository Item's default display mode (on the \"Manage Display\" page). The EVA view renders the service file media using the \"Source\" view mode. For Audio media, this is configured to show only the audio file using the \"Audio with Captions\" widget. Note that captions, to be displayed, must be on the media that is playing. Thus, when the Service file media is being played, captions on the Original File media are ignored.
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Move your blueprint config out of the deploy directory temporarily
mv /opt/karaf/deploy/ca.islandora.* /opt/karafNow we'll uninstall the old features and install the new ones. We're assuming you're currently on 1.0.3 and want to update to 1.0.5, but you may be on an older version. Keep that in mind when copy/pasting these commands.
/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-connector-derivative\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-indexing-fcrepo\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-indexing-triplestore\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-http-client\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:repo-remove mvn:ca.islandora.alpaca/islandora-karaf/1.0.3/xml/features\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:repo-add mvn:ca.islandora.alpaca/islandora-karaf/1.0.5/xml/features\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-http-client\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-indexing-triplestore\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-indexing-fcrepo\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-connector-derivative\"Move the blueprint files back to the deploy folder to deploy the derivative routes
mv /opt/karaf/ca.islandora.* /opt/karaf/deployYou can check that everything is working with
/opt/karaf/bin/client \"la | grep islandora\"If all the bundles have a state of Active, then you're all good!
Some users have experienced timeouts when generating derivatives. We've added the ability to set the timeout length to your routes. In order to do so, edit each ca.islandora.* file in the deploy directory and replace
<bean id=\"http\" class=\"org.apache.camel.component.http4.HttpComponent\"/>\n<bean id=\"https\" class=\"org.apache.camel.component.http4.HttpComponent\"/>\nwith
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We removed the Gemini microservice and pushed its code into Crayfish-Commons so that it can be used by the other microservices and Drupal modules. Once you've updated your Drupal installation, Gemini will no longer be utilized. It will still, however, need to be removed. It is recommended to test this method in a staging/development environment before running in your production environment.
2.0.0 version of the islandora module. If you followed the steps above to update Drupal core and its modules, you'll have this.Import two new Islandora views
i. This can be done by coping the views into a new directory and using drush such as
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2.0.0 version of islandora and islandora_defaults. If you followed the steps above to update Drupal core and its modules, you'll have this.islandora_defaults using the Features UI (recommended) or by copying them into a temporary directory and using drush to do a partial config import.drush crDrupal requires the use of a _format query parameter to get alternate representations of a node/media.
By default, Islandora deploys with the jsonld module and the Milliner microservice. These two components are configured to strip this _format query parameter off of the end of URIs.
This means that when your content is indexed in Fedora, the triplestore, etc... it's URI will be something like http://localhost:8000/node/1 and not http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=jsonld.
If you are using a very early version of Islandora \"8\" (pre-release), then you may have URIs with _format=jsonld at the end of them.
If you update to newer code, you will need to ensure that your site is configured to add ?_format=jsonld back to the URLs if you want to maintain consistency.
If you don't do this, you can end up with two copies of your objects in your Fedora repository (one with and one without ?_format=jsonld). You will also have two sets of triples in your triplestore.
To turn the ?_format parameter back on:
admin/config/search/jsonld and confirm the \"Remove jsonld parameter from @ids\" checkbox is unchecked.strip_format_jsonld: false to your Milliner config. If you deployed using the default Islandora-playbook this file would be located at /var/www/html/Crayfish/Milliner/cfg/config.yaml.If you are using Islandora-playbook and are provisioning new environments for your older Islandora, you'll want to lock down the variables in your inventory that control this config.
crayfish_milliner_strip_format_jsonld: truewebserver_app_jsonld_remove_format: 1Alpaca is event-driven middleware based on Apache Camel for Islandora
Currently, Alpaca ships with four event-driven components
This service receives requests from Drupal when it wants to create derivatives and passes that request along to a microservice in Crayfish. When it receives the derivative file back from the microservice, it passes the file back to Drupal.
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Then create a new directory (for example my-new-module) along side the islandora-indexing-fcrepo, islandora-indexing-triplestore directories
Add your new directory to the settings.gradle file, following the pattern of the others.
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This module contains three classes.
You can ignore the CommonProcessor class, that is just some processing that is split out for reusability.
The first class is the FcrepoIndexer, this class extends the Apache Camel RouteBuilder and requires a configure method which defines the processing elements of your workflow. This is the Camel \"route\".
The second class is the FcrepoIndexerOptions, this class extends the Alpaca PropertyConfig base class which gets common configuration parameters into your module. It also contains any custom configuration parameters needed for your route.
Lastly it uses the @Conditional(FcrepoIndexerOptions.FcrepoIndexerEnabled.class) to define when this module is enabled.
FcrepoIndexerOptions.FcrepoIndexerEnabled.class refers to the static inner class.
This class is inside of FcrepoIndexerOptions and works like this:
[1] static class FcrepoIndexerEnabled extends ConditionOnPropertyTrue { \n[2] FcrepoIndexerEnabled() {\n[3] super(FcrepoIndexerOptions.FCREPO_INDEXER_ENABLED, false);\n[4] }\n[5] }\nLine 2 is the constructor for this static class
Line 3 passes to the parent constructor two things.
So in this case we check for the property fcrepo.indexer.enabled and if we don't find it, we pass false. So this module is assumed to be \"off\" unless the property fcrepo.indexer.enabled=true is located.
The last thing is to add your new module to the islandora-alpaca-app build.gradle file as a dependencies, like the existing modules. i.e.
dependencies {\n implementation \"info.picocli:picocli:${versions.picocli}\"\n implementation \"org.apache.camel:camel-spring-javaconfig:${versions.camel}\"\n implementation \"org.slf4j:slf4j-api:${versions.slf4j}\"\n implementation \"org.springframework:spring-context:${versions.spring}\"\n implementation project(':islandora-support')\n implementation project(':islandora-connector-derivative')\n implementation project(':islandora-indexing-fcrepo')\n implementation project(':islandora-indexing-triplestore')\n+ implementation project(':my-new-module')\n\n runtimeOnly \"ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:${versions.logback}\"\n\n}\nFinally from the top-level directory of Alpaca execute
./gradlew clean build shadowJar\nThis tells Gradle to clean the modules, then build the modules and finally create a single jar with all needed code (the shadow jar).
The final executable jar is:
<alpaca directory>/islandora-alpaca-app/build/libs/islandora-alpaca-<version>-all.jar\nBefore opening a pull request, you should check your code style. If you are using the Vagrant, you can run phpcs within the Drupal installation directory (on the Vagrant, that is /var/www/html/drupal) or from within the web directory (/var/www/html/drupal/web) as follows:
./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=./vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/Drupal modules/contrib/my_module, where modules/contrib/my_module is the relative or full path to the PHP file you want to check.web directory: ../vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=../vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/Drupal yourfile, where yourfile is the relative or full path to the PHP file you want to check.In both cases:
web: --standard=../vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/DrupalIslandora runs phpcs in its Github continuous integration environment, and there, it specifies which files to ignore and which files to check. It is a good idea for developers to specify the same options when running phpcs locally, prior to opening a pull request. For example (running phpcs from the within Drupal's web directory), you should use the following --ignore and --extensions options:
../vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=../vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/Drupal --ignore=*.md --extensions=php,module,inc,install,test,profile,theme,css,info modules/contrib/my_module
Diagram prepared by Bethany Seeger based on work done by Gavin Morris
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The following components are deployed with Islandora, but are developed and maintained by other open source projects:
This documentation is built using MkDocs, a static site generator that is geared towards building project documentation. The documentation is created in the Markdown format, and it all resides in the docs directory in the repository. The organization of the documentation is controlled by the mkdocs.yml in the root of the repository.
Video version available
Some of the material in this tutorial is presented in our video, How to Build Documentation.
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Open a terminal window.
Install mkdocs:
Windows / Linux:
sudo -H pip install mkdocs
macOS:
pip3 install mkdocs
Install plugin to enable display of the last revision date:
Windows / Linux:
sudo -H pip install mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin
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pip3 install mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin
Install plugin to enable redirects:
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sudo -H pip install mkdocs-redirects
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pip3 install mkdocs-redirects
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sudo -H pip install mkdocs-material
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pip3 install mkdocs-material
Make sure you have all the submodules:
git submodule update --init --recursive
Documentation is build by running to the following command in the root of the repository:
mkdocs build --clean
This command will create a static site folder in the root of the repository.
You can preview any changes you have made to the documentation by running the following command:
mkdocs serve
And then visiting http://localhost:8111 in your browser.
To deploy documentation to GitHub Pages, issue the following command:
mkdocs gh-deploy --clean
To stop the mkdocs serve command just type the key combination \"Control-c\".
Islandora can make use of the majority of Drupal modules and themes. Common use cases have been documented in the Islandora Cookbook. There are several ways to download and install Drupal modules. Please refer to this guide on Drupal.org.
Composer is the recommended method to install and update drupal modules and themes in Islandora. Drupal modules provided by Islandora can be accessed at the drupal/ namespace.
$ composer require \"<vendor>/<package>:<version>\"\n# Example\n$ composer require \"drupal/jsonld:^2\"\nIn the Islandora playbook, you can add a Drupal module's or theme's machine name to the drupal_composer_dependencies variable here. To enable the Drupal module or theme, add the module machine name to the drupal_enable_modules variable as well.
For modules that require additional steps, additional tasks may need to be added to the Ansible playbook. Re-provisioning your instance via Ansible will install the module.
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Click the image below to open the Installing modules with Composer video tutorial on the Islandora Youtube channel.
See more videos from the Drupal 101 series here.
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!! note \"Migration from Islandora Legacy\" For tools to migrate into Islandora from an existing Islandora Legacy instance, please see migrate_7x_claw.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/migrate-7x/#project-planning-for-migration","title":"Project Planning for Migration","text":"Presented by Mark Jordan and Janice Banser, this session will outline strategies for understanding your data and planning for a move to Islandora.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/migrate-csv/","title":"CSV","text":""},{"location":"technical-documentation/migrate-csv/#table-of-contents","title":"Table of Contents","text":"This tutorial introduces you to the Drupal Migrate tools available to create Islandora content. Whether you will eventually use CSVs or other sources (such as XML or directly from a Legacy Islandora) this tutorial should be useful as it covers the basics and mechanics of migration.
This tutorial uses the configurations and code available in the migrate_islandora_csv module which, when enabled, will create three example migrations ready for you to use with the Migrate API. Each migration comes from one of the files in the config/install folder. We'll walk through them in detail below. The module is also uses Features which allows you to make changes to the configuration files and sync those changes into your Drupal site.
A note on using Features
This tutorial (and Islandora in general) makes heavy use of Features, which is an easy way to ship and install Drupal configuration. However, after enabling a Feature module, the code in that module's directory is no longer \"live\", as the configuration now resides in the Drupal database. If you change code in the YAML files, it will not take effect until you re-import the Feature. There is a walkthrough in the \"Configuration\" section of the Migrate 7.x to Islandora tutorial.
Sample CSV and images are also included in the module as a convenience so they are easily available on the Drupal server running the migration. (This is not the recommended method for making files available to Drupal in a real migration.)
The module also contains a Migrate process plugin that transforms strings into associative arrays. This is useful for populating multiple Contributor (field_linked_agent) fields. (See \"Typed Relation\" for more information on the Contributor field's type.) It will be available when this module is enabled, and the node migration uses it. It was written generically and will hopefully become part of Migrate Plus, but for now it is here.
When you are ready to create your actual migrations, the contents of this repository can function as a template for you to create the YAML files defining your own migrations.
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In this tutorial, we'll be inspecting each migration file in detail before running it. You'll start out by migrating the images themselves first, and then you'll create various Drupal entities to describe the files from the metadata in the CSV. It's not as scary as it sounds (especially since this module contains the data we'll be using in a data directory), but you will need a few things before beginning:
vagrant ssh into the box, navigate into Drupal, and use git and drush, etc... If you can copy/paste into a terminal, you'll survive.The configuration referred to in this tutorial comes from the Islandora Starter Site, which defines the content model and metadata fields that we'll be migrating into. You're not required to use the Islandora Starter Site for your repository, but for the purposes of demonstration, it saves you a lot of user interface administrivia so you can focus just on the learning how to migrate. By the time you are done with this exercise, you'll be able to easily apply your knowledge to migrate using any custom metadata profile you can build using Drupal.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/migrate-csv/#overview","title":"Overview","text":"The Migrate API is the main way to ingest batches of data into Drupal (and because Islandora is Drupal, into Islandora). The Migrate module only provides the framework, it's up to you to create the rules that take data from a source, through a process (i.e. a mapping) to a destination. A set of these rules is called a \"migration\". It has to be set up (as a Configuration Entity, either by importing a YAML file or by installing a Feature) and then it has to be run.
Once a migration has been run, it will have created (or updated) a bunch of Drupal entities of one type - whether that's taxonomy terms, nodes, files, etc. Since an Object in Islandora is made up of several different Drupal entities that refer to each other, it's going to take multiple migrations to create an Islandora object, and it's important to perform these migrations in a sensible order.
A basic Islandora object is at minimum: - a file, which holds the actual binary contents of an item - a node, which holds the descriptive metadata for an item and makes it discoverable - a media, which holds technical metadata and references the file and the node, linking the two together.
Therefore, each row in your CSV must contain enough information to create these.
Using multiple sources for object components
While this tutorial uses a single CSV to describe all the parts of an islandora object, a site can use multiple sources (CSV or otherwise) to migrate the various parts. The only requirements then is to have keys in place matching the parts together. For example, a 'files.csv' can use paths that serve as file identifiers and 'metadata.csv' can use an object identifier. As long as the source for the media migration has the key values for the file and metadata migrations (the file paths and object identifiers, respectively, in this example), we can create the necessary links between the object's components. This is very useful when you need to migrate multiple media/file pairs associated with a single node, such as pre-processed derivatives that need to be migrated.
Buried in your descriptive metadata are often references to other things which aren't repository items themselves, but records still need to be kept for them. Authors, publishers, universities, places, etc... can be modeled as Drupal Entities, so that they can be referenced by other Entities. So there's the potential to have a lot of different entity types described in a single row in a CSV.
In this tutorial, we will use the three migrations defined in this module to migrate into Drupal entities. The entities we are migrating content into have already been defined by the Islandora Starter Site:
We can do this because subjects, persons, and corporate bodies are (in this example) represented by simple 'name' strings. We create them on the fly, as if we were adding new tags to a tag vocabulary. If we wanted to model subjects, people, or corporate bodies as entities with multiple fields (first name, last name, date, subheadings, URI, etc.) then we would need up to six migrations.
Migrations follow the Extract-Transform-Load pattern. You extract the information from a source, process the data to transform it into the format you need, and load it into the destination system (i.e. Drupal). Migrations are stored in Drupal as configuration, which means they can be represented in YAML, transferred to and from different sites, and are compatible with Drupal's configuration synchronization tools. And the structure of each YAML file is arranged to follow the Extract-Transform-Load pattern.
To perform the migrations, we'll be using drush. We will be able to run each of the file, node, and media migrations separately or all at once in a group. We will also learn how to roll back a migration in case it didn't go as planned.
The sample migrations here will give us a chance to show off some techniques for working with multi-valued fields, entity reference fields, and complex field types like controlled_access_terms's typed_relation field. We'll also see how the migrate framework can help de-duplicate, and at the same time, linked data-ize :tm: your data by looking up previously migrated entities.
So hold on to your hats. First, let's get this module onto your Islandora instance.
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Optionally, flush the cache (drush cr), so the migrations become visible in the GUI at Manage > Structure > Migrations > migrate_islandora_csv (http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/migrate/manage/migrate_islandora_csv/migrations)
Now lets go migrate some files.
Caution
As you saw, you can git clone into the modules directory, but if you're installing a custom module that's intended to stay installed for the long term (unlike a migration feature, which you should probably uninstall and delete when you're done with it) then you may want to check with your devops folks and use Composer instead. However, using Git directly allows you to be more flexible when iterating and testing.
To migrate files (i.e. just the raw binaries) from a CSV, you need: - a column in the CSV containing paths to the files you wish to ingest, and - the files need to be accessible from the server that's running Drupal so that the Migrate framework can find them.
This tutorial assumes you're working with the sample images provided in the module, which will be located at /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/images. When you're migrating for real, the files will have to be uploaded or otherwise made accessible to the server before this point.
Open up the CSV file at data/migration.csv and you'll see a file column containing paths to the sample images. You can use your favorite shell-based utility to open it at /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv, or browse to it on GitHub, or just look at it pasted below as this tutorial does not require you to edit the files.
Open up the \"files\" migration at config/install/migrate_plus.migration.file.yml. You'll see the following migration config:
id: file\nlabel: Import Image Files\nmigration_group: migrate_islandora_csv\n\nsource:\n plugin: csv\n path: '/var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv'\n delimiter: ','\n\n # 1 means you have a header row, 0 means you don't\n header_row_count: 1\n\n # Each migration needs a unique key (\"id\") per row in the CSV. Here we're using the file path.\n ids:\n - file\n\n # You can't enter string literals into a process plugin, but you can give it a constant as a 'source'.\n constants:\n # Islandora uses Flysystem and stream wrappers to work with files. What we're really saying here is\n # to put these files in Fedora in a 'csv_migration' folder. It doesn't matter if the directory\n # doesn't exist yet, it will get created for you automatically.\n destination_dir: 'fedora://csv_migration'\n\nprocess:\n\n ##\n # The following two fields are temporary, and just used to generate a destination for the file.\n ##\n\n # Hack the file name out of the full path provided in the 'file' column.\n filename:\n -\n plugin: callback\n callable: pathinfo\n source: file\n -\n plugin: extract\n index:\n - basename\n\n # Construct the destination URI using the file name.\n destination:\n plugin: concat\n delimiter: /\n source:\n - constants/destination_dir\n - '@filename'\n\n ##\n # Here's where we copy the file over and set the URI of the file entity.\n ##\n uri:\n plugin: file_copy\n source:\n - file # The source column in the CSV\n - '@destination' # The destination entry from above\n\ndestination:\n # These are Drupal 'image' entities we're making, not just plain 'file' entities.\n plugin: 'entity:file'\n type: image\nIt seems like a lot to take in at first, but there's a pattern to Drupal migrations. They always contain core identification information and three key sections: source, process, and destination. And these sections correspond exactly to Extract, Transform, and Load.
The first section of a migration contains metadata for Drupal about the migration itself. The id parameter is the machine name of this migration, and must not conflict with existing migrations. Note: use alphanumeric characters and underscores. Hyphens (-) will cause the migration to fail. The label is a human-readable string to identify this migration, and the migration_group is where this migration will be grouped in the GUI.
The source section configures a Drupal source plugin that will extract the data. A source plugin provides \"rows\" of data to processing plugins so that they can be worked on. In this case, we're using the csv source plugin, which very literally uses rows, however you can have source plugins that work with other data formats like XML and JSON. Look at the config from this section.
source:\n plugin: csv\n path: '/var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv'\n delimiter: ','\n header_row_count: 1\n ids:\n - file\n constants:\n destination_dir: 'fedora://csv_migration'\nWe're going to dive into the details of this step below, but in summary: the process section is where we extract the desired bits from that row, transform them as desired, and populate them into an associative array. This section is a series of named steps, that call one or more process plugins. These plugins are executed in sequence, with the results getting passed from one to the next, forming a pipeline. By the end of the step, you have transformed some element of data (perhaps through text manipulation, concatenation, etc...) into the form that Drupal is expecting. The resulting value gets associated with the name of the step.
If the name of a step is the same as a field or property name on the target entity, the migrated entity will have that value for that field or property. This is how you can apply metadata from the CSV to an entity. If the step name is not the name of a field or property on the target entity, the migrate framework assumes it's a temporary value you're using as part of more complex logic. It won't wind up on the entity when the migration is done, but it will be available for you to use within other process plugins. You can always spot when a temporary value is being used by the fact that it's prefixed with an @ and surrounded by quotes. You can also pass constants into process plugins, which are prefixed with constants/.
The destination section contains the configuration that describes what gets loaded into Drupal.
destination:\n plugin: 'entity:file'\n type: image\nIn the process section of the migration, we're copying the images over into a Drupal file system and setting the uri property on the corresponding File entity.
uri:\n plugin: file_copy\n source:\n - file\n - '@destination'\nfile_copy process plugin. But first, we have to know where a file is located and where it should be copied to. We know where the file resides, we have that in the CSV's file column. But we're going to have to do some string manipulation in order to generate the new location where we want the file copied. We're trying to convert something like /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/images/Free Smells.jpg to fedora://csv_migration/Free Smells.jpg. The URI we're constructing is a stream wrapper of the form scheme://path/to/file. Islandora uses Flysystem, which allows for integration with many different types of filesystems, both remote and local. With Flysystem, the scheme part of the URI is the name of a filesystem. By default, Fedora is exposed using the scheme fedora://. So by setting uri to fedora://csv_migration/Free Smells.jpg, we're saying \"put Free Smells.jpg in the csv_migration directory in Fedora.\"
Now, to perform this string manipulation in PHP, we'd do something like
$info = pathinfo($filepath);\n$filename = $info['basename'];\n$destination = \"fedora://csv_migration/\" . $filename;\nWe will mimic this exactly in the process section of our migration config. Just like we declare variables and call functions with PHP code, we can make entries in the process section to store the output of Drupal process plugins. We'll build up a destination \"variable\" using a filename \"variable\" and pass it into the file_copy process plugin.
To start, we'll get the filename using two process plugins, which do the same steps as the first two lines of the PHP above:
filename:\n -\n plugin: callback\n callable: pathinfo\n source: file\n -\n plugin: extract\n index:\n - basename\ncallback, lets you execute any PHP function that takes a single input and returns an output. It's not as flexible as making your own custom process plugin, but it's still pretty useful in a lot of situations. Here we're using it to call pathinfo(), telling it to use the file column in the CSV as input. We pass the resulting array from pathinfo() to the extract process plugin, which pulls data out of arrays using the keys you provide it under index. Now that we have the file name, we have to prepend it with fedora://csv_migration/ to make the destination URI. In our PHP code above, we used . to concatenate the strings. In the migration framework, we use the concat process plugin. You provide it with two or more strings to concatenate, as well as a delimiter.
destination:\n plugin: concat\n delimiter: /\n source:\n - constants/destination_dir\n - '@filename'\nIn our PHP code, we concatenated the $filename variable with a string literal. In our process plugin, we can provide the variable, e.g. the output of the filename process step, by prefixing it with an @. We can't, however, pass in fedora://csv_migration directly as a string. At first glance, you might think something like this would work, but it totally doesn't:
# Can't do this. Won't work at all.\n destination:\n plugin: concat\n delimiter: /\n source:\n - 'fedora://csv_migration'\n - '@filename'\nsource values as names of columns from the CSV or names of other process steps. Even if they're wrapped in quotes. It will never try to use the string directly as a value. To circumvent this, we declare a constant in the source section of the migration config. constants:\n destination_dir: 'fedora://csv_migration'\nThis constant can be referenced as constants/destination_dir and passed into the concat process plugin as a source.
There are a lot more process plugins available through the (core) Migrate and Migrate Plus modules, and they are documented on Drupal.org.
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drush -y --userid=1 --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:import file\n--update flag. drush -y --userid=1 --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:import file --update\nmigration_group in their configuration. You can execute an entire group of migrations using the --group flag. For example, to run the entire group defined in this module drush -y --userid=1 --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:import --group migrate_islandora_csv\nmigrate:rollback command to delete all migrated entities. Like migrate:import, it also respects the --group flag and --uri parameter. So to rollback everything we just did: drush -y --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:rollback --group migrate_islandora_csv\nmigrate:reset command to put a migration back to Idle. For example, with the file migration, use drush -y --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:reset file\nMake sure you've run (and not rolled back) the file migration. It should tell you that it successfully created 5 files. You can confirm its success by visiting http://localhost:8000/admin/content/files. You should see 5 images of neon signs in the list.
Those five images are nice, but we need something to hold their descriptive metadata and show them off. We use nodes in Drupal to do this, and that means we have another migration file to work with. Nestled in with our nodes' descriptive metadata, though, are more Drupal entities, and we're going to generate them on the fly while we're making nodes. While we're doing it, we'll see how to use pipe delimited strings for multiple values as well as how to handle typed_relation fields that are provided by controlled_access_terms. Open up /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/config/install/migrate_plus.migration.node.yml and check it out.
# Uninstall this config when the feature is uninstalled\ndependencies:\n enforced:\n module:\n - migrate_islandora_csv\n\nid: node\nlabel: Import Nodes from CSV\nmigration_group: migrate_islandora_csv\n\nsource:\n plugin: csv\n path: modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv\n\n # 1 means you have a header row, 0 means you don't\n header_row_count: 1\n\n # Each migration needs a unique id per row in the csv. Here we're using the file path.\n ids:\n - file\n\n # You can't enter string literals into a process plugin, but you can give it a constant as a 'source'.\n constants:\n # We're tagging our nodes as Images\n model: Image\n\n # Everything gets created as admin\n uid: 1\n\n# Set fields using values from the CSV\nprocess:\n title: title\n uid: constants/uid\n\n # We use the skip_on_empty plugin because\n # not every row in the CSV has subtitle filled\n # in.\n field_alternative_title:\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n source: subtitle\n method: process\n\n field_description: description\n\n # Dates are EDTF strings\n field_edtf_date: issued\n\n # Make the object an 'Image'\n field_model:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/model\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_models\n\n # Split up our pipe-delimited string of\n # subjects, and generate terms for each.\n field_subject:\n -\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n source: subject\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: entity_generate\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: subject\n\n # If you have multiple values of a complex\n # field, iterate over them using sub_process.\n # But sub_process requires structured data\n # i.e. an associative array, not a string\n # or list of strings. To turn strings into\n # associative arrays, use the custom\n # process plugin str_to_assoc.\n\n # Extract a list of names from the column\n # called photographer, and transform it into\n # an array of associative arrays.\n photographers:\n -\n source: photographer\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: str_to_assoc\n key: 'name'\n\n # Iterate over the array of associative arrays.\n # We create the taxonomy terms here so that we\n # can specify the bundle - other columns which\n # might feed into field_linked_agent may contain\n # corporate bodies or families. The resulting\n # array contains the resulting term id (tid)\n # under the key 'target_id'.\n # We also add a key-value pair\n # 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht'. Other columns\n # might use different relators.\n linked_agent_pht:\n plugin: sub_process\n source: '@photographers'\n process:\n target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: name\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: person\n rel_type:\n plugin: default_value\n default_value: 'relators:pht'\n\n # Extract an array of names from the column\n # called provider\n providers:\n -\n source: provider\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: str_to_assoc\n key: 'name'\n # Generate/lookup taxonomy terms in the\n # corporate body vocab, and add the relator.\n linked_agent_prv:\n plugin: sub_process\n source: '@providers'\n process:\n target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: name\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: 'corporate_body'\n rel_type:\n plugin: default_value\n default_value: 'relators:prv'\n\n # Write to the linked agent field. In this case\n # we first want to merge the info from the\n # photographer and provider columns. Since we\n # already prepared our structured array using\n # the components of the typed_relation field as\n # keys ('target_id' and 'rel_type'), we can just\n # pass this array into field_linked_agent.\n field_linked_agent:\n plugin: merge\n source:\n - '@linked_agent_pht'\n - '@linked_agent_prv'\n\n# We're making nodes\ndestination:\n plugin: 'entity:node'\n default_bundle: islandora_object\nThe source section looks mostly the same other than some different constants we're defining - the string \"Image\" (no quotes needed) and the drupal ID of the user who will be assigned as the author. If values contained special characters such as colons, quotes would be needed.
If you look at the process section, you can see we're taking the title, description, and issued columns from the CSV and applying them directly to the migrated nodes without any manipulation.
title: title\n field_description: description\n field_edtf_date: issued\nsubtitle, we're passing it through the skip_on_empty process plugin because not every row in our CSV has a subtitle entry. It's very useful when you have spotty data, and you'll end up using it a lot. The method: process bit tells the migrate framework only skip that particular field if the value is empty, and not to skip the whole row. It's important, so don't forget it. The full YAML for setting field_alternative_title from subtitle looks like this: field_alternative_title:\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n source: subtitle\n method: process\nNow here's where things get interesting. We can look up other entities to populate entity reference fields. For example, all Repository Items have an entity reference field that holds a taxonomy term from the islandora_models vocabulary. All of our examples are images, so we'll look up the Image model in the vocabulary since it already exists (it gets made for you when you use islandora-playbook). We use the entity_lookup process plugin to do this.
field_model:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/model\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n # 'name' is the string value of the term, e.g. 'Original file', 'Thumbnail'.\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_models\nThe entity_lookup process plugin looks up an entity based on the configuration you give it. You use the entity_type, bundle_key, and bundle configurations to limit which entities you search through. entity_type is, as you'd suspect, the type of entity: node, media, file, taxonomy_term, etc... bundle_key tells the migrate framework which property holds the bundle of the entity, and bundle is the actual bundle id you want to restrict by. In this case we specify the vid (vocabulary id) has to be islandora_models - which is the machine name of the vocabulary we're interested in. In this plugin, source is the value to search for - in this case we're looking for the string \"Image\", which we've defined as a constant. And we're comparing it to the name field on each term by setting the value_key config.
This approach applies the same taxonomy term to all objects. If you want to assign a taxonomy term at the node level (that is, potentially a different term for each node) rather than to all the nodes being imported, you can use a configuration as illustrated next. In this example, we have a column in our CSV input file with the header 'model', which we define as the source of the field_model values:
field_model:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n # 'model' is the header of a field in our input CSV that contains the string value of the taxonomy term.\n source: model\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_models\nIf you're not sure that the entities you're looking up already exist, you can use the entity_generate plugin, which takes the same config, but will create a new entity if the lookup fails. We use this plugin to create subject taxonomy terms that we tag our nodes with. A node can have multiple subjects, so we've encoded them in the CSV as pipe delimited strings.
We can hack those apart easily enough. In PHP we'd do something like
$subjects = explode($string, '|');\n$terms = [];\nforeach ($subjects as $name) {\n $terms[] = \\Drupal::service('entity_type.manager')->getStorage('taxonomy_term')->create([\n ...\n 'vid' => 'subject',\n 'name' => $name,\n ...\n ]);\n}\n$node->set('field_subject', $terms);\nWith process plugins, that logic looks like
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In controlled_access_terms, we define a new field type of typed_relation, which is an entity reference coupled with a MARC relator. It expects an associative array that looks like this:
[ 'target_id' => 1, 'rel_type' => 'relators:ctb']\nThe target_id portion takes an entity id, and rel_type takes the predicate for the MARC relator we want to use to describe the relationship the entity has with the repository item. This example would reference taxonomy_term 1 and give it the relator for \"Contributor\".
If we have a single name to deal with, we can set those values in YAML, accessing field_linked_agent/target_id and field_linked_agent/rel_type independently.
field_linked_agent/target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: photographer\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: person\n\n field_linked_agent/rel_type: constants/relator\nHere we're looking at the photographer column in the CSV, which contains the names of the photographers that captured these images. Since we know these are photographers, and not publishers or editors, we can bake in the relator constant we set to relators:pht in the source section of the migration. So all that's left to do is to set the taxonomy term's id via entity_generate. If the lookup succeeds, the id is returned. If it fails, a term is created and its id is returned. In the end, by using the / syntax to set properties on complex fields, everything gets wrapped up into that nice associative array structure for you automatically.
However, if you have multiple names, and/or multiple columns that contain values that will go into the same typed_relation field, you do need to build up a full array of structured data.
We start by extracting the values in the photographer column, and busting them into a list. (In this case, given the sample data, the lists will all have length 1). Then, we use a custom process plugin to make each value the value in an associative array (see example data below).
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'Alice|Bob|Charlie'\nphotographers temporary variable would contain [\n ['name' => 'Alice'],\n ['name' => 'Bob'],\n ['name' => 'Charlie]\n]\nNext, we use the sub_process plugin. It takes an array of associative arrays (as seen above) and iterates over them. From within subprocess' process parameter, you can access only what's defined in that associative array. Here, when we do our entity_generate lookup, our source is name, the (only) key in that array.
linked_agent_pht:\n plugin: sub_process\n source: '@photographers'\n process:\n target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: name\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: person\n rel_type:\n plugin: default_value\n default_value: 'relators:pht'\nsub_process, we cannot access the temporary variables or constants that we've created in the outer migration. This is why we use the default_value plugin when for the rel_type. It would have been simpler to define a constant as we did with 'Image', but we wouldn't be able to access it. The output of this pipeline is now formatted as the structured data expected by a typed_relation field: [\n ['target_id' => 42, 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht' ],\n ['target_id' => 43, 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht' ],\n ['target_id' => 44, 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht' ],\n]\nfield_linked_agent. We don't have to assign the sub-components of field_linked_agent here, because this is already the structured data it is looking for. field_linked_agent:\n plugin: merge\n source:\n - '@linked_agent_pht'\n - '@linked_agent_prv'\nClear as mud? Great. Now let's run that migration.
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# Uninstall this config when the feature is uninstalled\ndependencies:\n enforced:\n module:\n - migrate_islandora_csv\n\nid: media\nlabel: Import Media from CSV\nmigration_group: migrate_islandora_csv\n\nsource:\n plugin: csv\n path: modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv\n\n # 1 means you have a header row, 0 means you don't\n header_row_count: 1\n\n # Each migration needs a unique key per row in the csv. Here we're using the file path.\n ids:\n - file\n\n # You can't enter string literals into a process plugin, but you can give it a constant as a 'source'.\n constants:\n # We're tagging our media as Original Files\n use: Original File\n\n # Everything gets created as admin\n uid: 1\n\nprocess:\n\n name: title\n uid: constants/uid\n\n # Make the media an 'Original File'\n field_media_use:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/use\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_media_use\n\n # Lookup the migrated file in the file migration.\n field_media_image:\n plugin: migration_lookup\n source: file\n migration: file\n no_stub: true\n\n # Lookup the migrated node in the node migration\n field_media_of:\n plugin: migration_lookup\n source: file\n migration: node\n no_stub: true\n\ndestination:\n # These are 'image' media we're making.\n plugin: 'entity:media'\n default_bundle: image\n\nmigration_dependencies:\n required:\n - migrate_plus.migration.file\n - migrate_plus.migration.node\n optional: { }\nThe Breakdown
Compared to the other migrations, this one is very straightforward. There's no string or array manipulation in YAML, and at most there's only one process plugin per field. Title and user are set directly, with no processing required
name: title\n uid: constants/uid\nfield_media_use field is a tag that's used to denote the purpose of a file with regard to the node it belongs to. E.g. is this the original file? a lower quality derivative? thumbnail? etc... In many ways it bears a resemblance to DSID in Islandora 7.x. Like field_model with nodes, the vocabulary already exists in your Islandora install, so all you have to do is look it up with the entity_lookup plugin. # Make the media an 'Original File'\n field_media_use:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/use\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_media_use\nfield_media_image and field_media_of fields are how the media binds a file to a node. You could use entity_lookup or entity_generate, but we've already migrated them and can very easily look them up by the id assigned to them during migration. But what's the benefit of doing so? The entity_lookup and entity_generate process plugins do the job fine, right? The main advantage of using migration_lookup and defining migrations whenever possible, is that migrated entities can be rolled back. If you were to hop into your console and execute
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If you've made it all the way to the end here, then you've learned that you can migrate files and CSV metadata into Islandora using only YAML files. You've seen how to transform data with pipelines of processing plugins and can handle numeric, text, and entity reference fields. You can handle multiple values for fields, and even more complicated things like typed_relation fields. And as big as this walkthrough was, we're only scratching the surface of what can be done with the Migrate API.
There's certainly more you can do with Drupal 8's Migrate API. There's a plethora of source and processing plugins out there that can handle pretty much anything you throw at it. XML and JSON are fair game. You can also request sources using HTTP, so you can always point it at an existing systems REST API and go from there. If you can't make the Migrate API's existing workflow make the necessary changes to your data, you can expand its capabilities by writing your own process plugins. Reading the Drupal.org documentation on the Migrate API would be a good place to start.
But really the best thing to do is try and get your data into Islandora! We intend to create a boilerplate branch of this repository that will allow you to clone down a migration template, ready for you to customize to fit your data. And as you assemble it into CSV format, keep in mind that if you have more than just names for things like subjects and authors, that you can always make more CSVs. Think of it like maintaining tables in an SQL database. Each CSV has unique keys, so you can lookup/join entities between CSVs using those keys. And you can still pipe-delimit the keys like we did in our example to handle multi-valued fields.
In some repositories, these CSVs can be used to make bulk updates to metadata. Just make your changes to maintain the CSVs, then run the migration(s) again with the --update flag. This will not always be efficient, as you'll update every entity, even if it didn't change. But, by breaking down your CSVs per collection or object type, you could keep them small enough to use this process for a small repository.
There is also a tool for migrating directly from a Legacy Islandora to Islandora (migrate_7x_claw), using Solr, XPaths, and Fedora calls to pull files and objects directly into Islandora. It may be worth checking out, and/or using in conjunction with a CSV migration.
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Review the Ubuntu Packaging Guide. Key items needed are in the Getting Set Up section:
sudo apt install gnupg pbuilder ubuntu-dev-tools apt-filepbuilder:pbuilder-dist bionic createdebuild:imagemagick is used an example. If you need to only change or patch the actual source code, then you will need to use quilt. More information on using quilt can be found in the Patches to Packages section. If you are only change dependencies, or information in the debian directory of a package, quilt is not required, and if used will cause build failures.
mkdir imagemagick-bionic-jp2cd imagemagick-bionic-jp2pull-lp-source imagemagick bioniccd imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsgdch (Make sure to change UNRELEASED to the Ubuntu release name. For example: bionic)debuild -SIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/control\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control\n@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),\n libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxt-dev,\n # for plugins\n ghostscript, libdjvulibre-dev, libexif-dev,\n- libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n libopenexr-dev, libperl-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev,\n libwmf-dev,\n # libgraphviz-dev, incompatible license against fftw\n@@ -273,8 +272,7 @@ Depends: libmagickcore-6-headers (= ${so\n libmagickcore-6.q16-3 (= ${binary:Version}),\n libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra (= ${binary:Version}),\n libbz2-dev, libdjvulibre-dev,\n- libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n liblcms2-dev, liblqr-1-0-dev, libltdl-dev, libopenexr-dev, libpng-dev,\n librsvg2-dev, libtiff-dev, libwmf-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxml2-dev,\n libxt-dev, zlib1g-dev,\n@@ -483,8 +481,7 @@ Depends: libmagickcore-6-headers (= ${so\n libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3 (= ${binary:Version}),\n libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3-extra (= ${binary:Version}),\n libbz2-dev, libdjvulibre-dev,\n- libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n liblcms2-dev, liblqr-1-0-dev, libltdl-dev, libopenexr-dev, libpng-dev,\n librsvg2-dev, libtiff-dev, libwmf-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxml2-dev,\n libxt-dev, zlib1g-dev,\nIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/noquantum.in\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/control.d/noquantum.in\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/noquantum.in\n@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),\n libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxt-dev,\n # for plugins\n ghostscript, libdjvulibre-dev, libexif-dev,\n- libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n libopenexr-dev, libperl-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev,\n libwmf-dev,\n # libgraphviz-dev, incompatible license against fftw\nIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/quantum.in\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/control.d/quantum.in\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/quantum.in\n@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ Depends: libmagickcore-${IMVERSION}-head\n libmagickcore-${IMVERSION}.${QUANTUMDEPTH}-${CORESOVERSION} (= ${binary:Version}),\n libmagickcore-${IMVERSION}.${QUANTUMDEPTH}-${CORESOVERSION}-extra (= ${binary:Version}),\n libbz2-dev, libdjvulibre-dev,\n- libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n liblcms2-dev, liblqr-1-0-dev, libltdl-dev, libopenexr-dev, libpng-dev,\n librsvg2-dev, libtiff-dev, libwmf-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxml2-dev,\n libxt-dev, zlib1g-dev,\nIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/rules\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/rules\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/rules\n@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ STATIC_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS := \\\n --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts \\\n --with-magick-plus-plus \\\n --with-djvu \\\n- --with-openjp2 \\\n+ --with-openjp2 \\\n --with-wmf \\\n --without-gvc \\\n --enable-shared \\\nOnce the package is built successfully, you'll upload the changes file to Launchpad. For example:
dput ppa:lyrasis/imagemagick-jp2 imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8_source.changesAfter the package is successfully uploaded to the PPA, you'll receive an email from Launchpad. Something like this:
Accepted:\n OK: imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig.tar.xz\n OK: imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8.debian.tar.xz\n OK: imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8.dsc\n -> Component: main Section: graphics\n\nimagemagick (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8) bionic; urgency=medium\n\n * Add jp2 support.\nAnd you will see it in the interface for the Lyrasis PPA:
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# Skip this if you VM is already provisioned.\n$ vagrant up --no-provision <-- Exclude if already running and provisioned.\n\n$ vagrant halt\n\n# Download and run. This will default to the correct name (just press enter) then give the size.\n# Example: `350000` is equal to 350GB\n$ wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/DonRichards/6dc6c81ae9fc22cba8d7a57b90ab1509/raw/45017e07a3b93657f8822dfbbe4fc690169cdabc/expand_disk.py\n$ chmod +x expand_disk.py\n$ python expand_disk.py\n$ vagrant up --no-provision\n\n# This step isn't needed but acts as a check to verify it worked.\n$ vagrant ssh --command \"sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1\"\n# Skip this if you VM is already provisioned.\n$ vagrant provision <-- Exclude if already provisioned.\nYou may need to remove the \"resized\" version. Assuming your VM location is ~/VirtualBox\\ VMs
$ rm -rf ~/VirtualBox\\ VMs/Islandora\\ CLAW\\ Ansible_resized\nIf your resources are restricted (hidden) you will need to have authorization to access them.
You can specify which types of authentication are allowed for which HTTP methods.
These are common to all HTTP methods against the REST API.
In the above screenshot we have 3 allowed methods. 1. basic_auth 1. jwt_auth 1. cookie
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For example:
curl -u admin:islandora http://localhost:8000/node/3\nBy default JWTs are passed internally from Drupal to various microservices and Fedora.
To use a JWT yourself you need to enable the JWT Authentication Issuer module.
Once enabled this module makes a /jwt/token endpoint. You can perform a GET against this endpoint as an authenticated user to receive a JWT.
For example:
curl -i -u admin:islandora http://localhost:8000/jwt/token\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:08:37 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 620\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\n \"token\" : \"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1NTE3MzczMTcsImV4cCI6MTU1MTc0NDUxNywiZHJ1cGFsIjp7InVpZCI6IjEifSwid2ViaWQiOiIxIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2xvY2FsaG9zdDo4MDAwIiwic3ViIjoiYWRtaW4iLCJyb2xlcyI6WyJhdXRoZW50aWNhdGVkIiwiYWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImZlZG9yYWFkbWluIl19.QUTrMiK_DyBxqQY4LnibLYtieEW3-MyjjQO9NSFI7bPylNm1S5ZY0uvzjDob3ckYgRN4uCyMFZO4BPytpQVA_jyeSuZyUA_10v33ItpoKyjrJ_S057iykNd_rWmxe8tT8T1fPypq_-Z7Th_PkyZWrYBqoBBVO1iVQt5txxfGWMqhxd2FgsXw6N-aR9sYOSc4UrLmFRmPP5Zk_CNIZP6NtBaM9JNr8CnWyPEFSAR75xfyH3ge5qjBqLlDS389k07pyJFB5rOT59txzLE9WLvpp9JK3oQv821Q1Bp-PMiASghXc0dBCHxM8o41BzLE88UstRA7agBAkUqG3hMpoNZqfA\"\n}\nYou can then take the same token and re-use it.
curl -H\"Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1NTE3MzczMTcsImV4cCI6MTU1MTc0NDUxNywiZHJ1cGFsIjp7InVpZCI6IjEifSwid2ViaWQiOiIxIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2xvY2FsaG9zdDo4MDAwIiwic3ViIjoiYWRtaW4iLCJyb2xlcyI6WyJhdXRoZW50aWNhdGVkIiwiYWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImZlZG9yYWFkbWluIl19.QUTrMiK_DyBxqQY4LnibLYtieEW3-MyjjQO9NSFI7bPylNm1S5ZY0uvzjDob3ckYgRN4uCyMFZO4BPytpQVA_jyeSuZyUA_10v33ItpoKyjrJ_S057iykNd_rWmxe8tT8T1fPypq_-Z7Th_PkyZWrYBqoBBVO1iVQt5txxfGWMqhxd2FgsXw6N-aR9sYOSc4UrLmFRmPP5Zk_CNIZP6NtBaM9JNr8CnWyPEFSAR75xfyH3ge5qjBqLlDS389k07pyJFB5rOT59txzLE9WLvpp9JK3oQv821Q1Bp-PMiASghXc0dBCHxM8o41BzLE88UstRA7agBAkUqG3hMpoNZqfA\" http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=jsonld\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:10:02 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c513>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Service File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/3>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Thumbnail Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/json\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: HIT\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 858\nContent-Type: application/ld+json\n\n{\n \"@graph\": [\n {\n \"@id\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/node\\\\/3?_format=jsonld\",\n \"@type\": [\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/pcdm.org\\\\/models#Object\"\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/purl.org\\\\/dc\\\\/terms\\\\/title\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"Custom item\",\n \"@language\": \"en\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/author\": [\n {\n \"@id\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/user\\\\/1?_format=jsonld\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/dateCreated\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"2019-03-01T19:42:54+00:00\",\n \"@type\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/www.w3.org\\\\/2001\\\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/dateModified\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:12+00:00\",\n \"@type\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/www.w3.org\\\\/2001\\\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/purl.org\\\\/dc\\\\/terms\\\\/extent\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"1 item\",\n \"@type\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/www.w3.org\\\\/2001\\\\/XMLSchema#string\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/sameAs\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/node\\\\/1?_format=jsonld\"\n }\n ]\n },\n {\n \"@id\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/user\\\\/1?_format=jsonld\",\n \"@type\": [\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/Person\"\n ]\n }\n ]\n}\nThis allows you to use a cookie stored in your web browser when you log in to Drupal to access these REST endpoint pages.
This is what allows you to access the URIs like http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=json with your web browser.
You will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to create content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/rest-create/#content-nodes","title":"Content (Nodes)","text":"The above setup shows a configuration where the JSON format is enabled for GET, PATCH, DELETE, and POST, with authentication types \"basic_auth\" and \"jwt_auth\" enabled for each method. Thus, with this configuration, you can perform a POST request against a node at the /node endpoint with a body in the JSON format.
To create a node, you need to provide two elements in your message body: the node type and any required field values.
For the Repository Item content type included in the Islandora Starter Site, these are:
A good way to make your first POST request is to perform a GET request against an existing node and erase all the extra content.
You can find more information about GET requests here.
Again we are using the json format.
\ud83c\udf4e For example curl -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json
Look for the type element
\"type\" : [\n {\n \"target_id\" : \"islandora_object\",\n \"target_type\" : \"node_type\",\n \"target_uuid\" : \"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"\n }\n]\nIn our example \"islandora_object\" is the machine name of the content type \"Repository Item\". If you have created a new type you will have a different target_id.
You will not need the target_uuid.
Next look for the title element
\"title\" : [\n {\n \"value\" : \"An example Islandora object\"\n }\n]\nLastly look for the field_model element
\"field_model\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 24,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e7560b68-e95a-4e76-9671-2a3041cd9800\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/taxonomy\\\\/term\\\\/24\"\n }\n]\nYou can find the models by browsing the taxonomy terms available at http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/islandora_models/overview
In my example installation, term 24 is an \"Image\", but let's create a collection which is term 23.
Note: Taxonomy terms may vary between instances and you should verify the correct number for your installation.
So the body of the request will be:
{\n \"type\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": \"islandora_object\",\n \"target_type\": \"node_type\"\n }\n ],\n \"title\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"Created a collection with POST\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_model\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 23,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\"\n }\n ]\n}\nNote: You must include an appropriate Content-type header for the format you're requesting
Other Note: You must include some authentication credentials to say who you are and so Drupal can check if you are allowed to create this object. Otherwise you will receive a 401 Unauthorized response.
If you do provide credentials but don't have permission, you will receive a 403 Forbidden response.
You can find more information about Authorization here
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
curl -i -X POST -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" --data '{\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\"}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Created a collection with POST\"}],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 201 Created\nDate: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:07:00 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nLocation: http://localhost:8000/node/3\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1564\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Created a collection with POST\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"6a3b293d-4617-417b-99d2-23d75b57f7c2\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/23\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nThe parts of the above request are:
-i - return the response headers-X POST - send a POST request-u admin:islandora - use these basic authentication credentials-H\"Content-type: application/json\" - send the content-type header--data '{...}' - send the request body (seen above)'http://localhost:8000/node?_format=json' - the endpoint of the requestThe Drupal REST UI is supposed to have a way to upload files, but this seems to require the use of an X-CSRF-Token, which can only be retrieved using Cookie authentication and even then does not allow you to upload.
However there is a special REST endpoint created by Islandora, which is less configurable and is not part of the above-mentioned REST UI.
This endpoint is available at http://localhost:8000/node/{node id}/media/{media type}/{media use}
It only accepts PUT requests. If the media and file don't exist they are created, if they exist the file is updated with the new body.
The node id and taxonomy term id are used to search (via an entity query) for a matching media. If this media exists the body of the file is replaced with the new content, otherwise a new file and media are created to hold the content.
The tokens to this URI are as follows:
You can find the media use taxonomy terms at http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/islandora_media_use/overview
The body of the request is the actual binary file to upload.
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
With a local file called my-image.png that I wanted to link to a node with ID 3.
I am using the taxonomy term \"Original file\", which on my machine is 16
> curl -i -X PUT -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: image/png\" --data-binary \"@my-image.png\" -H\"Content-Location: public://images/my-image.png\" 'http://localhost:8000/node/3/media/image/16'\n\nHTTP/1.1 100 Continue\n\nHTTP/1.1 201 Created\nDate: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:01:39 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLocation: http://localhost:8000/media/4\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 0\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nThe parts of the above request are:
-i - return the response headers-X PUT - send a PUT request-u admin:islandora - use these basic authentication credentials-H\"Content-type: image/png\" - send the content-type header--data-binary \"@my-image.png\" - send the contents of the file located at my-image.png as binary-H\"Content-Location: public://images/my-image.png\" - store the file in the public scheme (ie. in Drupal) at the path images/my-image.png, to store the file in Fedora use the fedora// scheme (ie. fedora://images/my-image.png)'http://localhost:8000/node/3/media/image/16' - the endpoint of the request specifying the node, media type and taxonomy term.Deleting is as easy as getting resources and more difficult than creating resources.
If you can perform a GET request then you have the information required to perform a DELETE request.
Check out the examples below.
If you have restricted access to view your content, you will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to access your content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
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A delete is simply the same request as a GET but sending a DELETE http verb.
Our example node has a node id of 2
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:02:00 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=2>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=2>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Collection\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: MISS\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1564\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":2}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"413135a6-0bd1-4d6b-8bcb-059cf7784d83\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":2}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:04:43+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Created a collection with POST\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:04:43+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:04:43+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"6a3b293d-4617-417b-99d2-23d75b57f7c2\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/23\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}%\nThen we switch GET to DELETE
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 204 No Content\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:02:30 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nAll subsequent requests to the above URI will return a 404 Not Found status code.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:12:58 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 149\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"message\":\"The \\u0022node\\u0022 parameter was not converted for the path \\u0022\\/node\\/{node}\\u0022 (route name: \\u0022rest.entity.node.GET\\u0022)\"}\nYou will need a media id as used in GET documentation.
A delete is simply the same request as a GET but sending a DELETE http verb.
With a media id of 1 for our example, I'll perform a GET
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:53:54 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-page\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add/image>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/media>; rel=\"collection\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/delete?media=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Media of\"\nLink: <http://pcdm.org/use#OriginalFile>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/source>; rel=\"edit-media\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/_flysystem/fedora/2019-03/Louis_Riel.jpg>; rel=\"describes\"; type=\"image/jpeg\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: HIT\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1937\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"mid\":[{\"value\":1}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"d8893926-ddb7-4125-b2da-30428af0fe3d\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":1}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"bundle\":[{\"target_id\":\"image\",\"target_type\":\"media_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"3860e653-201b-4509-89dd-628c446d81cb\"}],\"revision_created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:46+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_user\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log_message\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"name\":[{\"value\":\"An image\"}],\"thumbnail\":[{\"target_id\":2,\"alt\":\"A portrait of Louis Riel\",\"title\":null,\"width\":800,\"height\":1333,\"target_type\":\"file\",\"target_uuid\":\"b0625129-c592-463a-93c3-3eff7cd3567e\",\"url\":\"http:\\/\\/localhost:8000\\/_flysystem\\/fedora\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:22+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:46+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_file_size\":[{\"value\":166613}],\"field_height\":[{\"value\":1333}],\"field_media_image\":[{\"target_id\":2,\"alt\":\"A portrait of Louis Riel\",\"title\":\"\",\"width\":800,\"height\":1333,\"target_type\":\"file\",\"target_uuid\":\"b0625129-c592-463a-93c3-3eff7cd3567e\",\"url\":\"http:\\/\\/localhost:8000\\/_flysystem\\/fedora\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"field_media_of\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"node\",\"target_uuid\":\"8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52\",\"url\":\"\\/node\\/1\"}],\"field_media_use\":[{\"target_id\":16,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"08e01ff9-eb72-42f5-ae3a-8b21ba0c0bc3\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/16\"}],\"field_mime_type\":[{\"value\":\"image\\/jpeg\"}],\"field_width\":[{\"value\":800}]}\nThen we replace GET with DELETE.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 204 No Content\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:54:55 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nSubsequent requests to the media return 404 Not Found statuses.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:13:45 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 153\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"message\":\"The \\u0022media\\u0022 parameter was not converted for the path \\u0022\\/media\\/{media}\\u0022 (route name: \\u0022rest.entity.media.GET\\u0022)\"}\nYou'll need the file id, there is more information at the top of the GET requests for files documentation.
A delete is simply the same request as a GET but sending a DELETE http verb.
With a file id of 2 for our example, I can perform a test GET
> curl -i -u admin:islandora 'http://localhost:8000/entity/file/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:40:40 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: MISS\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 617\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"fid\":[{\"value\":2}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"b0625129-c592-463a-93c3-3eff7cd3567e\"}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"filename\":[{\"value\":\"Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"uri\":[{\"value\":\"fedora:\\/\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\",\"url\":\"\\/_flysystem\\/fedora\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"filemime\":[{\"value\":\"image\\/jpeg\"}],\"filesize\":[{\"value\":166613}],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:35+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:46+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}]}\nIf this is the correct file, I can delete it.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/entity/file/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 204 No Content\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:43:22 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nSubsequent requests to the URI now return a 404 Not Found status.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora 'http://localhost:8000/entity/file/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:43:33 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 157\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"message\":\"The \\u0022file\\u0022 parameter was not converted for the path \\u0022\\/entity\\/file\\/{file}\\u0022 (route name: \\u0022rest.entity.file.GET\\u0022)\"}\nIf you have restricted access to view your content, you will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to access your content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/rest-get/#content-nodes","title":"Content (Nodes)","text":"The above setup shows that you can perform a GET request against a node at the /node/{id} endpoint. This is the same as the URL when viewed through a web browser. For example http://localhost:8000/node/2
It also defines the formats you can access. In this example json and jsonld are available.
To access a resource in a specific format use the _format= argument which is appended to the end of the URI after a ?.
To get the resource located at http://localhost:8000/node/3 in JSON, you can go to http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json.
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
You can do this in your web browser or with a command line client like cURL. (Note: response body here has been formatted, yours will look different)
vagrant@claw:~$ curl -i http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:53:50 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c513>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Service File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/3>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Thumbnail Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: MISS\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nX-Drupal-Cache: MISS\nContent-Length: 1521\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\n \"nid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1\n }\n ],\n \"uuid\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52\"\n }\n ],\n \"vid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1\n }\n ],\n \"langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"en\"\n }\n ],\n \"type\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": \"islandora_object\",\n \"target_type\": \"node_type\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_timestamp\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:12+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_uid\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"user\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/user\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_log\": [],\n \"status\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"title\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"Custom item\"\n }\n ],\n \"uid\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"user\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/user\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"created\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:42:54+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"changed\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:12+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"promote\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"sticky\": [\n {\n \"value\": false\n }\n ],\n \"default_langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"revision_translation_affected\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_source\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"und\"\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_outdated\": [\n {\n \"value\": false\n }\n ],\n \"field_alternative_title\": [],\n \"field_description\": [],\n \"field_display_hints\": [],\n \"field_edtf_date\": [],\n \"field_edtf_date_created\": [],\n \"field_edtf_date_issued\": [],\n \"field_extent\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"1 item\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_identifier\": [],\n \"field_linked_agent\": [],\n \"field_member_of\": [],\n \"field_model\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 24,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e7560b68-e95a-4e76-9671-2a3041cd9800\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/taxonomy\\\\/term\\\\/24\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_pid\": [],\n \"field_resource_type\": [],\n \"field_rights\": [],\n \"field_subject\": []\n}\nThe above steps are the same for media, it is just the URI that has changed.
For media you use /media/{id}
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
curl -u admin:islandora http://localhost:8000/media/2?_format=json\n\n{\n \"mid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 2\n }\n ],\n \"uuid\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"e75e609d-510c-4764-9280-665bb7026161\"\n }\n ],\n \"vid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 2\n }\n ],\n \"langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"en\"\n }\n ],\n \"bundle\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": \"image\",\n \"target_type\": \"media_type\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"3860e653-201b-4509-89dd-628c446d81cb\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_created\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:48+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_user\": [],\n \"revision_log_message\": [],\n \"status\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"name\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"1-Service File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\n \"thumbnail\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 3,\n \"alt\": null,\n \"title\": null,\n \"width\": 800,\n \"height\": 1333,\n \"target_type\": \"file\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e97ad038-dcb3-4d81-aa91-c945b2fe092c\",\n \"url\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/sites\\\\/default\\\\/files\\\\/2019-03\\\\/1-Service%20File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\n \"uid\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"user\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/user\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"created\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:48+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"changed\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:48+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"default_langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"revision_translation_affected\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_source\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"und\"\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_outdated\": [\n {\n \"value\": false\n }\n ],\n \"field_access_terms\": [],\n \"field_file_size\": [\n {\n \"value\": 166608\n }\n ],\n \"field_height\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1333\n }\n ],\n \"field_media_image\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 3,\n \"alt\": null,\n \"title\": null,\n \"width\": 800,\n \"height\": 1333,\n \"target_type\": \"file\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e97ad038-dcb3-4d81-aa91-c945b2fe092c\",\n \"url\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/sites\\\\/default\\\\/files\\\\/2019-03\\\\/1-Service%20File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_media_of\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"node\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/node\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_media_use\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 18,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e8c698a7-8c15-47c4-8567-1c27f8f0c19e\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/taxonomy\\\\/term\\\\/18\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_mime_type\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"image\\\\/jpeg\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_width\": [\n {\n \"value\": 800\n }\n ]\n}\nfield_media_of indicates which node(s) the media is associated with. The node can be referenced using the value of the target_id key (in this example, 1) or the target_uuid key (8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52).
Through the REST API you are accessing metadata about files, but not the actual binary object.
Based on the above configuration the path for a GET request is /entity/file/{id}
The file ID refers to the integer counter and not the UUID of a file.
Through the UI you can go to the File listing at http://localhost:8000/admin/content/files.
For the file you want to access, choose the USED IN link.
That URI has the format http://localhost:8000/admin/content/files/usage/{file id}
Alternatively the file ID can be found by viewing the media metadata (above section). In the above example if you look through the response from a GET request to the /media/{id} you will find a section like:
\"field_media_image\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 3,\n \"alt\": null,\n \"title\": null,\n \"width\": 800,\n \"height\": 1333,\n \"target_type\": \"file\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e97ad038-dcb3-4d81-aa91-c945b2fe092c\",\n \"url\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/sites\\\\/default\\\\/files\\\\/2019-03\\\\/1-Service%20File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\nNote: Depending on the \"type\" of file (image, video, audio, file) this field will have a different name.
This has both the url which is the URI to retrieve the binary content of the file as well as the target_id which is the file ID.
So we can retrieve the file with a GET request to the URI http://localhost:8000/sites/default/files/2019-03/1-Service%20File.jpg.
But more importantly we can retrieve the file metadata by making a request to http://localhost:8000/entity/file/3 with one of the allowed formats
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
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I can perform a GET against <my hostname>/sites/default/files/2019-03/1-Service%20File.jpg and get the contents of this file.
PATCH requests allow you to update resources in place via a REST call. In this case you send a few required fields and then any changed fields. PATCH requests are available for nodes and media entities, but not for files. PATCH requests are very consistent between node and media entities so we will just show one set of examples here.
Our example node is at http://localhost:8000/node/3.
If you perform a GET against another node or media you can see all of the fields, some of these are calculated (change based on others, i.e. \"changed\"), some are references to other entities (nodes, media, files in Drupal. i.e. \"field_model\") and others are pure text fields (i.e. \"title\").
The fields will be different between different node types and media types, but the syntax to update them is the same.
If you have restricted access to view your content, you will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to access your content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
This with assume you have already created a node or media at some location.
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A successful PATCH request will return a 200 status code and the body will contain the newly updated body.
curl -i -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" -X PATCH -d '{ \"type\": [{\"target_id\": \"islandora_object\"}], \"title\": [{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:01:23 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1562\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:01:23+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"6a3b293d-4617-417b-99d2-23d75b57f7c2\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/23\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nThis example is how to change a field that references some other entity. For this example we will use the field_model field, this is a reference to the taxonomy term that holds the \"model\" of the resource (ie. Image, Collection, Audio, Video, etc)
On our example installation taxonomy term 22 is \"Binary\", so to change a node from what it was to a Binary you would do.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" -X PATCH -d '{ \"type\": [{\"target_id\": \"islandora_object\"}], \"field_model\": [{\"target_id\": 22, \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:51:47 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1562\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":4}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:36:10+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:51:47+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":22,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"e1f167e1-124d-4db4-96ab-30641ca4e21b\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/22\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nTo patch an object and make it part of a collection, you need the id number of the collection object. In this example node 2 will be our collection.
target_type can be a confusing one, if you are ever unsure have a look at the returned values for an existing object.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" -X PATCH -d '{ \"type\": [{\"target_id\": \"islandora_object\"}], \"field_member_of\": [{\"target_id\": 2, \"target_type\": \"node_type\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:01:40 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1669\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":4}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:36:10+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T18:01:40+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[{\"target_id\":2,\"target_type\":\"node\",\"target_uuid\":\"413135a6-0bd1-4d6b-8bcb-059cf7784d83\",\"url\":\"\\/node\\/2\"}],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":22,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"e1f167e1-124d-4db4-96ab-30641ca4e21b\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/22\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nSignposting is a technique used in RESTful APIs where other relevant resources are exposed to clients as Link headers in GET and HEAD requests. These Link headers follow a standard format as specified in RFC8288. Drupal already makes use of this technique for content entities, and Islandora takes it even further by providing additional Link headers that enable the client to navigate the repository and discover additional information about various resources. Because the links are returned in response headers, they can be relied upon without having to parse the message body. This makes them consistent across all serialization formats that can be returned in a message body (XML, JSON, JSONLD, etc...).
As a general precaution, link headers for Drupal entities are not exposed to users that do not have the permissions to view the entity linked in the header. So making GET and HEAD requests anonymously will yield a different set of headers than what an authenticated user would see. For example, anonymous users don't have the view media permission, so they will not see the link headers for media associated with a node.
Other representations generated by different serializers available through Drupal's REST API are exposed as link headers with rel=\"alternate\" and type equal to the mimetype that will be received when dereferencing the link. For example, if an entity in Drupal has a JSONLD representation, then the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response would look like
Link: <http://example.org/node/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"
Entity reference fields are exposed as link headers with rel=\"related\" and a title equal to the entity reference field's display label. For example, if http://example.org/node/1 has an entity reference field name \"Associated Content\" that references http://example.org/node/2, then the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response would look like
Link: <http://example.org/node/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Associated Content\"
Entity reference fields for taxonomy terms get special handling. The taxonomy terms used to tag content are exposed as link headers with rel=\"tag\" and a title equal to the taxonomy term's display label. If the term has an external URI in a controlled vocabulary, then that URI is provided. Otherwise, the local Drupal URI is provided. For example, if a piece of content is tagged with taxonomy/term/1, which has a display label of \"Example Term\", then the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response would look like
Link: <http://example.org/taxonomy/term/1>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Example Term\"
If instead the term were to have the field_external_uri field with a value of http://exampletwo.org/vocab#term then the link header would look like
Link: <http://exampletwo.org/vocab#term>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Example Term\".
Media entities belonging to nodes are exposed as link headers with rel=\"related\" and a title equal to the display label of their field_media_use taxonomy term. For example, if a media is tagged as Original File indicating that it is the initial file uploaded, the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response for a node would look like
Link: <http://example.org/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\".
Files that are the source for media entities are exposed as Link headers in the GET and HEAD responses with rel=\"describes\". The endpoint to edit the contents of the source file is also exposed using rel=\"edit-media\". For example, if http://example.org/media/1 has the source file http://example.org/file.txt, then a GET or HEAD response would contain both
Link: <http://example.org/file.txt>; rel=\"describes\"Link: <http://example.org/media/1/source>; rel=\"edit-media\"After creating a node, adding it to a Collection, uploading a file and kicking off derivatives, the link headers returned for said node would look like the following. Note that non-Link headers have been removed for brevity:
vagrant@claw:~$ curl -I http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=json\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\n...\n# These are provided by Drupal core\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\n# These are provided by Islandora\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Member of\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c513>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Service File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/3>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Thumbnail Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nIf we were to inspect one of the Media associated with this node (which we would've gotten in the response above), the results would look like:
vagrant@claw:~$ curl -I http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\n...\n\n# These are provided by Drupal core\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-page\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add/image>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/media>; rel=\"collection\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/delete?media=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\n# These are provided by Islandora\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Media of\"\nLink: <http://pcdm.org/use#OriginalFile>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/source>; rel=\"edit-media\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/_flysystem/fedora/2019-03/IF-Org-Chart_0.jpg>; rel=\"describes\"; type=\"image/jpeg\"\nSee the Drupal Documentation on PHPUnit in Drupal.
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For any Drupal URI, the corresponding Fedora URIs is computed by the Crayfish Commons library using the Drupal-assigned UUID. In Drupal, a \"pseudo-field\" is available that will display the corresponding Fedora URI on the page of a node, taxonomy term, or media object. The presence of this URI does NOT guarantee the existence of the corresponding entity in Fedora.
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The Islandora community STRONGLY recommends that the \"Composer\" method of upgrading Drupal core be used with Islandora as mentioned here.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/updating-drupal/#here-is-an-overview-of-the-steps-for-updating-drupal-core-using-composer","title":"Here is an overview of the steps for updating Drupal core using Composer","text":"Back Up
First make sure you have made database and file back ups.
1) First, verify that an update of Drupal core actually is available:
composer outdated \"drupal/*\"
If there is no line starting with drupal/core, Composer isn't aware of any update. If there is an update, continue with the commands below.
2) Assuming you are used to updating Drupal and know all the precautions that you should take, the update is as simple as:
composer update drupal/core --with-dependencies
If you want to know all packages that will be updated by the update command, use the --dry-run option first.
Alternate syntax for Islandora 8 needed
If you are running the older Islandora 8 codebase that predates the Islandora 2 release, note that Islandora 8 is configured to use a fork of drupal-composer/drupal-project which requires this specific composer syntax compared to other Drupal 8+ sites:
composer update drupal/core webflo/drupal-core-require-dev \"symfony/*\" --with-dependencies
In addition, if you are upgrading from 8.5 to 8.7, you need to replace \"~8.5.x\" with \"^8.7.0\" for drupal/core and webflo/drupal-core-require-dev in composer.json. [Source]
3) Apply any required database updates using drush updatedb, or use the web admin user interface.
drush updatedb
4) Clear the cache using drush cache:rebuild, or use the web admin user interface.
drush cache:rebuild
For stepwise update instructions visit this page: https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/update/update-core-via-composer#s-stepwise-update-instructions
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For more information about how to update Drupal modules visit:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/extending-drupal-8/updating-modules
Back Up
First make sure you have made database and file back ups.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/using-rest-endpoints/","title":"Islandora via REST","text":"Each node, media and file in Drupal has its own URI and we can GET the resources, some in a variety of formats.
We can also create nodes, media and files in Drupal by using PUT and/or POST requests.
We can update the field content by using a PATCH request and lastly we can DELETE a node, media or file resource.
To perform these actions, you will need the RESTful Web Services module enabled.
To configure your setup via the UI, you also need the RESTful UI module enabled.
Then you can configure your REST services at https://<yourmachine>/admin/config/services/rest
This screenshot shows the setup for resources, you can see the various HTTP methods and what formats they will respond in and what authentication methods they support.
Islandora uses semantic versioning for all non-Legacy code in the github.com/Islandora organization. This allows us to be compatible with Composer and with Drupal's release naming conventions for contributed modules.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/versioning/#semantic-versioning","title":"Semantic Versioning","text":"Semantic Versioning is a common versioning standard. Versions have the form: Major version, Minor version, or Patch.
1.2.3 => 1.2.4 - Just a bug fix, should be a drop-in replacement.1.2.3 => 1.3.0 - Adds in new features, should be a drop-in replacement to get new functionality.1.2.3 => 2.0.0 - Major changes, may require a migration or changes to your set-up.The following Islandora components use semantic versioning:
Drupal submodules, which are included in several of the above modules, share versions with their parents.
Drupal module versions switched from 8.x-1.x to 2.x
In October 2021, Islandora switched from the \"core compatibility\" based numbering scheme (8.x-1.x) to a pure semantic versioning scheme for its Drupal modules. In accordance with Drupal's requirements, this transition required us to bump the major version, from 1.x to 2.x, despite there not being any major API-breaking changes to the code itself.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/versioning/#implications-for-release-process","title":"Implications for Release Process","text":"Committers should now create (i.e. \"tag\") new versions of components when new bug fixes, features, or API changes are successfully added. This means that \"releases\" (new versions) will be happening individually, continually, and far more frequently than before. See Releasing Islandora.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/versioning/#module-interdependencies","title":"Module Interdependencies","text":"When Islandora components require other Islandora components in their composer.json files, we prefer the version specification syntax ^2 to point to the latest-released compatible version within the specified major version.
In Drupal, blocks are snippets of content that can be placed on pages within your website's layout. Some examples of blocks are your site's menu, breadcrumbs, search block, etc... You have a lot of control over when and where you see blocks using Drupal's administrative interface. You can create and delete blocks, as well as move them around in different locations on the page (called 'regions' in Drupal theme terminology). You can also control on which pages the blocks are visible, allowing you to conditionally show/hide them as appropriate. Blocks are made available to place by enabling the Drupal modules that provide them, and there's lots out there to choose from. Placing blocks is an essential skill for any site administrator, so let's jump right in and get our hands dirty. There are two methods discussed here: the \"Block Layout\" interface, and using \"Contexts\". There is a third option, \"Display Suite,\" that is not discussed here.
"},{"location":"tutorials/blocks/#using-block-layout","title":"Using Block Layout","text":"Using the admin toolbar, navigate to Admin > Structure > Block layout (admin/structure/block). You will see a table listing all of the available regions provided by the current theme for block placement. You can switch between available themes using the tabs above the table. For each region, enabled blocks are listed and can be re-arranged. Take a look at the \"Main Content\" region for example.
If you wanted to move the content above its tabs, you could drag the \"Main page content\" block above the \"Tabs\" block. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom and click the \"Save blocks\" button, now when you go to view content you should see something like this
If you want to add a new block to a region, hit the \"Place block\" button for that region and you'll be brought to a modal that will let you select which block to place.
After selecting your block, you will be brought to its configuration form.
Here you can give the block a different title, change its region using a dropdown, and control its visibility settings by configuring various conditions. In our case, we're adding the \"Development\" block to the \"Footer\" region. And since we want to see this block everywhere, we'll leave the visibility settings alone for now. Click the \"Save block\" button, and now if we go view some content we should see the \"Development\" menu in the footer of our site.
If we want to limit this eyesore to only the front page of our site, we can revisit the visibility settings of the block. Navigate to the block we just placed on the block placement page, and click its \"Configure\" button. Here you can limit the block to show only for certain roles or content types. You can also explicitly set a white or black list of pages, which is what we'll do.
Click the Pages tab and you'll have a text area you can list pages in. We're going to enter <front>, which is a special value that means \"The front page of your site\". Underneath the text area, you can select whether you are showing or hiding the block for this list of pages. We want to show this only on the front page, so we'll leave it set at \"Show for the listed pages\". Click \"Save block\" and go back to a piece of content. You shouldn't see the development menu.
But go to the frontpage and...
"},{"location":"tutorials/blocks/#using-context","title":"Using Context","text":"The visibility conditions in the block placement user interface are simple and effective. They cover the majority of use cases, however, there are times when you need even more control. This is where the Context module really shines. Any condition available to the Context module can be used to control block visibility. And you can even combine conditions using Boolean (AND/OR) logic.
For example, in the Islandora Starter Site, we provide a context specifically for showing a list of members of a collection. All of our content is the same content type (Repository Item), and Collections are distinguished by being tagged with the \"Collection\" taxonomy term. Using the admin toolbar, if you navigate to Admin > Structure > Context (admin/structure/context), you should see a list of all contexts available to the site.
Click the \"Configure\" button on the \"Collection\" context.
You can see in its \"Condition\" section, we have the \"Node has term\" condition, which checks for content tagged with the term provided by the user. In this case, it's set to look for the \"Collection\" tag. Underneath, in the \"Reaction\" section, you can see that the \"Block\" reaction has been selected, and its configuration looks a lot like the core block placement UI. The only difference here is that when the \"Include blocks from block layout\" box is checked, you are only placing the blocks you want to add in addition to an already existing block layout. If you uncheck the box, you are creating an entirely new block layout from scratch, and will have to replace basic things like breadcrumbs and menus.
Here you can see we've added only the members block to this block layout. If we go and navigate to a collection, you'll see its list of members underneath its content.
If we edit the collection and change its model tag from \"Collection\" to anything else, you'll see the block disappears!
As you can see, block placement can be very flexible, and allow you to customize your site in a very granular fashion. Between using core block placement and the context module, there's no block you can't get into the right place on your site.
"},{"location":"tutorials/blocks/#video-walkthrough-blocks","title":"Video Walkthrough: Blocks","text":"Click the image below to open the Blocks video tutorial on the Islandora Youtube channel.
See more videos from the Drupal 101 series here.
Islandora Quick Lessons (2020)
Learn more with this video on Creating a Custom Block.
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Video version available
The material in this tutorial is presented in our video, Adding Content.
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#tools","title":"Tools","text":"For this tutorial you will need an instance of Islandora Starter Site. You can also use the online sandbox or one of the sandbox VMs.
Online Sandbox
login credentials for online sandbox
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#step-1-create-an-islandora-node","title":"Step 1: Create an Islandora Node","text":"To add content to Islandora, start by creating a node. When logged in to Drupal as an administrator, navigate with the top menu bar to Manage >> Content >> Add content or click on Add content under the Tools menu.
Next, select a content type that is configured with Islandora behaviours. In the Islandora Starter Site, there is an Islandora content type. It is called Repository Item.
At the top of the form, the Model field is a mandatory Islandora field. Select Image from the Model drop box. This will enable image display behaviours, and cause image derivatives to be generated once we upload a file.
The rest of the form contains a large number of metadata fields, grouped into collapsible sections. Fill out the Title (mandatory) and whichever other fields are applicable to you.
Keep it simple
For this tutorial, do not attempt to fill out any fields with an autocomplete symbol - a small circle at the right-hand-side of the text box.
Then, click Save. You have now created a node, and since it is of an Islandora content type, we call it a \"resource node.\"
The new node page displays, with the title, any metadata that we entered, and a Fedora URI which you can click on to see if this new node has been synced into Fedora (this only works if you have permission to access Fedora). Congratulations, you have created a resource node!
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#step-2-upload-an-original-file","title":"Step 2: Upload an Original File","text":"Alas, your node has no files. To upload a file, click on the node's Media tab.
Concept: Media tab
The \"Media\" tab shows Media that we say \"belong to\" or are \"media of\" that node. The idea of media \"belonging to\" nodes, and the \"Media\" tab, are part of Islandora but not part of standard Drupal.
The Media tab shows nothing listed, because this node has no files. So click on Add Media. You will be taken to a list of media types to choose from.
We want to add a jpg image, so click on Image. You are now presented with a form to create a media.
Images vs TIFFs
Drupal considers any type of image that can be viewed natively in the browser as an Image. For other image types that require special viewers, such as TIFFs, you would have to choose File. Learn more about Media in Islandora.
This form contains fields for metadata about the file, including \"technical metadata\". There are three important parts of the form:
With the mandatory fields filled out (do not edit the \"Media of\" field), click Save, and a new Media will be created attached to your resource node. You will land on the administrator's list of Media (i.e. all media on your site, not just those attached to the resource node), and the new media object you created is at the top of the list.
Select the Media you just created, and you will see a page containing that Media's information and a rendering of the image that you uploaded.
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#step-3-verify-derivatives-were-created","title":"Step 3: Verify derivatives were created","text":"Now return to the node you created, and you will see the image along with its (minimal) descriptive metadata. The image you are viewing is not the one you uploaded, but a lower-resolution service file that was created and stored in the Drupal public filesystem.
If you open the node's Media tab, you should see new Media have been added - these are derivatives have been created automatically, including a service file, a thumbnail, and a FITS technical metadata file.
You now have an Islandora resource node, which is a special case of a Drupal node, and it has Media attached to it including an Original File, Thumbnail, Service File, and FITS Technical Metadata file.
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#learn-more","title":"Learn More","text":"Views are powerful content filters that enable you to present Islandora (and other) content in interesting and exciting ways. For more documentation on views:
Islandora Starter Site ships with some views already created and turned on. The Islandora home page displays content items that have been added to Islandora. This view is named Frontpage, and it lists items that meet the following filter criteria:
This view will display all content items added to Islandora, as the checkbox Promoted to front page is on by default.
As you develop your Islandora Website it is likely that you will need to change the default behaviour of the Frontpage View. As an example, the following describes how to edit the Frontpage page view to only show content items and not collections.
For this example, we added six collection items to Islandora. In total there are eight items in the repository. In addition to the six collection items, there is one audio item and one image item.
To edit the front page view, hover over the view (Frontpage view) and select Edit view when displayed.
Select Add under the filter criteria section.
We do not want to display collections, so we need to add a filter criteria that does not filter for the Islandora model type 'Collection'.
Select Model from the list and then Apply (all displays).
Select Islandora Model to select filters on Islandora model types and select Apply and continue.
Select the operator Is none of and the Collection model (autocomplete should work here to help you). To finish click Apply (all displays).
Save the view. Now the 'Frontpage' View does not display collections.
For this example, we create a new view that only shows collections. It will be created as a Block (also see the tutorial on Configuring Blocks) that will only display on the front page. We will add the new collection list block below the existing frontpage view that lists items.
Name the view and select Create a block. Give the block a title and decide how you want it to display (Grid, Table, List, Paging). To progress, select Save and edit.
5. Customize the view format and sorting as required. 6. Add a filter criteria to only show the Islandora model type of 'Collection' and Save the view.
7. To place the view on front page, the new block must be added to the 'Main page content' area (using 'Block layout') and set to display on the front page. 1. Navigate to Administration >> Structure >> Block layout (/admin/structure/block). Under Main content select Place block
\nRestrict the block to only display on the frontpage by adding the text '' to the Page vertical tab. Then select Save block.
4. Review the block placement and move if required.
8. The 'Collection list' now only displays on the front page. It displays below the Main page content.
Islandora Quick Lessons
Learn more with videos on Basic Views and Advanced Views.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/","title":"How to create and add to a Collection","text":"This how-to demonstrates creating a collection and adding items to it in the Islandora Starter Site. For more about collections, see Concept: Collection.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#introduction","title":"Introduction","text":"In the Islandora Starter Site, nodes that have \"Collection\" in their Model field will show a view of their member (\"child\") objects. A member is any object that is \"Member of\" that object, and can be added via the \"Children\" tab. This is the mechanism in the Islandora Starter Site, and your individual instances may vary.
Collections and Deleting
Collections and their members are independent of each other, and removing something from a collection does not delete it. Similarly, deleting a collection does not delete its members.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#creating-a-collection","title":"Creating a Collection","text":"When logged in, click Manage > Content on the admin toolbar. Then, click on Add content.
Then click on 'Repository Item' to give your collection the default metadata profile for Islandora.
Fill out the form.
At the top of the form, select \"Collection\" from the Model dropdown list.
When done filling out the form, click Save.
The collection has been created. Now let's add some members to this collection.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#add-existing-items-to-a-collection","title":"Add Existing Items to a Collection","text":"To populate a collection with existing items, return to any existing content and click on its Edit tab. This brings up the form for this item.
Scroll down to the bottom of the form to find the System section. In the Member of field, start typing in the name of the collection this item should belong to. Select the name of the collection you want from the autocomplete. It is important that you select it from the dropdown, not just type in the correct title, because selecting it causes the node id to appear beside the title and allows Drupal to create a relationship.
The correct collection is now selected. Click Save when ready.
To confirm, return to the collection and verify the new item appears in the collection's list of members.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#add-a-new-item-as-a-member-of-a-collection","title":"Add a New Item as a Member of a Collection","text":"To create an item and add it as a member to a collection in one step, visit a collection and click on its Children tab. From the Children tab, you can manage the members of a collection and perform actions on them.
Click on the +Add Child button, and then select Repository Item as your new item's Content Type. Only content types that have the field_member_of field will be available from this list.
You are taken to the creation form for a Repository Item, but if you scroll down to the \"System\" section, you should see the widget for \"Member Of\" is already filled out for you with the appropriate collection.
Click 'Save' at the end of the form to create the new item and add it as a member of the collection.
Islandora Quick Lessons
Learn more with this video on Making a Collection.
"},{"location":"tutorials/switch-homepage-to-twig/","title":"Format Homepage with TWIG","text":""},{"location":"tutorials/switch-homepage-to-twig/#twig-debugging","title":"TWIG Debugging","text":"It's helpful to identify which TWIGs are available to use and where they're stored but not required use TWIGs to format the homepage.
# Copy the default service.\n$ cp web/sites/default/default.services.yml web/sites/default/services.yml\n\n# fix permissions (just in case)\n$ chown nginx:nginx web/sites/default/services.yml\n\n# I use nano to edit but you can pick whichever editor you want.\n# For this example we'll install the editor\n$ apk add nano\n\n# Now open the newly created service file and set these 3 values under the TWIG config section.\n$ nano web/sites/default/services.yml\n\n...yml\ntwig.config:\n debug: true\nauto_reload: true\ncache: true\n# Now save and exit (in NANO it's CTRL + x)\nCopy the default TWIG into your theme's template directory.
$ cp web/themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/node/node.html.twig web/themes/contrib/solid/templates/node--6--full.html.twig\n\n# Clear cache\n$ drush cr\nX next to the loaded TWIG file. Please note that the file name corresponds to the node number. To use the URL alias instead of the node ID requires additional work. Here's a tutorial on this topic. <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS:\n x node--6--full.html.twig\n * node--6.html.twig\n * node--page--full.html.twig\n * node--page.html.twig\n * node--full.html.twig\n * node.html.twig\n-->\nNow edit the TWIG file (web/themes/contrib/solid/templates/node--6--full.html.twig) to say whatever you want, and it should show up immediately without needing to clear cache.
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twig.config:\n debug: false\n auto_reload: false\nThis page is about controlling who can view or edit your Islandora content (metadata and binaries).
Islandora recommends using Drupal's access control features. Contributed modules such as those described below, can provide additional flexibility and configurability. However, these only apply when content is accessed through Drupal, and are not applied to data in Fedora, the Triplestore, or Solr.
Known strategies for implementing access control in Drupal include:
Exposed Endpoints
If access control is a concern, you will want to lock down access to the following services that are part of the Islandora Suite:
as anyone accessing data through those services are bypassing Drupal's access control. In all out-of-the-box sandboxes and demo instances, these services are wide open.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#access-control-in-core-drupal","title":"Access control in Core Drupal","text":"Summary: Core Drupal's access control features include the \"published\"/\"unpublished\" states and some basic permissions that can be granted globally or at the bundle level.
Drupal's concepts of \"published\" and \"unpublished\" for nodes and media apply to Islandora just as they do in Drupal. Usually, published content is visible to the entire world (without any authentication), while unpublished content can only be accessed by selected users - usually administrators, other privileged roles, and the user who created the content. This is configurable through the Drupal Permissions interface.
All Drupal permissions are granted to roles, not individual users. Read more documentation on Users, roles, and permissions.
The extent of the configurability of Drupal Core's access control (excluding revisions) is provided by the following permissions:
View permissions (apply to all content or all media regardless of bundle) - View all published content - View own unpublished content - View (published) media - View own unpublished media \"Editing\" permissions (can be granted for a specific bundle, or for all nodes or media): - Create new content - Edit (your) own content - Edit any(one's) content - Delete (your) own content - Delete any(one's) content Administrative permission (includes all the above and more, give to trusted users only): - Administer contentThese are the basic access control options built into Drupal Core. There are many contributed modules that do access control, some are described below. Before using access control modules, please see Comparison and Overview of Access Control modules on drupal.org.
Contributed modules are required for the following cases:
Given the [Collection] \u2192 Node \u2192 Media \u2192 File structure of Islandora resources, it is reasonable to wonder if access to a Node, Media, or File is influenced by the permissions on its \"parent\" resource.
There is not yet a mechanism for Drupal's access control to be \"inherited\" from parent resources to child resources. An exception is non-public files, as described below.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#sidebar-access-to-files-in-drupal","title":"Sidebar: Access to files in Drupal","text":"Drupal's access control applies to files except those stored in Drupal's public filesystem.
If you upload a file to Drupal, it's usually stored in a field on an entity. In Islandora, that entity is a Media. Drupal's access checks mean that a user must have permission to view the Media, and (if configured) the file field on that media, to see the file. However, file fields can be configured with various forms of file storage, and the file storage determines whether access control checks are applied at all. Files stored in Drupal's public filesystem are always public, viewable by anyone in the world.
Drupal's access control applies to files accessed through Drupal where the file storage is:
Direct access to file storage
Files stored using Flysystem are actually located on a separate service. It is the administrator's responsibility to implement appropriate access control on the target storage system, as there is a way to link directly to files in Fedora, S3, or Dropbox. These direct links bypass Drupal and therefore Drupal's access control.
The filesystem used by a field is usually configured through \"Manage Fields\" on the appropriate entity. However, it is possible for a field to be configured to use a certain filesystem, but for actual files created through back-end processes to use a different one. For example, derivatives generated by Islandora as configured in the Islandora Starter Site are written to the public filesystem, despite the field configuration which points to Fedora.
To determine the actual location of a file, right-click the existing file in the Media Edit page and select \"copy location\". A file that is saved in flysystem will include /_flysystem/ in the URL. These links (you can test it!) only work if you have permission to view the media. A file with /sites/default/files/ is probably publicly accessible (this is the public filesystem on most Drupal instances).
In the Islandora Starter Site, All Derivatives Are Public
Out of the box using the Islandora Starter Site, derivatives are created for all Islandora media (as long as the conditions of the contexts are met), and they are stored in the public Drupal filesystem. This happens even if the media and/or node are not published.
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Both are enabled out of the box in the Islandora Starter Site. This will ensure that queries through Drupal never show content that the active user shouldn't see, as well as preventing information about unpublished entities from ever being entered into Solr.
Solr Admin Client
Anyone with access to the Solr Admin Client may see the full contents of the index, regardless of permissions. If this is not desired, you should restrict access to the Solr endpoint and GUI. By default, the Islandora Playbook exposes Solr at http://localhost:8983/solr/. ISLE-DC on the other hand can expose or not expose individual services, including Solr. Since December 2021 this has been available as an option in the .env file and since that time, Solr (and some other services) are not exposed by default.
\"The Group module allows you to create arbitrary collections of your content and users on your site and grant access control permissions on those collections.\"
Opinion
Group is one of the more hefty modules, and is difficult to learn. It is good if you have static or semi-static groups of users who need access to a static or semi-static group of content, but sharing an item with an arbitrary group of users is cumbersome.
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The Islandora Starter Site includes an empty vocabulary called \"Islandora Access\", which is intended to hold such taxonomy terms. However, permissions_by_term or a similar mechanism to control access must be installed and configured on your own.
This module is known to work, and appears to be supported well by the Drupal community.
Warning
This module is known in the Islandora community to cause performance degradation when large numbers of nodes are involved. Seth Shaw describes this in a blog post, Content Access Control Solutions Investigation.
Examples Wanted
Do you have experience setting up Permissions By Term? We'd love some illustrative examples here.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#field-permissions-contributed-module","title":"Field Permissions (contributed module)","text":"\"The Field Permissions module allows site administrators to set field-level permissions to edit, view and create fields on any entity.\"
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#other-contributed-modules","title":"Other contributed modules","text":"Workflow Participants allows for granting permissions on individual nodes or media to individual users, as an extension to the Workflow suite of modules. However, it is not well-supported and the \"manage workflow participants\" permission should not be given to untrusted users as it may grant users the ability to add participants even to content they are otherwise not able to see or edit.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#access-control-in-fedora","title":"Access control in Fedora","text":"In Fedora, it is possible to control access to resources using Access Control Lists (ACLs) per the Fedora API Specification. ACLs are inherited through Fedora's LDP Containment relationships.
Islandora does not create customized ACLs when syncing content into Fedora.
Islandora does not create Fedora resources in hierarchies that use LDP containment relationships.
At this time, access control in Fedora is NOT reflective of access control in Drupal. In the sandboxes and demo installations, all resources in Fedora are open for the world to view. This includes unpublished nodes and media, as well as the files uploaded into Fedora. Access controls configured in Drupal are not synced in any way to Fedora.
Sites concerned with access control wish to \"lock down\" their Fedora to only be accessible through Drupal.
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Meta-Issue: Access Restrictions and Embargoes
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Much of the accessibility of a website is dependent on how specific HTML tags and attributes are used, thus falls largely into the realm of Drupal Themes. The Olivero theme and the Claro admin theme were designed by the Drupal community with accessibility as a guiding principle.
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This is not considered good accessibility as the node's title will likely be already on the page, and it doesn't add anything to describing the image itself. Please fill out the alt text with something meaningful when adding image content to Islandora.
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composer require drupal/facets \"^1.3\"\ncomposer require drupal/search_api_solr \"^4.1\"\ncomposer require drupal/search_api \"^1.5\"\nHowever, for reference, islandora_advanced_search requires the following drupal modules:
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Add a new Content solr field field_descendant_of to the solr index at admin/config/search/search-api/index/default_solr_index/fields.
Then under admin/config/search/search-api/index/default_solr_index/processors enable Index hierarchy and set up the new field to index the hierarchy.
The field can now be used limit a search to all the descendants of a given object.
Re-Indexing
You may have to re-index to make sure the field is populated.
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Here a relationship is set up with Member Of field and we have two contextual filters:
field_member_of (Direct descendants of the Entity)field_descendant_of (All descendants of the Entity)Both of these filters are configured the exact same way.
These filters are toggled by the Advanced Search block to allow the search to include all descendants or just direct descendants (documented below).
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To be able to display exclude facet links as well as include links in the facets block we have to duplicate the configuration for the facet like so.
Both the include / exclude facets must use the widget List of links that allow the user to include / exclude facets
The excluded facet also needs the following settings to appear and function correctly.
The URL alias must match the same value as the included facet except it must be prefixed with ~ character that is what links to the two facets to each other.
And it must also explicitly be set to exclude:
You may also want to enable Hide active items and Hide non-narrowing results for a cleaner presentation of facets.
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There will be one block per View Display. The block should be limited to only appear when the view it was derived from is also being displayed on the same page.
This requires configuring the visibility of the block as appropriate. For collection based searches be sure to limit the display of the Facets block to the models you want to display the search on, e.g:
For any valid search field, you can drag / drop and reorder the fields to display in the advanced search form on. The configuration resides on the block so this can differ across views / displays if need be. Additionally, if the View the block was derived from has multiple contextual filters you can choose which one corresponds to direct children, this will enable the recursive search checkbox.
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There are a few configuration options for this module, accessible at Manage > Configuration > Islandora > Breadcrumbs Settings (/admin/config/islandora/breadcrumbs). These include:
Breadcrumbs are cached, so if you aren't seeing the results that you expect, try clearing the Drupal cache.
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A resource node holds the descriptive metadata for an Islandora object, as well as groups together the various files that are part of the object for preservation or display, such as the original file and various derivative files generated from it.
The model for exactly what constitutes an object in Islandora is flexible and can be adapted to the needs of specific users. For example, the Islandora Starter Site configuration considers an object as a resource node of the type \"Repository Item\" which contains descriptive metadata about the object. Attached to that Node are one or more Media, each representing a file that is part of this object, such as \"Original File\", \"Thumbnail\", \"Preservation Master\", etc. With this model, every original file uploaded into Islandora has its own resource node.
Multi-file Media configurations also attach Media to a parent node, but allow for that node to be represented by multiple \"Original File\"s. In this model, a Media contains the original file as well as any derivative files created from it (thumbnail, service file, etc.).
For an example of where these two different approaches could apply, the basic configuration might make sense for a book that has rich page-level metadata, so that each page would be its own Node with its own metadata record; the multi-file media configuration might be a better fit for a book that does not have page-level metadata (except an ordering or page numbers), so that each Media would represent one page, and all pages (Media) would be attached to a single parent Node/metadata record for the entire book.
As we learned in the introduction, objects in an Islandora repository are represented as a combination of resource nodes, media, and files in Drupal. Because of this, their metadata profile, display, form (and much more) are configurable through the Drupal UI. This gives repository administrators a huge degree of control over their repository without any need for coding. Much more so than ever before. And since we're using a core Drupal solution for modeling our resource nodes and media, compatibility with third-party modules is virtually guaranteed. This opens up a plethora of solutions from the Drupal community that will save you untold time and effort when implementing your repository with Islandora.
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Property Value nid The local ID for the node uid The ID of the Drupal user who created the node uuid The global ID for any entity title The title for the node created Timestamp of when the node was created changed Timestamp of when the node was last updated type Content type (e.g. which group of fields are present on the node) status Published, unpublished, etc...Compared to Islandora Legacy
These node properties are analogous to following Islandora Legacy object properties:
Islandora Legacy Islandora owner uid dc.title title PID uuid status statusThe small amount of configurability available for these properties is found on the content type editing form where a user can choose to change the label of the title field, whether to display author information on the node's page, etcetera. These settings will only apply to nodes of that particular content type.
To view all of a node's property and field values administrators can use the 'Devel' tab's 'Load' section:
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Configuring fields (adding, editing, removing) is usually done through the Manage > Content types interface, as is described in the tutorial, Create/Update a Content Type.
Islandora has a notion of a content model, which is used to identify what type of content is being represented by a node (e.g. an image, a video, a collection of other items, etc...). This is done using a special field, Model, which accepts taxonomy terms from the Islandora Models vocabulary. By applying a term from the Islandora Models vocabulary to a node, Islandora will become aware of how to handle the node in response to certain events, like choosing a viewer or generating derivatives.
Compared to Islandora Legacy
Content models in Islandora Legacy were immutable and contained restrictions as to what types of datastreams could be associated with an object. Islandora imposes no such restrictions. Content models can be changed at any time, and they in no way dictate what types of media can be associated with a node.
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See the media section for more details.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/content-models/#display-modes","title":"Display modes","text":"Drupal uses \"display modes\" (also called \"view modes\") as alternative ways to present content to users. You may be familiar with the \"full\" and \"teaser\" versions of nodes, which are rendered using two corresponding display modes. Islandora makes use of display modes to control how media content is displayed. Islandora Starter Site provides two display modes for Media, one which renders the OpenSeadragon viewer and the other which renders the pdf.js viewer. These two display modes can be enabled by using \"Display hints\" in the node edit form, or you can configure Islandora to use a specific display mode for all media based on the file's Mime type. Both methods make use of Contexts.
To set the display mode on the resource node's edit form, select the display mode you want to use for that node in the Display hints field:
Due to the associated Context configurations (\"OpenSeadragon\" and \"PDFjs Viewer\") that are shipped with the Islandora Starter Site, the selected display mode will then be used when the resource node's page is rendered.
At a global level, there are a couple of ways to tell Drupal to use the PDFjs viewer to render the content of the media field whenever the media has a Mime type of application/pdf.
The first way is to edit the \"PDFjs Viewer\" Context. By default, this Context tells Drupal to use the PDFjs viewer if the node has the term \"PDFjs\" (yes, that's a taxonomy term):
If you add the Condition \"Node has Media with Mime type\" and configure it to use application/pdf as the Mime type, like this:
Context will use whichever Condition applies (as long as you don't check \"Require all conditions\"). That is, if the \"PDFjs\" display hint option in the node edit form is checked, or if the node's media has a Mime type of application/pdf, the media content will be rendered using the PDFjs viewer.
The second way to use the media's Mime type to render its content with the PDFjs viewer is to create a separate Context that will detect the media's Mime type and use the configured display mode automatically. To do this, create a new Context. Add a \"Node has Media with Mime type\" condition and specify the Mime type, and then add a \"Change View mode\" Reaction that selects the desired display mode:
Finally, save your Context. From that point on, whenever the media for a node has the configured Mime type, Drupal will render the media using the corresponding display mode.
The node-level and global approaches are not exclusive to one another. One Context can override another depending on the order of execution. Contexts are applied in the order they are displayed on the Contexts page, which is editable through a drag-and-drop interface. Whichever Condition appears last in the list of Contexts between the node-level Condition (which in this case is the \"Node has term\" condition) the global Condition (which is \"Node has Media with Mime type\"), that one will override the other. An example of having the display mode specified in the node edit form intentionally override the display mode based on Mime type is to have media with the image/jp2 mime-type configured to use the OpenSeadragon viewer, but to manually select the OpenSeadragon display mode for nodes with JPEG media (for example, a very large JPEG image of a map, where the OpenSeadragon's pan and zoom features would be useful).
Islandora has a notion of membership, which is used to create a parent/child relationship between nodes. Membership is denoted using another special field, \"Member Of\". This is used to create the link between members and their parent collection, pages and their book (\"paged content\"), or members of a compound object and the compound object itself.
Any two nodes can be related in this way, though typically, the parent node has a content model of Collection or Paged Content (see their respective pages for more details). The \"Member Of\" field can hold multiple references, so it is possible for a single child to belong to multiple parents, but may also complicate the creation of breadcrumbs.
Compared to Islandora Legacy
In Islandora Legacy, there was a distinction between belonging to a collection and belonging to a compound object. In Islandora, this distinction is not present. Since all nodes can have members , essentially every node has the potential to be a compound object or collection.
Child v. Member
Islandora uses the \"child\" and \"member\" descriptor for resource nodes that store a reference to another resource node in the \"Member Of\" field interchangeably. Administrators will more often see the \"member\" terminology more often while front-end users will usually see \"child\" terminology.
For any node, its Children tab can be used to see all its members. You can also perform Actions in bulk on members using the checkboxes and the Actions dropdown as well as clicking on the Reorder Children tab to adjust the order in which they display.
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This document was originally developed by Alex Kent and has been adapted for general use by the Islandora community.
[^1] In the Islandora Starter Site, this is the field_model field, which is populated by taxonomy terms in the islandora_models taxonomy vocabulary provided by the islandora_core_feature submodule of Islandora/islandora
[^2] In the Islandora Starter Site, this is the field_member_of field.
The conventional Islandora Legacy definition of an object is a file loaded in the repository with associated derivatives. In Islandora Legacy, objects (video files, audio files, PDFs, etc.) are loaded through the user interface, and Datastreams are generated automatically. These consist of access and display copies, the metadata, OCH/HOCR, technical metadata, and more. All of these Datastreams are directly connected to the object and accessed through the admin interface.
In Islandora, the traditional Islandora Legacy objects (video files, audio files, etc. that were represented in different content models) are now Drupal nodes. Islandora object nodes are a special kind of Drupal node, distinct from nodes that exist for other content types such as a blog post, an article, a page (like the About page on a site), and others. These Islandora objects are still loaded through the interface and described with the data entry form, and derivatives are still generated. However, the Datastreams are no longer connected to the original object in the same immutable way. Each of these Datastreams can be manipulated through Drupal by non-developers. You can create a variety of ways to view this metadata and information related to the objects. Doing so requires knowledge of Drupal 8, but this essentially means that there are many ways to view the metadata and access the related objects in Islandora.
In Islandora it is therefore helpful to think of objects as resource nodes. The term reflects the new nature of objects in Islandora. A resource node does not just refer to the individual object file, but encompasses multiple elements that all relate to each other, even if they are no longer directly connected like objects in Islandora Legacy.
The typical elements of a resource node:
These resource nodes are what the librarian, student, archivist, technician, or general non-developer creates through the data entry form. It is possible to configure all elements of a resource node in Islandora through Drupal. This fact allows control over how one accesses the node and how nodes are displayed and discovered online by non-developers. It also allows a repository to take full advantage of all third-party Drupal modules, themes, and distributions available.
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This page will address how to create and modify ingest forms by editing fields and form display settings on Content Types via the graphical user interface (GUI). This page will also cover editing the RDF mapping to accommodate changes to fields.
Islandora forms are Drupal forms, and for help working with forms via the API, please check out the Further Reading section for links to more advanced Drupal documentation.
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There are multiple tabs with different options to configure your Content Type:
Changes not displaying?
If you make changes under Manage display and don't see them reflected in your Node, double check that you have edited the right view mode
This example adds a new field where a user can indicate if the repository item needs to be reviewed:
The new field has been added:
It appears in the ingest form when creating a new repository object. To test this, go to Content >> Add content >> Repository item:
RDF Mappings
New fields, except for Typed Relation fields, are not automatically indexed in Fedora and the triple-store. Update the Content Type's RDF Mapping to enable indexing the field (see below).
Search
New fields will not automatically be searchable. They need to be added to the Solr index configuration. See the 'Setup and Configure Search' page for more information.
Context
To add new behavior based on the results of this new field, check out Context.
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When creating a new Repository Item, the new field appears at the top, as a set of radio buttons.
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In the Admin menu, return to Structure >> Content Types and find the Repository Item content type again. Select Manage display from the dropdown menu or select the Manage display tab.
To create your own custom content type from scratch, please refer to this guide on Drupal.org.
Your custom content types can contain whatever fields you like, but there are two mandatory fields that all Islandora content types should contain:
In order for a custom content type to be considered an Islandora Object, it needs to have the field \"Member of\" ('field_member_of'). This allows it to be included in contexts that have the \"Node is an Islandora node\" condition. Nodes that have this field will automatically be synced to Fedora and indexed by the triple store if you are using the context provided by the Islandora Starter Site. Having this field present in your content type also gives you tabs for adding children and media when viewing an item of that content type.
The other mandatory field is \"Model\" ('field_model'). This is used in several of the contexts that the Islandora Starter Site provides. This field determines how Islandora objects are displayed, and how media derivatives are created.
RDF mapping aligns Drupal fields with RDF ontology properties. For example, the title field of a content model can be mapped to dcterms:title and/or schema:title. In Islandora, triples expressed by these mappings get synced to Fedora and indexed in the Blazegraph triplestore. RDF mappings are defined/stored in Drupal as a YAML file (to learn more about YAML, there are several tutorials on the web. Currently, Drupal 8 does not have a UI to create/update RDF mappings to ontologies other than Schema.org. This requires repository managers to update the configuration files themselves. Consider using the RDF mappings included in the Islandora Starter Site as templates by copying and modifying one to meet your needs.
The Drupal 8 Configuration Synchronization export (e.g. http://localhost:8000/admin/config/development/configuration/single/export) and import (e.g. http://localhost:8000/admin/config/development/configuration/single/import) can be used to get a copy of the mappings for editing in a text editor before being uploaded again. Alternatively, a repository manager can update the configuration on the server and use Features to import the edits.
An RDF mapping configuration file has two main areas: the mapping's metadata and the mapping itself. Most of the mapping's metadata should be left alone unless you are creating a brand-new mapping for a new Content Type or Taxonomy Vocabulary. A partial example from islandora_default's islandora_object (Repository Item) is included below:
langcode: en\nstatus: true\ndependencies:\n config:\n - node.type.islandora_object\n enforced:\n module:\n - islandora_demo\n module:\n - node\nid: node.islandora_object\ntargetEntityType: node\nbundle: islandora_object\ntypes:\n - 'pcdm:Object'\nfieldMappings:\n title:\n properties:\n - 'dc:title'\n field_alternative_title:\n properties:\n - 'dc:alternative'\n field_edtf_date:\n properties:\n - 'dc:date'\n datatype_callback:\n callable: 'Drupal\\controlled_access_terms\\EDTFConverter::dateIso8601Value'\n field_description:\n properties:\n - 'dc:description'\nThe required mapping metadata fields when creating a brand-new mapping include the id, status, targetEntityType, and bundle. (uuid and _core, not seen in the example above but may be present in exported copies, will be added by Drupal automatically.) bundle is the machine name for the Content Type or Taxonomy Vocabulary you are creating the mapping for. targetEntityType is node for Content Types or taxonomy_term for Taxonomy Vocabularies. The id configuration is a concatenation of target entity type and bundle ('node' and 'islandora_object' in the example above). The id is also used to name the configuration file: e.g. rdf.mapping.node.islandora_object.yml is rdf.mapping. plus the id (node.islandora_object) and then .yml.
The mapping itself consists of the types' and fieldMappings configurations.
All the mappings use RDF namespaces instead of fully-qualified URIs. For example, the type for islandora_object is entered in the RDF config as pcdm:Object instead of http://pcdm.org/models#Object. The available namespaces are defined in module hooks (hook_rdf_namespaces) but can also be entered manually in a configuration interface. Repository managers wanting to add additional namespaces need to go to Configuration > Search and Metadata > JSONLD and enter their desired namespaces in the \"Additional RDF Namespaces\" box.
Namespaces currently supported (ordered by the module that supplies them) include:
The types corresponds to the rdf:type predicate (which corresponds to JSON-LD's @type) and can have multiple values. This type value will be applied to every node or taxonomy term using the mapped content type or vocabulary.
In some cases a repository may want a node or taxonomy term's rdf:type to be configurable. For example, the Corporate Body Vocabulary (provided by the Controlled Access Terms Default Configuration module) has schema:Organization set as the default type in the RDF mapping. However, more granular types may apply to one organization and not another, such as schema:GovernmentOrganization or schema:Corporation. The alter_jsonld_type Context reaction allows Content Types and Taxonomy Vocabularies to add a field's values as rdf:types to its JSON-LD serialization (the format used to index a node or taxonomy term in Fedora and the triple-store).
fieldMappings specifies the fields to be included, their RDF property mappings, and any necessary data converters (the datatype_callback). One field can be mapped to more than one RDF property by adding them to the field's properties list. The datatype_callback is defined by the 'callable' key and the fully qualified static method used to convert it to the desired data format. For example, fields of the Drupal datetime type need to be converted to ISO 8601 values, so we use the Drupal\\rdf\\CommonDataConverter::dateIso8601Value function to perform the conversion.
Islandora Quick Lessons
Learn more with this video on Customizing a Form.
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If an object's namespace is 'customnamespace', render the block containing the right's statement \"Please contact Special Collections before reusing this item\".
The Context project page on drupal.org says \"You can think of each context as representing a 'section' of your site\", but that doesn't tell the whole story, since it gives the impression that Context is all about defining subsites. Context in Drupal 8 (and above) is much more powerful than in Drupal 7 due to how it interacts with the rest of Drupal (specifically, through Drupal 8's new plugin API). Because of this increased flexibility and power, and because Context provides a ready-made user interface for site administrators to combine conditions and reactions, Islandora uses Context to drive the logic underlying many important aspects of Islandora, including which derivatives get generated and how objects are displayed. In Islandora Legacy, many of these things are managed (and often hard-coded) within solution packs and utility modules.
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This functionality is accomplished via the \"OpenSeadragon\" Context, which, as its configuration suggests, checks as its condition whether the node as the \"OpenSeadragon\" tag and if so, reacts by using the view mode \"OpenSeadragon\":
"},{"location":"user-documentation/context/#context-and-actions","title":"Context and actions","text":"Context in Drupal 8 uses Drupal Actions to execute the \"then that\" part of their logic. An implication of this is some configuration options relevant to the outcome of the \"then that\" reaction are configured in the Action admin interface (located at admin/config/system/actions), not within the Context admin interface (located at admin/structure/context). While this makes for a clunky admin experience, the advantage is that it allows the reuse of a single piece of Drupal code in multiple Contexts.
One important group of functionality in Islandora repositories that admins might want to control is what types of media get persisted to Fedora. Islandora allows administrators to choose what types of media get persisted to Fedora and what types of media get persisted to the Drupal public file system. For example, you may want to persist your thumbnails to Fedora along with your \"Preservation Master\" and \"Original File\" files. This can be accomplished using Context.
By default, Islandora stores thumbnails in Drupal's public file system, not in Fedora. Thumbnails are automatically generated by a Context (the \"Image Service File\" Context to be specific), but if you want to change the file system where your thumbnails are stored to the Fedora file system, you need to change that setting in the \"Image - Generate a thumbnail from a service file\" Action, not in the Context that uses that action:
This configuration should be done as part of your initial Islandora setup, since there is currently no way to move thumbnails that were persisted to Drupal's public file system to Fedora, or vice versa. But, at least site admins can choose one or the other using this Action.
You can create custom Actions and then use them in Contexts. For example, if you want to present a message to the user every time they upload a media tagged as \"Preservation Master File\", create an Action of type \"Display a message to the user\" and enter your message:
Then, create a Context that uses this Action as its Reaction, and as its Condition, uses \"Media has term\" with a value of \"Preservation Master File\":
Now, when a user creates a Media and tags it as a \"Preservation Master File\", they will be shown the message you created in your Action:
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,) after the first term in the autocomplete field and continue typing.Most Islandora repository administrators will not need to alter or configure any Contexts. But since much of Islandora's underlying functionality is governed by this powerful Drupal contrib module, administrators should become comfortable using it, and Actions, to customize and refine their repositories. Also, since Islandora objects are ordinary Drupal nodes, Islandora objects can take advantage of standard Drupal 8 Context functionality out of the box.
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Both scenarios are covered by the Islandora Cookbook below, which contains an annotated list of custom Islandora tools and modules developed by our community, a list of Drupal contributed modules that may be useful in an Islandora context, and a set of recipes which each provide a detailed outline for solving a particular use case.
Islandora is also compatible with most Drupal themes.
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Permissions by Term
By default, Drupal allows you only to restrict access to Drupal nodes by coupling node content types to user roles. The Permissions by Term module extends Drupal by functionality for restricting view and edit access to single nodes via taxonomy terms. Since Islandora objects can have taxonomy terms, this can be used to control access at the node and collection level. The submodule Permissions by Entity extends this control to the media level.
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Moderation Scheduler gives content editors the ability to schedule Islandora nodes to be published at specified dates and times in the future. Can be combined with Views Bulk Edit to set the same scheduled publication date/time on multiple nodes at once.
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A module that informs users who attempt to view deleted content that the resource has been removed instead of showing a generic 404 page. Fielded so that the date, reason, and alternative links can be given, along with a citation for the deleted object.
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Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create. It can be used to create an easy, adjustable slideshow of images from an Islandora repository. Views Slideshow can be seen in action with Islandora objects on the front page here
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This module provides a formatter that displays CSV files in the browser.
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Integration with TimelineJS to create timeline displays.
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This repository is a tutorial that will introduce you to using the Drupal 8 Migrate tools to create Islandora content. Whether you will eventually use CSVs or other sources (such as XML or directly from a 7.x Islandora) this tutorial should be useful as it covers the basics and mechanics of migration.
This repository is also a Drupal Feature that, when enabled as a module, will create three example migrations ready for you to use with the Migrate API.
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Command-line tool for ingesting (and updating) nodes and media from anywhere - you don't need to access to the Drupal server's command line. Provides robust data validation, flexible organization of your input data (can use CSV, Google Sheets, or Excel files) plus creation of taxonomy terms on the fly.
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A powerful tool that turns Views into a means of batch editing nodes, including Islandora repository objects. Once installed, create a view, add the fields that you would like to edit, add a Views bulk operations (Edit) field to the view, and select which actions you would like to have available. The Modify field values action will allow you to batch edit the value for the same field across multiple objects. A demonstration of a simple bulk-editing view with a few fields and actions can be found here
Content Type Clone
A tool that allows you to clone an existing content type. Can be used to copy and easily make your own version of the Repository Item Content Type with fewer or edited fields, without starting over. Has options to also copy all nodes from the old type to the new, and to delete from the old type when copying.
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Because the Drupal module doesn't play with Typed Relation fields, DGI's entity_reference_integrity_extras module is useful.
Alternatively, Entity Reference Purger takes care of deleting the references on entity delete. Warning: it is unknown whether Entity Reference Purger respects whether the user has permission to edit the referencing entity/field. There are open issues that it does not work well with Workflow (see Content Mangagement Workflows below) or translation. The module is not covered by the security badge.
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This module lets you set up workflows that \"transition\" content between \"states\", which may be published or unpublished. It also allows you to set revisions as mandatory (normally an editor can decide to make an edit without creating a revision, making it very hard to track for auditing).
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Share entities between different Drupal instances. Works with nodes, taxonomy terms, media, etc.
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This module is a plug-and-play solution for rendering LaTeX. It uses a CDN so no library has to be installed on your system, and the processing is done in the user's browser. In terms of Drupal, it provides a text filter that must be enabled in at least one text format (such as Full HTML). With this you can enter mathematical formulae in abstracts! Need to recognize unfamiliar symbols? Try this LaTeX symbol reference thanks to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
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This module provides a method for users with the necessary permissions to manually override the results being returned by Search API Solr. They will be able to choose a specific search term, and pick which nodes should be at the top, and also choose to exclude nodes so they will not be shown in the results. Currently, only nodes are supported.
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This module provides a separate log to record \"events\" such as the creation, editing, and deletion of content (actually any entities you configure it to, including config entities). This can provide a log of who did what, when. The log is not mixed in with the \"Watchdog\"/\"Recent log entries\" log, but still uses the database (unless you have another log method enabled).
When content is updated, the log only says that it was updated but does not say how or provide a diff. It does not seem to have the ability to link log messages to the revisions that may have been created during edits.
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The Content Feedback module allows users and visitors to quickly send feedback messages about the currently displayed content, and can be applied to Islandora nodes. All content feedback messages are listed and grouped by status in an administrative feedback list.
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A tool for automatically submitting the contents of your site to Archive.org. The Wayback Submit module will submit all node types on schedule, according to criteria set by the site admin (only certain node types, only certain views, etc).
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This tutorial currently works best with the \"standard\" install of the Islandora and Islandora Default modules which can be obtained from the playbook (as opposed to the install profile, which handles facet blocks differently).
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Facets aren't necessarily searchable
While this will create facets, the values that appear won't work (won't necessarily bring back any content) if you type them in the search box. This is because the fulltext search box uses only fulltext fields, and facets, as mentioned above, requires string fields.
If you want to be able to search for taxonomy term values and bring up the related nodes, you could either include the full rendered item for your content type, or you may wish to repeat step 2 for each entity reference field, and set the new fields to fulltext so that searching for term values brings back node results.
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In Drupal, a common way to implement a viewer is through a module that provides a Drupal field formatter that interfaces with the appropriate JavaScript library. The field formatter will work with specific types of Drupal fields (e.g. file fields or image fields, some may even provide their own fields). Some viewer modules in Islandora also provide a block, that can display appropriate files based on the context.
Viewers that are known to work with Islandora include:
The simplest Drupal-y way of making a viewer appear is to configure a Media to render. You can do this by configuring a View Mode that shows the desired file field, displayed in a field formatter that invokes the desired viewer.
In the Starter Site:
Note
Formerly, this field was called \"Display Hints\". That field name has been retired in order to reduce confusion, since this uses a different mechanism. This mechanism no longer relies on Node View Modes, or EVA views. However, the basic EVA view still persists in the starter site as it is part of the Islandora Core Feature. Again, it will first look for a Service File, then fall back to the Original File.
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Either would work! The choice is yours to make. They're honestly both good.
Should you choose the latter:
Both OpenSeadragon and Mirador provide blocks that act as multi-page viewers. To configure one of these viewers:
node/%node/book-manifest-original; in the block, we enter this as node/[node:nid]/book-manifest-original. When the block is rendered on a node page, such as node/18, then the nid (18) will be passed into the view.Islandora uses Flysystem and the associated Drupal module to persist binary files to Fedora instead of keeping a copy in both Drupal and Fedora.
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The Drupal Flysystem module extends Flysystem to work within the Drupal filesystem structure. Drupal flysystem plugins include a Flysystem adapter (if not provided by default or in another library) and a class implementing Drupal\\flysystem\\Plugin\\FlysystemPluginInterface which instantiates the Flysystem adapter based on the Drupal site's configuration.
The Drupal Flysystem module uses flysystem stream wrappers to define filesystem descriptors which are configured in the site's settings.php file. The configurations including the filesystem prefix, adapter (driver), and any adapter-specific configurations such as API endpoints and authorization information.
Islandora implements a Flysystem adapter and a Drupal Flysystem plugin. The Flysystem adapter acts as an intermediary between the Flysystem filesystem API and Fedora, translating requests and responses between them. The adapter interacts with Fedora using an instance of the Chullo Fedora API it receives from the Drupal Flysystem plugin. The Drupal Flysystem plugin's main responsibility is to instantiate the Chullo Fedora API object with the proper authentication and pass it to the Flysystem adapter. To authenticate with Fedora the plugin adds a handler to the Chullo's Guzzle client which adds a JWT authentication header to each request.
The Fedora Flysystem adapter does not use Gemini to map the relationship between Drupal URIs and Fedora URIs, so they are indexed separately using the \"files_in_fedora\" Context which triggers the \"Index Fedora File in Gemini\" and \"Delete Fedora File in Gemini\" actions as appropriate.
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Islandora is configured to have all Media use the Fedora file system by default in the islandora_core_feature. For example, the field storage uri_scheme setting for field_media_image (and the other media types) is \"fedora\". This can also be viewed in the UI on the field's \"Field settings\" page; e.g. http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/media/manage/image/fields/media.image.field_media_image/storage, look for \"Upload destination\" and see that \"Flysystem: fedora\" is selected.
However, there are methods for saving files that can explicitly set a different filesystem than the default. Migrations can explicitly set which file system a file is saved to and Islandora can emit events that also specify which file system a derivative should be saved to.
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To make Islandora save future derivatives to Fedora instead of to Drupal, change the corresponding action's \"File system\" setting ('scheme' in the corresponding config file) to 'fedora' instead of 'public'.
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In the context of digital repositories, ingest refers to the process by which the repository software imports and subsequently processes an object, creating derivatives automatically, and running any other processing that is configured to occur when an object is added. This would be distinguished by software which simply stores objects after import (with or without associated files) and performs no processing. The Islandora GUI and the documentation sometimes use other terms such as 'import' or 'add resource node'. In such contexts, these terms generally refer to the ingest process.
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The term 'Resource node' is specific to Islandora. Typically, Resource nodes in an Islandora installation will use a specific Content type for the digital assets stored in the repository.
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A Drupal Content Entity of the type 'taxonomy term'. Taxonomy terms belong to vocabularies which define what fields are available and how they behave. Drupal generally uses terms contained in taxonomies or vocabularies to classify content (tag or category). Taxonomy terms are used in Islandora to establish locally controlled vocabularies for describing resources, for instance for standardised spellings of names or subject terms.
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Views power many of the Islandora features, including viewers, IIIF Manifests, and search.
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In Views, you can choose to show \"Rendered entities\" (usually as opposed to \"Fields\"). Here, you can select which view mode to use to render the results.
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Some definitions adapted from Wikipedia and Drupal.org
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At a practical level, because Islandora supports several of the IIIF specifications, we can:
Display thumbnails for all pages of a book or newspaper issue within image viewers
If you're not using one of our provisioning tools, you will need to:
The Islandora Starter Site uses a Context to automatically use the IIIF Presentation API with the Mirador viewer for showing paged content.
To use this Context, give your book or newspaper (or other paged content) a model of \"Paged Content\" or \"Publication Issue\". To double-check this, in the Mirador Block - Multipaged items Context, you should see those terms used in the \"Node has term\" condition (you can register more than one term there, and having one of these on your node will activate this Context). Now, when you view a paged content Islandora node, you will see service files of all of its child pages (assuming you have added some child pages to the object) in the Mirador viewer as illustrated above.
If you are using the Mirador viewer, it enables a lot of features out of the box, including the strip of thumbnails at the bottom, and there is little to configure.
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You can change how individual or paged content images are arranged in the OpenSeadragon viewport by doing the following:
admin/config/media/openseadragonIf you want to see the raw output of the IIIF API implementations in Islandora, visit a node that is displaying the OpenSeadragon viewer (doesn't matter if it's a single image or a paged content node like a book), and tack \"manifest\" onto the end of the URL, like http://myrepo.org/node/23/manifest and hit enter. You will see the raw JSON that IIIF-compliant viewers use to render the content. To see the output for a paged content item that lists all its children, tack /book-manifest on the end of the URL.
The really neat thing is, IIIF-compliant viewers don't need to be embedded in Islandora websites. If a viewer on another website knows the URL of a IIIF manifest like the ones that Islandora can produce, that viewer can display the content described in the manifest. Some implementations of IIIF viewers that show off the potential to combine content from multiple IIIF servers include:
These two examples have nothing to do with Islandora, but illustrate the potential for IIIF to build tools that extend beyond a given repository platform.
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The private public RSA pair needed by JWT authentication mechanism is generated in the web server. By default, claw playbook places the keys in /opt/islandora/auth. Crayfish and Tomcat/Karaf need the public key to verify the JWT token. By default, they are put in the following locations: /var/www/html/Crayfish/public.key, /etc/tomcat8/public.key. If you are deploying Crayfish and Karaf/Tomcat components to different servers, ensure that web server public.key files are in the expected locations.
Note that the connection need to be over SSL or an encrypted channel for this communication to be secure. Otherwise, a third party can capture your token and get access to your servers.
The JWT tokens expiration time is configurable via Islandora core settings: http://localhost:8000/admin/config/islandora/core. Currently, it is recommended to set the JWT Expiry to the maximum expected time for a job, including batch jobs.
The purpose of this page is to provide a guided reading list to anyone who wants to get up to speed on the basics of linked data within the Islandora community. Those who make their way through the readings will be able to talk competently about linked data and better understand the design decisions made in Islandora. The list starts with the fundamentals of linked data (RDF, SPARQL, serializations and ontologies) and moves toward more advanced topics specific to the use cases of a Fedora 4 based digital repository system.
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This section is all about RDF, the Resource Description Framework, which defines the way linked data is structured.
This section takes a look at SPARQL, the query language that allows you to ask linked data very specific questions. The queryable nature of linked data is one of the things that makes it so special. Try some SPARQL queries on DBpedia's endpoint to get some hands-on experience.
RDF data can be translated into many different formats. RDF/XML is the original way that RDF data was shared, but there are much more human-friendly serialization formats like Turtle which is great for beginners. JSON-LD is the easiest format for applications to use, and is the serialization format that Islandora uses internally. Make sure to check out the JSON-LD Playground for an interactive learning experience.
Ontologies and vocabularies are created by communities of people to describe things, and once created, anyone can use an ontology or vocabulary to describe their resources. This section goes over some of the more popular ontologies & vocabularies in use.
One isn't limited to the ontologies & vocabularies that already exist in the world, anyone is free to create their own. This section goes over ontologies that exist to help those trying to create their own ontologies.
Most ontologies are very specific to certain use cases, and digital repository systems are no different. This section covers ontologies that are of specific interest to users of Islandora, or any Fedora 4 based digital repository system.
In Islandora, the JSON-LD Module transforms nodes (or media, or taxonomy terms) into the RDF that is synced into Fedora and the Triplestore. It uses RDF mappings, a concept defined by the RDF Module, and exposes them through the REST API at ?_format=jsonld.
A quick overview of JSON-LD, the RDF module, and the REST API.
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The RDF Module is part of Drupal Core, but has no official documentation. The RDF Module embeds RDFa, a form of linked data, within the Drupal-generated HTML when you load the web page for a node, media, or taxonomy term. Official line is that this will allow Google to provide \"rich snippets\" such as star-ratings, contact info, and business hours. As an example of Drupal-provided RDFa:
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types (which maps to rdf:type - see below, under Structure of an RDF Mapping).islandora module uses this hook to trigger any \"Map URI to Predicate\" and \"Alter JSON-LD Type\" reactions that are configured in Contexts. The Islandora Starter Site provides two Contexts - \"All Media\" and \"Content\" - that configure these to occur on Media and Repository Item nodes.?_format=jsonld to be part of, or not part of, the URIs of Drupal objects. On an out-of-the-box islandora-playbook, this string is stripped, but by default on a fresh install of the jsonld module, it is not.{\n\"@graph\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/node\\/8\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/pcdm.org\\/models#Object\"\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/title\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"lasmomias de uninpahu\",\n\"@language\":\"fa\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/author\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/en\\/user\\/1\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/dateCreated\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"2019-06-04T14:32:05+00:00\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/dateModified\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"2019-06-04T17:02:51+00:00\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/description\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"mpermmbklmh\",\n\"@language\":\"fa\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/created\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"2015-10-15\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#string\"\n},\n{\n\"@value\":\"2015-10-15\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#date\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/extent\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"1 item\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#string\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/pcdm.org\\/models#memberOf\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/node\\/7\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/type\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/3\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/subject\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/27\"\n}\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/en\\/user\\/1\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/Person\"\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/node\\/7\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/pcdm.org\\/models#Object\"\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/3\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/Thing\"\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/27\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/Thing\"\n]\n}\n]\n}\nIf using the Islandora Starter Site, the RDF mappings are set in the config files with names like rdf.mapping.[...].yml. The starter site config files will override configs set by modules. If you are building a site from scratch (not using the Islandora Starter Site, there are relevant configs in the following folders:
[drupal modules directory]/islandora/modules/islandora_core_feature/config/install/ (media and taxonomy terms)[drupal modules directory]/controlled_access_terms/modules/controlled_access_terms_defaults/config/install/ (the default corporate_body, family, geo_location, person, resource_type and subject vocabularies)[drupal web root]/core/profiles/standard/config/install/ (articles, pages, comments, and tags).Once loaded by modules, configuration .yml files are not live so editing them will not change the existing configuration. However, for modules that are Features, it is possible to re-import the changed configuration files at admin/config/development/features (todo: link to further reading on Features).
Once loaded, RDF mappings can be customized for the needs of a particular site through Drupal's Configuration Synchronization UI at admin/config/development/configuration. They can be exported, modified, and re-imported one-at-a-time by choosing the \"Single Item\" option on the Export/Import tabs. You can also create new RDF mappings (e.g. for a custom content type) and load them through this interface, by copying an existing mapping and changing the appropriate values.
Contributed module for RDF Mappings
A custom module rdfui exists, and is installed-but-not-enabled on boxes provisioned by the islandora-playbook. We don't use it because it is very rudimentary and limited to the schema.org vocabulary. We have an open ticket to develop a UI to support RDF mappings to any ontology. Contributions welcome.
ldp, ebucore, pcdm, are premis are registered in islandora.module using hook_rdf_namespaces(). To register your own namespaces, you will need to create a custom module that implements that hook.Below is an example of an RDF mapping as a .yml (YAML) file. It is the RDF mapping (current at time of writing) of the Repository Item (islandora_object) bundle, provided by the Islandora Starter Site and exportable as rdf.mapping.node.islandora_object.yml).
types specifies the rdf:type of the resource or content model. field_model, a required field of Islandora objects, also gets mapped to rdf:type through an arcane back-end process.fieldMappings specifies fields attached to that bundle and their RDF property mappings. One field can be mapped to more than one RDF property. It is a simple flat list.mapping_type:: There are several mapping types which are provided out of the box. - rel - standing for relationship, expresses a relationship between two resources - property - the default, or if a relationship is not provided, expresses the relationship between a resource and some literal text.
datatype_callback: This is a custom function that transforms the output of the field. There are some provided to us by Drupal and some added by Islandora, such as: - Drupal\\controlled_access_terms\\EDTFConverter::dateIso8601Value which converts dates to ISO format - Drupal\\jsonld\\EntityReferenceConverter::linkFieldPassthrough which converts a referenced entity to the URI on the entity (which is configurable with the link_field argument An example usage of the Drupal\\jsonld\\EntityReferenceConverter::linkFieldPassthrough is as follows:
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Compared to Islandora Legacy
In Islandora Legacy, this sort of technical metadata would have been stored as datastream properties or as additional metadata-specific datastreams. In Islandora, each datastream holds its technical metadata using an associated media entity.
Fedora will store the media's file as a binary resource and use the media's properties as the binary resource's description.
For example, creating a media with a file named test.jpg (in November 2019) will create a Fedora binary resource of the file accessible at /fcrepo/rest/2019-11/test.jpg with the media's fields accessible at /fcrepo/rest/2019-11/test.jpg/fcr:metadata.
Islandora Core Feature and the Islandora Starter Site make use of the media types provided by the Standard Drupal installation (Video, Audio, etc). The file extensions allowed by each media type have been configured at the Drupal level. It is possible to create your own media types, and/or to edit the allowed field types and functionality of the existing media types. However, with Islandora Starter Site, the Image media type only allows .png, .gif, .jpg or .jpeg files. Many large images such as TIFFs (.tiff files) and JP2s (.jp2) must be added in the File media type instead of Image.
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The Create new revision checkbox is selected by default which will prompt Fedora to make a new version of the media's metadata before updating its resource record. A message can be added to the revision which is stored in Drupal but is not currently saved in Fedora.
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First, the remove button removes the file's reference on the media but does not delete the file, which, if in Fedora, will remain in Fedora.
Second, because Drupal does not want users to reuse a file path uploading a file, even with the same name in the same month, Drupal will rename the file for you. This will result in a new binary resource in Fedora, rather than replacing the existing resource, so the file's URI in Fedora will change
Third, the metadata synced from the Media into Fedora at [old Fedora URI]/fcr:metadata will remain in Fedora, but the metadata in the Media will also be synced into Fedora at [new Fedora URI]/fcr:metadata. There will be no way for the metadata in Fedora describing the file at the old Fedora URI to be edited.
Removing Media with Actions
To completely delete a file and its metadata from Fedora and Drupal, run the \"Delete media and file(s) action\" after selecting the Media in the general media list (/admin/content/media). This will cause the paths to the file and its metadata in Fedora to return 404s.
Replacing Media via REST
It is possible to use Islandora's REST interface to replace Media and Files.
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Compared to Islandora Legacy
The direction of the relationship between objects and datastreams is reversed when compared to Islandora 7. Generally speaking, objects are unaware of their datastreams, and it's a Drupal view that lists datastreams for an object.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/media/#media-use","title":"Media use","text":"Islandora media express their intended use with a special \"Media Use\" field, which accepts taxonomy terms from the \"Media Usage\" vocabulary. Because the Media Usage vocabulary is an ordinary Drupal vocabulary, Islandora site administrators can create additional terms, and in turn, these local terms can be used to identify media that have some custom local purpose. However, most of the default set of \"Media Use\" terms are taken from the PCDM Use Extension vocabulary:
Compared to Islandora Legacy
Terms from the Media Usage vocabulary are very similar to DSIDs in Islandora Legacy. The only difference is that a DSID is immutable, but a media's usage can be changed at any time through the media's edit form.
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By default, derivatives are generated from Media with the \"Original Files\" term selected. When an Original File is uploaded, if the node that owns it has an \"Image\" model, image derivatives are created. If it's a \"Video\", then video derivatives are generated, etc...
By default, derivatives are created with a path determined by the current year, current month, the associated resource node' identifier assigned by Drupal, and the type of derivative. For example, a resource node found at node/2 with a service file media generated in October 2019 will have the path \"2019-10/2-Service File.jpg\". Naming conventions can be configured by editing each derivative action's File path settings.
Within a node's media tab, you can see all of its media, including derivatives, listed along with their usage. For example, from the Original File, a lower quality \"Service File\" and a smaller \"Thumbnail Image\" file were generated.
For more information on how to configure derivatives, see the section on Context.
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There are no multi-file media bundles that currently ship with Islandora. The following recipe describes how to set up multi-file media:
A video tutorial explaining how to configure multi-file Media is available under the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U6tBvD8oJY
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Service URL on localhost:8000 Identify http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=Identify ListMetadataFormats http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats ListSets http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListSets GetRecord http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:localhost:node-1 ListIdentifiers http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc ListRecords http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dcThese services are provided by the OAI-PMH Drupal REST OAI-PMH module Drupal module. The Islandora Starter Site provides some default configuration so that repository content can be harvested. This configuration used to be part of Islandora OAI-PMH, a submodule of Islandora Defaults.
For OAI-PMH functionality, the Islandora Starter Site provides:
/admin/config/services/rest/oai-pmh) to connect this view with the REST OAI-PMH module.The REST OAI-PMH module indexes (caches) set membership, so new Items may not appear immediately in their respective sets. Indexing will happen automatically during cron runs but can be triggered manually at /admin/config/services/rest/oai-pmh/queue.
The OAI-PMH module makes use of one of two modules to provide metadata mappings: the RDF module or the Metatag module. By configuring OAI-PMH to use the RDF module (appears as \"OAI Dublin Core (RDF Mapping)\" and is enabled by default in the Islandora Starter Site), the OAI-PMH module will use the RDF mapping as configured for your content type (the same mapping that is used for Fedora and Blazegraph, e.g. rdf.mapping.node.islandora_object.yml).
However,
Field values not showing up in OAI-DC record?
If you want the value of a field to be emitted in the OAI-DC record, you must assign a Dublin Core predicate for that field in your content type's RDF mapping. If you are wondering why a field is not showing up in the OAI-DC record, the content type's RDF mapping is the first thing to check.
The REST OAI-PMH module does not support metadata formats other than OAI-DC, but it supports some alternate methods of defining mappings to OAI-DC. Consult that module's documentation for more information.
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The Drupal rest_oai_pmh module's DefaultMap plugin provides a basic model to follow for creating a plugin.
Exact implementation of your plugin will depend on your data model. The rest_oai_pmh module by default expects a flat list of fields and field values to output. This means that if your data model uses anything like Typed Relation field types, Paragraphs, or other complex nested entity modeling, you will need to add custom logic to build the values to emit via OAI-PMH for those fields.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/","title":"Metadata in Islandora","text":"Metadata vs Fields in the Starter Site
To learn about the default out-of-the-box metadata fields, see Starter Site Metadata Configuration. This page describes technical details about how metadata is handled as fields in Drupal and provides a deeper understanding of, and tools for modifying, your metadata configuration.
1-minute synopsis: In Islandora, metadata is stored in Drupal, in fields attached to entities (nodes or media). This allows us to interact with metadata (add, edit, remove, display, index in a search engine...) almost entirely using standard Drupal processes. If exporting this metadata to Fedora and/or a triplestore, the values are serialized to RDF using mappings that can be set for each bundle.
Drupal 8 Terminology
In Drupal 8, Fields can be attached to bundles (sometimes called entity sub-types -- e.g. Content types, Media types, Vocabularies) or entities (e.g. Users). For more on Fields, see \"2.3 Content Entities and Fields\" and \"6.3 Adding Basic Fields to a Content Type\" in the Official Drupal Guide.
As described in the resource nodes section, Islandora digital objects are comprised of Drupal nodes for descriptive metadata, Drupal media for technical metadata, and Drupal files for the binary objects. This section describes how Islandora uses and extends Drupal fields to manage descriptive metadata.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#content-types","title":"Content Types","text":"In Drupal, Nodes come in different subtypes called Content Types. These let you define a type of content (\"Article\" and \"Basic Page\" are Drupal defaults and \"Repository Item\" is an Islandora specific example), the set of metadata fields that are attached to that content, and how those fields can be edited and displayed. Each content type is essentially a metadata profile that can be used for a piece of web content, or to describe a digital resource. You can create your own content types for your Islandora project or use a pre-defined one like Repository Item from the Islandora Starter Site. We will go over the metadata specific aspects of Content Types below, but see our tutorial for a fuller walk-through of creating a content type.
Not all content types in your Drupal site need be Islandora Resource Nodes. Making a content type a Resource Node will associate Islandora specific behaviours (such as syncing to Fedora or causing derivatives to be generated) with it. The decision to make a content an Islandora resource node is left to the discretion of the site manager. In Islandora, a \"resource node\" is usually considered a descriptive record for \"a thing\", and is conceptually similar to an \"Islandora Object\" in 7.x, i.e. a \"Fedora Object\" in Fedora 3.x and below. Read more on configuring a content type to be treated as a Resource Node.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#fields","title":"Fields","text":"The administrator will define the fields that are associated with a specific content type . The same fields can be applied to different content type , but the field display and editing configurations are unique to each content type. The names and definitions of these fields are specific to Drupal and do not have to correspond to an outside metadata schema. You will give each field a Label, Machine Name, and a specific Field Type, like Text, Integer, EDTF, or Entity Reference (see below). Specific to the Field Type you will then define the maximum length of the field, the number of values it can contain, and what taxonomies it might link to.
Fields can be added under Administration >> Structure >> Content types >> Your Content Type's Name >> Manage fields (/admin/structure/types/your_type/fields). This tab will list all Fields, their Label, Machine Name, Field Type, and give you the option to make what edits to the definition of that field that you can.
Certain decisions must be made when fields are created, and before any content is added, because they can not be changed later. Field Type can not be changed, so you wouldn't be able to change a text field to a taxonomy field after creation. The field's machine name also can't be changed. The number of values allowed in a field or its maximum length or type of item to reference (in the case of Entity reference fields) can not be changed after content has been added. You can, however, always add new fields to a content type, even after content has been added.
7.x Migration Note: What About My MODS XML?
Even when using the Islandora Starter Site, there is no \"official\" metadata schema in Islandora. Where Islandora 7.x used MODS, and took advantage of its hierarchical/extensible structure, Drupal Fields are a flat structure working with distinct, individual elements. You can base your fields on those in MODS, or any other schema, but that structure is up to you. The Metadata Interest Group has developed a sample MODS-Drupal-RDF mapping, which provides a structure upon which you can build your Drupal fields. It is used by the Repository Item content type in the Islandora Starter Site.
you cannot change the Content Type of a node
Once a node is created, its content type cannot be changed. Just as you are unable to change many aspects of a Field once it has been created, once a node has been created it is now permanently of that content type and the fields associated with it. At that point your only option would be to create a new node of the intended content type, map the field values (programmatically or by copy-paste), and update any media or children that refer to the old node to refer to the new one.
The Islandora Starter Site provides a Repository Item content type that can be used as a structure to build your collection around, or it can be used as a sample to see how fields in content types work. It pre-defines fields, including Alternative Title and Date Issued that could be of use in many digital repositories. The full list of fields and their field types can be seen in the screenshot below.
Titles Aren't Conventionally-Configurable Fields
The field title is built-in to each content type by default, and can be referenced in views, templates, and indexing like other fields, but it cannot be configured like other fields. The only aspect you can change about title is its label. It has a built-in maximum length of 255 characters which cannot be changed. If your content requires longer titles we recommend you create a separate \"long_title\" field to store the full title and reserve the default title field for a display title. There is a contributed module called Node Title Length, which allows an administrator to configure the length of the title field in the core node table. However, this only works on nodes (not media or other entities) and involves meddling in a core Drupal database schema, which makes some people uneasy.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#vocabularies","title":"Vocabularies","text":"See also: MIG Presentation on Taxonomies by Kristina Spurgin, 2021-07-19
In Drupal, Taxonomy Vocabularies (or simply Vocabularies) are also entity subtypes that define a set of fields and their configurations. Whereas instances of content types are called nodes, items in a vocabulary are called taxonomy terms (or simply terms). Traditionally, taxonomy terms are used to classify content in Drupal. For instance, the Article content type includes a field field_tags that can refer to terms in the Tags vocabulary.
There are two ways that users can interact with taxonomies: they can be \"closed,\" e.g. a fixed list to pick from in a dropdown, or \"open,\" e.g. field_tags where users can enter new terms, which are created on the fly. This is not set on the vocabulary itself, but in the configuration of the field (typically on a node). Terms within vocabularies have an ordering, and can have hierarchical structure, but do not need to.
Islandora (through the Islandora Core Feature) creates the 'Islandora Models' vocabulary which includes the terms 'Audio', 'Binary', 'Collection', 'Compound Object', 'Digital Document', 'Image', 'Newspaper', 'Page', 'Paged Content', 'Publication Issue', and 'Video'. Islandora Starter Site provides contexts that cause certain actions (e.g. derivatives to happen, or blocks to appear) based on which term is used.
The Controlled Access Terms module provides additional vocabularies:
Each of these vocabularies has its own set of fields allowing repositories to further describe them. The Repository Item content type has fields that can reference terms in these vocabularies. See 'Entity Reference fields' in the 'Field Types' section below.
The vocabularies provided by default are a starting point, and a repository administrator can create whatever vocabularies are desired.
Large Taxonomy Vocabularies
The Drupal Taxonomy UI is known to break down when your vocabularies get large (e.g. over 20,000 terms). Jonathan Hunt created the CCA Taxonomy Manager module for SFU to solve this problem.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#field-types","title":"Field Types","text":"Fields are where descriptive and administrative metadata about Drupal entities is stored. There are different types of fields including boolean, datetime, entity reference, integer, string, text, and text_with_summary. These field types also have widgets (controlling how data is entered) and formatters (controlling how data is displayed). The Drupal 8 documentation on FieldTypes, FieldWidgets, and FieldFormatters includes a list of the core field types with brief definitions, along with a list of core widgets and formatters. Custom field types can be created to represent data in ways not provided by these core options.
More field types, formatters, and widgets are available in various modules. For example, the controlled_access_terms module provides two additional field types designed specifically for use with Islandora: ETDF, and Typed Relation. These and the Entity Reference field type are described in more detail below, since they are of particular interest for Islandora users.
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Within Islandora, this data type is used by a metadata field in Taxonomy Vocabularies called Authority Sources to capture equivalent representations of terms from external authority sources.
Tip
The term external authority source refers to both controlled vocabularies like Art & Architecture Thesaurus or FAST as well as Name Authority Files like Library of Congress Name Authority File or VIAF.
For instance, if you are creating a term called Red squirrels within the default Taxonomy Vocabulary Subject, you may want to include the URI for Tamiasciurus from the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) vocabulary. If you configured the field Authority Sources to list FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as an external source authority option, you can select this source and add the associated URI (http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1142424).
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By default, this field is repeatable. To change this, edit the \"Field settings\" and change Allowed numbers of values from \"Unlimited\" to \"Limited\" and enter the number of allowable values. This will apply to every instance of the Authority Sources field across your Taxonomy Vocabularies. You cannot change the repeatability of Authority Sources after data has been entered in the field.
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The Repository Item content type, provided by the Islandora Starter Site, includes several entity reference fields that reference vocabularies defined by the islandora and controlled_access_terms modules.
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Tip
Note that once the type of entity to reference has been defined, and data has been created, it cannot be changed.
Storage settings for entity reference field where you set whether the field will reference content nodes or taxonomy terms:
Reference type settings for entity reference field where you select which vocabularies the autocomplete utility should query when editors are entering data:
Data Consistency
Selecting which vocabularies can be referenced from an entity reference field only affects which vocabularies will be searched when a user types into the autocomplete field in the Drupal form for adding a new item. These settings do not impose constraints on the underlying database, so it is still possible to load references to other vocabularies without being stopped or warned when ingesting data through various migration methods.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#edtf","title":"EDTF","text":"The EDTF field type is defined in the controlled_access_terms module, and designed for recording dates in Extended Date Time Format, which is a format based off of the hyphenated form of ISO 8601 (e.g. 1991-02-03 or 1991-02-03T10:00:00), but also allows expressions of different granularity and uncertainty. The Default EDTF widget has a validator that only allows strings that conform to the EDTF standard. The Default EDTF formatter allows these date strings to be displayed in a variety of human-readable ways, including big- or little-endian, and presenting months as numbers, abbreviations, or spelling month names out in full. Close review of the EDTF Specifications is recommended when configuring this field type.
Endianness
Big-endian = year, month, day. Little-endian = day, month, year. Middle-endian = month, day, year.
Known EDTF Bug
When configuring the EDTF widget for a field in a content type, you can choose to allow date intervals (aka date ranges), but doing this prevents the widget from accepting values that include times. (The EDTF standard states that date intervals cannot contain times, but the field should be able to accept either a valid EDTF range or a valid EDTF datetime, so this is a bug.)
Example of valid inputs in a multivalued EDTF Date field (including the seasonal value 2019-22 as defined in the EDTF specification):
Example of the same EDTF dates displayed using little-endian format:
EDTF field values cannot include textual representations of dates, as shown below in this example of a valid EDTF value ('1943-05') and an invalid value ('May 1943') with the corresponding error message. Use the formatter configurations detailed further below to achieve textual display of dates.
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Configuration options include strictness level of date validation, allowing date intervals and allowing date sets.
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Example of how the EDTF formatter settings can change the display of an EDTF value:
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Solr
The Solr string data type requires the full field value to match the query in order to count as a match. This means that searching for 2014 will not retrieve a record where the recorded date value is 2014-11-02.
EDTF date fields may be configured as sort fields in your search results Views. By default, this results in a simple ordering by the literal EDTF date string.
An EDTF date field with multiple or unlimited number of allowed values may be set as a sort field. In this case, the first occurrence of the field value is used as the sorting value.
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Typed relation name
The parts of a field are called properties, so 'entity reference' and 'relation type' are properties of the Typed Relation field type.
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The list of available relations for this Contributors field is configurable at '/admin/structure/types/manage/islandora_object/fields/node.islandora_object.field_linked_agent'.
Typed relation tradeoffs
Publishers
Until Mar 2024, the Islandora Starter Site included publishers in the Contributors (field_linked_agent) field. The MIG made the decision to make publisher its own text field, in order to make it easier to separate publishers from other contributors, and to prevent clutter in the linked taxonomies. Publishers are often recorded by transcribing what is on the item, rather than formatting the name per Authority rules, so variations on a single name are expected.
Relations are defined in the format key|value, and the key is used in the RDF mapping (see below).
By default, facets can be created for typed relation fields that will facet based on the linked entity alone, not separating references based on the relationship type.
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rest_oai_pmh module's templates/mods.html.twig. For example, that template file includes {{ elements.publisher }} so the label in views needs to be exactly publisher. Save the View.An example of this, in terms of config changes, is visible in the changeset of the Starter Site's 1.6.0 version for the Publisher field. However, pulling such a changeset is unlikely to work smoothly and it is recommended to set these configurations manually.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#getting-metadata-into-fedora-and-a-triple-store","title":"Getting Metadata into Fedora and a Triple-store","text":"Depending on the needs at your institution, you may or may not be using Fedora with your Islandora installation. You also may or may not be hoping to publish your metadata as RDF triples that can be queried in a triplestore. Both of these functionalities are driven by the JSON-LD module (written for Islandora), which provides a JSON-LD serialization of your content nodes, media nodes, as well as your taxonomy terms. This JSON-LD is what gets ingested by Fedora, and is also what is used to add RDF triples to the blazegraph triplestore if you choose to use that service.
The JSON-LD serialization for an entity is available by appending _format=jsonld to the entity's URL. Below is an example JSON-LD document representing the RDF serialization of a Repository item node created in a standard islandora-playbook based vagrant VM:
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To show a small example, the RDF mapping:
title:\n properties:\n - dc:title\nwill map the Repository item's title field to http://purl.org/dc/terms/title. As a result, the node's title value appears like this in the JSON-LD output:
\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/title\":[\n {\n \"@value\":\"New York, New York. A large lobster brought in by the New England fishing boat [Fulton Fish Market]\",\n \"@language\":\"en\"\n }\n],\nTip
To set up prefixes for namespaces and see a list of available predefined namespaces, see the \"RDF Generation\" page.
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Bug
The Drupal RDF module is currently limited in the complexity of graph you can generate. All fields must be mapped directly to either a literal value, or a reference to another content type instance, media type instance, or taxonomy term instance. It is not currently possible to create blank nodes or skolemized nodes for nesting fields under more complex structures.
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For more complex changes, or when the values need to differ for each value, an export-modify-reimport method may be needed. Use a view to export CSV or other structured data (including an identifier such as a node id), modify the values as necessary, then use migrate csv or Workbench to re-import and update the values.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#drupal-bundle-configurations","title":"Drupal Bundle Configurations","text":"In Islandora, content models are primarily created using content types (also known as node bundles) and media bundles. Bundles are defined by YAML configuration files. To create new content models, one would create the needed content types and media bundles via UI, then export the yml files related for those bundles using Configuration Synchronization (http://localhost:8000/admin/config/development/configuration) or Features. An understanding about the structure of a bundle and various configuration files used to define it helps in creating and updating it.
Content types and media bundles can be thought of as web forms consisting of fields. Drupal provides widgets to define the behavior of a field and field storage to define how the data is stored in the database. Drupal provides various display modes to show the forms to user when they are editing (Manage form display) or viewing (Manage display).
A content model is packaged as a module for installation. All yml files are put in config/install folder of the module. Note that not all content models would contain media bundles.
The following files define the bundles themselves. It contains some metadata about the bundle and lists its dependencies.
node.type.your_content_type.yml\nmedia_entity.bundle.your_media_bundle.yml\nThe following files define the fields attached to the bundle forms. There must be one config file for each field in your bundle, except for the default drupal fields.
field.field.node.your_content_type.field_name1.yml\nfield.field.node.your_content_type.field_name2.yml\n...\nfield.field.media.your_media_bundle.field_name1.yml\nfield.field.media.your_media_bundle.field_name2.yml\nIf the new bundle contains new fields, then field storage configurations for the newly created fields would be needed as well. Note that if you reused existing fields, storage definitions should not be defined again. Storage config contains information about the number of values allowed for that field (cardinality).
field.storage.node.field_new_name3.yml\nfield.storage.media.field__new_name3.yml\nThere is a configuration file for each combination of bundle / display mode when managing form displays. Usually, form displays will have default and inline modes.
core.entity_form_display.media.your_media_bundle.default.yml\ncore.entity_form_display.media.your_media_bundle.inline.yml\n---\ncore.entity_form_display.node.your_content_type.default.yml\ncore.entity_form_display.node.your_content_type.inline.yml\nThere is a configuration file for each combination of bundle / display mode when managing displays. Usually, displays will have default and teaser modes for content types and default and content modes for media bundles.
core.entity_view_display.media.your_media_bundle.default.yml\ncore.entity_view_display.media.your_media_bundle.content.yml\n---\ncore.entity_view_display.node.your_content_type.default.yml\ncore.entity_view_display.node.your_content_type.teaser.yml\nIn addition, Islandora needs an RDF mapping to express the content in RDF and to sync to fedora. There will be one RDF mapping per bundle.
rdf.mapping.media.your_media_bundle.yml\nrdf.mapping.node.your_content_type.yml\nIslandora enables you to build full-fledged multilingual repositories leveraging the multilingual support provided by Drupal core modules. The multilingual content gets indexed into Fedora repository as well as the Triplestore (Blazegraph), and can be queried using the SPARQL endpoint. In this guide, we will describe the steps needed to set up a basic multilingual Islandora site.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/multilingual/#adding-languages","title":"Adding Languages","text":"From the top menu, go to Configuration >> Regional and language >> Languages. Add a language.
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You can place the language switcher block in different regions of the user interface. You might have to customize the theme to style the language switcher block.
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From the top menu, go to Structure >> Menu. Edit \"Main navigation\" menu. Default home menu item cannot be translated due to this issue. Disable that menu item. Click Add link to create a new menu item. Provide a menu title (i.e. Home) and input <front> for the link field. Save. Right-click on the Operations beside the new menu link and click the Translate button. Translate the menu link title for the language added above and save.
Go back to home. The language switcher will enable you to switch the language/content of the menu and content.
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Go back to home, you should be able to view content in the language selected in the language switcher.
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Each field label needs to be translated through the Drupal GUI (Configuration >> Regional and Language: User interface translation). Alternatively, you can import existing translations, or translations generated with an external translation editor (for example Gtranslator). Go to Interface translation import (Configuration >> Regional and Language: User interface translation >> Import tab). Set the Treat imported strings as custom translations option, select the import file, the target language, and click import. Clear the cache to see the changes. An example second language display is shown below.
Islandora indexes the multilingual metadata values in Fedora as RDF literals using language tags. An example representation is shown below.
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You can query the result and filter the results by a specific language. For example, to get all titles and filter by language, the following query can be used:
PREFIX dcterm: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>\nselect ?s ?o {\n ?s dcterm:title ?o\nFILTER (lang(?o) = 'ta')\n}\nPaged content, such as books, periodicals, photographs with the front and back, etcetera, can use the membership structure provided by Islandora, namely, field_member_of. This involves creating a resource node for the root record (i.e. the entire book or the photograph) and child resource nodes for each sub-component (e.g. \"Page 1\", \"Page 2\", etc., or \"recto\" and \"verso\") with their corresponding media. Each \"child\" resource node contains a reference to their \"parent\" resource node using the field_member_of property.
Child v. Member
Islandora uses the \"child\" and \"member\" descriptor for resource nodes that store a reference to another resource node in the \"Member Of\" field interchangeably. Administrators will more often see the \"member\" terminology more often while front-end users will usually see \"child\" terminology.
Similar to the collection view showing members of a collection, Islandora provides taxonomy terms Paged Content and Page in the Islandora Model vocabulary, that can be used to trigger paged content behaviors. Islandora Starter Site provides a Context for Paged Content resource nodes to trigger displaying a Mirador viewer showing the child resource nodes' service files.
To enable this, use Paged Content for the Islandora Model of the parent resource node and Page for the Islandora Model of the child resource node. After the child resource nodes have \"service file\" media (either generated via the built-in derivative creation or added manually), they will be included in the Mirador paginated viewer displayed on the parent resource node's page. (See the IIIF Documentation for more details on controlling the viewer's behavior.)
However, repository managers can use any method they like, such as a Views-based list of teasers, a gallery, or a slide-show to display child resource nodes.
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Weight values do not need to be sequential, just ordered from smallest to largest. For example, the first child resource node can have a value of 10 and the next could have a value of 20 and they will be ordered accordingly. Should a new child be added with the weight value of 15 it will automatically be sorted after the child with the weight value 10 and before the child with the weight value 20.
Child resource nodes can be reordered using a drag-and-drop interface by clicking on the Re-order Children button on the Children tab of the parent resource node.
Re-ordering children resource nodes on this page and clicking Save will cause each child resource node's weight value to be updated using sequential values.
Why not Drupal's book or weight modules?
Drupal provides the book module in core for creating multi-level ordered content, such as books and manuals. However, this module stores structure and pagination separately from the nodes making serializing these relationships as RDF we can provide to Fedora more difficult than simply using field_member_of with an RDF mapping. Support for the book module may be added in the future.
Drupal also has a weight module that provides a weight field and a drag-and-drop reordering user-interface. However, this module requires users to set a specified range of values which includes their negative corresponding value. E.g. a range setting of '20' will require all children to have a value between '-20' to '20'. This presumes a repository manager can predict how many pages the largest paged content item in their repository will be beforehand. Also, these weight values are serialized into RDF using the Collections Ontology 'index' predicate which assumes positive integer values which cannot be guaranteed using the weight module.
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This method does not create full metadata for the child nodes. It uses the filename as the node title. It also does not accept zip files; individual files must be uploaded. For more methods of bulk uploading content, see Islandora Workbench and Migrate Islandora CSV
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The View tab also provides links to some common actions. Start Indexing Now allows you to start an indexing job for a specified number of items (default is 'all'). You can also specify how many items should be indexed in each batch (default is '50'). The other links allow a repository manager to queue all objects for reindexing, clear the index, or rebuild tracking information.
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Content (types) is the only data source enabled by default. Selecting Taxonomy term will enable searching taxonomies which is recommended if the repository uses taxonomies for subjects or other discovery points. Once the data sources are enabled a configuration box for each of them will appear in a section just below the list of data sources. This allows repository managers to select which content types (or taxonomy vocabularies) will be included in the index. By default, all the content types, and vocabularies if the taxonomy data source is enabled, are indexed.
Defaults
The defaults assume a repository is adding content using the web interface. If a repository manager plans on bulk-loading content they should disable the Index items immediately option in the expandable Index Options box and increase the 'Cron batch size' option.
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To add a field, click the + Add fields button. A shadow-box will appear with a list of the fields available for the index.
Some fields, such as the Body ('body') field provided by Drupal, have multiple properties which can be completely different values or variations on the same value. Click on the plus-sign next to the field to show the properties available to index. In most cases repository managers can ignore the properties list and click the Add button by the field to index the default property ('value'). Only select a different field property if you understand how it will impact user searching. Entity reference fields, such as Tags ('field_tags'), allow you to select fields or their properties from the referenced entity for indexing, such as a referenced taxonomy term's name field.
Once the fields are added they can be configured further on the Fields tab, although the label, machine name, and type usually don't need to be changed. The 'Type' dropdown has several Full-text processing options available, which may be of interest. Each is described in the expandable Data Types box at the bottom of the page. The Boost setting allows repository managers to increase the weight of particular fields when calculating search relevancy.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/searching/#searching-islandora","title":"Searching Islandora","text":"Searching using Search API in Drupal is done using Drupal Views. The Islandora Starter Site comes with a search page pre-configured (accessible at '/solr-search/content'). To edit the search page, navigate to '/admin/structure/views/view/solr_search_content'.
Repository managers may want to change the URL used to access the page, add it to the site navigation, or add a search box. In the 'Page Settings' box in the middle of the page, click on the existing path to open a shadow-box with an edit field. Change the URL as desired, for example, to 'search' and click Apply. Then, click the No menu link just below it to open the menu settings shadow-box. Selecting 'Normal menu entry' will allow a repository manager to add a menu link text, description, and place it within the site menu tree (the default, <Main navigation> works for most sites). A search box can be added by expanding the Advanced options and changing the Exposed form in block setting and then use the Block Layout interface (found at '/admin/structure/block') to place the block where desired. After making changes to the View's settings, click the Save button to ensure the changes are not lost.
Islandora's Repository Items are displayed in the search results as a fully rendered entity by default. Repository managers can choose which view mode should be used for each search datasource by clicking the Settings link next to the Show: setting under the Format section of the search view configuration page (shown in a red box in the screenshot below). The Teaser and Search result highlighting input are the two most likely options. Alternatively, repository managers can select specific fields to display instead by clicking the Rendered Entity link and changing it to Fields and then choosing which fields will be displayed in the Fields section underneath.
Thumbnails
thumbnails will not immediately be available using the Fields display option without more advanced configurations.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/","title":"Islandora Starter Site Metadata Configuration","text":""},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#introduction","title":"Introduction","text":"As described in Metadata In Islandora, in Islandora metadata is stored in Drupal, in fields attached to entities. Provided by the Islandora Starter Site, the \u201cRepository Item\u201d content type contains a set of default fields to describe the digital objects an Islandora repository might contain. This set of fields is based on MODS fields commonly used in Islandora 7, and is not intended to be \"the standard\" metadata profile, rather, a starting point for institutions designing their own repository.
This page presents the primary descriptive and administrative metadata fields found in the Islandora Starter site. We will define each field and give its basic configuration. Most of these configurations can be customized after installation, and new fields can be added as per the needs of an individual institution. Fields are grouped in standard MODS order.
Further information on the metadata configuration can be found in a Google Spreadsheet Islandora Starter Site Metadata Configuration (Google Sheets) which parallels the information on this page. It goes into further detail about the configurations connected to each field, provides information on taxonomies and mappings, and can be filtered or sorted in a variety of ways. The document, or the spreadsheet above, can be copied and used as a basis for planning your own configuration customizations as you work on your Islandora site.
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This field does not allow creating names of entities on the fly. First create a term in either the person, family, or corporate body taxonomies, then link it here.
Field name changed from \"Linked Agent\" 09/23. Machine Name field_linked_agent Drupal Field Type Typed Relation [link to https://islandora.github.io/documentation/user-documentation/metadata/#typed-relation] Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Corporate Body; Family; Person Create Referenced Entities no Relators Starter Site includes 269 terms from the MARC Relators list. Further terms from the list, or custom terms, can be added in the configuration for this field. Publisher has been removed from this list to encourage use of the Publisher field. CSL Citation Mapping author ; contributor ; editor Facet Creators and Contributors RDF Mapping dcterms:contributor XPath For MODS mods/name/namePart + role/roleTerm > relator
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mods/name[@type=\"family\"]/namePart > \"Family\" taxonomy Alternatives Create custom facets using the \"Typed Relation filtered by type\" Search API processor. This would allow you to separate out, for instance, creator|author|photographer from the other types of relators as a Search API field/facet."},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#type-and-genre","title":"Type and Genre","text":"Type The general nature or genre of the content of the resource. To describe the digital or physical format of the resource, use Form instead. In contrast with Model, which is system-actionable, this field is designed to record the Type purely as a metadata element. Machine Name field_resource_type Drupal Field Type Entity reference [link to https://islandora.github.io/documentation/user-documentation/metadata/#entity-reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable no Taxonomies Resource Types (pre-populated with hierarchical LOC Resource Type Scheme terms) Create Referenced Entities no Facet Resource Type RDF Mapping dcterms:type XPath For MODS mods/typeOfResource, mods/typeOfResource[@collection=yes] Alternatives You may be required to use the Dublin Core types (for compatibility/harvesting); in that case you can replace the current Type vocabulary contents with the desired values. Genre A term or terms that designate a category characterizing a particular style, form, or content, such as artistic, musical, literary composition, etc. Machine Name field_genre Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Genre Create Referenced Entities yes CSL Citation Mapping genre RDF Mapping dcterms:type XPath For MODS mods/genre; mods/subject/genre"},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#origin-information","title":"Origin Information","text":"Place Published Plain text field to describe the place of publication in full or transcribed from an item \\ \\ See also the entity reference field Place Published Country. Machine Name field_place_published Drupal Field Type Text (plain) Required no Maximum Length 255 Repeatable yes CSL Citation Mapping publisher-place RDF Mapping relators:pup XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/place/placeTerm [@type = 'text'] OR [not(@type)] Country of Publication Entity reference field to singularly describe the country (or jurisdiction) of publication. Connected to the unpopulated Country taxonomy by default, which can be used for terms or codes from MARC Code List for Countries or elsewhere. Disabled, by default, on Metadata Display and Metadata Form. Machine Name field_place_published_country Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable no Taxonomies Country Create Referenced Entities no RDF Mapping relators:pup XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/place/placeTerm[@type=\"code\"] Publisher New field added 04/2024. Previously the Contributors/Linked agent field (with a relator value of Publisher) was used for this content. Machine Name field_publisher Drupal Field Type Text (plain) Required no Maximum Length 500 Repeatable yes CSL Citation Mapping publisher RDF Mapping XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/publisher"},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#date-fields","title":"Date FieldsDate IssuedDate CreatedDate (Unspecified)Copyright DateDate ValidDate CapturedDate ModifiedEdition StatementMode of IssuanceFrequency","text":"
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Machine Name field_date_valid Drupal Field Type EDTF Required no Maximum Length 128 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping dcterms:valid XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/dateValid The date on which the resource was digitized or a subsequent snapshot was taken. Machine Name field_date_captured Drupal Field Type EDTF Required no Maximum Length 128 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping premis:creation XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/dateCaptured Date on which the original resource being represented in Islandora was changed. Typically modification dates of digital representations of the resource stored in Islandora will be recorded on the relevant Media instead of here. This field is not populated automatically by any Drupal functionality. Machine Name field_date_modified Drupal Field Type EDTF Required no Maximum Length 128 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping dcterms:modified XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/dateModified Information identifying the version of the resource. Machine Name field_edition Drupal Field Type Text (plain) Required no Maximum Length 255 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping rdau:P60329 XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/edition A term that designates how the resource is issued. MODS standards limit the values of this field to monographic, single unit, multipart monograph, continuing, serial, and integrating resource, but there are no such limitations in Islandora and the \u201cIssuance Mode\u201d vocabulary is empty on initial installation. Machine Name field_mode_of_issuance Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Issuance Mode Create Referenced Entities yes RDF Mapping rdau:P60051 XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/issuance The publication frequency, in textual form. Can be based on MARC Frequency terms. 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This field can be used if you are storing composed subject strings rather than component headings/subdivisions in their own fields. Machine Name field_subject_general Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Corporate Body; Family; Geographic Location; Person; Subject Create Referenced Entities yes Store New Items In Subject Facet Subject RDF Mapping dcterms:subject XPath For MODS mods/subject Subject (Topical) For use when using separate fields to record topical, geographic, name, and temporal terms. Topical subject terms would be recorded here. 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WEBVTT transcripts, captions, or subtitles may be displayed along with audio and video media. Transcripts must be added to the media entity that will be playing, using a special field type (\"Media track\"). When the media is configured to use the \"Audio with Captions\" and \"Video with Captions\" field formatters, tracks in \"Media track\" fields will be available.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/transcripts/#media-track-field-type","title":"Media track field type","text":"The Islandora module provides a field type, Media Track, that accepts .vtt files. Once a file has been uploaded, additional options relevant to media tracks become available to configure.
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Sandbox
On the public sandbox, or other sites using the Islandora Install Profile Demo, you will first need to make the \"Track\" field visible in the media form, at Structure > Media > Audio|Video > Manage Display.
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Note that if you add the transcript file to the Original File, but you have configured the site to play the Service File, then you will not see the transcript.
Languages
While you can add subtitles in different languages, you may only choose from the site's installed languages.
Types
The five options: captions; subtitles; descriptions; chapters; and metadata come from the HTML standard's <track> element. As per their definitions, captions and subtitles will be displayed as optional text over the video, available through the usual [cc] icon in the viewer controls. Descriptions, chapters, and metadata will not be displayed as they are intended for programmatic use.
If you want to upload large (> 1GB) files, you'll need to tune the following settings in your PHP config (the following assumes Apache and a config file php.ini):
upload_max_filesize \u2013 The maximum allowed upload file size.post_max_size \u2013 The maximum allowed POST data size.max_input_time \u2013 Maximum allowed input time.max_execution_time \u2013 The maximum allowed time the scripts are allowed to run.default_socket_timeout - Default timeout (in seconds) for socket based streams.However, large file transfer over HTTP still has a host of issues once you properly configure your server. Uploads are not resumable and subject to connectivity issues. If you really want to upload large files, you should consider some alternatives such as
If loading large (e.g. range 30-45 GB) files into Fedora, you may need to change the fcrepo.session.timeout property, which defaults to 3 minutes (180,000 ms). Documentation is on the Properties page on the Fedora wiki.
If using FITS, you may need to change the following in /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/fits/WEB-INF/classes/fits-service.properties:
# Maximum allowable size of uploaded file\nmax.upload.file.size.MB=2000\n# Maximum size of HTTP Request object. Must be equal to or larger than the value for max.upload.file.size.MB\nmax.request.size.MB=2000\n# Maximum size of an uploaded file kept in memory. Otherwise temporarily persisted to disk.\nmax.in.memory.file.size.MB=4\nA URL alias is an alternate URL pattern that resolves to a Drupal entity, such as a node, media, taxonomy term, or user. For example, you could set \"/welcome\" as an alias for \"/node/1\". Aliases are part of Drupal Core and can be extended by contrib modules. One such module is Pathauto, which enables automatic alias generation based on patterns, and the patterns may involve \"Tokens\" (such as [node:title]).
This page will attempt to cover the Islandora Starter Site's use of aliases and what we consider to be best practices. A full description of creating and managing aliases is out of scope.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/url-aliases/#best-practices-with-url-aliases","title":"Best practices with URL aliases","text":"While every site may choose to set up their aliases differently, we cannot prescibe a universal setup.
A common \"nice-to-have\" is the presence of the slug /islandora/ in the URL which identifies the content as \"Islandora\".
A potential \"best practice\" is that if your site uses persistent identifiers such as DOIs or Handles, that those identifiers make up part of the URL alias.
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The default Pathauto pattern for Repository Items is /islandora/[node:title] with the pathauto configuration trimming the alias at 100 characters.
Sites migrating from Islandora Legacy may wish for their objects to still be available through their old URLs, with the pattern /islandora/object/[PID].
Options for doing this include:
field_pid with the legacy PID, and using Pathauto to create URL aliases of the pattern /islandora/object/[node:field_pid]. However, you will need to set up something for new objects that don't have Legacy PIDs.field_pid. Drupal 8 supports various web analytics integrations such as Google Analytics and Matomo. For privacy reasons, Islandora integrates Matomo web analytics platforms by default.
The Matomo server is installed here: http://localhost:8000/matomo. The default configurations can be found in http://localhost:8000/admin/config/system/matomo. You can log in to the Matomo server using username admin and password islandora. The dashboard will look like this:
To see page views, login to Matomo and go to Behaviour >> Pages.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/usage-stats/#further-reading","title":"Further Reading","text":"This Using Islandora section is aimed at site administrators and repository managers who need to understand and configure their Islandora repositories. It will go in-depth on how Islandora allows you to use the various features of Drupal to construct and display repository items. For easy readability, we have divided this documentation into five major sections, organized by functionality.
Islandora, like Drupal, provides tools to create a site, but does not force you to conform to any specific site structure, organization, or navigation. There is a hope that we can provide something useful out of the box, while also allowing the full suite of Drupal configuration options. This out-of-the-box configuration is the Islandora Demo module.
As you read this documentation, it is recommended to be familiar with the basics of Drupal, including content types, fields, users, and views. The Official Drupal User Guide and the Community Guide to Drupal are a good place to start.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/user-intro/#modeling-content","title":"Modeling content","text":"In Islandora, we often want to store (and manage, and preserve) sets of metadata with binaries (digital files). Previously in Islandora Legacy, these components were referenced together as a single \"object.\" In Islandora, metadata and their binaries are now represented as multiple interconnected entities.
Metadata is stored in nodes (a.k.a. content).
Binary files are stored in are media, which are wrapper entities to help manage files.
Metadata values can be stored as taxonomy terms, which let you reuse the same value in multiple places.
For users familiar with Islandora Legacy, the relationship between Fedora and Islandora has greatly changed in the current version of Islandora.
Islandora Legacy inherited its object model from Fedora 3.x. In Legacy, Fedora stored all properties and content associated with an object - not only its owner, dc.title, status, PID, and status - but also any content files such as OBJ, DC, MODS, and RELS-EXT. In Islandora Legacy, Fedora acted as the authoritative, primary source for all aspects of an object. Fedora 3.x was not an optional component of an Islandora Legacy repository, instead it served as the primary datastore.
In Islandora, using Fedora is optional. That's right, optional. Drupal, and not Fedora, is the primary source of all aspects of an Islandora object, and, with some variations, Drupal, not Fedora, is the primary datastore in an Islandora repository. If Fedora is present in an Islandora repository, content in it is a tightly synchronized copy of object properties and files managed by Drupal.
Even though Fedora is optional in Islandora, most repositories will use it since it provides its own set of services that are worth taking advantage of, such as:
In Islandora repositories that use Fedora, all properties about Drupal nodes are mirrored in Fedora as RDF properties. But, even if an Islandora instance does not use Fedora, Drupal can provide an object's properties as RDF (again, Drupal is the primary source of data in Islandora). In addition, the Drupal media associated with Islandora objects are persisted to Fedora, although exactly which media is configurable within the Islandora admin interface. Just as Drupal out of the box has a public and private filesystem, Islandora adds a third filesystem to Drupal called, not surprisingly, \"fedora\", and it is to this filesystem that media are persisted. We will provide more information about Fedora's role in an Islandora repository in the metadata and media sections.
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For a similar conceptual approach to Islandora, we present it as a bento box: a very modular platform, in which each piece may be removed and replaced with something different, without disrupting other parts of the stack:
For a true diagram of how the various parts of Islandora interact, please see the full Architecture Diagram.
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Islandora Software Versioning
Looking for information about versions of Islandora itself? The latest Islandora follows semantic versioning. Previously, Islandora's versions were tied to the version of Drupal and numbered in order of release, such as Islandora 6.x-13.1 or Islandora 7.x-1.13. More information.
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Islandora:
Can handle messages at scale - Islandora created Alpaca, an integration middleware based on Apache Camel, to handle messaging and queueing at an enterprise scale. To the user, this means large batch uploads can be processed gracefully.
Offers digital preservation features - Using a robust storage layer for preservation (Fedora), and generating technical metadata with FITS, are digital preservation tools provided by our automated installation methods. Community members have created additional features for doing digital preservation using Islandora, which are not yet part of our automated setup.
The Islandora community is an active group of users, managers, librarians, documenters, and developers from galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions worldwide. We welcome discussion and contribution through various mailing lists, channels, interest groups, and calls. The Islandora community operates under the Islandora Code Of Conduct. See our Contributing Guidelines for more information.
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Interested in contributing to the Islandora documentation? Join the Community!
The Islandora community is an active group of users, managers, librarians, documenters, and developers from GLAM (and beyond!) institutions worldwide. We welcome discussion and contribution through various mailing lists, channels, interest groups, and calls. The Islandora community operates under the Islandora Code Of Conduct. See our Contributing Guidelines for more information, or drop by a meeting of the Documentation Interest Group for a helping hand.
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$ cd activemq_install_dir/bin\n$ ./activemq start\nWhen ActiveMQ gets started, go to http://localhost:8161/admin/. You can login using admin:admin.
Note that ActiveMQ in Islandora playbook does not have a UI.
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field_member_of). This mechanism is also used by Paged Content and Compound Objects. Islandora on its own does not prescribe any particular Content Type, so this field can be configured for any node bundle intended to represent Islandora resources.field_model) which can take various values including \"Collection\".Islandora Starter Site is an optional set of presets for Islandora, intended to provide a more user-friendly out-of-the-box experience and starting point for more specific customization.
Islandora Starter Site provides:
field_member_of field, so that users may add nodes of this type to a collection (or paged content, or compound resource),For more details, see the tutorial on How to create and add to a collection
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Deleting content creates orphan media.
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There are two schemes you can use for derivatives:
Derivative configuration is stored using Drupal's Actions. This means that all derivative configuration, such as parameters dictating the derivative size and quality can be edited by a repository administrator in the Drupal GUI under Manage > System > Actions.
As Actions, they can be executed on nodes manually using Views Bulk Operations. They can also be configured to run automatically on media save thanks to Islandora's additions to the Drupal [Contexts] module.
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In the \"Reactions\" section is where you can set up derivatives. For standard model derivatives, choose the \"Derivatives\" reaction. This lists all actions, including derivative actions. Note that multifile derivatives won't work here.
Multi-file media
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Within a single content type (i.e. metadata profile), Islandora provides the ability to designate some objects as different \"types\" than others. Key behaviours, such as what derivatives are created or what viewer is used, can be configured (see Contexts) based on this value. The available values are taxonomy terms in the Islandora Models vocabulary, and they are attached to nodes via the special mandatory field, \"Model\" (field_model), which must be present on all Islandora content types. These values are installed through a Drupal Migration after the Islandora module is installed. All installation methods perform this migration, so out of the box, the following values should be available in the Islandora Models vocabulary:
With Islandora alone, choosing a value from this list will have zero effects. The contingent behaviour must be configured during repository implementation. Islandora Starter Site provides an example of what behaviours are possible for these types.
The External URI field
This vocabulary, like many others in Islandora, includes an External URI field. This is intended to be used when transforming Islandora content into RDF, but also serves to make it easier to share configuration. Islandora provides code so that context conditions and derivative configs can be created without referencing the taxonomy term by ID, rather, using the taxonomy term's External URI. Since terms IDs are likely to change across sites, this makes our configs more portable.
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Then, the media \"of\" an Islandora node (if any) will appear in that node's \"Media\" tab. From this tab, there are also links to add new Media, individually or in batch. When media are created this way, their \"Media of\" field is automatically populated with the current node.
"},{"location":"concepts/node-media/#media-have-different-uses","title":"Media have different uses","text":"In a repository, a node may have several media that belong to it, which represent the originally uploaded file, a smaller service file, a thumbnail, and perhaps a file transformed into a specific format for preservation. All of these media can be distinguished using the Islandora-provided field, \"Media Use\" (field_media_use). This is a taxonomy reference field that points to the vocabulary, Islandora Media Use.
The Islandora module provides, through a migration, the following values:
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Namepspaces in RDF must be registered before they can be used. The Islandora module registers a number of namespaces and more can be added using hook_rdf_namespaces(). See RDF Mappings for more details.
Nodes, Media, and taxonomy terms can have their RDF (per their mappings) exposed to the world as RDF formatted in the JSON-LD syntax thanks to the Islandora-built JSON-LD Drupal module. The JSON-LD module converts the RDF metadata, with some alterations, to a JSON-LD format that can be consumed by RDF consumers such as Fedora and Blazegraph.
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Objects are sent to Fedora and Blazegraph through an \"Indexing\" Drupal Action, which, after being put on a queue, is read by an indexer which pushes the JSON-LD information to the appropriate target.
Files can be stored in Fedora directly, using the Flysystem module. Whether or not a file is in Fedora, information about that file can be synced (from Drupal Media) into Fedora.
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The Islandora Starter Site contains no code, only references to other modules and lots of Drupal configuration. A very motivated person could re-create the Starter Site just by installing and configuring modules. This means there's nothing tying you to using the Starter Site. There's also nothing tying you to doing things in a particular way. Also, it means that you won't be getting any \"updates\" - there's no code to update.
To experience the full Islandora Starter Site, it requires access to external services such as Solr, Fedora, Alpaca, and Matomo. It is therefore suggested to deploy the Starter Site using one of our deployment platforms: ISLE-DC (using the make starter or make starter_dev commands), ISLE Site Template, or the Islandora Playbook (using the starter (default) or starter_dev option in the Vagrantfile).
If you are reading this document then you are interested in contributing to Islandora. You do not need to be a programmer to speak up! By joining the Islandora community, you agree to abide by the Islandora Code of Conduct.
"},{"location":"contributing/CONTRIBUTING/#join-the-community","title":"Join the community!","text":"Onboarding Form: Submit your information through the Onboarding Form, and we can invite you to all the listed channels below.
Slack: Use this invite link to join our Slack workspace. If you're not sure what channels you're looking for, get started by asking your questions in the #general channel!
Google Group: Subscribe to the mailing list by joining the Google Group.
Github: Although you can participate without a Github account, having one ensures you can be made a member of the Islandora General Members team to better enable your access to the Islandora project. Additionally, it will allow you to be tagged on relevant issues or pull requests that are of interest to you! To become a part of the Islandora General Members Github team, email community@islandora.ca or use the Onboarding form.
Attend our weekly Zoom meetings on Wednesdays at 1:00 PM EST! You can access these meetings through our Agendas or our Community Calendar. We discuss the past week's Github activity in Issues and Pull Requests, and any other topics that are raised. Anybody is welcome to join the call, and add items to the agenda.
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Issue templates are provided for the following:
Issues are reviewed during the Weekly Open Tech Call every Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.
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Committers are supported in their specific work by having permissions to do things like merge code as well as manage Github, Slack, and the Website. The current list of committers is managed as a group in Github, and can be viewed in the Github repository by existing members. A separate list of committers is publicly available at the bottom of this page. If a committer does not make a contribution in a year (without known mitigating circumstances) they are usually moved out of the committers GitHub group and listed as an Emeritus committer. There are subgroups with specific enhanced access depending on their skills and levels of commitment to the codebase. These are more fully explained in this spreadsheet of keys and permissions. If you have questions about committers, you can send them to the Chair of the TAG committee, or to community@islandora.ca
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A great maintainer also communicates important changes within the component to the community.
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The Islandora issue queue is maintained in the Islandora Documentation repository on GitHub. Issues posted to the queue are reviewed weekly on the Islandora Tech Call. Members of the Islandora community can then respond to posted issues by replying with comments, taking on the assignment to do the work described in the issue, or making pull requests relating to the issue.
Video version available
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\u2192 If you are a member of the Islandora GitHub organization, you will be able to create a new temporary branch within the main Islandora documentation repo, and then create a pull request by selecting Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request. Give your branch a brief name starting with your username, with no spaces, indicating what it is for. Then click Commit changes.
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Learn more about Islandora's Versioning Policy
Note to module maintainers specifying composer requirements: please familiarize yourself with the Next Significant Release Modifiers so that module dependencies are as permissive as possible. Most often dependency versions should be tagged using the caret (^) so that bug-fixes and minor releases can be pulled in without updating their module\u2019s composer file.
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Release the jsonld module by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
Release the openseadragon module by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
Release the islandora_mirador module by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
Release the migrate_islandora_csv module by creating a new release for it in Github. This module is minimally maintained on Drupal.org and if you are updating it, consider editing that.
Release chullo by creating a new release for it in Github.
Crayfish commons depends on the chullo library, and must have its dependencies updated before release.
islandora/chullo from dev-dev to the release you just made in the previous step.composer update -Wcomposer.json and composer.lock files to Github.crayfish-commons by creating a new release in Githubislandora/chullo back to dev-devcomposer update -W againcomposer.json and composer.lock files to Github with a commit message of \"Preparing for next development iteration\".Crayfish depends on the crayfish-commons library, and must have its dependencies updated before release.
islandora/crayfish-commons in each composer.json for each microservice except for Houdini. Houdini needs the dev-symfony-flex branch of Crayfish Commons, so just leave that dependency alone for now.composer update -W on each microservice. I did this with a little bash-fu: for D in */; do (cd $D; composer update -W) donecomposer.json and composer.lock files to Github.islandora/crayfish-commons back to dev-dev except for Houdini.composer update -W on each microservice again. for D in */; do (cd $D; composer update -W) done makes this easy.composer.json and composer.lock files to Github with a commit message of \"Preparing for next development iteration\".Release controlled_access_terms by creating a new release for it in Github and on Drupal.org.
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git tag -d TAG_NAME; git push --delete origin TAG_NAMEYou cannot follow these steps when publishing to Sonatype with Alpaca, but this should rarely be an issue. Instead, increment the version number and tag a new release.
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If you are testing a pull request, or for other reasons need to replace the \"official\" code with code that's in a PR, or a different branch or fork, this page offers three methods: using Composer Patches, using Composer to require the branch and/or fork, or installing source repositories with Composer.
This documentation applies to Drupal modules, themes, and recipes, or any other project that is managed by Composer.
Can't I just git clone?
When managing a non-developmental site with Composer, it's very fragile to use commands like git clone to obtain code, as it can be overwritten by a composer update.
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Run the following commands from within your site's root folder. They will update your composer.json file.
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If you don't have a PR, you could create a patch using diff. However, this patch will be static and will need to be updated manually if your code changes. You can put patches in a folder in your root directory such as [COMPOSER_ROOT]/assets/ and then the patch location would be assets/my_patch_name.patch.
This one-liner, with the substitutions above, will add the patch to your composer.json:
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{\n...\nextra: {\n... patches: {\n\"MY_PACKAGE\": {\n\"MY_ISSUE_TITLE\": \"MY_PATCH_LOCATION\"\n}\n}\n}\n}\nThen, update your package (recall e.g. drupal/controlled_access_terms) using Composer:
composer update MY_PACKAGE\nThe patch should apply, and then you will be running a patched version! If you're using a dynamic patch, then running composer update again should pull in changes to the code.
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Prepare the following replacement tokens before adding a repository:
REPO_NAME: a name for this repository (mandatory if using the composer one-liner), e.g. rosiel-islandoraREPO_URL: the URL to the repository, e.g. https://github.com/rosiel/islandora# Add custom repo\ncomposer config repo.REPO_NAME vcs REPO_URL\ncomposer.json file should now contain {\n...\n\"repositories\": {\n...\n\"REPO_NAME\": {\n\"type\": \"vcs\",\n\"url\": \"REPO_URL\"\n}\n}\n}\nOrder of precedence of repositories
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composer require MY_PACKAGE:dev-MY_BRANCH_NAME\nwith the following replacements:
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composer reinstall MY_PACKAGE --prefer-source\nMY_PACKAGE: the full Composer name of the package. Example: drupal/islandoraThis will pull the code from the source repository (i.e. including the .git files) and add the package code at the same version of the MY_PACKAGE that was previously installed and is in the lock file.
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composer reinstall \"drupal/islandora\" --prefer-source --no-cache\nFollow Github's documentation to pull the code from the pull request to review.
Now you can test your specified code, as well as edit the code and create commits. Note that if you're doing this in a throwaway environment such as a VM or a Docker Container, you will need to configure authentication (e.g. install an SSH key with Github) before you can push your commits.
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When you no longer want to pull from a separate branch or fork, reset the version constraint back to what it used to be, or, if your package was not originally in composer.json (because it is required as a dependency by another package), you can delete the requirement from your composer.json. Then run composer update MY_PACKAGE. If you added a repository, it's safest to delete the repository, as it could lead to you getting stale branches from a fork rather than the desired active code from the canonical repository.
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This list includes four different kinds of components:
Combined together, Apache, PHP, and MySQL/PostgreSQL comprise a LAMP or LAPP server used to provide end-user-facing components - namely, the website.
Apache is the webserver that will serve up webpages to the public. It will also manage some internal functionality provided by Crayfish, and will expose Cantaloupe to the public. We\u2019ll be making changes to the VirtualHost entry, enabling some modules, and modifying the ports configuration. The VirtualHost entry will eventually be modified when we need to expose other services like Cantaloupe to the public.
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Syn is the authorization piece that allows Fedora to connect to other components.
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To test out Islandora, there is a Starter-Site based Portainer demo available (Download the .zip file). This demo is loaded with sample content to demonstrate features of Islandora and provide a starting point for exploration. Follow the instructions in the README.md.html file provided in the download.
It is recommended that you have a minimum of 4GB of hard drive space available on your machine before getting started. It will take some time to build the image, do not be surprised if it takes a long time. Thanks, and happy building!
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If no content is showing up in your local installation when on islandora.io in a browser, you may need to wait longer for the deployment process to complete. 1. Go to \u2018containers\u2019, click the \u2018logs\u2019 for \u2018sandbox-drupal-1\u2019 to see the deployment process. When completed you will see:
#####################\n# Install Completed #\n#####################\nIf Docker Desktop and Virtual Machine (Vmmem in Task Manager) are taking up too much CPU and RAM, you can create a .wslconfig file to limit how much of your computers resources are allocated to these processes: 1. Open Notepad++ and type the following:
[wsl2]\nmemory=4GB\nprocessors=2\nThe Islandora Playbook (Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook) is a tool for installing the Islandora stack on a single virtual machine. It can be used both as a Vagrant project to create a local development environment, or as an Ansible playbook to provision a local or remote server. It can set up a Drupal based either on Islandora Starter Site, or your own custom site configs.
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OpenSSL is already pre-installed on MacOS. Git can be installed using XCode's command line tools (see below). Python and Pip can either be installed via the downloaded installer direct from the site or via Homebrew (not shown below). Ansible is best installed using Homebrew (see below).
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You can quickly create a new \"out of the box\" Islandora VM by just re-doing the last step (provisioning Islandora) while using your existing base box. In doing this, you will destroy your existing VM, and all of its configuration and data. This will not upgrade PHP, apache, or other back-end services (see below, \"Refreshing your base box.\")
vagrant destroy\nvagrant up\nIf you want to use the Playbook to rebuild the base box (e.g. if this playbook now includes updated versions of PHP or Apache), then you will need to take some extra steps to ensure that Vagrant sees your new base box.
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The ansible-playbook command using playbook.yml can provision a remote environment. First, you will need to create a new folder in inventory/ with the details of your remote deployment. This includes:
Before beginning, you may want to:
sudo) as this user. See Ansible Docs on Understanding privilege escalation: becomeWe're going to build up this new remote environment configuration from the default provided Vagrant configuration. To start, take the inventory for the vagrant development environment and make a copy of it. Be sure to give it an appropriate name. Here we're using production.
$ git clone https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook\n$ cd islandora-playbook\n$ cp -r inventory/vagrant inventory/production\nThen you can update the following entries in the following files using your own information. If an entry does not exist in a file, just add it. Ansible will then use the value you provide instead of relying on its defaults.
We're using changeme to represent passwords and assume the server will be available at example.org, but you'll want to provide your own values.
# Drupal\ndrupal_db_password: changeme\ndrupal_account_pass: changeme\n\n# MySQL/Postgres\nislandora_db_root_password: changeme\n\n# Tomcat\nislandora_tomcat_password: changeme\n\n# Syn\nislandora_syn_token: changeme\n\n# Cantaloupe\ncantaloupe_admin_password: changeme\n\n# Fedora\nfcrepo_db_password: changeme\nThis is where we specify that the webserver is listening on the default port 80, instead of the development machine port 8000.
apache_listen_port: 80\nYou will have to add the matomo line.
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- servername: \"myactualddomain.com\"\nIf you have a domain name, change the default to your domain name. And set the Drupal site name to whatever you need it to be.
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$ rm -rf roles/external\nWhen provisioning using a local environment, you should be aware of any ports that are already in use by your computer that are also going to be used by Vagrant, as these may clash and cause problems during and after provisioning. These include:
If there are port clashes for any of these, you will need to either find and replace them in the configuration .yml files under inventory/vagrant/group_vars, or provide new values for the different playbooks that support changing the ports (for example, postgresql_databases supports adding a port property which is currently simply unused). You will also need to replace the port forwarding values in Vagrantfile.
Additionally, Ansible attempts to use port 2200 for SSH. If this port is already in use, your local environment cannot be provisioned. To change this, set a new value for ansible_port in inventory/vagrant/hosts.
If you run into any issues installing the environment, do not hesitate to email the mailing list to ask for help. If you think you've stumbled across a bug in the installer, please create an issue in the Islandora issue queue and give it an ansible tag.
There are several ways to try Islandora, which are presented here in order of increasing sophistication. By default, they all install the Islandora Starter Site which is a starting place for customizing your own site, as well as our suite of external services.
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Follow the instructions in the Site Template README to create a new site from the Islandora Starter Site
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You can look at the most recent starter site composer.json for comparison.
If you have custom modules and/or themes that are not installed via Composer you will need to install those as well.
Compare your old Dockerfile with the one in the Site Template repository. If you have made customizations, you may want to replicate them in the new Dockerfile.
Backup your ISLE-DC site's Fedora, Drupal database, and public/private files.
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Delete your Solr core, and regenerate new configs.
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Delete your Solr core, and regenerate new configs.
The main difference between ISLE-DC and the Site Template is the way the docker-compose.yml file is generated. In ISLE-DC we generate it based on your .env variables and a make command, but in Site Template it is ready to go out of the box.
This means that in ISLE-DC you had separate docker-compose.yml files for development and production, but in site template there is one file for both, which contains instructions for a \u201cdev\u201d and \u201cprod\u201d profile. The end result is the same set of containers, but instead of running docker compose up you would run docker compose --profile dev up
You should compare the environment sections of your docker-compose.yml files. You may have some variables set in your ISLE-DC docker-compose.yml that will need to be added to the docker-compose.yml in the new Site Template site.
For example, the ISLE Buildkit Nginx README lists the available variables for Nginx that you may have changed on your Drupal containers to do things like increase the timeout time for PHP or the max POST size PHP will accept.
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If you are already using a subdomain and can\u2019t use URLs like solr.mysubdomain.mydomain.com, you can change this in the Traefik section of the docker-compose.yml file, by changing the aliases from solr.{DOMAIN} to something else, like solr-{DOMAIN}. You will also need to change this in a few other spots in your docker-compose.yml. You can find them by searching for .{DOMAIN}
Because ISLE-DC and Site Template use the same containers, much of what is in an ISLE-DC Makefile will work within the site template environment. The main differences that need to be addressed are with the way new sites are built, and the name of the containers.
Commands to build a site, like make starter and make production are not necessary with the Site Template, so they can be removed from your Makefile.
Many of the other commands specify which containers to run commands in, for example docker compose exec drupal, but in the Site Template environment you need to specify -dev or -prod, so that would be changed to docker compose exec drupal-dev or docker compose exec drupal-prod.
If you have modified your ISLE-DC repository, those modifications will need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. This includes editing the Dockerfile and environment variables mentioned above, as well as any other customizations you may have made, such as to settings.php, robots.txt, nginx configs, etc.
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The following pieces of software are not unique to Islandora, and there are many great resources online to learn more about them. Below is a brief introduction to each piece and how they fit into your Islandora site. There are also many great videos on the Islandora Foundation's YouTube page if you would like to learn more about how they are used within the context of Islandora.
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The three main components of Docker are Images, Containers, and Volumes.
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Memory, Processors, and Swap Requirements
To run ISLE on Docker Desktop, you must increase the resources allocated to the software. See Docker docs on setting resources on Windows (see note on how to allocate/restrict memory when using WSL 2) or setting resources on Mac.
CPUs (processors): The CPUs allowed to Docker Desktop are still shared with the host machine, so increasing this to the maximum value should allow both the Docker containers and your host machine to run simultaneously.
Memory (RAM): This memory is completely dedicated to Docker while Docker Desktop is running, so do not allocate more than you can spare and still run your host machine. Windows users may not require as much memory for Docker as Mac users. Current suggestions for memory allocated to Docker Desktop are below, but please edit this document if you have new information.
Swap: Swap space is space borrowed from your hard disk drive to serve as makeshift RAM as needed. If you cannot provide as much RAM as you would like, increase this as is reasonable given your free disk space.
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make -B docker-compose.yml will rebuild your docker-compose.yml file based on configuration in your .env file. make demo and make local will automatically do this for you, but if you change configuration at a later point in time, you'll need to run this command to see your changes reflected.
make config-export will export your site's configuration to your site's config sync directory (usually config/sync inside your Drupal root folder).
make config-import will import site's configuration from your site's config sync directory (usually config/sync inside your Drupal root folder).
make drupal-database-dump DEST=/your/path/dump.sql will dump your Drupal database and place the file at DEST.
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make fcrepo-import SRC=/your/path/fcrepo-export.tgz will import your Fedora repository from a single zipped tarball at SRC
make reindex-fcrepo-metadata will reindex RDF metadata from Drupal into Fedora. Requires the Views Bulk Operations Module.
make reindex-solr will rebuild rebuild Solr search index for your repository.
make reindex-triplestore will reindex RDF metadata from Drupal into Blazegraph. Requires the Views Bulk Operations Module.
ISLE Docker Compose has a single configuration file, .env. Within it, here is all the values you can set and their effects. This list is subjectively sorted in order of importance and usefulness.
Setting the ENVIRONMENT changes how your docker-compose.yml file gets constructed. When you switch from a demo to development to production environment, this is the variable to change.
Available values for this setting are
demo - For demo environments where you do not need access to the codebaselocal - For development environments where you need edit the codebasecustom - For production environments where your codebase gets baked into a custom containerBy default, this is set to demo.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
What domain your Islandora site will be available at. If you are deploying anywhere other than your personal machine, you'll probably want to change this.
By default, this is set to islandora.traefik.me.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Changing this after installation has consequences
If you are indexing RDF metadata in Fedora and/or a triplestore, please be aware of the implications of changing this once you have installed. By changing your domain, all of the subjects of your triples will be incorrect and you will have to reindex. There are make commands to streamline this process, but if you have lots of data it can potentially be costly in terms of time and effort.
Repository to use for pulling isle-buildkit images.
By default, this is set to islandora. Change to local to use images you have built locally with isle-buildkit, or use your custom docker registry if you have set up one.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
The version of the isle-buildkit images to use. Non isle-buildkit images have their versions specified explicitly in their respective docker-compose files.
By default, this is set to the latest stable release of isle-buildkit.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Whether or not you want to use secrets. For demo and development environments, secrets are not required. They are essential if you are running a production environment, though.
Secrets are contained in the secrets folder within your isle-dc installation. Each file represents an individual secret, and its contents are the value you're trying to protect.
Available values for this setting are:
truefalseIf you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Which install profile to use when making an initial installation. Valid values for this setting are the machine names of any Drupal profile.
By default, this is set to standard.
Set this to true if you want to install an existing Drupal site whose configuration was exported with drush config:export
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to false.
If you set this to true, be sure to set DRUPAL_INSTALL_PROFILE to minimal.
Whether or not to include Watchtower as a service. When developing isle-buildkit, this is extremely useful and will auto-deploy new containers as you make changes. You should not use watchtower on production environments, though.
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to true.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Whether or not to include etcd as a service.
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to false. If you don't know what etcd is, then leave this be.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Whether or not to include the coder IDE as a service. If you're developing on Islandora, this can be pretty useful when developing. You should not deploy this service on production environments.
Available values for this setting are - true - false
By default, this is set to false.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Which database engine to use for Drupal.
Available values are - mariadb - postgres
By default, this value is set to mariadb.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Changing this after installation has consequences
If you are changing from mariadb to postgres or vice versa, you MUST migrate your data yourself. ISLE will not convert your database from one to the other, and it's generally not advised to change this once you've installed.
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Available values are - mariadb - postgres
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If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Changing this after installation has consequences
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If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
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By default, this is set to Dockerfile.
You most likely will never have a need to change this.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
Set this to true to disable JWT authentication for Fedora. This is necessary when performing a Fedora import using their import/export tools.
By default, this is set to false.
Whether or not to use Fedora 6. If you set this to false, you will be given Fedora 5. In general, unless you already have an existing site on Fedora 5, you'll want Fedora 6.
By default, this is set to true.
If you change this setting, you need to make -B docker-compose.yml to generate a new docker-compose.yml file that contains the changes you've made.
After you've finished installing Islandora using ISLE, here's some useful information to keep close at hand about running your site.
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.env A configuration file that is yours to customize. This file controls how the docker-compose.yml file gets generated to meet your use case.It also allows you to set variables that make their way into the final docker-compose.yml file, such as your site's domain. docker-compose.yml A ready to run docker-compose.yml file based on your .env file. This file is considered disposable. When you change your .env file, you will generate a new one."},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-basic-usage/#available-services","title":"Available Services","text":"Here's a list of all the available services. Note that there are some services over http and not https. Those aren't meant to be exposed to the public, but internally people from your organization will want to access them. In practice, you can restrict access to these services using firewall rules to just those who you trust.
If you want to stop Islandora, you can bring down all the containers with
docker-compose down\nIf you want to start Islandora back up after stopping it, use
docker-compose up -d\nIf you want to stop Islandora and delete all of its content, use
docker-compose down -v\nIf you make changes to configuration in the .env file, you may need to regenerate your docker-compose.yml file so that those changes take effect.
make -B docker-compose.yml\nOnce you have a new docker-compose.yml file, you'll need to restart your containers that have had configuration change. You can do this easily with
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If you don't know what you're looking for exactly, you can turn on the fire hose and look through all logs by dropping the service name and simply using
docker-compose logs
If you are deploying Islandora on a server that is publicly accessible, there are extra precautions you should take for performance and security reasons.
For local development we bind mount our codebase (Drupal) folder so that we can do development work locally, outside of our Docker container. For a production site we don\u2019t want to do this. Instead, we make changes to our development site, then build a Drupal image with our changes that we can use on our production site instead of the default Islandora Drupal image.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/isle-dc/docker-custom/#creating-your-image","title":"Creating your Image","text":"In order to generate that custom Drupal image we need to set up a development environment. You will do this on your development computer, rather than your production server.
Once your development site is set up you will need somewhere to store your custom Drupal image. You should create a private repository in your container registry of choice (Dockerhub, GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
Once you have a place to store it, you can create your custom Drupal image by editing your .env to set CUSTOM_IMAGE_NAMESPACE to your dockerhub username or the URL and username for your container repository, and CUSTOM_IMAGE_NAME to the name of the repository you just created.
Once this is done you can run make build to create the image from a Dockerfile. If you don't have a custom Dockerfile, it will create one from sample.Dockerfile. This will create a new image from the Islandora Drupal image, with your codebase folder copied into the image during the build process.
You should now have a custom Drupal image on your local machine. You will need to docker login to your container registry to push your image, so make sure to do that if you haven't yet (you should only need to do this once). You can then push this image to your container registry by running make push-image.
Now that you have a development site set up with your own codebase folder, you should create a new git repository for your site. This way you can easily spin up a new site based on your modules and configuration, instead of the Islandora Starter Site. This will also allow you to sync changes between your production, staging, and development sites.
You will likely want to include the Isle-dc directory as well as your codebase folder in your git repository. This will allow you to make modifications to your Makefile, Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, etc. and keep those modifications alongside your Drupal files in the codebase folder. To store these files in your own private repository you should change the git remote repository URL from the Isle-DC URL to the URL for your private repository.
Note that Isle-DC has the codebase folder in its .gitignore, so you will want to remove codebase* from your .gitignore. You don't need the web or vendor directories to be stored in your repo, since they will be added when you do a composer install during the site setup, so you can add those into your .gitignore as codebase/vendor/* and codebase/web/*.
At this point you should have a custom git repository and a custom Drupal image, and both should be accessible by your production server. On your production server you will need to clone your custom copy of Isle-dc, copy the sample.env file, and name it .env.
In that .env you should set the following variables:
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At this point, your site is ready, but you won't be able to access it at your URL until you update the SSL certificates (see TLS section below).
Codebase Folder
Because your codebase folder is in your git repository it will be cloned to your development server, but unlike in your development environment, it is not bound to the Drupal container. This means that any change you make to those files will not be represented in your Drupal site.
You can also use this folder to build your Drupal image on the production server instead of on your development server if you like.
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Secrets are on by default. They can be toggled in your .env file, but you should never turn them off for production sites.
USE_SECRETS=true\nThe secrets themselves are stored in the secrets/live folder of isle-dc. If you navigate to that directory, you'll see several small files, where each file represents a different password. When you run make production you can choose whether to generate new random secrets or create them yourself.
All public facing sites need to use HTTPS, and it's definitely a stumbling block for the uninitiated. Fortunately, isle-dc is set up to use HTTPS by default. Even when running make demo, your site runs over HTTPS at https://islandora.traefik.me.
The default certificates are stored in the certs folder of isle-dc, and you can simply overwrite them with certificates from your certificate authority. As long as the certificates match the DOMAIN variable in your .env file, that is. Changing the files in the certs folder requires restarting the Traefik container, which you can do by running docker-compose restart traefik.
To use Let's Encrypt to acquire your SSL Certificate, set the following in your .env file and run make -B docker-compose.yml && make up.
USE_ACME=true\nACME_EMAIL=your-email@example.org\nBe sure to replace your-email@example.org with the email address you've associated with Let's Encrypt.
The way this is setup, is it performs an HTTP Challenge to verify you are in control of the domain. So your system will need to be accessible at http://DOMAIN/.
??? warning \"Let's Encrypt Rate Limit\" If you aren't careful, you can hit Let's Encrypt's rate limit, and you'll be locked out for up to a week! If you want to use their staging server instead while testing things out, add the following to your .env file
```\nACME_SERVER=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory\n```\nYou'll still get security exceptions when it's working, but you should be able to check the certificate from the browser and confirm you are getting it from the staging server.
\nIf you are still getting security exceptions, check what certificate is being used through your browser. Setting TRAEFIK_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG in your .env file will help out greatly when debugging Traefik. You can tail the logs with docker-compose logs -tf traefik.
The *.traefik.me certificate that covers islandora.traefik.me will need to be redownloaded occasionally, due to the certificate expiring or possibly being revoked. You can download the updated certificates by performing the following commands:
rm certs/cert.pem\nrm certs/privkey.pem\nmake download-default-certs\ndocker-compose restart traefik\ntraefik.me Certificate Note
Please note that sometimes the upstream provider of the traefik.me certificate takes a couple of days to update the certificate after it expires or is accidentally revoked.
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Once you have added these commands you will need to run the following commands:
make -B docker-compose.yml\nmake up\nWhen developing locally, your Drupal site resides in your isle-dc/codebase folder and is bind-mounted into your Drupal container. This lets you update code using the IDE of your choice on your host machine, and the changes are automatically reflected on the Drupal container.
Use Git to install the ISLE Docker Compose tool:
git clone https://github.com/islandora-devops/isle-dc
Tagged versions are available here.
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cd /path/to/isle-dc\ngit clone https://github.com/your_org/your_repo codebase\nNow you'll need to tell isle-dc to look for it by setting the ENVIRONMENT variable in your .env file. If you don't have one, copy over sample.env and name it .env. Then set
ENVIRONMENT=starter\nYou should also change the COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME variable. This determines the name of the Docker containers and volumes that are created when you run make starter. If you leave this as the default you will need to be careful not to overwrite the containers with another install of isle-dc later.
COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=isle-dc\nIf your site includes exported configuration from drush config:export, then you'll also need to set
INSTALL_EXISTING_CONFIG=true\nDRUPAL_INSTALL_PROFILE=minimal\nOnce you are ready, run
make starter\nto install the Drupal site in your codebase folder and spin up all the other containers with it.
Enjoy your Islandora instance! Check out the basic usage documentation to see all the endpoints that are available and how to do things like start and stop Islandora. Your passwords, including the Drupal admin password, can be found in the secrets/live directory after you run make starter.
To populate your site with some demo content, you can run make demo_content. This will import some sample objects into your Islandora site.
Drupal has a dedicated security team, and regularly produces updates to address security issues that are discovered. You should always keep your Drupal site up to date so that you are protected against known vulnerabilities. Updating Drupal can be intimidating, but we have step-by-step instructions to help you do it safely.
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Once you have a codebase folder, how do you maintain it and keep it up to date? The quick answer is \"the same way you maintain any Drupal site with Composer and Drush\"... with one small caveat. You most likely do not have PHP or Composer on your machine, and even if you do, you want to make sure you're using the exact same version that your Docker container is using. So to ensure all the versions of things line up, we use Docker to execute Drush and Composer from the Drupal container. The general template for running a command in your Drupal container looks like this:
docker compose exec -T drupal with-contenv bash -lc 'YOUR COMMAND'\nYou can also just shell into the Drupal container and run commands as well, just be aware that if you shut down your container for any reason, you'll lose your bash history. If you want to shell in to run commands, drop the -T and -lc 'YOUR COMMAND' bits.
docker compose exec drupal with-contenv bash\nUse Composer to update your site's modules and their dependencies. The working directory of the Drupal container is the Drupal root (a.k.a. codebase), so you don't need to cd into any other directory before running the command. The following command will update all modules and their dependencies that are not pinned to specific versions.
docker compose exec -T drupal with-contenv bash -lc \"su nginx -s /bin/bash -c 'composer update -W'\"\nWhen running Composer commands you may come across the following error
[ErrorException]\nfile_put_contents(/var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/settings.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted\nAfter getting the newest code, you'll want to use Drush to update the Drupal database and run any other update hooks that have been introduced. However, YOU SHOULD BACK UP YOUR DATABASE BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER. You never know when something will go wrong and you don't want to be stuck with an unusable database and no plan B.
make drupal-database-dump DEST=/path/to/dump.sql\nNow you can safely update the Drupal database with Drush via
docker compose exec -T drupal with-contenv bash -lc 'drush updb'\nIf for any reason, something goes wrong, you can Restore the Drupal database at any time by running
make drupal-database-import SRC=/path/to/dump.sql\nYou will regularly be updating your Drupal site as security patches and module updates are released. Less often, you will also need to update the rest of your Islandora installation. ISLE makes this easy. In fact, it was specifically designed to streamline this process.
Since Islandora is not a single piece of software, but instead many pieces of software working together in concert, maintaining all of it is a daunting task. There's nginx, tomcat, karaf, etc... Then there's everything needed for the authentication layer and JWT keys. Plus there's all the microservices. You can see that all this adds up to a significant maintenance burden.
Now imagine if all that time and effort spent on security updates and getting the newest versions could be boiled down to a handful of simple commands. That's exactly what ISLE does!
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Before we update ISLE we should pull the most recent version of the isle-dc repository. This ensures that our docker-compose.yml file has any new additions that the new version of ISLE will need.
You may also want to check your .env file against the sample.env found in the repository to see if there are new variables you wish to make use of.
Updating ISLE is easy. When a new release is made available, you update the TAG variable in your .env file to the latest version. Suppose you are on ISLE 1.0.0, and ISLE 1.1.0 has been released. Then we would set
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make pull\nAnd finally we deploy the updated containers by running
make up\nYou can check that everything is running at the version you've specified with
docker ps -a\nThe version that's running can be confirmed by looking at the IMAGE column in the output.
Major version updates may require a bit more work after the new containers are up and running, if the new images are running higher major versions of software. For example, if there has been an update to PHP or Solr.
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First, remove the old solr data. This will remove everything that has been indexed, so we will have to reindex our site in a later step.
docker compose exec -T solr with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r server/solr/ISLANDORA'\nNext, recreate our solr core with a new set of config files.
make solr-cores\nFinally, we reindex our site.
make reindex-solr\nDrupal updates will be handled by your composer.json file, but you may require a certain version of ISLE in order to have the correct version of PHP. Once you have the correct PHP version installed, you can update Drupal to a new major version in the same way you normally update modules. It may be helpful to reference the Starter Site's composer.json file at https://github.com/Islandora-Devops/islandora-starter-site/blob/main/composer.json
Once you have done this on your development site, the process for your production site is the same as any other Drupal updates.
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You can run this from your isle directory with
docker compose exec mariadb mariadb-upgrade\nUpgrading ISLE from 1.x to the next major version requires the TAG be set to 2.0.5 or higher. Once you create your containers you will need to follow the above instructions for Mariadb, Solr, and Drupal.
ISLE 2.0 bumps PHP up to version 8.1, which allows you to upgrade to Drupal 10.
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If you notice some Docker containers drop (exited(0)), and (in Docker Desktop) the isle-dc app icon is yellow instead of green, try increasing the resources allocated to Docker (see note above).
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The following instructions describe how to back up and restore an islandora site. This is also used to transfer data between a development and production site, or to sync a staging site with a production site.
Note that containers are named with a suffix of -dev or -prod depending on your environment. For example, backing up your development site\u2019s Drupal database requires running the command on the drupal-dev container, but backing up the production site\u2019s database requires running the command on the drupal-prod container. The following instructions are mostly written for development sites, but the same commands will work on production containers.
Before attempting the following commands, you should familiarize yourself with running commands inside a container and with docker compose cp
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git pull\ndocker compose --profile prod build\ndocker compose --profile prod down\ndocker compose --profile prod up -d\nOnce this is done, your config files will be included in the container. You can then import them by running
docker compose exec -T drupal-prod drush -l default config:import -y\nThe Drupal database contains all your Drupal settings and content. If you want to move configuration settings from development to production you should use the Drupal Configuration instructions above.
These instructions can also be used to move your content from production to staging or development.
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docker compose cp drupal-dev:/tmp/dump.sql [path/on/host/dump.sql]\nRestoring from a database dump requires copying the dump file into the drupal container:
docker compose cp [path-to/dump.sql] drupal-dev:/tmp/dump.sql\nThen replacing the database with the dump:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'chown root:root /tmp/dump.sql && mysql -u ${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_USER} -p${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_PASSWORD} -h mariadb ${DRUPAL_DEFAULT_DB_NAME} < /tmp/dump.sql'\nAnd finally, rebuilding the Drupal cache:
docker compose exec drupal-dev drush cr\nDrupal's public files contain any files used on static pages. This is also where your Islandora derivatives are stored, which includes FITS, thumbnails, etc.
These instructions can also be used to move your content from production to staging or development.
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docker compose cp drupal-dev:/tmp/public-files.tgz [path/on/host/public-files.tgz]\nDrupal files can be restored from a tgz file by copying them into the Drupal container:
docker compose cp public-files.tgz drupal-dev:/tmp/public-files.tgz\nThen placed in the correct directory inside the Drupal volume:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zxvf /tmp/public-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files && chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files && rm /tmp/public-files.tgz'\nNote
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docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r /var/www/drupal/web/sites/default/files/*'\nThese instructions can also be used to move your content from production to staging or development.
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docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zcvf /tmp/private-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/private .'\nThen copied to the host machine:
docker compose cp drupal-prod:/tmp/private-files.tgz [path/on/host/private-files.tgz]\nDrupal files can be restored from a tgz file by copying them into the Drupal container:
docker compose cp private-files.tgz drupal-dev:/tmp/private-files.tgz\nThen placed in the correct directory inside the Drupal volume:
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zxvf /tmp/private-files.tgz -C /var/www/drupal/private && chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/drupal/private && rm /tmp/private-files.tgz'\nNote
This will overwrite existing files if they have the same filename, but does not remove existing files otherwise. If you want to make sure that the private files directory does not contain anything but the newly imported files, you will want to empty the directory before copying the new files in.
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r /var/www/drupal/private/*'\nFedora 6 uses a file structure called OCFL to store files and metadata. The Fedora database is built based on this OCFL file structure, so we don't actually back up our fedora database. Instead, we back up the files and let Fedora rebuild the database based on them.
Note
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docker compose exec -T fcrepo-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zcvf /tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz -C /data/home/data/ocfl-root/ .'\nThen we copy that file to the host machine:
docker compose cp fcrepo-dev:/tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz [path/on/host/fcrepo-export.tgz]\nTo restore our fedora database we need to copy the backup into the Fedora container:
docker compose cp [path-to/fcrepo-export.tgz] fcrepo-dev:/tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz\nEmpty the existing ocfl-root directory:
docker compose exec -T fcrepo-dev bash -lc 'rm -r /data/home/data/ocfl-root/*'\nPut our backup files in the ocfl-root directory:
docker compose exec -T fcrepo-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'tar zxvf /tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz -C /data/home/data/ocfl-root/ && chown -R tomcat:tomcat /data/home/data/ocfl-root/ && rm /tmp/fcrepo-export.tgz'\nDrop the existing Fedora database:
docker compose exec -T mariadb-dev bash -lc 'mysql -e \"drop database fcrepo;\"'\nRestart Fedora to reinitialize the database from the ocfl-root directory:
docker compose --profile dev restart fcrepo-dev\nNote
It may take a while for the database to be restored. In the meantime, you may see error messages that say Fedora is not connected.
"},{"location":"installation/docker/site-template/docker-modifications/","title":"Docker Modifications","text":"ISLE Site Template provides you with a docker-compose.yml file that allows you to get an Islandora site running quickly, but it makes some assumptions about how the site will run, and which containers you will use. Once you have your site running you may want to make some modifications to the default setup that the Site Template uses.
Islandora Buildkit provides several environment variables that can be modified when creating containers.
Please see the README for the different buildkit images to see what is available:
You can add these environment variables to your docker-compose.yml in order to change their values. For example, if you want to increase the PHP memory limit in your production Drupal container, you can do so like this:
drupal-prod:\n <<: [*prod, *drupal]\n Environment:\n PHP_MEMORY_LIMIT: 1G\nYou may not want to use all the images that are included in the Site Template\u2019s docker-compose.yml. You can remove containers by deleting their sections in the docker-compose.yml file.
For example, to remove Fedora, you would delete the services called fcrepo-dev and fcrepo-prod.
Depending on the container you are removing, you may need to delete references to it as well. For example, some containers are referenced by others in the depends_on field. You will need to also delete these references, so if you delete the fedora-dev service, you will need to remove the rule that traefik-dev depends on it.
If you are removing a container which is referenced by Drupal, ensure that you update Drupal as well (e.g. if removing Fedora, ensure your Media's files are not writing to the Fedora filesystem).
After doing docker compose down, run docker compose up -d --remove-orphans to remove the containers you removed from the docker-compose.yml file.
Instructions for creating your site can be found in the project's README file
This page lists a few things to note about the process, but is not meant to be a replacement for the instructions in the README file.
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Note for those coming from ISLE-DC
In ISLE-DC, we only use a custom image in production, but in the ISLE Site Template, we use it for both.
Building your custom Drupal image is done by running
docker compose --profile dev build for your development image
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docker compose --profile prod build for your production image
This builds the docker image based on the Dockerfile in the drupal directory, which uses your composer files to pull the Drupal modules it needs into the image. Because the Dockerfile and composer files are part of the git repository, you can build your Drupal image locally, or on your production server.
This documentation assumes you will be building your production image on the production server. If you do it this way, it is not necessary to push your image to a container registry. Instead you just pull your git repository anytime you make changes to your composer files, and run docker compose build again.
Using a Container Registry
If you want to build your production images somewhere other than on your production server, you can do so. The .env file allows you to set your image repository URL, which will allow you to push / pull your Drupal image to / from your container registry. If you do this, you can then run docker compose pull instead of docker compose build on your production server, to pull the already built image to that server.
For more information please see the documentation on docker compose pull and docker compose build
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Restricting Access to Staging Servers
Using letsencrypt to generate your certs requires port 80 to be accessible on your server. If you would like to keep your site private by limiting access to certain IP addresses, you can still firewall port 443, but you will have to leave port 80 open. If you need to firewall port 80 as well, you will have to either use your own certs or look into another method of generating certs.
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Isle Site Template provides directories at drupal/rootfs/var/www/drupal/web/modules/custom and drupal/rootfs/var/www/drupal/web/themes/custom for you to add your custom themes and modules.
These directories are mounted in development, so any changes to them will be shared between your host machine and your Drupal container.
In production, these themes and modules will be included when the Drupal image is built.
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curl and installed either manually or automatically.Instead, follow the instructions in the ISLE Site Template's README.md and README.template.md files.
dev and prod environments, with different services available on each.During installation, you will install a copy of the Islandora Starter Site.
Customizing your site can be persisted to your own repo.
The following sections describe how to keep your Islandora install up to date with current versions of Drupal modules and Docker images.
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For example, to upgrade from Buildkit 2.0.0 to 3.0.0 you would do the following steps:
Change your .env file to say ISLANDORA_TAG=3.0.0
Stop your Docker containers
docker compose --profile dev down
Pull the new Docker images (except the Drupal image)
docker compose --profile dev pull --ignore-buildable --ignore-pull-failures
Build your custom Drupal image
docker compose --profile dev build
Start your containers from the new images
docker compose --profile dev up -d
Once you have upgraded your images, you may need to perform extra steps for Solr and Mariadb, depending on whether these have new versions in the new images.
Production Sites
Upgrading a production site works the same way, just replace dev with prod in the above instructions.
You may need to regenerate your Solr configs if Solr has been updated to a new version, or when the Search API Solr Drupal module has been updated. If you visit /admin/config/search/search-api/server/default_solr_server on your Islandora site it will tell you if the configs need to be updated.
To generate new configs perform the following steps:
Remove existing solr configs
docker compose exec -T solr-dev with-contenv bash -lc 'rm -r server/solr/default/*'
Restart the Solr container
docker compose --profile dev restart solr-dev
Recreate solr configs for new solr versions
docker compose exec -T drupal-dev with-contenv bash -lc \"for_all_sites create_solr_core_with_default_config\"
Reindex Solr through the admin page or via Drush
After updating MariaDB, you may need to run mariadb-upgrade inside your MariaDB container, to update your system tables. This should be safe to run any time, but it is a good idea to back up your database first, just in case.
You can run this with
docker compose exec mariadb-dev mariadb-upgrade
Traefik is not updated with the other buildkit images. It is recommended that you periodically update Traefik by changing the image version in your docker-compose.yml file to the current version in use by Isle Site Template
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Composer commands need to run in your Drupal container. For example:
\u200b\u200bdocker compose exec drupal-dev composer update -W
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docker compose exec drupal-dev composer require 'drupal/islandora:^2.11'
Running database updates is also done in the container like this:
docker compose exec drupal-dev drush updb
Note
You should backup your database before running database updates
If you are enabling or uninstalling modules, you will also need to export your Drupal configuration.
Once you have finished your composer changes you can commit and push your repository with the new composer.json and composer.lock changes.
First you will git pull to get the composer.json and composer.lock changes you made in development.
Next you build your Drupal image again, which will install the modules specified in those files:
docker compose --profile prod build
Then you stop and start your containers to get the new image:
docker compose --profile prod down
docker compose --profile prod up -d
And if necessary, run database updates:
docker compose exec drupal-prod drush updb
Needs Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
After all of the above pieces are in place, installed, configured, started, and otherwise prepared, the last thing we need to do is to finally configure the front-end Drupal instance to wire all the installed components together.
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Some additional settings will need to be established in your default settings.php before Drupal-side configuration can occur.
The below configuration will establish localhost as a trusted host pattern, but on production sites this will need to be expanded to include the actual host patterns used by the site.
/opt/drupal/web/sites/default/settings.php
Before (at around line 789):
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cd /opt/drupal\ndrush -y cr\nSkip this by using the Islandora Starter Site
The Islandora Starter Site, which was presented as an option in the \"Installing Composer, Drush, and Drupal\" step, installs Islandora and other modules and configures them, allowing you to skip this section. You may want to use this manual method in the case where you want to pick and choose which Islandora modules you use.
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Take note of some of the other comments in the below bash script for an idea of what the other components are expected, and which may be considered optional.
cd /opt/drupal\n# Since islandora_defaults is near the bottom of the dependency chain, requiring\n# it will get most of the modules and libraries we need to deploy a standard\n# Islandora site.\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/flysystem:^2.0@alpha\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"islandora/islandora:^2.4\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"islandora/controlled_access_terms:^2\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"islandora/openseadragon:^2\"\n# These can be considered important or required depending on your site's\n# requirements; some of them represent dependencies of Islandora submodules.\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/pdf:1.1\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/rest_oai_pmh:^2.0@beta\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/search_api_solr:^4.2\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/facets:^2\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/content_browser:^1.0@alpha\" ## TODO do we need this?\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/field_permissions:^1\"\nsudo -u www-data composer require \"drupal/transliterate_filenames:^2.0\"\n# These tend to be good to enable for a development environment, or just for a\n# higher quality of life when managing Islandora. That being said, devel should\n# NEVER be enabled on a production environment, as it intentionally gives the\n# user tools that compromise the security of a site.\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/restui:^1.21\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/console:~1.0\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/devel:^2.0\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/admin_toolbar:^2.0\nComponents we've now downloaded using composer require can be enabled simultaneously via drush, which will ensure they are installed in the correct dependent order. Enabling islandora_defaults will also ensure all content types and configurations are set up in Islandora. The installation process for all of these modules will likely take some time.
Notice
This list of modules assumes that all of the above components were downloaded using composer require; if this is not the case, you may need to pare down this list manually. It also includes devel, which again, should not be enabled on production sites.
cd /opt/drupal\ndrush -y en rdf responsive_image devel syslog serialization basic_auth rest restui search_api_solr facets content_browser pdf admin_toolbar controlled_access_terms_defaults islandora_breadcrumbs islandora_iiif islandora_oaipmh\n# After all of this, rebuild the cache.\ndrush -y cr\nTo allow our installation to talk to other services via Syn, we need to establish a Drupal-side JWT configuration using the keys we generated at that time.
Log onto your site as an administrator at /user, then navigate to /admin/config/system/keys/add. Some of the settings here are unimportant, but pay close attention to the Key type, which should match the key we created earlier (an RSA key), and the File location, which should be the ultimate location of the key we created for Syn on the filesystem, /opt/keys/syn_private.key.
Click Save to create the key.
Once this key is created, navigate to /admin/config/system/jwt to select the key you just created from the list. Note that before the key will show up in the Private Key list, you need to select that key's type in the Algorithm section, namely RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-256 (RS256).
Click Save configuration to establish this as the JWT key configuration.
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Notice
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Next, configure OpenSeadragon by navigating to /admin/config/media/openseadragon and ensuring everything is set up properly.
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cd /opt/drupal\nsudo -u www-data drush -y urol \"fedoraadmin\" islandora\nFinally, to get everything up and running, run the Islandora Core Features and Islandora Defaults migrations.
cd /opt/drupal\nsudo -u www-data drush -y -l localhost --userid=1 mim --group=islandora\nSome views provided by Islandora are not enabled by default.
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sudo apt-cache policy activemq\nWrite down the version listed under Installed:.
Git the latest ActiveMQ 5.x version number from https://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq which will be put in place of [ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER].
cd /opt\nsudo wget http://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq/[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]/apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]-bin.tar.gz\nsudo tar -xvzf apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]-bin.tar.gz\nsudo mv apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER] /opt/activemq\nsudo addgroup --quiet --system activemq\nsudo adduser --quiet --system --ingroup activemq --no-create-home --disabled-password activemq\nsudo chown -R activemq:activemq /opt/activemq\nsudo rm -R apache-activemq-[ACTIVEMQ_VERSION_NUMBER]-bin.tar.gz\nAdd ActiveMQ as a service: `/etc/systemd/system/activemq.service | root:root/644
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Optionally, change the dashboard user credentials in /opt/activemq/conf/users.properties.
Security Warning
Updating the web console port and user properties are potential security holes. It is best to restrict the host setting and create a more secure username/password combination for production.
Set the service to start on machine startup and start it up:
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Install Java 11+ if you haven't already.
Make a directory for Alpaca and download the latest version of Alpaca from the Maven repository. E.g.
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Alpaca takes an external file to configure its behaviour.
Look at the example.properties file to see some example settings.
The properties are:
# Common options\nerror.maxRedeliveries=5\nThere are also common ActiveMQ properties to setup the connection.
# ActiveMQ options\njms.brokerUrl=tcp://localhost:61616\nThis defines the url to the ActiveMQ broker which you installed earlier.
jms.username=\njms.password=\njms.connections=10\nThis service manages a Drupal node into a corresponding Fedora resource.
It's properties are:
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fcrepo.indexer.milliner.baseUrl=http://localhost/milliner\nfcrepo.indexer.concurrent-consumers=-1\nfcrepo.indexer.max-concurrent-consumers=-1\n-1 means no setting is applied. fcrepo.indexer.async-consumer=false\nThis property allows the concurrent consumers to process concurrently; otherwise, the consumers will wait to the previous message has been processed before executing.
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It's properties are:
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triplestore.baseUrl=http://localhost:8080/bigdata/namespace/kb/sparql\nThis defines the location of your triplestore's SPARQL update endpoint.
triplestore.indexer.concurrent-consumers=-1\ntriplestore.indexer.max-concurrent-consumers=-1\nThese define the default number of concurrent consumers and maximum number of concurrent consumers working off your ActiveMQ instance. A value of -1 means no setting is applied.
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derivative.<item>.enabled=true\nThis defines if the item service is enabled.
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derivative.<item>.service.url=http://example.org/derivative/convert\nThis is the microservice URL to process the request.
derivative.<item>.concurrent-consumers=-1\nderivative.<item>.max-concurrent-consumers=-1\nThese define the default number of concurrent consumers and maximum number of concurrent consumers working off your ActiveMQ instance. A value of -1 means no setting is applied.
derivative.<item>.async-consumer=false\nThis property allows the concurrent consumers to process concurrently; otherwise, the consumers will wait to the previous message has been processed before executing.
For example, with two services defined (houdini and crayfits) my configuration would have
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request.configurer.enabled=true\nThen set the next 3 timeouts (measured in milliseconds) to the desired timeout.
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By default, Alpaca uses two settings for the HTTP component, these are * disableStreamCache=true * connectionClose=true
If you want to send additional configuration parameters or alter the existing defaults. You can add them as a comma separated list of key=value pairs.
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http.additional_options=authMethod=Basic,authUsername=Jim,authPassword=1234\nThese will be added to ALL http endpoint requests.
Check Camel Configuration Parameters
We are currently running Camel 3.7.6, some configuration parameters on the above linked page might not be supported.
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sudo apt install curl\nComposer provides PHP code that we can use to install it. After downloading and running the installer, we\u2019re going to move the generated executable to a place in $PATH, removing its extension:
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On a default Ubuntu install the /var/www directory is owned by root, but we want the webserver to control this space, so we'll give it ownership:
sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www\nNavigate to the folder where you want to put your Islandora project (in our case /var/www/html). You can give your site any name you like, but for these instructions we will simply call it \"drupal\":
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Drush is not accessible via $PATH, but is available using the command composer exec -- drush
Navigate to the folder where you want to put your Drupal project (in our case /var/www/html), and create the Drupal Recommended Project:
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Notice
Out of the box, these files will contain support for SSL, which we will not be setting up in this guide (and therefore removing with these overwritten configurations), but which are absolutely indispensable to a production site. This guide does not recommend any particular SSL certificate authority or installation method, but you may find DigitalOcean's tutorial helpful.
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Listen 80\nRemove everything but the \"Listen 80\" line. You can leave the comments in if you want.
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<VirtualHost *:80>\nServerName SERVER_NAME\n DocumentRoot \"/var/www/html/drupal/web\"\n <Directory \"/var/www/html/drupal/web\">\nOptions Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews\n AllowOverride all\n Require all granted\n </Directory>\n# Ensure some logging is in place.\n ErrorLog \"/var/log/apache2/localhost_error.log\"\n CustomLog \"/var/log/apache2/localhost_access.log\" combined\n</VirtualHost>\nSERVER_NAME: localhost - For a development environment hosted on your own machine or a VM, localhost should suffice. Realistically, this should be the domain or IP address the server will be accessed at. Set permissions and enable the virtual host:
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The following values can (and in the case of the password, should) be changed to local values.
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Follow the instructions in the README of the Islandora Starter Site. The steps are not reproduced here to remove redundancy. But specifically,
/var/www/html/drupal/web/sites/default/settings.php.sudo -u www-data composer exec -- drush site:install --existing-config.When this installation is done, you'll have a starter site ready-to-go. Once you set up the external services in the next sections, you'll need to configure Drupal to know where they are.
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FITS itself wraps other file identification and metadata tools which may require installing additional libraries. On Ububtu 20.04, the version this guide is using, we will install a few:
sudo apt install mediainfo python3-jpylyzer\nTo set up the FITS application, first find the latest FITS version on GitHub to replace the [FITS_VERSION_NUMBER] and then run the following commands:
cd /opt\nsudo wget https://github.com/harvard-lts/fits/releases/download/[FITS_VERSION_NUMBER]/fits-[FITS_VERSION_NUMBER].zip\nsudo unzip /opt/fits-[FITS_VERSION_NUMBER].zip -d /opt/fits\nSimilarly with the FITS webservice, get the current service version number to replace [FITS_SERVICE_WAR_VERSION_NUMBER]:
Download the FITS webservice:
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fits.home=/opt/fits\nshared.loader=/opt/fits/lib/*.jar\nRestart Tomcat:
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Some packages need to be installed before we can proceed with installing Crayfish; these packages are used by the microservices within Crayfish. These include:
apt-get, and a list of available packs can be procured with sudo apt-cache search tesseract-ocrsudo apt-get install software-properties-common\nsudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:lyrasis/imagemagick-jp2\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get -y install imagemagick tesseract-ocr ffmpeg poppler-utils\nWe\u2019re going to clone Crayfish to /opt, and individually run composer install against each of the microservice subdirectories.
cd /opt\nsudo git clone https://github.com/Islandora/Crayfish.git crayfish\nsudo chown -R www-data:www-data crayfish\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Homarus\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Houdini\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Hypercube\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Milliner\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/Recast\nsudo -u www-data composer install -d crayfish/CrayFits\nNot much needs to happen here; Crayfish opts for a simple logging approach, with one .log file for each component. We\u2019ll create a folder where each logfile can live.
sudo mkdir /var/log/islandora\nsudo chown www-data:www-data /var/log/islandora\nEach Crayfish component requires one or more .yaml file(s) to ensure everything is wired up correctly.
Update the defaults to meet your needs
The following configuration files represent somewhat sensible defaults; you should take consideration of the logging levels in use, as this can vary in desirability from installation to installation. Also note that in all cases, http URLs are being used, as this guide does not deal with setting up https support. In a production installation, this should not be the case. These files also assume a connection to a PostgreSQL database; use a pdo_mysql driver and the appropriate 3306 port if using MySQL.
Using JWT for Crayfish Authentication
For Crayfish microservices use the lexik_jwt_authentication package. They are configured to use the JWT_PUBLIC_KEY environment variable to find the public key we created earlier (/opt/keys/syn_public.key). Later on in this guide we will add the environment variable to the Apache configs, but you may alternatively write the path to the key in the lexik_jwt_authentication.yaml file that resides along-side the security.yaml files we edit in this section.
Enable JSON Web Token (JWT) based access to the service by updating the security settings. Edit /opt/crayfish/Homarus/config/packages/security.yaml to set firewalls: main: anonymous to false and uncomment the provider and jwt lines further down in that section.
Edit /opt/crayfish/Homarus/config/packages/monolog.yaml to point to the new logging directory:
homarus:\n type: rotating_file\n path: /var/logs/islandora/Homarus.log\nEdit the commons config to update it with Fedora's location (if necessary) and enable the apix middleware in /opt/crayfish/Homarus/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml:
crayfish_commons:\n fedora_base_uri: 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest'\n apix_middleware_enabled: true\nCurrently the Houdini microservice uses a different system (Symfony) than the other microservices, this requires different configuration.
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# This file is the entry point to configure your own services.\n# Files in the packages/ subdirectory configure your dependencies.\n# Put parameters here that don't need to change on each machine where the app is deployed\n# https://symfony.com/doc/current/best_practices/configuration.html#application-related-configuration\nparameters:\napp.executable: /usr/bin/convert\napp.formats.valid:\n- image/jpeg\n- image/png\n- image/tiff\n- image/jp2\napp.formats.default: image/jpeg\nservices:\n# default configuration for services in *this* file\n_defaults:\nautowire: true # Automatically injects dependencies in your services.\nautoconfigure: true # Automatically registers your services as commands, event subscribers, etc.\n# makes classes in src/ available to be used as services\n# this creates a service per class whose id is the fully-qualified class name\nApp\\Islandora\\Houdini\\:\nresource: '../src/*'\nexclude: '../src/{DependencyInjection,Entity,Migrations,Tests,Kernel.php}'\n# controllers are imported separately to make sure services can be injected\n# as action arguments even if you don't extend any base controller class\nApp\\Islandora\\Houdini\\Controller\\HoudiniController:\npublic: false\nbind:\n$formats: '%app.formats.valid%'\n$default_format: '%app.formats.default%'\n$executable: '%app.executable%'\ntags: ['controller.service_arguments']\n# add more service definitions when explicit configuration is needed\n# please note that last definitions always *replace* previous ones\n/opt/crayfish/Houdini/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml | www-data:www-data/644
crayfish_commons:\nfedora_base_uri: 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest'\nsyn_config: /opt/fcrepo/config/syn-settings.xml\nsyn_enabled: True\n/opt/crayfish/Houdini/config/packages/monolog.yaml | www-data:www-data/644
monolog:\nhandlers:\nhoudini:\ntype: rotating_file\npath: /var/log/islandora/Houdini.log\nlevel: DEBUG\nmax_files: 1\nThe below files are two versions of the same file to enable or disable JWT token authentication.
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Enabled JWT token authentication:
# To disable Syn checking, set syn_enabled=false in crayfish_commons.yaml and remove this configuration file.\nsecurity:\n# https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html#where-do-users-come-from-user-providers\nproviders:\nusers_in_memory: { memory: null }\njwt:\nlexik_jwt: ~\nfirewalls:\ndev:\npattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/\nsecurity: false\nmain:\n# To enable Syn, change anonymous to false and uncomment the lines further below\nanonymous: false\n# Need stateless or it reloads the User based on a token.\nstateless: true\n# To enable JWT authentication, uncomment the below 2 lines and change anonymous to false above.\nprovider: jwt\njwt: ~\n# activate different ways to authenticate\n# https://symfony.com/doc/5.4/security.html#firewalls-authentication\n# https://symfony.com/doc/5.4/security/impersonating_user.html\n# switch_user: true\n# Easy way to control access for large sections of your site\n# Note: Only the *first* access control that matches will be used\naccess_control:\n# - { path: ^/admin, roles: ROLE_ADMIN }\n# - { path: ^/profile, roles: ROLE_USER }\nDisabled JWT token authentication:
security:\n# https://symfony.com/doc/current/security.html#where-do-users-come-from-user-providers\nproviders:\njwt_user_provider:\nid: Islandora\\Crayfish\\Commons\\Syn\\JwtUserProvider\nfirewalls:\ndev:\npattern: ^/(_(profiler|wdt)|css|images|js)/\nsecurity: false\nmain:\nanonymous: true\n# Need stateless or it reloads the User based on a token.\nstateless: true\nEnable JSON Web Token (JWT) based access to the service by updating the security settings. Edit /opt/crayfish/Hypercube/config/packages/security.yaml to set firewalls: main: anonymous to false and uncomment the provider and jwt lines further down in that section.
Edit /opt/crayfish/Hypercube/config/packages/monolog.yaml to point to the new logging directory:
hypercube:\n type: rotating_file\n path: /var/logs/islandora/Hypercube.log\nEdit the commons config to update it with Fedora's location (if necessary) and enable the apix middleware in /opt/crayfish/Hypercube/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml:
crayfish_commons:\n fedora_base_uri: 'http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest'\n apix_middleware_enabled: true\nEnable JSON Web Token (JWT) based access to the service by updating the security settings. Edit /opt/crayfish/Milliner/config/packages/security.yaml to set firewalls: main: anonymous to false and uncomment the provider and jwt lines further down in that section.
Edit /opt/crayfish/Milliner/config/packages/monolog.yaml to point to the new logging directory:
milliner:\n type: rotating_file\n path: /var/logs/islandora/Milliner.log\nEdit the commons config to update it with Fedora's location (if necessary) and enable the apix middleware in /opt/crayfish/Milliner/config/packages/crayfish_commons.yaml:
Finally, we need appropriate Apache configurations for Crayfish; these will allow other services to connect to Crayfish components via their HTTP endpoints.
Each endpoint we need to be able to connect to will get its own .conf file, which we will then enable.
Possible Route Collisions
These configurations would potentially have collisions with Drupal routes, if any are created in Drupal with the same name. If this is a concern, it would likely be better to reserve a subdomain or another port specifically for Crayfish. For the purposes of this installation guide, these endpoints will suffice.
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Alias \"/homarus\" \"/opt/crayfish/Homarus/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Homarus/public\">\n FallbackResource /homarus/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/Houdini.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/houdini\" \"/opt/crayfish/Houdini/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Houdini/public\">\n FallbackResource /houdini/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/Hypercube.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/hypercube\" \"/opt/crayfish/Hypercube/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Hypercube/public\">\n FallbackResource /hypercube/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/Milliner.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/milliner\" \"/opt/crayfish/Milliner/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/Milliner/public\">\n FallbackResource /milliner/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\n/etc/apache2/conf-available/CrayFits.conf | root:root/644
Alias \"/crayfits\" \"/opt/crayfish/CrayFits/public\"\n<Directory \"/opt/crayfish/CrayFits/public\">\n FallbackResource /crayfits/index.php\n Require all granted\n DirectoryIndex index.php\n SetEnv JWT_PUBLIC_KEY /opt/keys/syn_public.key\n SetEnvIf Authorization \"(.*)\" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1\n</Directory>\nEnabling each of these configurations involves creating a symlink to them in the conf-enabled directory; the standardized method of doing this in Apache is with a2enconf.
sudo a2enconf Homarus Houdini Hypercube Milliner CrayFits\nFinally, to get these new endpoints up and running, we need to restart the Apache service.
sudo systemctl restart apache2\nWe're going to stop the Tomcat service while working on setting up Fedora to prevent any autodeploy misconfigurations.
sudo systemctl stop tomcat\nFedora\u2019s configuration and data won\u2019t live with Tomcat itself; rather, we\u2019re going to prepare a space for them to make them easier to manage.
sudo mkdir -p /opt/fcrepo/data/objects\nsudo mkdir /opt/fcrepo/config\nsudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/fcrepo\nThe method for creating the database here will closely mimic the method we used to create our database for Drupal.
sudo mysql -u root\nCREATE DATABASE [FEDORA_DB];\nCREATE USER '[MYSQL_USER_FOR_FEDORA]'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '[MYSQL_PASSWORD_FOR_FEDORA]';\nGRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON [FEDORA_DB].* TO '[MYSQL_USER_FOR_FEDORA]'@'localhost';\nFEDORA_DB: fcrepoFEDORA_DB_USER: fedoraFEDORA_DB_PASSWORD: fedorafedora is not recommended.The Fedora configuration is going to come in a few different chunks that need to be in place before Fedora will be functional. We\u2019re going to place several files outright, with mildly modified parameters according to our configuration.
The basics of these configuration files have been pulled largely from the templates in Islandora-Devops/islandora-playbook internal Fedora role; you may consider referencing the playbook\u2019s templates directory for more details.
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fcrepo.home=FCREPO_HOME\n# External content using path defined above.\nfcrepo.external.content.allowed=/opt/fcrepo/config/allowed_external_hosts.txt\n# Namespace registry using path defined above.\nfcrepo.namespace.registry=/opt/fcrepo/config/i8_namespaces.yml\nfcrepo.auth.principal.header.enabled=true\n# The principal header is the syn-setting.xml \"config\" element's \"header\" attribute\nfcrepo.auth.principal.header.name=X-Islandora\n# false to use manual versioning, true to create a version on each change\nfcrepo.autoversioning.enabled=true\nfcrepo.db.url=FCREPO_DB_URL\nfcrepo.db.user=FCREPO_DB_USERNAME\nfcrepo.db.password=FCREPO_DB_PASSWORD\nfcrepo.ocfl.root=FCREPO_OCFL_ROOT\nfcrepo.ocfl.temp=FCREPO_TEMP_ROOT\nfcrepo.ocfl.staging=FCREPO_STAGING_ROOT\n# Can be sha512 or sha256\nfcrepo.persistence.defaultDigestAlgorithm=sha512\n# Jms moved from 61616 to allow external ActiveMQ to use that port\nfcrepo.dynamic.jms.port=61626\n# Same as above\nfcrepo.dynamic.stomp.port=61623\nfcrepo.velocity.runtime.log=FCREPO_VELOCITY_LOG\nfcrepo.jms.baseUrl=FCREPO_JMS_BASE\nFCREPO_HOME - The home directory for all Fedora generated output and state. Unless otherwise specified, all logs, metadata, binaries, and internally generated indexes, etc. It would default to the Tomcat starting directory. A good default would be /opt/fcrepoFCREPO_DB_URL - This parameter allows you to set the database connection url. In general the format is as follows:
jdbc:<database_type>://<database_host>:<database_port>/<database_name>
Fedora currently supports H2, PostgresQL 12.3, MariaDB 10.5.3, and MySQL 8.0
So using the default ports for the supported databases here are the values we typically use:
jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/fcrepojdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/fcrepojdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/fcrepoFCREPO_DB_USERNAME - The database username
FCREPO_DB_PASSWORD - The database passwordFCREPO_OCFL_ROOT - Sets the root directory of the OCFL. Defaults to FCREPO_HOME/data/ocfl-root if this line is deleted.FCREPO_TEMP_ROOT - Sets the temp directory used by OCFL. Defaults to FCREPO_HOME/data/temp if this line is deleted.FCREPO_STAGING_ROOT - Sets the staging directory used by OCFL. Defaults to FCREPO_HOME/data/staging if this line is deleted.FCREPO_VELOCITY_LOG - The Fedora HTML template code uses Apache Velocity, which generates a runtime log called velocity.log. Defaults to FCREPO_HOME/logs/velocity. A good choice might be /opt/tomcat/logs/velocity.logFCREPO_JMS_BASE - This specifies the baseUrl to use when generating JMS messages. You can specify the hostname with or without port and with or without path. If your system is behind a NAT firewall you may need this to avoid your message consumers trying to access the system on an invalid port. If this system property is not set, the host, port and context from the user's request will be used in the emitted JMS messages. If your Alpaca is on the same machine as your Fedora and you use the islandora-indexing-fcrepo, you could use http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest. Check the Lyrasis Wiki to find all of Fedora's properties
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/opt/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml | tomcat:tomcat/600
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<tomcat-users xmlns=\"http://tomcat.apache.org/xml\"\nxmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"\nxsi:schemaLocation=\"http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd\"\nversion=\"1.0\">\n<role rolename=\"tomcat\"/>\n<role rolename=\"fedoraAdmin\"/>\n<role rolename=\"fedoraUser\"/>\n<user username=\"tomcat\" password=\"TOMCAT_PASSWORD\" roles=\"tomcat\"/>\n<user username=\"fedoraAdmin\" password=\"FEDORA_ADMIN_PASSWORD\" roles=\"fedoraAdmin\"/>\n<user username=\"fedoraUser\" password=\"FEDORA_USER_PASSWORD\" roles=\"fedoraUser\"/>\n</tomcat-users>\nTOMCAT_PASSWORD: tomcatFEDORA_ADMIN_PASSWORD: islandoraFEDORA_USER_PASSWORD: islandoraFedora .war files are packaged up as releases on the official GitHub repository. You should download the most recent stable release.
sudo wget -O fcrepo.war FCREPO_WAR_URL\nsudo mv fcrepo.war /opt/tomcat/webapps\nsudo chown tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps/fcrepo.war\nFCREPO_WAR_URL: This can be found at the fcrepo downloads page; the file you're looking for is:As before, start the Tomcat service to get Fedora up and running.
sudo systemctl start tomcat\nNote: sometimes it takes a while for Fedora and Tomcat to start up, usually it shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes.
Once it starts up, Fedora REST API should be available at http://localhost:8080/fcrepo/rest. The username is fedoraAdmin and we defined the password before as FEDORA_ADMIN_PASSWORD (default: \"islandora\").
A compiled JAR of Syn can be found on the Syn releases page. We\u2019re going to add this to the list libraries accessible to Tomcat.
sudo -u tomcat wget -P /opt/tomcat/lib SYN_JAR_URL\n# Ensure the library has the correct permissions.\nsudo chmod -R 640 /opt/tomcat/lib\nSYN_JAR_URL: The latest stable release of the Syn JAR from the releases page. Specifically, the JAR compiled as -all.jar is required.For Islandora and Fedora to talk to each other, an SSL key needs to be generated for use with Syn. We\u2019re going to make a spot where such keys can live, and generate one.
sudo mkdir /opt/keys\nsudo openssl genrsa -out \"/opt/keys/syn_private.key\" 2048\nsudo openssl rsa -pubout -in \"/opt/keys/syn_private.key\" -out \"/opt/keys/syn_public.key\"\nsudo chown www-data:www-data /opt/keys/syn*\nSyn sites and tokens belong in a settings file that we\u2019re going to reference in Tomcat.
/opt/fcrepo/config/syn-settings.xml | tomcat:tomcat/600
<config version='1' header='X-Islandora'>\n<site algorithm='RS256' encoding='PEM' anonymous='true' default='true' path='/opt/keys/syn_public.key'/>\n<token user='islandora' roles='fedoraAdmin'>ISLANDORA_SYN_TOKEN</token>\n</config>\nISLANDORA_SYN_TOKEN: islandoraReferencing the valve we\u2019ve created in our syn-settings.xml involves creating a <Valve> entry in Tomcat\u2019s context.xml:
There are two options here:
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<Context>\n<Valve className=\"ca.islandora.syn.valve.SynValve\" pathname=\"/opt/fcrepo/config/syn-settings.xml\"/>\n</Context>\nYour Fedora web application needs to be deployed in Tomcat with the name fcrepo.war. Otherwise, change the name of the above XML file to match the deployed web application's name.
Finally, restart tomcat to apply the new configurations.
sudo systemctl restart tomcat\nNote: sometimes it takes a while for Fedora and Tomcat to start up, usually it shouldn't take longer than 5 minutes.
Note: after installing the Syn valve, you'll no longer be able to manually create/edit or delete objects via Fedora Web UI. All communication with Fedora will now be handled from the Islandora module in Drupal.
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<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE configuration>\n<configuration>\n<appender name=\"STDOUT\" class=\"ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender\">\n<encoder>\n<pattern>%p %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] \\(%c{0}\\) %m%n</pattern>\n</encoder>\n</appender>\n<appender name=\"FILE\" class=\"ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender\">\n<file>${catalina.base}/logs/fcrepo.log</file>\n<append>true</append>\n<rollingPolicy class=\"ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.SizeAndTimeBasedRollingPolicy\">\n<fileNamePattern>${catalina.base}/logs/fcrepo.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log.%i</fileNamePattern>\n<maxFileSize>10MB</maxFileSize>\n<maxHistory>30</maxHistory>\n<totalSizeCap>2GB</totalSizeCap>\n</rollingPolicy>\n<encoder>\n<pattern>%p %d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] \\(%c{0}\\) %m%n</pattern>\n</encoder>\n</appender>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.auth\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.auth:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.config\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.config:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.event\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.event:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.http.api\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.http.api:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.http.commons\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.http.commons:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.jms\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.jms:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.kernel\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.kernel:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.persistence\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.persistence:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.search\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.search:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo.storage\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log.storage:-null}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<logger name=\"org.fcrepo\" additivity=\"false\" level=\"${fcrepo.log:-INFO}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</logger>\n<root level=\"${fcrepo.log.root:-WARN}\">\n<appender-ref ref=\"STDOUT\"/>\n<appender-ref ref=\"FILE\"/>\n</root>\n</configuration>\nThen alter your $JAVA_OPTS like above to include
-Dlogback.configurationFile=/opt/fcrepo/config/fcrepo-logback.xml\nThis will generate a log file at ${catalina.base}/logs/fcrepo.log and will rotate each day or if the logs reaches 10MB. It will maintain 30 days of old logs, or 2GB whichever comes first.
Blazegraph needs a space for configurations and data; we\u2019re going to create this space in /opt.
sudo mkdir -p /opt/blazegraph/data\nsudo mkdir /opt/blazegraph/conf\nsudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /opt/blazegraph\nThe Blazegraph .war file can be found in a few different places, but to ensure we\u2019re able to easily wget it, we\u2019re going to use the maven.org repository link to grab it.
cd /opt\nsudo wget -O blazegraph.war BLAZEGRAPH_WARFILE_LINK\nsudo mv blazegraph.war /opt/tomcat/webapps\nsudo chown tomcat:tomcat /opt/tomcat/webapps/blazegraph.war\n.war file within that version folder.Once this is downloaded, give it a moment to expand before moving on to the next step.
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/opt/blazegraph/conf/log4j.properties | tomcat:tomcat/644
log4j.rootCategory=WARN, dest1\n\n# Loggers.\nlog4j.logger.com.bigdata=WARN\nlog4j.logger.com.bigdata.btree=WARN\n\n# Normal data loader (single threaded).\n#log4j.logger.com.bigdata.rdf.store.DataLoader=INFO\n\n# dest1\nlog4j.appender.dest1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender\nlog4j.appender.dest1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout\nlog4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p: %F:%L: %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p: %r %l: %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p: %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n\n#log4j.appender.dest1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-4r(%d) [%t] %-5p %c(%l:%M) %x - %m%n\n\n# Rule execution log. This is a formatted log file (comma delimited).\nlog4j.logger.com.bigdata.relation.rule.eval.RuleLog=INFO,ruleLog\nlog4j.additivity.com.bigdata.relation.rule.eval.RuleLog=false\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog=org.apache.log4j.FileAppender\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.Threshold=ALL\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.File=/var/log/blazegraph/rules.log\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.Append=true\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.BufferedIO=false\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout\nlog4j.appender.ruleLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%m\nOur configuration will be built from a few different files that we will eventually reference in JAVA_OPTS and directly apply to Blazegraph; these include most of the functional pieces Blazegraph requires, as well as a generalized configuration for the islandora namespace it will use. As with most large configurations like this, these should likely be tuned to your preferences, and the following files only represent sensible defaults.
/opt/blazegraph/conf/RWStore.properties | tomcat:tomcat/644
com.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.file=/opt/blazegraph/data/blazegraph.jnl\ncom.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.bufferMode=DiskRW\ncom.bigdata.service.AbstractTransactionService.minReleaseAge=1\ncom.bigdata.journal.Journal.groupCommit=false\ncom.bigdata.btree.writeRetentionQueue.capacity=4000\ncom.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=128\ncom.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.initialExtent=209715200\ncom.bigdata.journal.AbstractJournal.maximumExtent=209715200\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.truthMaintenance=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.quads=true\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.statementIdentifiers=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.textIndex=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.axiomsClass=com.bigdata.rdf.axioms.NoAxioms\ncom.bigdata.namespace.kb.lex.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=400\ncom.bigdata.namespace.kb.spo.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=1024\ncom.bigdata.journal.Journal.collectPlatformStatistics=false\n/opt/blazegraph/conf/blazegraph.properties | tomcat:tomcat/644
com.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.textIndex=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.axiomsClass=com.bigdata.rdf.axioms.OwlAxioms\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.isolatableIndices=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.justify=true\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.truthMaintenance=true\ncom.bigdata.rdf.sail.namespace=islandora\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.quads=false\ncom.bigdata.namespace.islandora.lex.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=400\ncom.bigdata.journal.Journal.groupCommit=false\ncom.bigdata.namespace.islandora.spo.com.bigdata.btree.BTree.branchingFactor=1024\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.geoSpatial=false\ncom.bigdata.rdf.store.AbstractTripleStore.statementIdentifiers=false\n/opt/blazegraph/conf/inference.nt | tomcat:tomcat/644
<http://pcdm.org/models#memberOf> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#inverseOf> <http://pcdm.org/models#hasMember> .\n<http://pcdm.org/models#fileOf> <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#inverseOf> <http://pcdm.org/models#hasFile> .\nRWStore.properties in JAVA_OPTS","text":"In order to enable our configuration when Tomcat starts, we need to add the location of RWStore.properties to the existing JAVA_OPTS environment variable that Tomcat uses in /opt/tomcat/bin/setenv.sh: -Dcom.bigdata.rdf.sail.webapp.ConfigParams.propertyFile=/opt/blazegraph/conf/RWStore.properties -Dlog4j.configuration=file:/opt/blazegraph/conf/log4j.properties
Finally, restart Tomcat to pick up the changes we\u2019ve made.
sudo systemctl restart tomcat\nThe two other files we created, blazegraph.properties and inference.nt, contain information that Blazegraph requires in order to establish and correctly use the datasets Islandora will send to it. First, we need to create a dataset - contained in blazegraph.properties - and then we need to inform that dataset of the inference set we have contained in inference.nt.
curl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: text/plain\" --data-binary @/opt/blazegraph/conf/blazegraph.properties http://localhost:8080/blazegraph/namespace\ncurl -X POST -H \"Content-Type: text/plain\" --data-binary @/opt/blazegraph/conf/inference.nt http://localhost:8080/blazegraph/namespace/islandora/sparql\nNeeds Maintenance
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# While generally we download tarballs as .tar.gz files without version\n# information, the Solr installer is a bit particular in that it expects a .tgz\n# file with the same name as the extracted folder it contains. It's odd, and we\n# can't really get around it.\ncd /opt\nsudo wget -O SOLR_TARBALL SOLR_DOWNLOAD_LINK\nsudo tar -xzvf SOLR_TARBALL\nSOLR_DOWNLOAD_LINK: NOTICE: This will depend on a few different things, not least of all the current version of Solr. The link to the .tgz for the binary on the downloads page will take you to a list of mirrors that Solr can be downloaded from, and provide you with a preferred mirror at the top. This preferred mirror should be used as the SOLR_DOWNLOAD_LINK. - SOLR_TARBALL: The filename that was downloaded, e.g., solr-9.6.1.tgz"},{"location":"installation/manual/installing-solr/#running-the-solr-installer","title":"Running the Solr Installer","text":"Solr includes an installer that does most of the heavy lifting of ensuring we have a Solr user, a location where Solr lives, and configurations in place to ensure it\u2019s running on boot.
sudo UNTARRED_SOLR_FOLDER/bin/install_solr_service.sh SOLR_TARBALL\nUNTARRED_SOLR_FOLDER: This will likely simply be solr-VERSION, where VERSION is the version number that was downloaded. The installer will start the service for you. Check the status and stop and restart if needed:
sudo systemctl status solr\nsudo systemctl stop solr\nsudo systemctl start solr\nIf you want to use the web dashboard (for development only) you can edit the solr.in.sh file to make it more accessible.
Find #SOLR_JETTY_HOST=\"127.0.0.1\" and change it to SOLR_JETTY_HOST=\"0.0.0.0\". (Note the lack of # now.)
Restart Solr sudo systemctl restart solr and go to http://localhost:8983/solr.
Solr's installation guide recommends that you increase the open file limit so that operations aren't disrupted while Solr is trying to access things in its index. This limit can be increased while the system is running, but doing so won't persist after a reboot. You can hard-increase this limit using your system's sysctl file:
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cd /var/www/html/drupal\nsudo -u www-data composer require drupal/search_api_solr:^4.2\ndrush -y en search_api_solr\nYou should see an output similar to this:
The following module(s) will be enabled: search_api_solr, language, search_api\n\n // Do you want to continue?: yes.\n\n [success] Successfully enabled: search_api_solr, language, search_api\nBefore we can create configurations to use with Solr, the core we created earlier needs to be referenced in Drupal. Again, the starter site provides this already; but if you installed it yourself, the directions below should help.
Log in to the Drupal site at /user using the sitewide administrator username and password (if using defaults from previous chapters this should be islandora and islandora), then navigate to /admin/config/search/search-api/add-server.
Fill out the server addition form using the following options:
SERVER_NAME: islandoramachine_name generated next to the server name you type in; this will be used in the next step.As a recap for this configuration:
Click Save to create the server configuration.
NOTICE You can ignore the error about an incompatible Solr schema; we're going to set this up in the next step. In fact, if you refresh the page after restarting Solr in the next step, you should see the error disappear.
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cd /var/www/html/drupal\ndrush solr-gsc SERVER_MACHINE_NAME solrconfig.zip\nunzip -d ~/solrconfig solrconfig.zip\nsudo -u solr /opt/solr/bin/solr create_core -c SOLR_CORE -d ~/solrconfig -n SOLR_CORE\nsudo systemctl restart solr\nSERVER_MACHINE_NAME: This should be the machine_name that was automatically generated when creating the configuration in the above step. The starter site uses default_solr_server."},{"location":"installation/manual/installing-solr/#adding-an-index","title":"Adding an Index","text":"The site template provides an index for us; but if you didn't use it, you need to set up your index configuration. Navigate to /admin/config/search/search-api/add-index and check off the things you'd like to be indexed.
NOTICE You should come back here later and reconfigure this after completing the last step in this guide. The default indexing configuration is pretty permissive, and you may want to restrict, for example, indexed content to just Islandora-centric bundles. This guide doesn't set up the index's fields either, which are going to be almost wholly dependent on the needs of your installation. Once you complete that configuration later on, re-index Solr from the configuration page of the index we're creating here.
Click Save to add your index and kick off indexing of existing items.
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"},{"location":"installation/manual/installing-tomcat-and-cantaloupe/#in-this-section-we-will-install","title":"In this section, we will install:","text":"tomcat User","text":"Apache Tomcat, and all its processes, will be owned and managed by a specific user for the purposes of keeping parts of the stack segregated and accountable.
sudo addgroup tomcat\nsudo adduser tomcat --ingroup tomcat --home /opt/tomcat --shell /usr/bin\nYou will be prompted to create a password for the tomcat user; all the other information as part of the adduser command can be ignored.
Tomcat 9 itself can be installed in several different ways; while it\u2019s possible to install via apt-get, this doesn\u2019t give us a great deal of control over exactly how we\u2019re going to run and manage it; as a critical part of the stack, it is beneficial for our purposes to have a good frame of reference for the inner workings of Tomcat.
We\u2019re going to download the latest version of Tomcat to /opt and set it up so that it runs automatically. Bear in mind that with the following commands, this is going to be entirely relative to the current version of Tomcat 9, which we\u2019ll try to mitigate as we go.
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export CATALINA_HOME=\"/opt/tomcat\"\nexport JAVA_HOME=\"PATH_TO_JAVA_HOME\"\nexport JAVA_OPTS=\"-Djava.awt.headless=true -server -Xmx1500m -Xms1000m\"\nPATH_TO_JAVA_HOME: This will vary a bit depending on the environment, but will likely live in /usr/lib/jvm somewhere (e.g., /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64); again, in an Ubunutu environment you can check a part of this using update-alternatives --list java, which will give you the path to the JRE binary within the Java home. Note that update-alternatives --list java will give you the path to the binary, so for PATH_TO_JAVA_HOME delete the /bin/java at the end to get the Java home directory, so it should look something like this: export JAVA_HOME=\"/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64\"\nTomcat includes two shell scripts we\u2019re going to make use of - startup.sh and shutdown.sh - which are light wrappers on top of a third script, catalina.sh, which manages spinning up and shutting down the Tomcat server.
Debian and Ubuntu use systemctl to manage services; we\u2019re going to create a .service file that can run these shell scripts.
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[Unit]\nDescription=Tomcat\n\n[Service]\nType=forking\nExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh\nExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh\nSyslogIdentifier=tomcat\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\nWe\u2019re going to both enable and start Tomcat. Enabling Tomcat will ensure that it starts on boot, the timing of which is defined by the [Install] section\u2019s WantedBy statement, which specifies what it should start after. This is separate from starting it, which we need to do now in order to get Tomcat up and running without requiring a reboot.
sudo systemctl enable tomcat\nsudo systemctl start tomcat\nWe can check that Tomcat has started by running sudo systemctl status tomcat | grep Active; we should see that Tomcat is active (running), which is the correct result of startup.sh finishing its run successfully.
Since version 5, Cantaloupe is released as a standalone Java application and is no longer deployed in Tomcat via a .war file. Even so, we can still fine-tune how it runs and even install it as a service.
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[Unit]\nDescription=Cantaloupe\n\n[Service]\nExecStart=java -cp /opt/cantaloupe/cantaloupe-CANTALOUPE_VER.jar -Dcantaloupe.config=/opt/cantaloupe/cantaloupe.properties -Xmx1500m -Xms1000m edu.illinois.library.cantaloupe.StandaloneEntry\nSyslogIdentifier=cantaloupe\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\nCANTALOUPE_VER: This will depend on the exact version of Cantaloupe downloaded; in the above example release, this would be cantaloupe-5.0.3 We can now enable the service and run it:
sudo systemctl enable cantaloupe\nsudo systemctl start cantaloupe\nWe can check the service status with sudo systemctl status cantaloupe | grep Active and the splash screen of Cantaloupe should be available at http://localhost:8182/iiif/2.
If you have trouble connecting, check the status of your port and allow it if necessary:
sudo ufw status verbose\nsudo ufw allow 8182/tcp\nNeeds Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
Notice
The manual installation guide is not intended to describe the Islandora installation but rather an Islandora installation. The server created using this guide is not hardened, will not be easily scalable, and the components may not be configured in a way you consider easy to work with. A production instance of Islandora should be installed and maintained by a professional with an understanding of Linux and server administration.
This guide will contain generalized steps on installation and configuration of the various components, but will contain specific example commands for executing these steps on an Ubuntu 20.04 Server.
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nano or vi/vim, or creating these files locally and uploading them to the server. It should also generally be assumed that most of these configuration files will have to be created or edited using sudo, and that permissions and ownership may need to be specified on these files.The steps in this guide are listed in chronological order of installation and configuration. Some sections will reference variables and rely on components installed in previous sections. It does not account for skipping over or otherwise changing the order of installation steps; bear this in mind if you decide to do things out of the provided order.
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VARIABLE: some_value, perhaps with an explanation of whyIt should be noted that configuration files and the like are subject to change by the organizations that maintain their respective applications; this guide generally recommends installing the latest version of these applications, as these generally include security updates. It is expected that the implementer will be able to search through a file and find specific lines in the case where the maintaining organization has moved it in a subsequent patch. In most cases, configuration files will be provided outright to avoid these scenarios.
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root[mysql_root_password][mysql_drupal][mysql_drupal_password][mysql_fedora][mysql_fedora_password]tomcat[tomcat_user_password]fedoraAdmin[fedora_admin_password]fedoraUser[fedora_user_password][activemq_user][activemq_user_password]The most common issues you will likely run into when manually provisioning a server are:
ls -la, and ensure their ownership using chown USER for files, and chown -R USER for directoriesFor any other issues, don't hesitate to email the mailing list to ask for help. If you think that a part of the installation documentation is incorrect or could be improved, please create an issue in the documentation issues queue and give it a documentation tag. Bear in mind that this guide is built for Ubuntu 20.04 and attempts to give generalized instructions; you will likely naturally encounter situations where your own environment needs to differ from the guide.
Needs Maintenance
The manual installation documentation is in need of attention. We are aware that some components no longer work as documented here. If you are interested in helping us improve the documentation, please see Contributing.
"},{"location":"installation/manual/preparing-a-webserver/#in-this-section-we-will-install","title":"In this section, we will install:","text":"Tomcat runs in a Java runtime environment, so we'll need one to continue. In our case, OpenJDK 11 is open-source, free to use, and can fairly simply be installed using apt-get:
sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-11-jdk openjdk-11-jre\nThe installation of OpenJDK via apt-get establishes it as the de-facto Java runtime environment to be used on the system, so no further configuration is required.
The resultant location of the java JRE binary (and therefore, the correct value of JAVA_HOME when it\u2019s referenced) will vary based on the specifics of the machine it\u2019s being installed on; that being said, you can find its exact location using update-alternatives:
update-alternatives --list java\nApache can typically be installed and configured outright by your operating system\u2019s package manager:
sudo apt-get -y install apache2 apache2-utils\nThis will install:
systemd service that will ensure Apache can be stopped and started, and will run when the machine is powered on/etc/apache2, including the basic configuration, ports configuration, enabled mods, and enabled sites/var/www/html, configured to be the provided server on port :80 in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf; we\u2019ll make changes and additions to this file laterwww-data, which we will use to read/write web documents.We\u2019re going to enable a couple of Apache mods that Drupal highly recommends installing, and which are de-facto considered required by Islandora:
sudo a2enmod ssl\nsudo a2enmod rewrite\nsudo systemctl restart apache2\nwww-data Group","text":"Since the user we are currently logged in as is going to work quite a bit inside the Drupal directory, we want to give it group permissions to anything the www-data group has access to. When we run composer, www-data will also be caching data in our own home directory, so we want this group modification to go in both directions.
N.B. This code block uses backticks, not single quotes; this is an important distinction as backticks have special meaning in bash.
Note If doing this in the terminal, replace \"whoami\" with your username and remove the backticks
sudo usermod -a -G www-data `whoami`\nsudo usermod -a -G `whoami` www-data\n# Immediately log back in to apply the new group.\nsudo su `whoami`\nInstalling Alternate Versions
Although the instructions below will install PHP 8.3, the instructions should work for future versions by replacing the 8.3 with whatever version you are attempting to install.
If you're running Ununtu 20.04+ you should be able to install PHP 8 from the apt packages directly, although the ondrej/php repository provides additional libraries:
sudo apt update\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php\nsudo apt update\nsudo apt install php8.3 libapache2-mod-php unzip\nsudo apt install php8.3-{cli,common,curl,gd,imap,intl,mysql,opcache,redis,xdebug,xml,yaml,zip}\nRestart Apache to make the changes active:
sudo systemctl restart apache2\nInstallation directories created:
/etc/php/8.3 (this is where you can edit PHP settings, such as timeouts, as needed for your site)/usr/bin/php8.3sudo apt install mysql-server\nThere are a few ways to check the MySQL status:
sudo service mysql status # press \"q\" to exit\nsudo ss -tap | grep mysql\nsudo service mysql restart\nsudo journalctl -u mysql # helps troubleshooting\nIslandora Starter Site uses the built-in Drupal \"Audio\" media type for video. Islandora Starter Site configures it to accept files of type mp3, wav, and aac.
Islandora uses Homarus (ffmpeg as a microservice) to create audio derivatives. Islandora Starter Site sets you up to create:
-codec:a libmp3lame -q:a 5, stored in the public filesystemThese parameters can be changed in the configuration for the Drupal Action that Islandora uses to generate an Audio derivative.
Islandora Starter Site sets up a context to automatically create this derivative when:
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To use the captions feature out of the box, add the captions track as a WEBVTT file (.vtt) in the Audio media's \"Track\" field (see below regarding which Audio media to use). If you don't have the \"Track\" field (provided by Islandora Starter Site), create a field of type \"Media Track\" (a type provided by Islandora) on the same Media (or more broadly, same entity) as your audio file. Then use the Manage Display page to set your audio file field to render using the \"Audio with captions\" field formatter.
If you're using Islandora Starter Site, you can expect to see an audio player on your node. This is done with a special view (an EVA view) that displays service files, which is configured to show on Repository Item's default display mode (on the \"Manage Display\" page). The EVA view renders the service file media using the \"Source\" view mode. For Audio media, this is configured to show only the audio file using the \"Audio with Captions\" widget. Note that captions, to be displayed, must be on the media that is playing. Thus, when the Service file media is being played, captions on the Original File media are ignored.
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The Install Profile also makes available the \"Remote video\" media type, but its behaviour has not been publicly documented.
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Islandora Starter Site sets up a context to automatically create this derivative when:
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sudo apt install software-properties-commonsudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/phpsudo apt updatesudo apt install php7.4sudo apt install php7.4-curl php7.4-xml php7.4-gd php7.4-imap php7.4-mbstring php7.4-mysqlHere's the steps to update Alpaca code in general. None of this is specific to this release, it's just the process.
Move your blueprint config out of the deploy directory temporarily
mv /opt/karaf/deploy/ca.islandora.* /opt/karafNow we'll uninstall the old features and install the new ones. We're assuming you're currently on 1.0.3 and want to update to 1.0.5, but you may be on an older version. Keep that in mind when copy/pasting these commands.
/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-connector-derivative\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-indexing-fcrepo\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-indexing-triplestore\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:uninstall islandora-http-client\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:repo-remove mvn:ca.islandora.alpaca/islandora-karaf/1.0.3/xml/features\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:repo-add mvn:ca.islandora.alpaca/islandora-karaf/1.0.5/xml/features\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-http-client\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-indexing-triplestore\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-indexing-fcrepo\"/opt/karaf/bin/client \"feature:install islandora-connector-derivative\"Move the blueprint files back to the deploy folder to deploy the derivative routes
mv /opt/karaf/ca.islandora.* /opt/karaf/deployYou can check that everything is working with
/opt/karaf/bin/client \"la | grep islandora\"If all the bundles have a state of Active, then you're all good!
Some users have experienced timeouts when generating derivatives. We've added the ability to set the timeout length to your routes. In order to do so, edit each ca.islandora.* file in the deploy directory and replace
<bean id=\"http\" class=\"org.apache.camel.component.http4.HttpComponent\"/>\n<bean id=\"https\" class=\"org.apache.camel.component.http4.HttpComponent\"/>\nwith
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sudo php -d memory_limit=-1 `which composer` update --with-all-dependencies\nAfterwards, you need to run drush updb or visit /update.php in your browser to trigger the database updates. This includes important changes, like stripping out configuration we no longer use as well as a fix to support large media (>2.2 GB). The database updates may take a while depending on how many media you have.
We removed the Gemini microservice and pushed its code into Crayfish-Commons so that it can be used by the other microservices and Drupal modules. Once you've updated your Drupal installation, Gemini will no longer be utilized. It will still, however, need to be removed. It is recommended to test this method in a staging/development environment before running in your production environment.
2.0.0 version of the islandora module. If you followed the steps above to update Drupal core and its modules, you'll have this.Import two new Islandora views
i. This can be done by coping the views into a new directory and using drush such as
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2.0.0 version of islandora and islandora_defaults. If you followed the steps above to update Drupal core and its modules, you'll have this.islandora_defaults using the Features UI (recommended) or by copying them into a temporary directory and using drush to do a partial config import.drush crDrupal requires the use of a _format query parameter to get alternate representations of a node/media.
By default, Islandora deploys with the jsonld module and the Milliner microservice. These two components are configured to strip this _format query parameter off of the end of URIs.
This means that when your content is indexed in Fedora, the triplestore, etc... it's URI will be something like http://localhost:8000/node/1 and not http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=jsonld.
If you are using a very early version of Islandora \"8\" (pre-release), then you may have URIs with _format=jsonld at the end of them.
If you update to newer code, you will need to ensure that your site is configured to add ?_format=jsonld back to the URLs if you want to maintain consistency.
If you don't do this, you can end up with two copies of your objects in your Fedora repository (one with and one without ?_format=jsonld). You will also have two sets of triples in your triplestore.
To turn the ?_format parameter back on:
admin/config/search/jsonld and confirm the \"Remove jsonld parameter from @ids\" checkbox is unchecked.strip_format_jsonld: false to your Milliner config. If you deployed using the default Islandora-playbook this file would be located at /var/www/html/Crayfish/Milliner/cfg/config.yaml.If you are using Islandora-playbook and are provisioning new environments for your older Islandora, you'll want to lock down the variables in your inventory that control this config.
crayfish_milliner_strip_format_jsonld: truewebserver_app_jsonld_remove_format: 1Alpaca is event-driven middleware based on Apache Camel for Islandora
Currently, Alpaca ships with four event-driven components
This service receives requests from Drupal when it wants to create derivatives and passes that request along to a microservice in Crayfish. When it receives the derivative file back from the microservice, it passes the file back to Drupal.
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"},{"location":"technical-documentation/alpaca-tips/#islandora-indexing-triplestore","title":"islandora-indexing-triplestore","text":"This service receives requests from Drupal on indexing and deleting in order to persist/delete content in the triplestore.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/alpaca-tips/#steps-for-developing-with-alpaca","title":"Steps for developing with Alpaca","text":"Alpaca now runs as a single executable jar which can enable none, some or all of the available services.
To develop your own module, start by cloning the Alpaca code base.
Then create a new directory (for example my-new-module) along side the islandora-indexing-fcrepo, islandora-indexing-triplestore directories
Add your new directory to the settings.gradle file, following the pattern of the others.
include ':islandora-support'\ninclude ':islandora-indexing-triplestore'\ninclude ':islandora-indexing-fcrepo'\ninclude ':islandora-connector-derivative'\ninclude ':islandora-http-client'\ninclude ':islandora-alpaca-app'\n+ include ':my-new-module'\nproject(':islandora-alpaca-app').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/islandora-alpaca-app\" as File)\nproject(':islandora-support').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/islandora-support\" as File)\nproject(':islandora-indexing-triplestore').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/islandora-indexing-triplestore\" as File)\nproject(':islandora-indexing-fcrepo').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/islandora-indexing-fcrepo\" as File)\nproject(':islandora-connector-derivative').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/islandora-connector-derivative\" as File)\nproject(':islandora-http-client').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/islandora-http-client\" as File)\n+ project(':my-new-module').setProjectDir(\"$rootDir/my-new-module\" as File)\nYou can explore the islandora-indexing-fcrepo module to see the pattern to develop your own module.
This module contains three classes.
You can ignore the CommonProcessor class, that is just some processing that is split out for reusability.
The first class is the FcrepoIndexer, this class extends the Apache Camel RouteBuilder and requires a configure method which defines the processing elements of your workflow. This is the Camel \"route\".
The second class is the FcrepoIndexerOptions, this class extends the Alpaca PropertyConfig base class which gets common configuration parameters into your module. It also contains any custom configuration parameters needed for your route.
Lastly it uses the @Conditional(FcrepoIndexerOptions.FcrepoIndexerEnabled.class) to define when this module is enabled.
FcrepoIndexerOptions.FcrepoIndexerEnabled.class refers to the static inner class.
This class is inside of FcrepoIndexerOptions and works like this:
[1] static class FcrepoIndexerEnabled extends ConditionOnPropertyTrue { \n[2] FcrepoIndexerEnabled() {\n[3] super(FcrepoIndexerOptions.FCREPO_INDEXER_ENABLED, false);\n[4] }\n[5] }\nLine 2 is the constructor for this static class
Line 3 passes to the parent constructor two things.
So in this case we check for the property fcrepo.indexer.enabled and if we don't find it, we pass false. So this module is assumed to be \"off\" unless the property fcrepo.indexer.enabled=true is located.
The last thing is to add your new module to the islandora-alpaca-app build.gradle file as a dependencies, like the existing modules. i.e.
dependencies {\n implementation \"info.picocli:picocli:${versions.picocli}\"\n implementation \"org.apache.camel:camel-spring-javaconfig:${versions.camel}\"\n implementation \"org.slf4j:slf4j-api:${versions.slf4j}\"\n implementation \"org.springframework:spring-context:${versions.spring}\"\n implementation project(':islandora-support')\n implementation project(':islandora-connector-derivative')\n implementation project(':islandora-indexing-fcrepo')\n implementation project(':islandora-indexing-triplestore')\n+ implementation project(':my-new-module')\n\n runtimeOnly \"ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:${versions.logback}\"\n\n}\nFinally from the top-level directory of Alpaca execute
./gradlew clean build shadowJar\nThis tells Gradle to clean the modules, then build the modules and finally create a single jar with all needed code (the shadow jar).
The final executable jar is:
<alpaca directory>/islandora-alpaca-app/build/libs/islandora-alpaca-<version>-all.jar\nBefore opening a pull request, you should check your code style. If you are using the Vagrant, you can run phpcs within the Drupal installation directory (on the Vagrant, that is /var/www/html/drupal) or from within the web directory (/var/www/html/drupal/web) as follows:
./vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=./vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/Drupal modules/contrib/my_module, where modules/contrib/my_module is the relative or full path to the PHP file you want to check.web directory: ../vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=../vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/Drupal yourfile, where yourfile is the relative or full path to the PHP file you want to check.In both cases:
web: --standard=../vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/DrupalIslandora runs phpcs in its Github continuous integration environment, and there, it specifies which files to ignore and which files to check. It is a good idea for developers to specify the same options when running phpcs locally, prior to opening a pull request. For example (running phpcs from the within Drupal's web directory), you should use the following --ignore and --extensions options:
../vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=../vendor/drupal/coder/coder_sniffer/Drupal --ignore=*.md --extensions=php,module,inc,install,test,profile,theme,css,info modules/contrib/my_module
Diagram prepared by Bethany Seeger based on work done by Gavin Morris
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The following components are deployed with Islandora, but are developed and maintained by other open source projects:
This documentation is built using MkDocs, a static site generator that is geared towards building project documentation. The documentation is created in the Markdown format, and it all resides in the docs directory in the repository. The organization of the documentation is controlled by the mkdocs.yml in the root of the repository.
Video version available
Some of the material in this tutorial is presented in our video, How to Build Documentation.
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Open a terminal window.
Install mkdocs:
Windows / Linux:
sudo -H pip install mkdocs
macOS:
pip3 install mkdocs
Install plugin to enable display of the last revision date:
Windows / Linux:
sudo -H pip install mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin
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pip3 install mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin
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pip3 install mkdocs-redirects
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pip3 install mkdocs-material
Make sure you have all the submodules:
git submodule update --init --recursive
Documentation is build by running to the following command in the root of the repository:
mkdocs build --clean
This command will create a static site folder in the root of the repository.
You can preview any changes you have made to the documentation by running the following command:
mkdocs serve
And then visiting http://localhost:8111 in your browser.
To deploy documentation to GitHub Pages, issue the following command:
mkdocs gh-deploy --clean
To stop the mkdocs serve command just type the key combination \"Control-c\".
Islandora can make use of the majority of Drupal modules and themes. Common use cases have been documented in the Islandora Cookbook. There are several ways to download and install Drupal modules. Please refer to this guide on Drupal.org.
Composer is the recommended method to install and update drupal modules and themes in Islandora. Drupal modules provided by Islandora can be accessed at the drupal/ namespace.
$ composer require \"<vendor>/<package>:<version>\"\n# Example\n$ composer require \"drupal/jsonld:^2\"\nIn the Islandora playbook, you can add a Drupal module's or theme's machine name to the drupal_composer_dependencies variable here. To enable the Drupal module or theme, add the module machine name to the drupal_enable_modules variable as well.
For modules that require additional steps, additional tasks may need to be added to the Ansible playbook. Re-provisioning your instance via Ansible will install the module.
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Click the image below to open the Installing modules with Composer video tutorial on the Islandora Youtube channel.
See more videos from the Drupal 101 series here.
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!! note \"Migration from Islandora Legacy\" For tools to migrate into Islandora from an existing Islandora Legacy instance, please see migrate_7x_claw.
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This tutorial uses the configurations and code available in the migrate_islandora_csv module which, when enabled, will create three example migrations ready for you to use with the Migrate API. Each migration comes from one of the files in the config/install folder. We'll walk through them in detail below. The module is also uses Features which allows you to make changes to the configuration files and sync those changes into your Drupal site.
A note on using Features
This tutorial (and Islandora in general) makes heavy use of Features, which is an easy way to ship and install Drupal configuration. However, after enabling a Feature module, the code in that module's directory is no longer \"live\", as the configuration now resides in the Drupal database. If you change code in the YAML files, it will not take effect until you re-import the Feature. There is a walkthrough in the \"Configuration\" section of the Migrate 7.x to Islandora tutorial.
Sample CSV and images are also included in the module as a convenience so they are easily available on the Drupal server running the migration. (This is not the recommended method for making files available to Drupal in a real migration.)
The module also contains a Migrate process plugin that transforms strings into associative arrays. This is useful for populating multiple Contributor (field_linked_agent) fields. (See \"Typed Relation\" for more information on the Contributor field's type.) It will be available when this module is enabled, and the node migration uses it. It was written generically and will hopefully become part of Migrate Plus, but for now it is here.
When you are ready to create your actual migrations, the contents of this repository can function as a template for you to create the YAML files defining your own migrations.
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In this tutorial, we'll be inspecting each migration file in detail before running it. You'll start out by migrating the images themselves first, and then you'll create various Drupal entities to describe the files from the metadata in the CSV. It's not as scary as it sounds (especially since this module contains the data we'll be using in a data directory), but you will need a few things before beginning:
vagrant ssh into the box, navigate into Drupal, and use git and drush, etc... If you can copy/paste into a terminal, you'll survive.The configuration referred to in this tutorial comes from the Islandora Starter Site, which defines the content model and metadata fields that we'll be migrating into. You're not required to use the Islandora Starter Site for your repository, but for the purposes of demonstration, it saves you a lot of user interface administrivia so you can focus just on the learning how to migrate. By the time you are done with this exercise, you'll be able to easily apply your knowledge to migrate using any custom metadata profile you can build using Drupal.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/migrate-csv/#overview","title":"Overview","text":"The Migrate API is the main way to ingest batches of data into Drupal (and because Islandora is Drupal, into Islandora). The Migrate module only provides the framework, it's up to you to create the rules that take data from a source, through a process (i.e. a mapping) to a destination. A set of these rules is called a \"migration\". It has to be set up (as a Configuration Entity, either by importing a YAML file or by installing a Feature) and then it has to be run.
Once a migration has been run, it will have created (or updated) a bunch of Drupal entities of one type - whether that's taxonomy terms, nodes, files, etc. Since an Object in Islandora is made up of several different Drupal entities that refer to each other, it's going to take multiple migrations to create an Islandora object, and it's important to perform these migrations in a sensible order.
A basic Islandora object is at minimum: - a file, which holds the actual binary contents of an item - a node, which holds the descriptive metadata for an item and makes it discoverable - a media, which holds technical metadata and references the file and the node, linking the two together.
Therefore, each row in your CSV must contain enough information to create these.
Using multiple sources for object components
While this tutorial uses a single CSV to describe all the parts of an islandora object, a site can use multiple sources (CSV or otherwise) to migrate the various parts. The only requirements then is to have keys in place matching the parts together. For example, a 'files.csv' can use paths that serve as file identifiers and 'metadata.csv' can use an object identifier. As long as the source for the media migration has the key values for the file and metadata migrations (the file paths and object identifiers, respectively, in this example), we can create the necessary links between the object's components. This is very useful when you need to migrate multiple media/file pairs associated with a single node, such as pre-processed derivatives that need to be migrated.
Buried in your descriptive metadata are often references to other things which aren't repository items themselves, but records still need to be kept for them. Authors, publishers, universities, places, etc... can be modeled as Drupal Entities, so that they can be referenced by other Entities. So there's the potential to have a lot of different entity types described in a single row in a CSV.
In this tutorial, we will use the three migrations defined in this module to migrate into Drupal entities. The entities we are migrating content into have already been defined by the Islandora Starter Site:
We can do this because subjects, persons, and corporate bodies are (in this example) represented by simple 'name' strings. We create them on the fly, as if we were adding new tags to a tag vocabulary. If we wanted to model subjects, people, or corporate bodies as entities with multiple fields (first name, last name, date, subheadings, URI, etc.) then we would need up to six migrations.
Migrations follow the Extract-Transform-Load pattern. You extract the information from a source, process the data to transform it into the format you need, and load it into the destination system (i.e. Drupal). Migrations are stored in Drupal as configuration, which means they can be represented in YAML, transferred to and from different sites, and are compatible with Drupal's configuration synchronization tools. And the structure of each YAML file is arranged to follow the Extract-Transform-Load pattern.
To perform the migrations, we'll be using drush. We will be able to run each of the file, node, and media migrations separately or all at once in a group. We will also learn how to roll back a migration in case it didn't go as planned.
The sample migrations here will give us a chance to show off some techniques for working with multi-valued fields, entity reference fields, and complex field types like controlled_access_terms's typed_relation field. We'll also see how the migrate framework can help de-duplicate, and at the same time, linked data-ize :tm: your data by looking up previously migrated entities.
So hold on to your hats. First, let's get this module onto your Islandora instance.
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Optionally, flush the cache (drush cr), so the migrations become visible in the GUI at Manage > Structure > Migrations > migrate_islandora_csv (http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/migrate/manage/migrate_islandora_csv/migrations)
Now lets go migrate some files.
Caution
As you saw, you can git clone into the modules directory, but if you're installing a custom module that's intended to stay installed for the long term (unlike a migration feature, which you should probably uninstall and delete when you're done with it) then you may want to check with your devops folks and use Composer instead. However, using Git directly allows you to be more flexible when iterating and testing.
To migrate files (i.e. just the raw binaries) from a CSV, you need: - a column in the CSV containing paths to the files you wish to ingest, and - the files need to be accessible from the server that's running Drupal so that the Migrate framework can find them.
This tutorial assumes you're working with the sample images provided in the module, which will be located at /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/images. When you're migrating for real, the files will have to be uploaded or otherwise made accessible to the server before this point.
Open up the CSV file at data/migration.csv and you'll see a file column containing paths to the sample images. You can use your favorite shell-based utility to open it at /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv, or browse to it on GitHub, or just look at it pasted below as this tutorial does not require you to edit the files.
Open up the \"files\" migration at config/install/migrate_plus.migration.file.yml. You'll see the following migration config:
id: file\nlabel: Import Image Files\nmigration_group: migrate_islandora_csv\n\nsource:\n plugin: csv\n path: '/var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv'\n delimiter: ','\n\n # 1 means you have a header row, 0 means you don't\n header_row_count: 1\n\n # Each migration needs a unique key (\"id\") per row in the CSV. Here we're using the file path.\n ids:\n - file\n\n # You can't enter string literals into a process plugin, but you can give it a constant as a 'source'.\n constants:\n # Islandora uses Flysystem and stream wrappers to work with files. What we're really saying here is\n # to put these files in Fedora in a 'csv_migration' folder. It doesn't matter if the directory\n # doesn't exist yet, it will get created for you automatically.\n destination_dir: 'fedora://csv_migration'\n\nprocess:\n\n ##\n # The following two fields are temporary, and just used to generate a destination for the file.\n ##\n\n # Hack the file name out of the full path provided in the 'file' column.\n filename:\n -\n plugin: callback\n callable: pathinfo\n source: file\n -\n plugin: extract\n index:\n - basename\n\n # Construct the destination URI using the file name.\n destination:\n plugin: concat\n delimiter: /\n source:\n - constants/destination_dir\n - '@filename'\n\n ##\n # Here's where we copy the file over and set the URI of the file entity.\n ##\n uri:\n plugin: file_copy\n source:\n - file # The source column in the CSV\n - '@destination' # The destination entry from above\n\ndestination:\n # These are Drupal 'image' entities we're making, not just plain 'file' entities.\n plugin: 'entity:file'\n type: image\nIt seems like a lot to take in at first, but there's a pattern to Drupal migrations. They always contain core identification information and three key sections: source, process, and destination. And these sections correspond exactly to Extract, Transform, and Load.
The first section of a migration contains metadata for Drupal about the migration itself. The id parameter is the machine name of this migration, and must not conflict with existing migrations. Note: use alphanumeric characters and underscores. Hyphens (-) will cause the migration to fail. The label is a human-readable string to identify this migration, and the migration_group is where this migration will be grouped in the GUI.
The source section configures a Drupal source plugin that will extract the data. A source plugin provides \"rows\" of data to processing plugins so that they can be worked on. In this case, we're using the csv source plugin, which very literally uses rows, however you can have source plugins that work with other data formats like XML and JSON. Look at the config from this section.
source:\n plugin: csv\n path: '/var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv'\n delimiter: ','\n header_row_count: 1\n ids:\n - file\n constants:\n destination_dir: 'fedora://csv_migration'\nWe're going to dive into the details of this step below, but in summary: the process section is where we extract the desired bits from that row, transform them as desired, and populate them into an associative array. This section is a series of named steps, that call one or more process plugins. These plugins are executed in sequence, with the results getting passed from one to the next, forming a pipeline. By the end of the step, you have transformed some element of data (perhaps through text manipulation, concatenation, etc...) into the form that Drupal is expecting. The resulting value gets associated with the name of the step.
If the name of a step is the same as a field or property name on the target entity, the migrated entity will have that value for that field or property. This is how you can apply metadata from the CSV to an entity. If the step name is not the name of a field or property on the target entity, the migrate framework assumes it's a temporary value you're using as part of more complex logic. It won't wind up on the entity when the migration is done, but it will be available for you to use within other process plugins. You can always spot when a temporary value is being used by the fact that it's prefixed with an @ and surrounded by quotes. You can also pass constants into process plugins, which are prefixed with constants/.
The destination section contains the configuration that describes what gets loaded into Drupal.
destination:\n plugin: 'entity:file'\n type: image\nIn the process section of the migration, we're copying the images over into a Drupal file system and setting the uri property on the corresponding File entity.
uri:\n plugin: file_copy\n source:\n - file\n - '@destination'\nfile_copy process plugin. But first, we have to know where a file is located and where it should be copied to. We know where the file resides, we have that in the CSV's file column. But we're going to have to do some string manipulation in order to generate the new location where we want the file copied. We're trying to convert something like /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/images/Free Smells.jpg to fedora://csv_migration/Free Smells.jpg. The URI we're constructing is a stream wrapper of the form scheme://path/to/file. Islandora uses Flysystem, which allows for integration with many different types of filesystems, both remote and local. With Flysystem, the scheme part of the URI is the name of a filesystem. By default, Fedora is exposed using the scheme fedora://. So by setting uri to fedora://csv_migration/Free Smells.jpg, we're saying \"put Free Smells.jpg in the csv_migration directory in Fedora.\"
Now, to perform this string manipulation in PHP, we'd do something like
$info = pathinfo($filepath);\n$filename = $info['basename'];\n$destination = \"fedora://csv_migration/\" . $filename;\nWe will mimic this exactly in the process section of our migration config. Just like we declare variables and call functions with PHP code, we can make entries in the process section to store the output of Drupal process plugins. We'll build up a destination \"variable\" using a filename \"variable\" and pass it into the file_copy process plugin.
To start, we'll get the filename using two process plugins, which do the same steps as the first two lines of the PHP above:
filename:\n -\n plugin: callback\n callable: pathinfo\n source: file\n -\n plugin: extract\n index:\n - basename\ncallback, lets you execute any PHP function that takes a single input and returns an output. It's not as flexible as making your own custom process plugin, but it's still pretty useful in a lot of situations. Here we're using it to call pathinfo(), telling it to use the file column in the CSV as input. We pass the resulting array from pathinfo() to the extract process plugin, which pulls data out of arrays using the keys you provide it under index. Now that we have the file name, we have to prepend it with fedora://csv_migration/ to make the destination URI. In our PHP code above, we used . to concatenate the strings. In the migration framework, we use the concat process plugin. You provide it with two or more strings to concatenate, as well as a delimiter.
destination:\n plugin: concat\n delimiter: /\n source:\n - constants/destination_dir\n - '@filename'\nIn our PHP code, we concatenated the $filename variable with a string literal. In our process plugin, we can provide the variable, e.g. the output of the filename process step, by prefixing it with an @. We can't, however, pass in fedora://csv_migration directly as a string. At first glance, you might think something like this would work, but it totally doesn't:
# Can't do this. Won't work at all.\n destination:\n plugin: concat\n delimiter: /\n source:\n - 'fedora://csv_migration'\n - '@filename'\nsource values as names of columns from the CSV or names of other process steps. Even if they're wrapped in quotes. It will never try to use the string directly as a value. To circumvent this, we declare a constant in the source section of the migration config. constants:\n destination_dir: 'fedora://csv_migration'\nThis constant can be referenced as constants/destination_dir and passed into the concat process plugin as a source.
There are a lot more process plugins available through the (core) Migrate and Migrate Plus modules, and they are documented on Drupal.org.
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drush -y --userid=1 --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:import file\n--update flag. drush -y --userid=1 --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:import file --update\nmigration_group in their configuration. You can execute an entire group of migrations using the --group flag. For example, to run the entire group defined in this module drush -y --userid=1 --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:import --group migrate_islandora_csv\nmigrate:rollback command to delete all migrated entities. Like migrate:import, it also respects the --group flag and --uri parameter. So to rollback everything we just did: drush -y --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:rollback --group migrate_islandora_csv\nmigrate:reset command to put a migration back to Idle. For example, with the file migration, use drush -y --uri=localhost:8000 migrate:reset file\nMake sure you've run (and not rolled back) the file migration. It should tell you that it successfully created 5 files. You can confirm its success by visiting http://localhost:8000/admin/content/files. You should see 5 images of neon signs in the list.
Those five images are nice, but we need something to hold their descriptive metadata and show them off. We use nodes in Drupal to do this, and that means we have another migration file to work with. Nestled in with our nodes' descriptive metadata, though, are more Drupal entities, and we're going to generate them on the fly while we're making nodes. While we're doing it, we'll see how to use pipe delimited strings for multiple values as well as how to handle typed_relation fields that are provided by controlled_access_terms. Open up /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/config/install/migrate_plus.migration.node.yml and check it out.
# Uninstall this config when the feature is uninstalled\ndependencies:\n enforced:\n module:\n - migrate_islandora_csv\n\nid: node\nlabel: Import Nodes from CSV\nmigration_group: migrate_islandora_csv\n\nsource:\n plugin: csv\n path: modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv\n\n # 1 means you have a header row, 0 means you don't\n header_row_count: 1\n\n # Each migration needs a unique id per row in the csv. Here we're using the file path.\n ids:\n - file\n\n # You can't enter string literals into a process plugin, but you can give it a constant as a 'source'.\n constants:\n # We're tagging our nodes as Images\n model: Image\n\n # Everything gets created as admin\n uid: 1\n\n# Set fields using values from the CSV\nprocess:\n title: title\n uid: constants/uid\n\n # We use the skip_on_empty plugin because\n # not every row in the CSV has subtitle filled\n # in.\n field_alternative_title:\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n source: subtitle\n method: process\n\n field_description: description\n\n # Dates are EDTF strings\n field_edtf_date: issued\n\n # Make the object an 'Image'\n field_model:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/model\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_models\n\n # Split up our pipe-delimited string of\n # subjects, and generate terms for each.\n field_subject:\n -\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n source: subject\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: entity_generate\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: subject\n\n # If you have multiple values of a complex\n # field, iterate over them using sub_process.\n # But sub_process requires structured data\n # i.e. an associative array, not a string\n # or list of strings. To turn strings into\n # associative arrays, use the custom\n # process plugin str_to_assoc.\n\n # Extract a list of names from the column\n # called photographer, and transform it into\n # an array of associative arrays.\n photographers:\n -\n source: photographer\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: str_to_assoc\n key: 'name'\n\n # Iterate over the array of associative arrays.\n # We create the taxonomy terms here so that we\n # can specify the bundle - other columns which\n # might feed into field_linked_agent may contain\n # corporate bodies or families. The resulting\n # array contains the resulting term id (tid)\n # under the key 'target_id'.\n # We also add a key-value pair\n # 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht'. Other columns\n # might use different relators.\n linked_agent_pht:\n plugin: sub_process\n source: '@photographers'\n process:\n target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: name\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: person\n rel_type:\n plugin: default_value\n default_value: 'relators:pht'\n\n # Extract an array of names from the column\n # called provider\n providers:\n -\n source: provider\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: str_to_assoc\n key: 'name'\n # Generate/lookup taxonomy terms in the\n # corporate body vocab, and add the relator.\n linked_agent_prv:\n plugin: sub_process\n source: '@providers'\n process:\n target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: name\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: 'corporate_body'\n rel_type:\n plugin: default_value\n default_value: 'relators:prv'\n\n # Write to the linked agent field. In this case\n # we first want to merge the info from the\n # photographer and provider columns. Since we\n # already prepared our structured array using\n # the components of the typed_relation field as\n # keys ('target_id' and 'rel_type'), we can just\n # pass this array into field_linked_agent.\n field_linked_agent:\n plugin: merge\n source:\n - '@linked_agent_pht'\n - '@linked_agent_prv'\n\n# We're making nodes\ndestination:\n plugin: 'entity:node'\n default_bundle: islandora_object\nThe source section looks mostly the same other than some different constants we're defining - the string \"Image\" (no quotes needed) and the drupal ID of the user who will be assigned as the author. If values contained special characters such as colons, quotes would be needed.
If you look at the process section, you can see we're taking the title, description, and issued columns from the CSV and applying them directly to the migrated nodes without any manipulation.
title: title\n field_description: description\n field_edtf_date: issued\nsubtitle, we're passing it through the skip_on_empty process plugin because not every row in our CSV has a subtitle entry. It's very useful when you have spotty data, and you'll end up using it a lot. The method: process bit tells the migrate framework only skip that particular field if the value is empty, and not to skip the whole row. It's important, so don't forget it. The full YAML for setting field_alternative_title from subtitle looks like this: field_alternative_title:\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n source: subtitle\n method: process\nNow here's where things get interesting. We can look up other entities to populate entity reference fields. For example, all Repository Items have an entity reference field that holds a taxonomy term from the islandora_models vocabulary. All of our examples are images, so we'll look up the Image model in the vocabulary since it already exists (it gets made for you when you use islandora-playbook). We use the entity_lookup process plugin to do this.
field_model:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/model\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n # 'name' is the string value of the term, e.g. 'Original file', 'Thumbnail'.\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_models\nThe entity_lookup process plugin looks up an entity based on the configuration you give it. You use the entity_type, bundle_key, and bundle configurations to limit which entities you search through. entity_type is, as you'd suspect, the type of entity: node, media, file, taxonomy_term, etc... bundle_key tells the migrate framework which property holds the bundle of the entity, and bundle is the actual bundle id you want to restrict by. In this case we specify the vid (vocabulary id) has to be islandora_models - which is the machine name of the vocabulary we're interested in. In this plugin, source is the value to search for - in this case we're looking for the string \"Image\", which we've defined as a constant. And we're comparing it to the name field on each term by setting the value_key config.
This approach applies the same taxonomy term to all objects. If you want to assign a taxonomy term at the node level (that is, potentially a different term for each node) rather than to all the nodes being imported, you can use a configuration as illustrated next. In this example, we have a column in our CSV input file with the header 'model', which we define as the source of the field_model values:
field_model:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n # 'model' is the header of a field in our input CSV that contains the string value of the taxonomy term.\n source: model\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_models\nIf you're not sure that the entities you're looking up already exist, you can use the entity_generate plugin, which takes the same config, but will create a new entity if the lookup fails. We use this plugin to create subject taxonomy terms that we tag our nodes with. A node can have multiple subjects, so we've encoded them in the CSV as pipe delimited strings.
We can hack those apart easily enough. In PHP we'd do something like
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$node->set('field_color', ['R' => 255, 'G' => 255, 'B' => 255]);\nYou could even have a multi-valued color field, and do something like this
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In controlled_access_terms, we define a new field type of typed_relation, which is an entity reference coupled with a MARC relator. It expects an associative array that looks like this:
[ 'target_id' => 1, 'rel_type' => 'relators:ctb']\nThe target_id portion takes an entity id, and rel_type takes the predicate for the MARC relator we want to use to describe the relationship the entity has with the repository item. This example would reference taxonomy_term 1 and give it the relator for \"Contributor\".
If we have a single name to deal with, we can set those values in YAML, accessing field_linked_agent/target_id and field_linked_agent/rel_type independently.
field_linked_agent/target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: photographer\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: person\n\n field_linked_agent/rel_type: constants/relator\nHere we're looking at the photographer column in the CSV, which contains the names of the photographers that captured these images. Since we know these are photographers, and not publishers or editors, we can bake in the relator constant we set to relators:pht in the source section of the migration. So all that's left to do is to set the taxonomy term's id via entity_generate. If the lookup succeeds, the id is returned. If it fails, a term is created and its id is returned. In the end, by using the / syntax to set properties on complex fields, everything gets wrapped up into that nice associative array structure for you automatically.
However, if you have multiple names, and/or multiple columns that contain values that will go into the same typed_relation field, you do need to build up a full array of structured data.
We start by extracting the values in the photographer column, and busting them into a list. (In this case, given the sample data, the lists will all have length 1). Then, we use a custom process plugin to make each value the value in an associative array (see example data below).
photographers:\n -\n source: photographer\n plugin: skip_on_empty\n method: process\n -\n plugin: explode\n delimiter: '|'\n -\n plugin: str_to_assoc\n key: 'name'\nSo, if we started with a column containing
'Alice|Bob|Charlie'\nphotographers temporary variable would contain [\n ['name' => 'Alice'],\n ['name' => 'Bob'],\n ['name' => 'Charlie]\n]\nNext, we use the sub_process plugin. It takes an array of associative arrays (as seen above) and iterates over them. From within subprocess' process parameter, you can access only what's defined in that associative array. Here, when we do our entity_generate lookup, our source is name, the (only) key in that array.
linked_agent_pht:\n plugin: sub_process\n source: '@photographers'\n process:\n target_id:\n plugin: entity_generate\n source: name\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: person\n rel_type:\n plugin: default_value\n default_value: 'relators:pht'\nsub_process, we cannot access the temporary variables or constants that we've created in the outer migration. This is why we use the default_value plugin when for the rel_type. It would have been simpler to define a constant as we did with 'Image', but we wouldn't be able to access it. The output of this pipeline is now formatted as the structured data expected by a typed_relation field: [\n ['target_id' => 42, 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht' ],\n ['target_id' => 43, 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht' ],\n ['target_id' => 44, 'rel_type' => 'relators:pht' ],\n]\nfield_linked_agent. We don't have to assign the sub-components of field_linked_agent here, because this is already the structured data it is looking for. field_linked_agent:\n plugin: merge\n source:\n - '@linked_agent_pht'\n - '@linked_agent_prv'\nClear as mud? Great. Now let's run that migration.
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Media entities are Drupal's solution for fieldable files. Since you can't put fields on a file, what you can do is wrap the file with a Media entity. In addition to a reference to the file (binary), technical metadata and structural metadata for the file go on the Media entity (e.g. MIME type, file size, resolution). Media also have a few special fields that are required for Islandora, field_media_of and field_use, which denote what node owns the media and what role the media serves, respectively. Since the Media entity references both the file it wraps and the node that owns it, Media entities act as a bridge between files and nodes, tying them together. And to do this, we make use of one last process plugin, migration_lookup. Open up /var/www/html/drupal/web/modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/config/install/migrate_plus.migration.media.yml and give it a look.
# Uninstall this config when the feature is uninstalled\ndependencies:\n enforced:\n module:\n - migrate_islandora_csv\n\nid: media\nlabel: Import Media from CSV\nmigration_group: migrate_islandora_csv\n\nsource:\n plugin: csv\n path: modules/contrib/migrate_islandora_csv/data/migration.csv\n\n # 1 means you have a header row, 0 means you don't\n header_row_count: 1\n\n # Each migration needs a unique key per row in the csv. Here we're using the file path.\n ids:\n - file\n\n # You can't enter string literals into a process plugin, but you can give it a constant as a 'source'.\n constants:\n # We're tagging our media as Original Files\n use: Original File\n\n # Everything gets created as admin\n uid: 1\n\nprocess:\n\n name: title\n uid: constants/uid\n\n # Make the media an 'Original File'\n field_media_use:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/use\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_media_use\n\n # Lookup the migrated file in the file migration.\n field_media_image:\n plugin: migration_lookup\n source: file\n migration: file\n no_stub: true\n\n # Lookup the migrated node in the node migration\n field_media_of:\n plugin: migration_lookup\n source: file\n migration: node\n no_stub: true\n\ndestination:\n # These are 'image' media we're making.\n plugin: 'entity:media'\n default_bundle: image\n\nmigration_dependencies:\n required:\n - migrate_plus.migration.file\n - migrate_plus.migration.node\n optional: { }\nThe Breakdown
Compared to the other migrations, this one is very straightforward. There's no string or array manipulation in YAML, and at most there's only one process plugin per field. Title and user are set directly, with no processing required
name: title\n uid: constants/uid\nfield_media_use field is a tag that's used to denote the purpose of a file with regard to the node it belongs to. E.g. is this the original file? a lower quality derivative? thumbnail? etc... In many ways it bears a resemblance to DSID in Islandora 7.x. Like field_model with nodes, the vocabulary already exists in your Islandora install, so all you have to do is look it up with the entity_lookup plugin. # Make the media an 'Original File'\n field_media_use:\n plugin: entity_lookup\n source: constants/use\n entity_type: taxonomy_term\n value_key: name\n bundle_key: vid\n bundle: islandora_media_use\nfield_media_image and field_media_of fields are how the media binds a file to a node. You could use entity_lookup or entity_generate, but we've already migrated them and can very easily look them up by the id assigned to them during migration. But what's the benefit of doing so? The entity_lookup and entity_generate process plugins do the job fine, right? The main advantage of using migration_lookup and defining migrations whenever possible, is that migrated entities can be rolled back. If you were to hop into your console and execute
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If you've made it all the way to the end here, then you've learned that you can migrate files and CSV metadata into Islandora using only YAML files. You've seen how to transform data with pipelines of processing plugins and can handle numeric, text, and entity reference fields. You can handle multiple values for fields, and even more complicated things like typed_relation fields. And as big as this walkthrough was, we're only scratching the surface of what can be done with the Migrate API.
There's certainly more you can do with Drupal 8's Migrate API. There's a plethora of source and processing plugins out there that can handle pretty much anything you throw at it. XML and JSON are fair game. You can also request sources using HTTP, so you can always point it at an existing systems REST API and go from there. If you can't make the Migrate API's existing workflow make the necessary changes to your data, you can expand its capabilities by writing your own process plugins. Reading the Drupal.org documentation on the Migrate API would be a good place to start.
But really the best thing to do is try and get your data into Islandora! We intend to create a boilerplate branch of this repository that will allow you to clone down a migration template, ready for you to customize to fit your data. And as you assemble it into CSV format, keep in mind that if you have more than just names for things like subjects and authors, that you can always make more CSVs. Think of it like maintaining tables in an SQL database. Each CSV has unique keys, so you can lookup/join entities between CSVs using those keys. And you can still pipe-delimit the keys like we did in our example to handle multi-valued fields.
In some repositories, these CSVs can be used to make bulk updates to metadata. Just make your changes to maintain the CSVs, then run the migration(s) again with the --update flag. This will not always be efficient, as you'll update every entity, even if it didn't change. But, by breaking down your CSVs per collection or object type, you could keep them small enough to use this process for a small repository.
There is also a tool for migrating directly from a Legacy Islandora to Islandora (migrate_7x_claw), using Solr, XPaths, and Fedora calls to pull files and objects directly into Islandora. It may be worth checking out, and/or using in conjunction with a CSV migration.
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Review the Ubuntu Packaging Guide. Key items needed are in the Getting Set Up section:
sudo apt install gnupg pbuilder ubuntu-dev-tools apt-filepbuilder:pbuilder-dist bionic createdebuild:imagemagick is used an example. If you need to only change or patch the actual source code, then you will need to use quilt. More information on using quilt can be found in the Patches to Packages section. If you are only change dependencies, or information in the debian directory of a package, quilt is not required, and if used will cause build failures.
mkdir imagemagick-bionic-jp2cd imagemagick-bionic-jp2pull-lp-source imagemagick bioniccd imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsgdch (Make sure to change UNRELEASED to the Ubuntu release name. For example: bionic)debuild -SIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/control\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control\n@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),\n libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxt-dev,\n # for plugins\n ghostscript, libdjvulibre-dev, libexif-dev,\n- libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n libopenexr-dev, libperl-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev,\n libwmf-dev,\n # libgraphviz-dev, incompatible license against fftw\n@@ -273,8 +272,7 @@ Depends: libmagickcore-6-headers (= ${so\n libmagickcore-6.q16-3 (= ${binary:Version}),\n libmagickcore-6.q16-3-extra (= ${binary:Version}),\n libbz2-dev, libdjvulibre-dev,\n- libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n liblcms2-dev, liblqr-1-0-dev, libltdl-dev, libopenexr-dev, libpng-dev,\n librsvg2-dev, libtiff-dev, libwmf-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxml2-dev,\n libxt-dev, zlib1g-dev,\n@@ -483,8 +481,7 @@ Depends: libmagickcore-6-headers (= ${so\n libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3 (= ${binary:Version}),\n libmagickcore-6.q16hdri-3-extra (= ${binary:Version}),\n libbz2-dev, libdjvulibre-dev,\n- libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n liblcms2-dev, liblqr-1-0-dev, libltdl-dev, libopenexr-dev, libpng-dev,\n librsvg2-dev, libtiff-dev, libwmf-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxml2-dev,\n libxt-dev, zlib1g-dev,\nIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/noquantum.in\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/control.d/noquantum.in\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/noquantum.in\n@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10),\n libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxt-dev,\n # for plugins\n ghostscript, libdjvulibre-dev, libexif-dev,\n- libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n libopenexr-dev, libperl-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev,\n libwmf-dev,\n # libgraphviz-dev, incompatible license against fftw\nIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/quantum.in\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/control.d/quantum.in\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/control.d/quantum.in\n@@ -78,8 +78,7 @@ Depends: libmagickcore-${IMVERSION}-head\n libmagickcore-${IMVERSION}.${QUANTUMDEPTH}-${CORESOVERSION} (= ${binary:Version}),\n libmagickcore-${IMVERSION}.${QUANTUMDEPTH}-${CORESOVERSION}-extra (= ${binary:Version}),\n libbz2-dev, libdjvulibre-dev,\n- libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev,\n-# libopenjp2-7-dev, Needed for JPEG 2000 but not in main see MIR #711061\n+ libexif-dev, libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libopenjp2-7-dev,\n liblcms2-dev, liblqr-1-0-dev, libltdl-dev, libopenexr-dev, libpng-dev,\n librsvg2-dev, libtiff-dev, libwmf-dev, libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxml2-dev,\n libxt-dev, zlib1g-dev,\nIndex: imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/rules\n===================================================================\n--- imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig/debian/rules\n+++ imagemagick-6.9.7.4+dfsg/debian/rules\n@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ STATIC_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS := \\\n --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts \\\n --with-magick-plus-plus \\\n --with-djvu \\\n- --with-openjp2 \\\n+ --with-openjp2 \\\n --with-wmf \\\n --without-gvc \\\n --enable-shared \\\nOnce the package is built successfully, you'll upload the changes file to Launchpad. For example:
dput ppa:lyrasis/imagemagick-jp2 imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8_source.changesAfter the package is successfully uploaded to the PPA, you'll receive an email from Launchpad. Something like this:
Accepted:\n OK: imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg.orig.tar.xz\n OK: imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8.debian.tar.xz\n OK: imagemagick_6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8.dsc\n -> Component: main Section: graphics\n\nimagemagick (8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-16ubuntu6.8) bionic; urgency=medium\n\n * Add jp2 support.\nAnd you will see it in the interface for the Lyrasis PPA:
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# Skip this if you VM is already provisioned.\n$ vagrant up --no-provision <-- Exclude if already running and provisioned.\n\n$ vagrant halt\n\n# Download and run. This will default to the correct name (just press enter) then give the size.\n# Example: `350000` is equal to 350GB\n$ wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/DonRichards/6dc6c81ae9fc22cba8d7a57b90ab1509/raw/45017e07a3b93657f8822dfbbe4fc690169cdabc/expand_disk.py\n$ chmod +x expand_disk.py\n$ python expand_disk.py\n$ vagrant up --no-provision\n\n# This step isn't needed but acts as a check to verify it worked.\n$ vagrant ssh --command \"sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1\"\n# Skip this if you VM is already provisioned.\n$ vagrant provision <-- Exclude if already provisioned.\nYou may need to remove the \"resized\" version. Assuming your VM location is ~/VirtualBox\\ VMs
$ rm -rf ~/VirtualBox\\ VMs/Islandora\\ CLAW\\ Ansible_resized\nIf your resources are restricted (hidden) you will need to have authorization to access them.
You can specify which types of authentication are allowed for which HTTP methods.
These are common to all HTTP methods against the REST API.
In the above screenshot we have 3 allowed methods. 1. basic_auth 1. jwt_auth 1. cookie
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For example:
curl -u admin:islandora http://localhost:8000/node/3\nBy default JWTs are passed internally from Drupal to various microservices and Fedora.
To use a JWT yourself you need to enable the JWT Authentication Issuer module.
Once enabled this module makes a /jwt/token endpoint. You can perform a GET against this endpoint as an authenticated user to receive a JWT.
For example:
curl -i -u admin:islandora http://localhost:8000/jwt/token\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:08:37 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 620\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\n \"token\" : \"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1NTE3MzczMTcsImV4cCI6MTU1MTc0NDUxNywiZHJ1cGFsIjp7InVpZCI6IjEifSwid2ViaWQiOiIxIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2xvY2FsaG9zdDo4MDAwIiwic3ViIjoiYWRtaW4iLCJyb2xlcyI6WyJhdXRoZW50aWNhdGVkIiwiYWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImZlZG9yYWFkbWluIl19.QUTrMiK_DyBxqQY4LnibLYtieEW3-MyjjQO9NSFI7bPylNm1S5ZY0uvzjDob3ckYgRN4uCyMFZO4BPytpQVA_jyeSuZyUA_10v33ItpoKyjrJ_S057iykNd_rWmxe8tT8T1fPypq_-Z7Th_PkyZWrYBqoBBVO1iVQt5txxfGWMqhxd2FgsXw6N-aR9sYOSc4UrLmFRmPP5Zk_CNIZP6NtBaM9JNr8CnWyPEFSAR75xfyH3ge5qjBqLlDS389k07pyJFB5rOT59txzLE9WLvpp9JK3oQv821Q1Bp-PMiASghXc0dBCHxM8o41BzLE88UstRA7agBAkUqG3hMpoNZqfA\"\n}\nYou can then take the same token and re-use it.
curl -H\"Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1NTE3MzczMTcsImV4cCI6MTU1MTc0NDUxNywiZHJ1cGFsIjp7InVpZCI6IjEifSwid2ViaWQiOiIxIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2xvY2FsaG9zdDo4MDAwIiwic3ViIjoiYWRtaW4iLCJyb2xlcyI6WyJhdXRoZW50aWNhdGVkIiwiYWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImZlZG9yYWFkbWluIl19.QUTrMiK_DyBxqQY4LnibLYtieEW3-MyjjQO9NSFI7bPylNm1S5ZY0uvzjDob3ckYgRN4uCyMFZO4BPytpQVA_jyeSuZyUA_10v33ItpoKyjrJ_S057iykNd_rWmxe8tT8T1fPypq_-Z7Th_PkyZWrYBqoBBVO1iVQt5txxfGWMqhxd2FgsXw6N-aR9sYOSc4UrLmFRmPP5Zk_CNIZP6NtBaM9JNr8CnWyPEFSAR75xfyH3ge5qjBqLlDS389k07pyJFB5rOT59txzLE9WLvpp9JK3oQv821Q1Bp-PMiASghXc0dBCHxM8o41BzLE88UstRA7agBAkUqG3hMpoNZqfA\" http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=jsonld\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 22:10:02 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c513>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Service File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/3>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Thumbnail Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/json\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: HIT\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 858\nContent-Type: application/ld+json\n\n{\n \"@graph\": [\n {\n \"@id\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/node\\\\/3?_format=jsonld\",\n \"@type\": [\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/pcdm.org\\\\/models#Object\"\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/purl.org\\\\/dc\\\\/terms\\\\/title\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"Custom item\",\n \"@language\": \"en\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/author\": [\n {\n \"@id\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/user\\\\/1?_format=jsonld\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/dateCreated\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"2019-03-01T19:42:54+00:00\",\n \"@type\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/www.w3.org\\\\/2001\\\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/dateModified\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:12+00:00\",\n \"@type\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/www.w3.org\\\\/2001\\\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/purl.org\\\\/dc\\\\/terms\\\\/extent\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"1 item\",\n \"@type\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/www.w3.org\\\\/2001\\\\/XMLSchema#string\"\n }\n ],\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/sameAs\": [\n {\n \"@value\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/node\\\\/1?_format=jsonld\"\n }\n ]\n },\n {\n \"@id\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/user\\\\/1?_format=jsonld\",\n \"@type\": [\n \"http:\\\\/\\\\/schema.org\\\\/Person\"\n ]\n }\n ]\n}\nThis allows you to use a cookie stored in your web browser when you log in to Drupal to access these REST endpoint pages.
This is what allows you to access the URIs like http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=json with your web browser.
You will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to create content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/rest-create/#content-nodes","title":"Content (Nodes)","text":"The above setup shows a configuration where the JSON format is enabled for GET, PATCH, DELETE, and POST, with authentication types \"basic_auth\" and \"jwt_auth\" enabled for each method. Thus, with this configuration, you can perform a POST request against a node at the /node endpoint with a body in the JSON format.
To create a node, you need to provide two elements in your message body: the node type and any required field values.
For the Repository Item content type included in the Islandora Starter Site, these are:
A good way to make your first POST request is to perform a GET request against an existing node and erase all the extra content.
You can find more information about GET requests here.
Again we are using the json format.
\ud83c\udf4e For example curl -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json
Look for the type element
\"type\" : [\n {\n \"target_id\" : \"islandora_object\",\n \"target_type\" : \"node_type\",\n \"target_uuid\" : \"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"\n }\n]\nIn our example \"islandora_object\" is the machine name of the content type \"Repository Item\". If you have created a new type you will have a different target_id.
You will not need the target_uuid.
Next look for the title element
\"title\" : [\n {\n \"value\" : \"An example Islandora object\"\n }\n]\nLastly look for the field_model element
\"field_model\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 24,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e7560b68-e95a-4e76-9671-2a3041cd9800\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/taxonomy\\\\/term\\\\/24\"\n }\n]\nYou can find the models by browsing the taxonomy terms available at http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/islandora_models/overview
In my example installation, term 24 is an \"Image\", but let's create a collection which is term 23.
Note: Taxonomy terms may vary between instances and you should verify the correct number for your installation.
So the body of the request will be:
{\n \"type\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": \"islandora_object\",\n \"target_type\": \"node_type\"\n }\n ],\n \"title\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"Created a collection with POST\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_model\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 23,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\"\n }\n ]\n}\nNote: You must include an appropriate Content-type header for the format you're requesting
Other Note: You must include some authentication credentials to say who you are and so Drupal can check if you are allowed to create this object. Otherwise you will receive a 401 Unauthorized response.
If you do provide credentials but don't have permission, you will receive a 403 Forbidden response.
You can find more information about Authorization here
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
curl -i -X POST -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" --data '{\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\"}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Created a collection with POST\"}],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 201 Created\nDate: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 18:07:00 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nLocation: http://localhost:8000/node/3\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1564\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Created a collection with POST\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"6a3b293d-4617-417b-99d2-23d75b57f7c2\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/23\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nThe parts of the above request are:
-i - return the response headers-X POST - send a POST request-u admin:islandora - use these basic authentication credentials-H\"Content-type: application/json\" - send the content-type header--data '{...}' - send the request body (seen above)'http://localhost:8000/node?_format=json' - the endpoint of the requestThe Drupal REST UI is supposed to have a way to upload files, but this seems to require the use of an X-CSRF-Token, which can only be retrieved using Cookie authentication and even then does not allow you to upload.
However there is a special REST endpoint created by Islandora, which is less configurable and is not part of the above-mentioned REST UI.
This endpoint is available at http://localhost:8000/node/{node id}/media/{media type}/{media use}
It only accepts PUT requests. If the media and file don't exist they are created, if they exist the file is updated with the new body.
The node id and taxonomy term id are used to search (via an entity query) for a matching media. If this media exists the body of the file is replaced with the new content, otherwise a new file and media are created to hold the content.
The tokens to this URI are as follows:
You can find the media use taxonomy terms at http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/taxonomy/manage/islandora_media_use/overview
The body of the request is the actual binary file to upload.
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
With a local file called my-image.png that I wanted to link to a node with ID 3.
I am using the taxonomy term \"Original file\", which on my machine is 16
> curl -i -X PUT -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: image/png\" --data-binary \"@my-image.png\" -H\"Content-Location: public://images/my-image.png\" 'http://localhost:8000/node/3/media/image/16'\n\nHTTP/1.1 100 Continue\n\nHTTP/1.1 201 Created\nDate: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:01:39 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLocation: http://localhost:8000/media/4\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 0\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nThe parts of the above request are:
-i - return the response headers-X PUT - send a PUT request-u admin:islandora - use these basic authentication credentials-H\"Content-type: image/png\" - send the content-type header--data-binary \"@my-image.png\" - send the contents of the file located at my-image.png as binary-H\"Content-Location: public://images/my-image.png\" - store the file in the public scheme (ie. in Drupal) at the path images/my-image.png, to store the file in Fedora use the fedora// scheme (ie. fedora://images/my-image.png)'http://localhost:8000/node/3/media/image/16' - the endpoint of the request specifying the node, media type and taxonomy term.Deleting is as easy as getting resources and more difficult than creating resources.
If you can perform a GET request then you have the information required to perform a DELETE request.
Check out the examples below.
If you have restricted access to view your content, you will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to access your content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
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A delete is simply the same request as a GET but sending a DELETE http verb.
Our example node has a node id of 2
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:02:00 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=2>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=2>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Collection>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Collection\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: MISS\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1564\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":2}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"413135a6-0bd1-4d6b-8bcb-059cf7784d83\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":2}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:04:43+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Created a collection with POST\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:04:43+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:04:43+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"6a3b293d-4617-417b-99d2-23d75b57f7c2\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/23\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}%\nThen we switch GET to DELETE
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 204 No Content\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:02:30 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nAll subsequent requests to the above URI will return a 404 Not Found status code.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/node/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:12:58 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 149\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"message\":\"The \\u0022node\\u0022 parameter was not converted for the path \\u0022\\/node\\/{node}\\u0022 (route name: \\u0022rest.entity.node.GET\\u0022)\"}\nYou will need a media id as used in GET documentation.
A delete is simply the same request as a GET but sending a DELETE http verb.
With a media id of 1 for our example, I'll perform a GET
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:53:54 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-page\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add/image>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/media>; rel=\"collection\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/delete?media=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Media of\"\nLink: <http://pcdm.org/use#OriginalFile>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/source>; rel=\"edit-media\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/_flysystem/fedora/2019-03/Louis_Riel.jpg>; rel=\"describes\"; type=\"image/jpeg\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: HIT\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1937\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"mid\":[{\"value\":1}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"d8893926-ddb7-4125-b2da-30428af0fe3d\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":1}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"bundle\":[{\"target_id\":\"image\",\"target_type\":\"media_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"3860e653-201b-4509-89dd-628c446d81cb\"}],\"revision_created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:46+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_user\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log_message\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"name\":[{\"value\":\"An image\"}],\"thumbnail\":[{\"target_id\":2,\"alt\":\"A portrait of Louis Riel\",\"title\":null,\"width\":800,\"height\":1333,\"target_type\":\"file\",\"target_uuid\":\"b0625129-c592-463a-93c3-3eff7cd3567e\",\"url\":\"http:\\/\\/localhost:8000\\/_flysystem\\/fedora\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:22+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:46+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_file_size\":[{\"value\":166613}],\"field_height\":[{\"value\":1333}],\"field_media_image\":[{\"target_id\":2,\"alt\":\"A portrait of Louis Riel\",\"title\":\"\",\"width\":800,\"height\":1333,\"target_type\":\"file\",\"target_uuid\":\"b0625129-c592-463a-93c3-3eff7cd3567e\",\"url\":\"http:\\/\\/localhost:8000\\/_flysystem\\/fedora\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"field_media_of\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"node\",\"target_uuid\":\"8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52\",\"url\":\"\\/node\\/1\"}],\"field_media_use\":[{\"target_id\":16,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"08e01ff9-eb72-42f5-ae3a-8b21ba0c0bc3\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/16\"}],\"field_mime_type\":[{\"value\":\"image\\/jpeg\"}],\"field_width\":[{\"value\":800}]}\nThen we replace GET with DELETE.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 204 No Content\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:54:55 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nSubsequent requests to the media return 404 Not Found statuses.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X GET 'http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:13:45 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 153\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"message\":\"The \\u0022media\\u0022 parameter was not converted for the path \\u0022\\/media\\/{media}\\u0022 (route name: \\u0022rest.entity.media.GET\\u0022)\"}\nYou'll need the file id, there is more information at the top of the GET requests for files documentation.
A delete is simply the same request as a GET but sending a DELETE http verb.
With a file id of 2 for our example, I can perform a test GET
> curl -i -u admin:islandora 'http://localhost:8000/entity/file/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:40:40 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: MISS\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 617\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"fid\":[{\"value\":2}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"b0625129-c592-463a-93c3-3eff7cd3567e\"}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"filename\":[{\"value\":\"Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"uri\":[{\"value\":\"fedora:\\/\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\",\"url\":\"\\/_flysystem\\/fedora\\/2019-03\\/Louis_Riel.jpg\"}],\"filemime\":[{\"value\":\"image\\/jpeg\"}],\"filesize\":[{\"value\":166613}],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:35+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-01T19:43:46+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}]}\nIf this is the correct file, I can delete it.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -X DELETE 'http://localhost:8000/entity/file/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 204 No Content\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:43:22 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\nSubsequent requests to the URI now return a 404 Not Found status.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora 'http://localhost:8000/entity/file/2?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\nDate: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:43:33 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 157\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"message\":\"The \\u0022file\\u0022 parameter was not converted for the path \\u0022\\/entity\\/file\\/{file}\\u0022 (route name: \\u0022rest.entity.file.GET\\u0022)\"}\nIf you have restricted access to view your content, you will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to access your content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/rest-get/#content-nodes","title":"Content (Nodes)","text":"The above setup shows that you can perform a GET request against a node at the /node/{id} endpoint. This is the same as the URL when viewed through a web browser. For example http://localhost:8000/node/2
It also defines the formats you can access. In this example json and jsonld are available.
To access a resource in a specific format use the _format= argument which is appended to the end of the URI after a ?.
To get the resource located at http://localhost:8000/node/3 in JSON, you can go to http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json.
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
You can do this in your web browser or with a command line client like cURL. (Note: response body here has been formatted, yours will look different)
vagrant@claw:~$ curl -i http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:53:50 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=3>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c513>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Service File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/3>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Thumbnail Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nX-Drupal-Dynamic-Cache: MISS\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nX-Drupal-Cache: MISS\nContent-Length: 1521\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\n \"nid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1\n }\n ],\n \"uuid\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52\"\n }\n ],\n \"vid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1\n }\n ],\n \"langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"en\"\n }\n ],\n \"type\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": \"islandora_object\",\n \"target_type\": \"node_type\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_timestamp\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:12+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_uid\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"user\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/user\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_log\": [],\n \"status\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"title\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"Custom item\"\n }\n ],\n \"uid\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"user\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/user\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"created\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:42:54+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"changed\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:12+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"promote\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"sticky\": [\n {\n \"value\": false\n }\n ],\n \"default_langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"revision_translation_affected\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_source\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"und\"\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_outdated\": [\n {\n \"value\": false\n }\n ],\n \"field_alternative_title\": [],\n \"field_description\": [],\n \"field_display_hints\": [],\n \"field_edtf_date\": [],\n \"field_edtf_date_created\": [],\n \"field_edtf_date_issued\": [],\n \"field_extent\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"1 item\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_identifier\": [],\n \"field_linked_agent\": [],\n \"field_member_of\": [],\n \"field_model\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 24,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e7560b68-e95a-4e76-9671-2a3041cd9800\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/taxonomy\\\\/term\\\\/24\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_pid\": [],\n \"field_resource_type\": [],\n \"field_rights\": [],\n \"field_subject\": []\n}\nThe above steps are the same for media, it is just the URI that has changed.
For media you use /media/{id}
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
curl -u admin:islandora http://localhost:8000/media/2?_format=json\n\n{\n \"mid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 2\n }\n ],\n \"uuid\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"e75e609d-510c-4764-9280-665bb7026161\"\n }\n ],\n \"vid\": [\n {\n \"value\": 2\n }\n ],\n \"langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"en\"\n }\n ],\n \"bundle\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": \"image\",\n \"target_type\": \"media_type\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"3860e653-201b-4509-89dd-628c446d81cb\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_created\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:48+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"revision_user\": [],\n \"revision_log_message\": [],\n \"status\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"name\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"1-Service File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\n \"thumbnail\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 3,\n \"alt\": null,\n \"title\": null,\n \"width\": 800,\n \"height\": 1333,\n \"target_type\": \"file\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e97ad038-dcb3-4d81-aa91-c945b2fe092c\",\n \"url\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/sites\\\\/default\\\\/files\\\\/2019-03\\\\/1-Service%20File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\n \"uid\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"user\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/user\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"created\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:48+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"changed\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"2019-03-01T19:43:48+00:00\",\n \"format\": \"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"\n }\n ],\n \"default_langcode\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"revision_translation_affected\": [\n {\n \"value\": true\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_source\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"und\"\n }\n ],\n \"content_translation_outdated\": [\n {\n \"value\": false\n }\n ],\n \"field_access_terms\": [],\n \"field_file_size\": [\n {\n \"value\": 166608\n }\n ],\n \"field_height\": [\n {\n \"value\": 1333\n }\n ],\n \"field_media_image\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 3,\n \"alt\": null,\n \"title\": null,\n \"width\": 800,\n \"height\": 1333,\n \"target_type\": \"file\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e97ad038-dcb3-4d81-aa91-c945b2fe092c\",\n \"url\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/sites\\\\/default\\\\/files\\\\/2019-03\\\\/1-Service%20File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_media_of\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 1,\n \"target_type\": \"node\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/node\\\\/1\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_media_use\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 18,\n \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e8c698a7-8c15-47c4-8567-1c27f8f0c19e\",\n \"url\": \"\\\\/taxonomy\\\\/term\\\\/18\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_mime_type\": [\n {\n \"value\": \"image\\\\/jpeg\"\n }\n ],\n \"field_width\": [\n {\n \"value\": 800\n }\n ]\n}\nfield_media_of indicates which node(s) the media is associated with. The node can be referenced using the value of the target_id key (in this example, 1) or the target_uuid key (8322e36e-f8ec-4fd9-919d-52aed7b17a52).
Through the REST API you are accessing metadata about files, but not the actual binary object.
Based on the above configuration the path for a GET request is /entity/file/{id}
The file ID refers to the integer counter and not the UUID of a file.
Through the UI you can go to the File listing at http://localhost:8000/admin/content/files.
For the file you want to access, choose the USED IN link.
That URI has the format http://localhost:8000/admin/content/files/usage/{file id}
Alternatively the file ID can be found by viewing the media metadata (above section). In the above example if you look through the response from a GET request to the /media/{id} you will find a section like:
\"field_media_image\": [\n {\n \"target_id\": 3,\n \"alt\": null,\n \"title\": null,\n \"width\": 800,\n \"height\": 1333,\n \"target_type\": \"file\",\n \"target_uuid\": \"e97ad038-dcb3-4d81-aa91-c945b2fe092c\",\n \"url\": \"http:\\\\/\\\\/localhost:8000\\\\/sites\\\\/default\\\\/files\\\\/2019-03\\\\/1-Service%20File.jpg\"\n }\n ],\nNote: Depending on the \"type\" of file (image, video, audio, file) this field will have a different name.
This has both the url which is the URI to retrieve the binary content of the file as well as the target_id which is the file ID.
So we can retrieve the file with a GET request to the URI http://localhost:8000/sites/default/files/2019-03/1-Service%20File.jpg.
But more importantly we can retrieve the file metadata by making a request to http://localhost:8000/entity/file/3 with one of the allowed formats
\ud83c\udf4e For example:
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I can perform a GET against <my hostname>/sites/default/files/2019-03/1-Service%20File.jpg and get the contents of this file.
PATCH requests allow you to update resources in place via a REST call. In this case you send a few required fields and then any changed fields. PATCH requests are available for nodes and media entities, but not for files. PATCH requests are very consistent between node and media entities so we will just show one set of examples here.
Our example node is at http://localhost:8000/node/3.
If you perform a GET against another node or media you can see all of the fields, some of these are calculated (change based on others, i.e. \"changed\"), some are references to other entities (nodes, media, files in Drupal. i.e. \"field_model\") and others are pure text fields (i.e. \"title\").
The fields will be different between different node types and media types, but the syntax to update them is the same.
If you have restricted access to view your content, you will need to use one of the configured authorization methods to access your content, media and/or files.
These are defined under Authorization on the overview.
This with assume you have already created a node or media at some location.
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A successful PATCH request will return a 200 status code and the body will contain the newly updated body.
curl -i -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" -X PATCH -d '{ \"type\": [{\"target_id\": \"islandora_object\"}], \"title\": [{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:01:23 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1562\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:01:23+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":23,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"6a3b293d-4617-417b-99d2-23d75b57f7c2\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/23\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nThis example is how to change a field that references some other entity. For this example we will use the field_model field, this is a reference to the taxonomy term that holds the \"model\" of the resource (ie. Image, Collection, Audio, Video, etc)
On our example installation taxonomy term 22 is \"Binary\", so to change a node from what it was to a Binary you would do.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" -X PATCH -d '{ \"type\": [{\"target_id\": \"islandora_object\"}], \"field_model\": [{\"target_id\": 22, \"target_type\": \"taxonomy_term\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:51:47 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1562\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":4}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:36:10+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:51:47+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":22,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"e1f167e1-124d-4db4-96ab-30641ca4e21b\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/22\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nTo patch an object and make it part of a collection, you need the id number of the collection object. In this example node 2 will be our collection.
target_type can be a confusing one, if you are ever unsure have a look at the returned values for an existing object.
> curl -i -u admin:islandora -H\"Content-type: application/json\" -X PATCH -d '{ \"type\": [{\"target_id\": \"islandora_object\"}], \"field_member_of\": [{\"target_id\": 2, \"target_type\": \"node_type\"}]}' 'http://localhost:8000/node/3?_format=json'\n\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\nDate: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:01:40 GMT\nServer: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)\nX-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.26-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1\nCache-Control: must-revalidate, no-cache, private\nX-UA-Compatible: IE=edge\nContent-language: en\nX-Content-Type-Options: nosniff\nX-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN\nExpires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT\nVary:\nX-Generator: Drupal 8 (https://www.drupal.org)\nContent-Length: 1669\nContent-Type: application/json\n\n{\"nid\":[{\"value\":3}],\"uuid\":[{\"value\":\"3f618cdc-3f2a-4e77-b932-9ff1d461a57a\"}],\"vid\":[{\"value\":4}],\"langcode\":[{\"value\":\"en\"}],\"type\":[{\"target_id\":\"islandora_object\",\"target_type\":\"node_type\",\"target_uuid\":\"62189bec-3ef3-4196-b847-b17e5ce61fd5\"}],\"revision_timestamp\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T17:36:10+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"revision_uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"revision_log\":[],\"status\":[{\"value\":true}],\"title\":[{\"value\":\"Updated with a PATCH request\"}],\"uid\":[{\"target_id\":1,\"target_type\":\"user\",\"target_uuid\":\"46a47057-de2d-4ce2-87ae-dbe4551209b8\",\"url\":\"\\/user\\/1\"}],\"created\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-05T18:07:00+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"changed\":[{\"value\":\"2019-03-11T18:01:40+00:00\",\"format\":\"Y-m-d\\\\TH:i:sP\"}],\"promote\":[{\"value\":true}],\"sticky\":[{\"value\":false}],\"default_langcode\":[{\"value\":true}],\"revision_translation_affected\":[{\"value\":true}],\"content_translation_source\":[{\"value\":\"und\"}],\"content_translation_outdated\":[{\"value\":false}],\"field_access_terms\":[],\"field_alternative_title\":[],\"field_description\":[],\"field_display_hints\":[],\"field_edtf_date\":[],\"field_edtf_date_created\":[],\"field_edtf_date_issued\":[],\"field_extent\":[{\"value\":\"1 item\"}],\"field_identifier\":[],\"field_linked_agent\":[],\"field_member_of\":[{\"target_id\":2,\"target_type\":\"node\",\"target_uuid\":\"413135a6-0bd1-4d6b-8bcb-059cf7784d83\",\"url\":\"\\/node\\/2\"}],\"field_model\":[{\"target_id\":22,\"target_type\":\"taxonomy_term\",\"target_uuid\":\"e1f167e1-124d-4db4-96ab-30641ca4e21b\",\"url\":\"\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/22\"}],\"field_pid\":[],\"field_resource_type\":[],\"field_rights\":[],\"field_subject\":[]}\nSignposting is a technique used in RESTful APIs where other relevant resources are exposed to clients as Link headers in GET and HEAD requests. These Link headers follow a standard format as specified in RFC8288. Drupal already makes use of this technique for content entities, and Islandora takes it even further by providing additional Link headers that enable the client to navigate the repository and discover additional information about various resources. Because the links are returned in response headers, they can be relied upon without having to parse the message body. This makes them consistent across all serialization formats that can be returned in a message body (XML, JSON, JSONLD, etc...).
As a general precaution, link headers for Drupal entities are not exposed to users that do not have the permissions to view the entity linked in the header. So making GET and HEAD requests anonymously will yield a different set of headers than what an authenticated user would see. For example, anonymous users don't have the view media permission, so they will not see the link headers for media associated with a node.
Other representations generated by different serializers available through Drupal's REST API are exposed as link headers with rel=\"alternate\" and type equal to the mimetype that will be received when dereferencing the link. For example, if an entity in Drupal has a JSONLD representation, then the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response would look like
Link: <http://example.org/node/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"
Entity reference fields are exposed as link headers with rel=\"related\" and a title equal to the entity reference field's display label. For example, if http://example.org/node/1 has an entity reference field name \"Associated Content\" that references http://example.org/node/2, then the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response would look like
Link: <http://example.org/node/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Associated Content\"
Entity reference fields for taxonomy terms get special handling. The taxonomy terms used to tag content are exposed as link headers with rel=\"tag\" and a title equal to the taxonomy term's display label. If the term has an external URI in a controlled vocabulary, then that URI is provided. Otherwise, the local Drupal URI is provided. For example, if a piece of content is tagged with taxonomy/term/1, which has a display label of \"Example Term\", then the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response would look like
Link: <http://example.org/taxonomy/term/1>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Example Term\"
If instead the term were to have the field_external_uri field with a value of http://exampletwo.org/vocab#term then the link header would look like
Link: <http://exampletwo.org/vocab#term>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Example Term\".
Media entities belonging to nodes are exposed as link headers with rel=\"related\" and a title equal to the display label of their field_media_use taxonomy term. For example, if a media is tagged as Original File indicating that it is the initial file uploaded, the link header returned in a GET or HEAD response for a node would look like
Link: <http://example.org/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\".
Files that are the source for media entities are exposed as Link headers in the GET and HEAD responses with rel=\"describes\". The endpoint to edit the contents of the source file is also exposed using rel=\"edit-media\". For example, if http://example.org/media/1 has the source file http://example.org/file.txt, then a GET or HEAD response would contain both
Link: <http://example.org/file.txt>; rel=\"describes\"Link: <http://example.org/media/1/source>; rel=\"edit-media\"After creating a node, adding it to a Collection, uploading a file and kicking off derivatives, the link headers returned for said node would look like the following. Note that non-Link headers have been removed for brevity:
vagrant@claw:~$ curl -I http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=json\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\n...\n# These are provided by Drupal core\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/node/delete?node=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1/revisions>; rel=\"version-history\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node?node=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/create\"\n# These are provided by Islandora\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Member of\"\nLink: <http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_c513>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/2>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Service File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/3>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Thumbnail Image\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nIf we were to inspect one of the Media associated with this node (which we would've gotten in the response above), the results would look like:
vagrant@claw:~$ curl -I http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=json\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\n...\n\n# These are provided by Drupal core\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-page\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/add/image>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/add-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"canonical\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/admin/content/media>; rel=\"collection\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/delete>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/delete?media=1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/delete-multiple-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/edit>; rel=\"edit-form\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1>; rel=\"https://drupal.org/link-relations/revision\"\n# These are provided by Islandora\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/node/1>; rel=\"related\"; title=\"Media of\"\nLink: <http://pcdm.org/use#OriginalFile>; rel=\"tag\"; title=\"Original File\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1?_format=jsonld>; rel=\"alternate\"; type=\"application/ld+json\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/media/1/source>; rel=\"edit-media\"\nLink: <http://localhost:8000/_flysystem/fedora/2019-03/IF-Org-Chart_0.jpg>; rel=\"describes\"; type=\"image/jpeg\"\nSee the Drupal Documentation on PHPUnit in Drupal.
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For any Drupal URI, the corresponding Fedora URIs is computed by the Crayfish Commons library using the Drupal-assigned UUID. In Drupal, a \"pseudo-field\" is available that will display the corresponding Fedora URI on the page of a node, taxonomy term, or media object. The presence of this URI does NOT guarantee the existence of the corresponding entity in Fedora.
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The Islandora community STRONGLY recommends that the \"Composer\" method of upgrading Drupal core be used with Islandora as mentioned here.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/updating-drupal/#here-is-an-overview-of-the-steps-for-updating-drupal-core-using-composer","title":"Here is an overview of the steps for updating Drupal core using Composer","text":"Back Up
First make sure you have made database and file back ups.
1) First, verify that an update of Drupal core actually is available:
composer outdated \"drupal/*\"
If there is no line starting with drupal/core, Composer isn't aware of any update. If there is an update, continue with the commands below.
2) Assuming you are used to updating Drupal and know all the precautions that you should take, the update is as simple as:
composer update drupal/core --with-dependencies
If you want to know all packages that will be updated by the update command, use the --dry-run option first.
Alternate syntax for Islandora 8 needed
If you are running the older Islandora 8 codebase that predates the Islandora 2 release, note that Islandora 8 is configured to use a fork of drupal-composer/drupal-project which requires this specific composer syntax compared to other Drupal 8+ sites:
composer update drupal/core webflo/drupal-core-require-dev \"symfony/*\" --with-dependencies
In addition, if you are upgrading from 8.5 to 8.7, you need to replace \"~8.5.x\" with \"^8.7.0\" for drupal/core and webflo/drupal-core-require-dev in composer.json. [Source]
3) Apply any required database updates using drush updatedb, or use the web admin user interface.
drush updatedb
4) Clear the cache using drush cache:rebuild, or use the web admin user interface.
drush cache:rebuild
For stepwise update instructions visit this page: https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/update/update-core-via-composer#s-stepwise-update-instructions
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For more information about how to update Drupal modules visit:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/extending-drupal-8/updating-modules
Back Up
First make sure you have made database and file back ups.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/using-rest-endpoints/","title":"Islandora via REST","text":"Each node, media and file in Drupal has its own URI and we can GET the resources, some in a variety of formats.
We can also create nodes, media and files in Drupal by using PUT and/or POST requests.
We can update the field content by using a PATCH request and lastly we can DELETE a node, media or file resource.
To perform these actions, you will need the RESTful Web Services module enabled.
To configure your setup via the UI, you also need the RESTful UI module enabled.
Then you can configure your REST services at https://<yourmachine>/admin/config/services/rest
This screenshot shows the setup for resources, you can see the various HTTP methods and what formats they will respond in and what authentication methods they support.
Islandora uses semantic versioning for all non-Legacy code in the github.com/Islandora organization. This allows us to be compatible with Composer and with Drupal's release naming conventions for contributed modules.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/versioning/#semantic-versioning","title":"Semantic Versioning","text":"Semantic Versioning is a common versioning standard. Versions have the form: Major version, Minor version, or Patch.
1.2.3 => 1.2.4 - Just a bug fix, should be a drop-in replacement.1.2.3 => 1.3.0 - Adds in new features, should be a drop-in replacement to get new functionality.1.2.3 => 2.0.0 - Major changes, may require a migration or changes to your set-up.The following Islandora components use semantic versioning:
Drupal submodules, which are included in several of the above modules, share versions with their parents.
Drupal module versions switched from 8.x-1.x to 2.x
In October 2021, Islandora switched from the \"core compatibility\" based numbering scheme (8.x-1.x) to a pure semantic versioning scheme for its Drupal modules. In accordance with Drupal's requirements, this transition required us to bump the major version, from 1.x to 2.x, despite there not being any major API-breaking changes to the code itself.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/versioning/#implications-for-release-process","title":"Implications for Release Process","text":"Committers should now create (i.e. \"tag\") new versions of components when new bug fixes, features, or API changes are successfully added. This means that \"releases\" (new versions) will be happening individually, continually, and far more frequently than before. See Releasing Islandora.
"},{"location":"technical-documentation/versioning/#module-interdependencies","title":"Module Interdependencies","text":"When Islandora components require other Islandora components in their composer.json files, we prefer the version specification syntax ^2 to point to the latest-released compatible version within the specified major version.
In Drupal, blocks are snippets of content that can be placed on pages within your website's layout. Some examples of blocks are your site's menu, breadcrumbs, search block, etc... You have a lot of control over when and where you see blocks using Drupal's administrative interface. You can create and delete blocks, as well as move them around in different locations on the page (called 'regions' in Drupal theme terminology). You can also control on which pages the blocks are visible, allowing you to conditionally show/hide them as appropriate. Blocks are made available to place by enabling the Drupal modules that provide them, and there's lots out there to choose from. Placing blocks is an essential skill for any site administrator, so let's jump right in and get our hands dirty. There are two methods discussed here: the \"Block Layout\" interface, and using \"Contexts\". There is a third option, \"Display Suite,\" that is not discussed here.
"},{"location":"tutorials/blocks/#using-block-layout","title":"Using Block Layout","text":"Using the admin toolbar, navigate to Admin > Structure > Block layout (admin/structure/block). You will see a table listing all of the available regions provided by the current theme for block placement. You can switch between available themes using the tabs above the table. For each region, enabled blocks are listed and can be re-arranged. Take a look at the \"Main Content\" region for example.
If you wanted to move the content above its tabs, you could drag the \"Main page content\" block above the \"Tabs\" block. If you scroll all the way down to the bottom and click the \"Save blocks\" button, now when you go to view content you should see something like this
If you want to add a new block to a region, hit the \"Place block\" button for that region and you'll be brought to a modal that will let you select which block to place.
After selecting your block, you will be brought to its configuration form.
Here you can give the block a different title, change its region using a dropdown, and control its visibility settings by configuring various conditions. In our case, we're adding the \"Development\" block to the \"Footer\" region. And since we want to see this block everywhere, we'll leave the visibility settings alone for now. Click the \"Save block\" button, and now if we go view some content we should see the \"Development\" menu in the footer of our site.
If we want to limit this eyesore to only the front page of our site, we can revisit the visibility settings of the block. Navigate to the block we just placed on the block placement page, and click its \"Configure\" button. Here you can limit the block to show only for certain roles or content types. You can also explicitly set a white or black list of pages, which is what we'll do.
Click the Pages tab and you'll have a text area you can list pages in. We're going to enter <front>, which is a special value that means \"The front page of your site\". Underneath the text area, you can select whether you are showing or hiding the block for this list of pages. We want to show this only on the front page, so we'll leave it set at \"Show for the listed pages\". Click \"Save block\" and go back to a piece of content. You shouldn't see the development menu.
But go to the frontpage and...
"},{"location":"tutorials/blocks/#using-context","title":"Using Context","text":"The visibility conditions in the block placement user interface are simple and effective. They cover the majority of use cases, however, there are times when you need even more control. This is where the Context module really shines. Any condition available to the Context module can be used to control block visibility. And you can even combine conditions using Boolean (AND/OR) logic.
For example, in the Islandora Starter Site, we provide a context specifically for showing a list of members of a collection. All of our content is the same content type (Repository Item), and Collections are distinguished by being tagged with the \"Collection\" taxonomy term. Using the admin toolbar, if you navigate to Admin > Structure > Context (admin/structure/context), you should see a list of all contexts available to the site.
Click the \"Configure\" button on the \"Collection\" context.
You can see in its \"Condition\" section, we have the \"Node has term\" condition, which checks for content tagged with the term provided by the user. In this case, it's set to look for the \"Collection\" tag. Underneath, in the \"Reaction\" section, you can see that the \"Block\" reaction has been selected, and its configuration looks a lot like the core block placement UI. The only difference here is that when the \"Include blocks from block layout\" box is checked, you are only placing the blocks you want to add in addition to an already existing block layout. If you uncheck the box, you are creating an entirely new block layout from scratch, and will have to replace basic things like breadcrumbs and menus.
Here you can see we've added only the members block to this block layout. If we go and navigate to a collection, you'll see its list of members underneath its content.
If we edit the collection and change its model tag from \"Collection\" to anything else, you'll see the block disappears!
As you can see, block placement can be very flexible, and allow you to customize your site in a very granular fashion. Between using core block placement and the context module, there's no block you can't get into the right place on your site.
"},{"location":"tutorials/blocks/#video-walkthrough-blocks","title":"Video Walkthrough: Blocks","text":"Click the image below to open the Blocks video tutorial on the Islandora Youtube channel.
See more videos from the Drupal 101 series here.
Islandora Quick Lessons (2020)
Learn more with this video on Creating a Custom Block.
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Video version available
The material in this tutorial is presented in our video, Adding Content.
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#tools","title":"Tools","text":"For this tutorial you will need an instance of Islandora Starter Site. You can also use the online sandbox or one of the sandbox VMs.
Online Sandbox
login credentials for online sandbox
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#step-1-create-an-islandora-node","title":"Step 1: Create an Islandora Node","text":"To add content to Islandora, start by creating a node. When logged in to Drupal as an administrator, navigate with the top menu bar to Manage >> Content >> Add content or click on Add content under the Tools menu.
Next, select a content type that is configured with Islandora behaviours. In the Islandora Starter Site, there is an Islandora content type. It is called Repository Item.
At the top of the form, the Model field is a mandatory Islandora field. Select Image from the Model drop box. This will enable image display behaviours, and cause image derivatives to be generated once we upload a file.
The rest of the form contains a large number of metadata fields, grouped into collapsible sections. Fill out the Title (mandatory) and whichever other fields are applicable to you.
Keep it simple
For this tutorial, do not attempt to fill out any fields with an autocomplete symbol - a small circle at the right-hand-side of the text box.
Then, click Save. You have now created a node, and since it is of an Islandora content type, we call it a \"resource node.\"
The new node page displays, with the title, any metadata that we entered, and a Fedora URI which you can click on to see if this new node has been synced into Fedora (this only works if you have permission to access Fedora). Congratulations, you have created a resource node!
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#step-2-upload-an-original-file","title":"Step 2: Upload an Original File","text":"Alas, your node has no files. To upload a file, click on the node's Media tab.
Concept: Media tab
The \"Media\" tab shows Media that we say \"belong to\" or are \"media of\" that node. The idea of media \"belonging to\" nodes, and the \"Media\" tab, are part of Islandora but not part of standard Drupal.
The Media tab shows nothing listed, because this node has no files. So click on Add Media. You will be taken to a list of media types to choose from.
We want to add a jpg image, so click on Image. You are now presented with a form to create a media.
Images vs TIFFs
Drupal considers any type of image that can be viewed natively in the browser as an Image. For other image types that require special viewers, such as TIFFs, you would have to choose File. Learn more about Media in Islandora.
This form contains fields for metadata about the file, including \"technical metadata\". There are three important parts of the form:
With the mandatory fields filled out (do not edit the \"Media of\" field), click Save, and a new Media will be created attached to your resource node. You will land on the administrator's list of Media (i.e. all media on your site, not just those attached to the resource node), and the new media object you created is at the top of the list.
Select the Media you just created, and you will see a page containing that Media's information and a rendering of the image that you uploaded.
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#step-3-verify-derivatives-were-created","title":"Step 3: Verify derivatives were created","text":"Now return to the node you created, and you will see the image along with its (minimal) descriptive metadata. The image you are viewing is not the one you uploaded, but a lower-resolution service file that was created and stored in the Drupal public filesystem.
If you open the node's Media tab, you should see new Media have been added - these are derivatives have been created automatically, including a service file, a thumbnail, and a FITS technical metadata file.
You now have an Islandora resource node, which is a special case of a Drupal node, and it has Media attached to it including an Original File, Thumbnail, Service File, and FITS Technical Metadata file.
"},{"location":"tutorials/create-a-resource-node/#learn-more","title":"Learn More","text":"Views are powerful content filters that enable you to present Islandora (and other) content in interesting and exciting ways. For more documentation on views:
Islandora Starter Site ships with some views already created and turned on. The Islandora home page displays content items that have been added to Islandora. This view is named Frontpage, and it lists items that meet the following filter criteria:
This view will display all content items added to Islandora, as the checkbox Promoted to front page is on by default.
As you develop your Islandora Website it is likely that you will need to change the default behaviour of the Frontpage View. As an example, the following describes how to edit the Frontpage page view to only show content items and not collections.
For this example, we added six collection items to Islandora. In total there are eight items in the repository. In addition to the six collection items, there is one audio item and one image item.
To edit the front page view, hover over the view (Frontpage view) and select Edit view when displayed.
Select Add under the filter criteria section.
We do not want to display collections, so we need to add a filter criteria that does not filter for the Islandora model type 'Collection'.
Select Model from the list and then Apply (all displays).
Select Islandora Model to select filters on Islandora model types and select Apply and continue.
Select the operator Is none of and the Collection model (autocomplete should work here to help you). To finish click Apply (all displays).
Save the view. Now the 'Frontpage' View does not display collections.
For this example, we create a new view that only shows collections. It will be created as a Block (also see the tutorial on Configuring Blocks) that will only display on the front page. We will add the new collection list block below the existing frontpage view that lists items.
Name the view and select Create a block. Give the block a title and decide how you want it to display (Grid, Table, List, Paging). To progress, select Save and edit.
5. Customize the view format and sorting as required. 6. Add a filter criteria to only show the Islandora model type of 'Collection' and Save the view.
7. To place the view on front page, the new block must be added to the 'Main page content' area (using 'Block layout') and set to display on the front page. 1. Navigate to Administration >> Structure >> Block layout (/admin/structure/block). Under Main content select Place block
\nRestrict the block to only display on the frontpage by adding the text '' to the Page vertical tab. Then select Save block.
4. Review the block placement and move if required.
8. The 'Collection list' now only displays on the front page. It displays below the Main page content.
Islandora Quick Lessons
Learn more with videos on Basic Views and Advanced Views.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/","title":"How to create and add to a Collection","text":"This how-to demonstrates creating a collection and adding items to it in the Islandora Starter Site. For more about collections, see Concept: Collection.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#introduction","title":"Introduction","text":"In the Islandora Starter Site, nodes that have \"Collection\" in their Model field will show a view of their member (\"child\") objects. A member is any object that is \"Member of\" that object, and can be added via the \"Children\" tab. This is the mechanism in the Islandora Starter Site, and your individual instances may vary.
Collections and Deleting
Collections and their members are independent of each other, and removing something from a collection does not delete it. Similarly, deleting a collection does not delete its members.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#creating-a-collection","title":"Creating a Collection","text":"When logged in, click Manage > Content on the admin toolbar. Then, click on Add content.
Then click on 'Repository Item' to give your collection the default metadata profile for Islandora.
Fill out the form.
At the top of the form, select \"Collection\" from the Model dropdown list.
When done filling out the form, click Save.
The collection has been created. Now let's add some members to this collection.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#add-existing-items-to-a-collection","title":"Add Existing Items to a Collection","text":"To populate a collection with existing items, return to any existing content and click on its Edit tab. This brings up the form for this item.
Scroll down to the bottom of the form to find the System section. In the Member of field, start typing in the name of the collection this item should belong to. Select the name of the collection you want from the autocomplete. It is important that you select it from the dropdown, not just type in the correct title, because selecting it causes the node id to appear beside the title and allows Drupal to create a relationship.
The correct collection is now selected. Click Save when ready.
To confirm, return to the collection and verify the new item appears in the collection's list of members.
"},{"location":"tutorials/how-to-create-collection/#add-a-new-item-as-a-member-of-a-collection","title":"Add a New Item as a Member of a Collection","text":"To create an item and add it as a member to a collection in one step, visit a collection and click on its Children tab. From the Children tab, you can manage the members of a collection and perform actions on them.
Click on the +Add Child button, and then select Repository Item as your new item's Content Type. Only content types that have the field_member_of field will be available from this list.
You are taken to the creation form for a Repository Item, but if you scroll down to the \"System\" section, you should see the widget for \"Member Of\" is already filled out for you with the appropriate collection.
Click 'Save' at the end of the form to create the new item and add it as a member of the collection.
Islandora Quick Lessons
Learn more with this video on Making a Collection.
"},{"location":"tutorials/switch-homepage-to-twig/","title":"Format Homepage with TWIG","text":""},{"location":"tutorials/switch-homepage-to-twig/#twig-debugging","title":"TWIG Debugging","text":"It's helpful to identify which TWIGs are available to use and where they're stored but not required use TWIGs to format the homepage.
# Copy the default service.\n$ cp web/sites/default/default.services.yml web/sites/default/services.yml\n\n# fix permissions (just in case)\n$ chown nginx:nginx web/sites/default/services.yml\n\n# I use nano to edit but you can pick whichever editor you want.\n# For this example we'll install the editor\n$ apk add nano\n\n# Now open the newly created service file and set these 3 values under the TWIG config section.\n$ nano web/sites/default/services.yml\n\n...yml\ntwig.config:\n debug: true\nauto_reload: true\ncache: true\n# Now save and exit (in NANO it's CTRL + x)\nCopy the default TWIG into your theme's template directory.
$ cp web/themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/node/node.html.twig web/themes/contrib/solid/templates/node--6--full.html.twig\n\n# Clear cache\n$ drush cr\nX next to the loaded TWIG file. Please note that the file name corresponds to the node number. To use the URL alias instead of the node ID requires additional work. Here's a tutorial on this topic. <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS:\n x node--6--full.html.twig\n * node--6.html.twig\n * node--page--full.html.twig\n * node--page.html.twig\n * node--full.html.twig\n * node.html.twig\n-->\nNow edit the TWIG file (web/themes/contrib/solid/templates/node--6--full.html.twig) to say whatever you want, and it should show up immediately without needing to clear cache.
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twig.config:\n debug: false\n auto_reload: false\nThis page is about controlling who can view or edit your Islandora content (metadata and binaries).
Islandora recommends using Drupal's access control features. Contributed modules such as those described below, can provide additional flexibility and configurability. However, these only apply when content is accessed through Drupal, and are not applied to data in Fedora, the Triplestore, or Solr.
Known strategies for implementing access control in Drupal include:
Exposed Endpoints
If access control is a concern, you will want to lock down access to the following services that are part of the Islandora Suite:
as anyone accessing data through those services are bypassing Drupal's access control. In all out-of-the-box sandboxes and demo instances, these services are wide open.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#access-control-in-core-drupal","title":"Access control in Core Drupal","text":"Summary: Core Drupal's access control features include the \"published\"/\"unpublished\" states and some basic permissions that can be granted globally or at the bundle level.
Drupal's concepts of \"published\" and \"unpublished\" for nodes and media apply to Islandora just as they do in Drupal. Usually, published content is visible to the entire world (without any authentication), while unpublished content can only be accessed by selected users - usually administrators, other privileged roles, and the user who created the content. This is configurable through the Drupal Permissions interface.
All Drupal permissions are granted to roles, not individual users. Read more documentation on Users, roles, and permissions.
The extent of the configurability of Drupal Core's access control (excluding revisions) is provided by the following permissions:
View permissions (apply to all content or all media regardless of bundle) - View all published content - View own unpublished content - View (published) media - View own unpublished media \"Editing\" permissions (can be granted for a specific bundle, or for all nodes or media): - Create new content - Edit (your) own content - Edit any(one's) content - Delete (your) own content - Delete any(one's) content Administrative permission (includes all the above and more, give to trusted users only): - Administer contentThese are the basic access control options built into Drupal Core. There are many contributed modules that do access control, some are described below. Before using access control modules, please see Comparison and Overview of Access Control modules on drupal.org.
Contributed modules are required for the following cases:
Given the [Collection] \u2192 Node \u2192 Media \u2192 File structure of Islandora resources, it is reasonable to wonder if access to a Node, Media, or File is influenced by the permissions on its \"parent\" resource.
There is not yet a mechanism for Drupal's access control to be \"inherited\" from parent resources to child resources. An exception is non-public files, as described below.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#sidebar-access-to-files-in-drupal","title":"Sidebar: Access to files in Drupal","text":"Drupal's access control applies to files except those stored in Drupal's public filesystem.
If you upload a file to Drupal, it's usually stored in a field on an entity. In Islandora, that entity is a Media. Drupal's access checks mean that a user must have permission to view the Media, and (if configured) the file field on that media, to see the file. However, file fields can be configured with various forms of file storage, and the file storage determines whether access control checks are applied at all. Files stored in Drupal's public filesystem are always public, viewable by anyone in the world.
Drupal's access control applies to files accessed through Drupal where the file storage is:
Direct access to file storage
Files stored using Flysystem are actually located on a separate service. It is the administrator's responsibility to implement appropriate access control on the target storage system, as there is a way to link directly to files in Fedora, S3, or Dropbox. These direct links bypass Drupal and therefore Drupal's access control.
The filesystem used by a field is usually configured through \"Manage Fields\" on the appropriate entity. However, it is possible for a field to be configured to use a certain filesystem, but for actual files created through back-end processes to use a different one. For example, derivatives generated by Islandora as configured in the Islandora Starter Site are written to the public filesystem, despite the field configuration which points to Fedora.
To determine the actual location of a file, right-click the existing file in the Media Edit page and select \"copy location\". A file that is saved in flysystem will include /_flysystem/ in the URL. These links (you can test it!) only work if you have permission to view the media. A file with /sites/default/files/ is probably publicly accessible (this is the public filesystem on most Drupal instances).
In the Islandora Starter Site, All Derivatives Are Public
Out of the box using the Islandora Starter Site, derivatives are created for all Islandora media (as long as the conditions of the contexts are met), and they are stored in the public Drupal filesystem. This happens even if the media and/or node are not published.
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Both are enabled out of the box in the Islandora Starter Site. This will ensure that queries through Drupal never show content that the active user shouldn't see, as well as preventing information about unpublished entities from ever being entered into Solr.
Solr Admin Client
Anyone with access to the Solr Admin Client may see the full contents of the index, regardless of permissions. If this is not desired, you should restrict access to the Solr endpoint and GUI. By default, the Islandora Playbook exposes Solr at http://localhost:8983/solr/. ISLE-DC on the other hand can expose or not expose individual services, including Solr. Since December 2021 this has been available as an option in the .env file and since that time, Solr (and some other services) are not exposed by default.
\"The Group module allows you to create arbitrary collections of your content and users on your site and grant access control permissions on those collections.\"
Opinion
Group is one of the more hefty modules, and is difficult to learn. It is good if you have static or semi-static groups of users who need access to a static or semi-static group of content, but sharing an item with an arbitrary group of users is cumbersome.
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The Islandora Starter Site includes an empty vocabulary called \"Islandora Access\", which is intended to hold such taxonomy terms. However, permissions_by_term or a similar mechanism to control access must be installed and configured on your own.
This module is known to work, and appears to be supported well by the Drupal community.
Warning
This module is known in the Islandora community to cause performance degradation when large numbers of nodes are involved. Seth Shaw describes this in a blog post, Content Access Control Solutions Investigation.
Examples Wanted
Do you have experience setting up Permissions By Term? We'd love some illustrative examples here.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#field-permissions-contributed-module","title":"Field Permissions (contributed module)","text":"\"The Field Permissions module allows site administrators to set field-level permissions to edit, view and create fields on any entity.\"
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#other-contributed-modules","title":"Other contributed modules","text":"Workflow Participants allows for granting permissions on individual nodes or media to individual users, as an extension to the Workflow suite of modules. However, it is not well-supported and the \"manage workflow participants\" permission should not be given to untrusted users as it may grant users the ability to add participants even to content they are otherwise not able to see or edit.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/access-control/#access-control-in-fedora","title":"Access control in Fedora","text":"In Fedora, it is possible to control access to resources using Access Control Lists (ACLs) per the Fedora API Specification. ACLs are inherited through Fedora's LDP Containment relationships.
Islandora does not create customized ACLs when syncing content into Fedora.
Islandora does not create Fedora resources in hierarchies that use LDP containment relationships.
At this time, access control in Fedora is NOT reflective of access control in Drupal. In the sandboxes and demo installations, all resources in Fedora are open for the world to view. This includes unpublished nodes and media, as well as the files uploaded into Fedora. Access controls configured in Drupal are not synced in any way to Fedora.
Sites concerned with access control wish to \"lock down\" their Fedora to only be accessible through Drupal.
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Meta-Issue: Access Restrictions and Embargoes
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Much of the accessibility of a website is dependent on how specific HTML tags and attributes are used, thus falls largely into the realm of Drupal Themes. The Olivero theme and the Claro admin theme were designed by the Drupal community with accessibility as a guiding principle.
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This is not considered good accessibility as the node's title will likely be already on the page, and it doesn't add anything to describing the image itself. Please fill out the alt text with something meaningful when adding image content to Islandora.
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composer require drupal/facets \"^1.3\"\ncomposer require drupal/search_api_solr \"^4.1\"\ncomposer require drupal/search_api \"^1.5\"\nHowever, for reference, islandora_advanced_search requires the following drupal modules:
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Add a new Content solr field field_descendant_of to the solr index at admin/config/search/search-api/index/default_solr_index/fields.
Then under admin/config/search/search-api/index/default_solr_index/processors enable Index hierarchy and set up the new field to index the hierarchy.
The field can now be used limit a search to all the descendants of a given object.
Re-Indexing
You may have to re-index to make sure the field is populated.
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Here a relationship is set up with Member Of field and we have two contextual filters:
field_member_of (Direct descendants of the Entity)field_descendant_of (All descendants of the Entity)Both of these filters are configured the exact same way.
These filters are toggled by the Advanced Search block to allow the search to include all descendants or just direct descendants (documented below).
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To be able to display exclude facet links as well as include links in the facets block we have to duplicate the configuration for the facet like so.
Both the include / exclude facets must use the widget List of links that allow the user to include / exclude facets
The excluded facet also needs the following settings to appear and function correctly.
The URL alias must match the same value as the included facet except it must be prefixed with ~ character that is what links to the two facets to each other.
And it must also explicitly be set to exclude:
You may also want to enable Hide active items and Hide non-narrowing results for a cleaner presentation of facets.
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There will be one block per View Display. The block should be limited to only appear when the view it was derived from is also being displayed on the same page.
This requires configuring the visibility of the block as appropriate. For collection based searches be sure to limit the display of the Facets block to the models you want to display the search on, e.g:
For any valid search field, you can drag / drop and reorder the fields to display in the advanced search form on. The configuration resides on the block so this can differ across views / displays if need be. Additionally, if the View the block was derived from has multiple contextual filters you can choose which one corresponds to direct children, this will enable the recursive search checkbox.
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There are a few configuration options for this module, accessible at Manage > Configuration > Islandora > Breadcrumbs Settings (/admin/config/islandora/breadcrumbs). These include:
Breadcrumbs are cached, so if you aren't seeing the results that you expect, try clearing the Drupal cache.
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A resource node holds the descriptive metadata for an Islandora object, as well as groups together the various files that are part of the object for preservation or display, such as the original file and various derivative files generated from it.
The model for exactly what constitutes an object in Islandora is flexible and can be adapted to the needs of specific users. For example, the Islandora Starter Site configuration considers an object as a resource node of the type \"Repository Item\" which contains descriptive metadata about the object. Attached to that Node are one or more Media, each representing a file that is part of this object, such as \"Original File\", \"Thumbnail\", \"Preservation Master\", etc. With this model, every original file uploaded into Islandora has its own resource node.
Multi-file Media configurations also attach Media to a parent node, but allow for that node to be represented by multiple \"Original File\"s. In this model, a Media contains the original file as well as any derivative files created from it (thumbnail, service file, etc.).
For an example of where these two different approaches could apply, the basic configuration might make sense for a book that has rich page-level metadata, so that each page would be its own Node with its own metadata record; the multi-file media configuration might be a better fit for a book that does not have page-level metadata (except an ordering or page numbers), so that each Media would represent one page, and all pages (Media) would be attached to a single parent Node/metadata record for the entire book.
As we learned in the introduction, objects in an Islandora repository are represented as a combination of resource nodes, media, and files in Drupal. Because of this, their metadata profile, display, form (and much more) are configurable through the Drupal UI. This gives repository administrators a huge degree of control over their repository without any need for coding. Much more so than ever before. And since we're using a core Drupal solution for modeling our resource nodes and media, compatibility with third-party modules is virtually guaranteed. This opens up a plethora of solutions from the Drupal community that will save you untold time and effort when implementing your repository with Islandora.
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Property Value nid The local ID for the node uid The ID of the Drupal user who created the node uuid The global ID for any entity title The title for the node created Timestamp of when the node was created changed Timestamp of when the node was last updated type Content type (e.g. which group of fields are present on the node) status Published, unpublished, etc...Compared to Islandora Legacy
These node properties are analogous to following Islandora Legacy object properties:
Islandora Legacy Islandora owner uid dc.title title PID uuid status statusThe small amount of configurability available for these properties is found on the content type editing form where a user can choose to change the label of the title field, whether to display author information on the node's page, etcetera. These settings will only apply to nodes of that particular content type.
To view all of a node's property and field values administrators can use the 'Devel' tab's 'Load' section:
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Configuring fields (adding, editing, removing) is usually done through the Manage > Content types interface, as is described in the tutorial, Create/Update a Content Type.
Islandora has a notion of a content model, which is used to identify what type of content is being represented by a node (e.g. an image, a video, a collection of other items, etc...). This is done using a special field, Model, which accepts taxonomy terms from the Islandora Models vocabulary. By applying a term from the Islandora Models vocabulary to a node, Islandora will become aware of how to handle the node in response to certain events, like choosing a viewer or generating derivatives.
Compared to Islandora Legacy
Content models in Islandora Legacy were immutable and contained restrictions as to what types of datastreams could be associated with an object. Islandora imposes no such restrictions. Content models can be changed at any time, and they in no way dictate what types of media can be associated with a node.
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See the media section for more details.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/content-models/#display-modes","title":"Display modes","text":"Drupal uses \"display modes\" (also called \"view modes\") as alternative ways to present content to users. You may be familiar with the \"full\" and \"teaser\" versions of nodes, which are rendered using two corresponding display modes. Islandora makes use of display modes to control how media content is displayed. Islandora Starter Site provides two display modes for Media, one which renders the OpenSeadragon viewer and the other which renders the pdf.js viewer. These two display modes can be enabled by using \"Display hints\" in the node edit form, or you can configure Islandora to use a specific display mode for all media based on the file's Mime type. Both methods make use of Contexts.
To set the display mode on the resource node's edit form, select the display mode you want to use for that node in the Display hints field:
Due to the associated Context configurations (\"OpenSeadragon\" and \"PDFjs Viewer\") that are shipped with the Islandora Starter Site, the selected display mode will then be used when the resource node's page is rendered.
At a global level, there are a couple of ways to tell Drupal to use the PDFjs viewer to render the content of the media field whenever the media has a Mime type of application/pdf.
The first way is to edit the \"PDFjs Viewer\" Context. By default, this Context tells Drupal to use the PDFjs viewer if the node has the term \"PDFjs\" (yes, that's a taxonomy term):
If you add the Condition \"Node has Media with Mime type\" and configure it to use application/pdf as the Mime type, like this:
Context will use whichever Condition applies (as long as you don't check \"Require all conditions\"). That is, if the \"PDFjs\" display hint option in the node edit form is checked, or if the node's media has a Mime type of application/pdf, the media content will be rendered using the PDFjs viewer.
The second way to use the media's Mime type to render its content with the PDFjs viewer is to create a separate Context that will detect the media's Mime type and use the configured display mode automatically. To do this, create a new Context. Add a \"Node has Media with Mime type\" condition and specify the Mime type, and then add a \"Change View mode\" Reaction that selects the desired display mode:
Finally, save your Context. From that point on, whenever the media for a node has the configured Mime type, Drupal will render the media using the corresponding display mode.
The node-level and global approaches are not exclusive to one another. One Context can override another depending on the order of execution. Contexts are applied in the order they are displayed on the Contexts page, which is editable through a drag-and-drop interface. Whichever Condition appears last in the list of Contexts between the node-level Condition (which in this case is the \"Node has term\" condition) the global Condition (which is \"Node has Media with Mime type\"), that one will override the other. An example of having the display mode specified in the node edit form intentionally override the display mode based on Mime type is to have media with the image/jp2 mime-type configured to use the OpenSeadragon viewer, but to manually select the OpenSeadragon display mode for nodes with JPEG media (for example, a very large JPEG image of a map, where the OpenSeadragon's pan and zoom features would be useful).
Islandora has a notion of membership, which is used to create a parent/child relationship between nodes. Membership is denoted using another special field, \"Member Of\". This is used to create the link between members and their parent collection, pages and their book (\"paged content\"), or members of a compound object and the compound object itself.
Any two nodes can be related in this way, though typically, the parent node has a content model of Collection or Paged Content (see their respective pages for more details). The \"Member Of\" field can hold multiple references, so it is possible for a single child to belong to multiple parents, but may also complicate the creation of breadcrumbs.
Compared to Islandora Legacy
In Islandora Legacy, there was a distinction between belonging to a collection and belonging to a compound object. In Islandora, this distinction is not present. Since all nodes can have members , essentially every node has the potential to be a compound object or collection.
Child v. Member
Islandora uses the \"child\" and \"member\" descriptor for resource nodes that store a reference to another resource node in the \"Member Of\" field interchangeably. Administrators will more often see the \"member\" terminology more often while front-end users will usually see \"child\" terminology.
For any node, its Children tab can be used to see all its members. You can also perform Actions in bulk on members using the checkboxes and the Actions dropdown as well as clicking on the Reorder Children tab to adjust the order in which they display.
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This document was originally developed by Alex Kent and has been adapted for general use by the Islandora community.
[^1] In the Islandora Starter Site, this is the field_model field, which is populated by taxonomy terms in the islandora_models taxonomy vocabulary provided by the islandora_core_feature submodule of Islandora/islandora
[^2] In the Islandora Starter Site, this is the field_member_of field.
The conventional Islandora Legacy definition of an object is a file loaded in the repository with associated derivatives. In Islandora Legacy, objects (video files, audio files, PDFs, etc.) are loaded through the user interface, and Datastreams are generated automatically. These consist of access and display copies, the metadata, OCH/HOCR, technical metadata, and more. All of these Datastreams are directly connected to the object and accessed through the admin interface.
In Islandora, the traditional Islandora Legacy objects (video files, audio files, etc. that were represented in different content models) are now Drupal nodes. Islandora object nodes are a special kind of Drupal node, distinct from nodes that exist for other content types such as a blog post, an article, a page (like the About page on a site), and others. These Islandora objects are still loaded through the interface and described with the data entry form, and derivatives are still generated. However, the Datastreams are no longer connected to the original object in the same immutable way. Each of these Datastreams can be manipulated through Drupal by non-developers. You can create a variety of ways to view this metadata and information related to the objects. Doing so requires knowledge of Drupal 8, but this essentially means that there are many ways to view the metadata and access the related objects in Islandora.
In Islandora it is therefore helpful to think of objects as resource nodes. The term reflects the new nature of objects in Islandora. A resource node does not just refer to the individual object file, but encompasses multiple elements that all relate to each other, even if they are no longer directly connected like objects in Islandora Legacy.
The typical elements of a resource node:
These resource nodes are what the librarian, student, archivist, technician, or general non-developer creates through the data entry form. It is possible to configure all elements of a resource node in Islandora through Drupal. This fact allows control over how one accesses the node and how nodes are displayed and discovered online by non-developers. It also allows a repository to take full advantage of all third-party Drupal modules, themes, and distributions available.
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This page will address how to create and modify ingest forms by editing fields and form display settings on Content Types via the graphical user interface (GUI). This page will also cover editing the RDF mapping to accommodate changes to fields.
Islandora forms are Drupal forms, and for help working with forms via the API, please check out the Further Reading section for links to more advanced Drupal documentation.
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There are multiple tabs with different options to configure your Content Type:
Changes not displaying?
If you make changes under Manage display and don't see them reflected in your Node, double check that you have edited the right view mode
This example adds a new field where a user can indicate if the repository item needs to be reviewed:
The new field has been added:
It appears in the ingest form when creating a new repository object. To test this, go to Content >> Add content >> Repository item:
RDF Mappings
New fields, except for Typed Relation fields, are not automatically indexed in Fedora and the triple-store. Update the Content Type's RDF Mapping to enable indexing the field (see below).
Search
New fields will not automatically be searchable. They need to be added to the Solr index configuration. See the 'Setup and Configure Search' page for more information.
Context
To add new behavior based on the results of this new field, check out Context.
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When creating a new Repository Item, the new field appears at the top, as a set of radio buttons.
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In the Admin menu, return to Structure >> Content Types and find the Repository Item content type again. Select Manage display from the dropdown menu or select the Manage display tab.
To create your own custom content type from scratch, please refer to this guide on Drupal.org.
Your custom content types can contain whatever fields you like, but there are two mandatory fields that all Islandora content types should contain:
In order for a custom content type to be considered an Islandora Object, it needs to have the field \"Member of\" ('field_member_of'). This allows it to be included in contexts that have the \"Node is an Islandora node\" condition. Nodes that have this field will automatically be synced to Fedora and indexed by the triple store if you are using the context provided by the Islandora Starter Site. Having this field present in your content type also gives you tabs for adding children and media when viewing an item of that content type.
The other mandatory field is \"Model\" ('field_model'). This is used in several of the contexts that the Islandora Starter Site provides. This field determines how Islandora objects are displayed, and how media derivatives are created.
RDF mapping aligns Drupal fields with RDF ontology properties. For example, the title field of a content model can be mapped to dcterms:title and/or schema:title. In Islandora, triples expressed by these mappings get synced to Fedora and indexed in the Blazegraph triplestore. RDF mappings are defined/stored in Drupal as a YAML file (to learn more about YAML, there are several tutorials on the web. Currently, Drupal 8 does not have a UI to create/update RDF mappings to ontologies other than Schema.org. This requires repository managers to update the configuration files themselves. Consider using the RDF mappings included in the Islandora Starter Site as templates by copying and modifying one to meet your needs.
The Drupal 8 Configuration Synchronization export (e.g. http://localhost:8000/admin/config/development/configuration/single/export) and import (e.g. http://localhost:8000/admin/config/development/configuration/single/import) can be used to get a copy of the mappings for editing in a text editor before being uploaded again. Alternatively, a repository manager can update the configuration on the server and use Features to import the edits.
An RDF mapping configuration file has two main areas: the mapping's metadata and the mapping itself. Most of the mapping's metadata should be left alone unless you are creating a brand-new mapping for a new Content Type or Taxonomy Vocabulary. A partial example from islandora_default's islandora_object (Repository Item) is included below:
langcode: en\nstatus: true\ndependencies:\n config:\n - node.type.islandora_object\n enforced:\n module:\n - islandora_demo\n module:\n - node\nid: node.islandora_object\ntargetEntityType: node\nbundle: islandora_object\ntypes:\n - 'pcdm:Object'\nfieldMappings:\n title:\n properties:\n - 'dc:title'\n field_alternative_title:\n properties:\n - 'dc:alternative'\n field_edtf_date:\n properties:\n - 'dc:date'\n datatype_callback:\n callable: 'Drupal\\controlled_access_terms\\EDTFConverter::dateIso8601Value'\n field_description:\n properties:\n - 'dc:description'\nThe required mapping metadata fields when creating a brand-new mapping include the id, status, targetEntityType, and bundle. (uuid and _core, not seen in the example above but may be present in exported copies, will be added by Drupal automatically.) bundle is the machine name for the Content Type or Taxonomy Vocabulary you are creating the mapping for. targetEntityType is node for Content Types or taxonomy_term for Taxonomy Vocabularies. The id configuration is a concatenation of target entity type and bundle ('node' and 'islandora_object' in the example above). The id is also used to name the configuration file: e.g. rdf.mapping.node.islandora_object.yml is rdf.mapping. plus the id (node.islandora_object) and then .yml.
The mapping itself consists of the types' and fieldMappings configurations.
All the mappings use RDF namespaces instead of fully-qualified URIs. For example, the type for islandora_object is entered in the RDF config as pcdm:Object instead of http://pcdm.org/models#Object. The available namespaces are defined in module hooks (hook_rdf_namespaces) but can also be entered manually in a configuration interface. Repository managers wanting to add additional namespaces need to go to Configuration > Search and Metadata > JSONLD and enter their desired namespaces in the \"Additional RDF Namespaces\" box.
Namespaces currently supported (ordered by the module that supplies them) include:
The types corresponds to the rdf:type predicate (which corresponds to JSON-LD's @type) and can have multiple values. This type value will be applied to every node or taxonomy term using the mapped content type or vocabulary.
In some cases a repository may want a node or taxonomy term's rdf:type to be configurable. For example, the Corporate Body Vocabulary (provided by the Controlled Access Terms Default Configuration module) has schema:Organization set as the default type in the RDF mapping. However, more granular types may apply to one organization and not another, such as schema:GovernmentOrganization or schema:Corporation. The alter_jsonld_type Context reaction allows Content Types and Taxonomy Vocabularies to add a field's values as rdf:types to its JSON-LD serialization (the format used to index a node or taxonomy term in Fedora and the triple-store).
fieldMappings specifies the fields to be included, their RDF property mappings, and any necessary data converters (the datatype_callback). One field can be mapped to more than one RDF property by adding them to the field's properties list. The datatype_callback is defined by the 'callable' key and the fully qualified static method used to convert it to the desired data format. For example, fields of the Drupal datetime type need to be converted to ISO 8601 values, so we use the Drupal\\rdf\\CommonDataConverter::dateIso8601Value function to perform the conversion.
Islandora Quick Lessons
Learn more with this video on Customizing a Form.
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If an object's namespace is 'customnamespace', render the block containing the right's statement \"Please contact Special Collections before reusing this item\".
The Context project page on drupal.org says \"You can think of each context as representing a 'section' of your site\", but that doesn't tell the whole story, since it gives the impression that Context is all about defining subsites. Context in Drupal 8 (and above) is much more powerful than in Drupal 7 due to how it interacts with the rest of Drupal (specifically, through Drupal 8's new plugin API). Because of this increased flexibility and power, and because Context provides a ready-made user interface for site administrators to combine conditions and reactions, Islandora uses Context to drive the logic underlying many important aspects of Islandora, including which derivatives get generated and how objects are displayed. In Islandora Legacy, many of these things are managed (and often hard-coded) within solution packs and utility modules.
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This functionality is accomplished via the \"OpenSeadragon\" Context, which, as its configuration suggests, checks as its condition whether the node as the \"OpenSeadragon\" tag and if so, reacts by using the view mode \"OpenSeadragon\":
"},{"location":"user-documentation/context/#context-and-actions","title":"Context and actions","text":"Context in Drupal 8 uses Drupal Actions to execute the \"then that\" part of their logic. An implication of this is some configuration options relevant to the outcome of the \"then that\" reaction are configured in the Action admin interface (located at admin/config/system/actions), not within the Context admin interface (located at admin/structure/context). While this makes for a clunky admin experience, the advantage is that it allows the reuse of a single piece of Drupal code in multiple Contexts.
One important group of functionality in Islandora repositories that admins might want to control is what types of media get persisted to Fedora. Islandora allows administrators to choose what types of media get persisted to Fedora and what types of media get persisted to the Drupal public file system. For example, you may want to persist your thumbnails to Fedora along with your \"Preservation Master\" and \"Original File\" files. This can be accomplished using Context.
By default, Islandora stores thumbnails in Drupal's public file system, not in Fedora. Thumbnails are automatically generated by a Context (the \"Image Service File\" Context to be specific), but if you want to change the file system where your thumbnails are stored to the Fedora file system, you need to change that setting in the \"Image - Generate a thumbnail from a service file\" Action, not in the Context that uses that action:
This configuration should be done as part of your initial Islandora setup, since there is currently no way to move thumbnails that were persisted to Drupal's public file system to Fedora, or vice versa. But, at least site admins can choose one or the other using this Action.
You can create custom Actions and then use them in Contexts. For example, if you want to present a message to the user every time they upload a media tagged as \"Preservation Master File\", create an Action of type \"Display a message to the user\" and enter your message:
Then, create a Context that uses this Action as its Reaction, and as its Condition, uses \"Media has term\" with a value of \"Preservation Master File\":
Now, when a user creates a Media and tags it as a \"Preservation Master File\", they will be shown the message you created in your Action:
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,) after the first term in the autocomplete field and continue typing.Most Islandora repository administrators will not need to alter or configure any Contexts. But since much of Islandora's underlying functionality is governed by this powerful Drupal contrib module, administrators should become comfortable using it, and Actions, to customize and refine their repositories. Also, since Islandora objects are ordinary Drupal nodes, Islandora objects can take advantage of standard Drupal 8 Context functionality out of the box.
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Both scenarios are covered by the Islandora Cookbook below, which contains an annotated list of custom Islandora tools and modules developed by our community, a list of Drupal contributed modules that may be useful in an Islandora context, and a set of recipes which each provide a detailed outline for solving a particular use case.
Islandora is also compatible with most Drupal themes.
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Permissions by Term
By default, Drupal allows you only to restrict access to Drupal nodes by coupling node content types to user roles. The Permissions by Term module extends Drupal by functionality for restricting view and edit access to single nodes via taxonomy terms. Since Islandora objects can have taxonomy terms, this can be used to control access at the node and collection level. The submodule Permissions by Entity extends this control to the media level.
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Moderation Scheduler gives content editors the ability to schedule Islandora nodes to be published at specified dates and times in the future. Can be combined with Views Bulk Edit to set the same scheduled publication date/time on multiple nodes at once.
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A module that informs users who attempt to view deleted content that the resource has been removed instead of showing a generic 404 page. Fielded so that the date, reason, and alternative links can be given, along with a citation for the deleted object.
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Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create. It can be used to create an easy, adjustable slideshow of images from an Islandora repository.
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This module provides a formatter that displays CSV files in the browser.
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Integration with TimelineJS to create timeline displays.
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This repository is a tutorial that will introduce you to using the Drupal 8 Migrate tools to create Islandora content. Whether you will eventually use CSVs or other sources (such as XML or directly from a 7.x Islandora) this tutorial should be useful as it covers the basics and mechanics of migration.
This repository is also a Drupal Feature that, when enabled as a module, will create three example migrations ready for you to use with the Migrate API.
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Command-line tool for ingesting (and updating) nodes and media from anywhere - you don't need to access to the Drupal server's command line. Provides robust data validation, flexible organization of your input data (can use CSV, Google Sheets, or Excel files) plus creation of taxonomy terms on the fly.
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A powerful tool that turns Views into a means of batch editing nodes, including Islandora repository objects. Once installed, create a view, add the fields that you would like to edit, add a Views bulk operations (Edit) field to the view, and select which actions you would like to have available. The Modify field values action will allow you to batch edit the value for the same field across multiple objects. A demonstration of a simple bulk-editing view with a few fields and actions can be found here
Content Type Clone
A tool that allows you to clone an existing content type. Can be used to copy and easily make your own version of the Repository Item Content Type with fewer or edited fields, without starting over. Has options to also copy all nodes from the old type to the new, and to delete from the old type when copying.
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Because the Drupal module doesn't play with Typed Relation fields, DGI's entity_reference_integrity_extras module is useful.
Alternatively, Entity Reference Purger takes care of deleting the references on entity delete. Warning: it is unknown whether Entity Reference Purger respects whether the user has permission to edit the referencing entity/field. There are open issues that it does not work well with Workflow (see Content Mangagement Workflows below) or translation. The module is not covered by the security badge.
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This module lets you set up workflows that \"transition\" content between \"states\", which may be published or unpublished. It also allows you to set revisions as mandatory (normally an editor can decide to make an edit without creating a revision, making it very hard to track for auditing).
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Share entities between different Drupal instances. Works with nodes, taxonomy terms, media, etc.
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This module is a plug-and-play solution for rendering LaTeX. It uses a CDN so no library has to be installed on your system, and the processing is done in the user's browser. In terms of Drupal, it provides a text filter that must be enabled in at least one text format (such as Full HTML). With this you can enter mathematical formulae in abstracts! Need to recognize unfamiliar symbols? Try this LaTeX symbol reference thanks to the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
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This module provides a method for users with the necessary permissions to manually override the results being returned by Search API Solr. They will be able to choose a specific search term, and pick which nodes should be at the top, and also choose to exclude nodes so they will not be shown in the results. Currently, only nodes are supported.
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This module provides a separate log to record \"events\" such as the creation, editing, and deletion of content (actually any entities you configure it to, including config entities). This can provide a log of who did what, when. The log is not mixed in with the \"Watchdog\"/\"Recent log entries\" log, but still uses the database (unless you have another log method enabled).
When content is updated, the log only says that it was updated but does not say how or provide a diff. It does not seem to have the ability to link log messages to the revisions that may have been created during edits.
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The Content Feedback module allows users and visitors to quickly send feedback messages about the currently displayed content, and can be applied to Islandora nodes. All content feedback messages are listed and grouped by status in an administrative feedback list.
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A tool for automatically submitting the contents of your site to Archive.org. The Wayback Submit module will submit all node types on schedule, according to criteria set by the site admin (only certain node types, only certain views, etc).
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This tutorial currently works best with the \"standard\" install of the Islandora and Islandora Default modules which can be obtained from the playbook (as opposed to the install profile, which handles facet blocks differently).
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Facets aren't necessarily searchable
While this will create facets, the values that appear won't work (won't necessarily bring back any content) if you type them in the search box. This is because the fulltext search box uses only fulltext fields, and facets, as mentioned above, requires string fields.
If you want to be able to search for taxonomy term values and bring up the related nodes, you could either include the full rendered item for your content type, or you may wish to repeat step 2 for each entity reference field, and set the new fields to fulltext so that searching for term values brings back node results.
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In Drupal, a common way to implement a viewer is through a module that provides a Drupal field formatter that interfaces with the appropriate JavaScript library. The field formatter will work with specific types of Drupal fields (e.g. file fields or image fields, some may even provide their own fields). Some viewer modules in Islandora also provide a block, that can display appropriate files based on the context.
Viewers that are known to work with Islandora include:
The simplest Drupal-y way of making a viewer appear is to configure a Media to render. You can do this by configuring a View Mode that shows the desired file field, displayed in a field formatter that invokes the desired viewer.
In the Starter Site:
Note
Formerly, this field was called \"Display Hints\". That field name has been retired in order to reduce confusion, since this uses a different mechanism. This mechanism no longer relies on Node View Modes, or EVA views. However, the basic EVA view still persists in the starter site as it is part of the Islandora Core Feature. Again, it will first look for a Service File, then fall back to the Original File.
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Either would work! The choice is yours to make. They're honestly both good.
Should you choose the latter:
Both OpenSeadragon and Mirador provide blocks that act as multi-page viewers. To configure one of these viewers:
node/%node/book-manifest-original; in the block, we enter this as node/[node:nid]/book-manifest-original. When the block is rendered on a node page, such as node/18, then the nid (18) will be passed into the view.Islandora uses Flysystem and the associated Drupal module to persist binary files to Fedora instead of keeping a copy in both Drupal and Fedora.
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The Drupal Flysystem module extends Flysystem to work within the Drupal filesystem structure. Drupal flysystem plugins include a Flysystem adapter (if not provided by default or in another library) and a class implementing Drupal\\flysystem\\Plugin\\FlysystemPluginInterface which instantiates the Flysystem adapter based on the Drupal site's configuration.
The Drupal Flysystem module uses flysystem stream wrappers to define filesystem descriptors which are configured in the site's settings.php file. The configurations including the filesystem prefix, adapter (driver), and any adapter-specific configurations such as API endpoints and authorization information.
Islandora implements a Flysystem adapter and a Drupal Flysystem plugin. The Flysystem adapter acts as an intermediary between the Flysystem filesystem API and Fedora, translating requests and responses between them. The adapter interacts with Fedora using an instance of the Chullo Fedora API it receives from the Drupal Flysystem plugin. The Drupal Flysystem plugin's main responsibility is to instantiate the Chullo Fedora API object with the proper authentication and pass it to the Flysystem adapter. To authenticate with Fedora the plugin adds a handler to the Chullo's Guzzle client which adds a JWT authentication header to each request.
The Fedora Flysystem adapter does not use Gemini to map the relationship between Drupal URIs and Fedora URIs, so they are indexed separately using the \"files_in_fedora\" Context which triggers the \"Index Fedora File in Gemini\" and \"Delete Fedora File in Gemini\" actions as appropriate.
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Islandora is configured to have all Media use the Fedora file system by default in the islandora_core_feature. For example, the field storage uri_scheme setting for field_media_image (and the other media types) is \"fedora\". This can also be viewed in the UI on the field's \"Field settings\" page; e.g. http://localhost:8000/admin/structure/media/manage/image/fields/media.image.field_media_image/storage, look for \"Upload destination\" and see that \"Flysystem: fedora\" is selected.
However, there are methods for saving files that can explicitly set a different filesystem than the default. Migrations can explicitly set which file system a file is saved to and Islandora can emit events that also specify which file system a derivative should be saved to.
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For example, if I upload a TIFF to a repository item as a File Media with the term \"Original File\", the \"Image Original File\" (image_original_file) Context is triggered. This fires the 'image_generate_a_service_file_from_an_original_file' action which emits an event using the 'public' scheme (file system).
To make Islandora save future derivatives to Fedora instead of to Drupal, change the corresponding action's \"File system\" setting ('scheme' in the corresponding config file) to 'fedora' instead of 'public'.
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In the context of digital repositories, ingest refers to the process by which the repository software imports and subsequently processes an object, creating derivatives automatically, and running any other processing that is configured to occur when an object is added. This would be distinguished by software which simply stores objects after import (with or without associated files) and performs no processing. The Islandora GUI and the documentation sometimes use other terms such as 'import' or 'add resource node'. In such contexts, these terms generally refer to the ingest process.
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The term 'Resource node' is specific to Islandora. Typically, Resource nodes in an Islandora installation will use a specific Content type for the digital assets stored in the repository.
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A Drupal Content Entity of the type 'taxonomy term'. Taxonomy terms belong to vocabularies which define what fields are available and how they behave. Drupal generally uses terms contained in taxonomies or vocabularies to classify content (tag or category). Taxonomy terms are used in Islandora to establish locally controlled vocabularies for describing resources, for instance for standardised spellings of names or subject terms.
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Views power many of the Islandora features, including viewers, IIIF Manifests, and search.
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In Views, you can choose to show \"Rendered entities\" (usually as opposed to \"Fields\"). Here, you can select which view mode to use to render the results.
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Some definitions adapted from Wikipedia and Drupal.org
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At a practical level, because Islandora supports several of the IIIF specifications, we can:
Display thumbnails for all pages of a book or newspaper issue within image viewers
If you're not using one of our provisioning tools, you will need to:
The Islandora Starter Site uses a Context to automatically use the IIIF Presentation API with the Mirador viewer for showing paged content.
To use this Context, give your book or newspaper (or other paged content) a model of \"Paged Content\" or \"Publication Issue\". To double-check this, in the Mirador Block - Multipaged items Context, you should see those terms used in the \"Node has term\" condition (you can register more than one term there, and having one of these on your node will activate this Context). Now, when you view a paged content Islandora node, you will see service files of all of its child pages (assuming you have added some child pages to the object) in the Mirador viewer as illustrated above.
If you are using the Mirador viewer, it enables a lot of features out of the box, including the strip of thumbnails at the bottom, and there is little to configure.
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You can change how individual or paged content images are arranged in the OpenSeadragon viewport by doing the following:
admin/config/media/openseadragonIf you want to see the raw output of the IIIF API implementations in Islandora, visit a node that is displaying the OpenSeadragon viewer (doesn't matter if it's a single image or a paged content node like a book), and tack \"manifest\" onto the end of the URL, like http://myrepo.org/node/23/manifest and hit enter. You will see the raw JSON that IIIF-compliant viewers use to render the content. To see the output for a paged content item that lists all its children, tack /book-manifest on the end of the URL.
The really neat thing is, IIIF-compliant viewers don't need to be embedded in Islandora websites. If a viewer on another website knows the URL of a IIIF manifest like the ones that Islandora can produce, that viewer can display the content described in the manifest. Some implementations of IIIF viewers that show off the potential to combine content from multiple IIIF servers include:
These two examples have nothing to do with Islandora, but illustrate the potential for IIIF to build tools that extend beyond a given repository platform.
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The private public RSA pair needed by JWT authentication mechanism is generated in the web server. By default, claw playbook places the keys in /opt/islandora/auth. Crayfish and Tomcat/Karaf need the public key to verify the JWT token. By default, they are put in the following locations: /var/www/html/Crayfish/public.key, /etc/tomcat8/public.key. If you are deploying Crayfish and Karaf/Tomcat components to different servers, ensure that web server public.key files are in the expected locations.
Note that the connection need to be over SSL or an encrypted channel for this communication to be secure. Otherwise, a third party can capture your token and get access to your servers.
The JWT tokens expiration time is configurable via Islandora core settings: http://localhost:8000/admin/config/islandora/core. Currently, it is recommended to set the JWT Expiry to the maximum expected time for a job, including batch jobs.
The purpose of this page is to provide a guided reading list to anyone who wants to get up to speed on the basics of linked data within the Islandora community. Those who make their way through the readings will be able to talk competently about linked data and better understand the design decisions made in Islandora. The list starts with the fundamentals of linked data (RDF, SPARQL, serializations and ontologies) and moves toward more advanced topics specific to the use cases of a Fedora 4 based digital repository system.
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This section is all about RDF, the Resource Description Framework, which defines the way linked data is structured.
This section takes a look at SPARQL, the query language that allows you to ask linked data very specific questions. The queryable nature of linked data is one of the things that makes it so special. Try some SPARQL queries on DBpedia's endpoint to get some hands-on experience.
RDF data can be translated into many different formats. RDF/XML is the original way that RDF data was shared, but there are much more human-friendly serialization formats like Turtle which is great for beginners. JSON-LD is the easiest format for applications to use, and is the serialization format that Islandora uses internally. Make sure to check out the JSON-LD Playground for an interactive learning experience.
Ontologies and vocabularies are created by communities of people to describe things, and once created, anyone can use an ontology or vocabulary to describe their resources. This section goes over some of the more popular ontologies & vocabularies in use.
One isn't limited to the ontologies & vocabularies that already exist in the world, anyone is free to create their own. This section goes over ontologies that exist to help those trying to create their own ontologies.
Most ontologies are very specific to certain use cases, and digital repository systems are no different. This section covers ontologies that are of specific interest to users of Islandora, or any Fedora 4 based digital repository system.
In Islandora, the JSON-LD Module transforms nodes (or media, or taxonomy terms) into the RDF that is synced into Fedora and the Triplestore. It uses RDF mappings, a concept defined by the RDF Module, and exposes them through the REST API at ?_format=jsonld.
A quick overview of JSON-LD, the RDF module, and the REST API.
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The RDF Module is part of Drupal Core, but has no official documentation. The RDF Module embeds RDFa, a form of linked data, within the Drupal-generated HTML when you load the web page for a node, media, or taxonomy term. Official line is that this will allow Google to provide \"rich snippets\" such as star-ratings, contact info, and business hours. As an example of Drupal-provided RDFa:
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types (which maps to rdf:type - see below, under Structure of an RDF Mapping).islandora module uses this hook to trigger any \"Map URI to Predicate\" and \"Alter JSON-LD Type\" reactions that are configured in Contexts. The Islandora Starter Site provides two Contexts - \"All Media\" and \"Content\" - that configure these to occur on Media and Repository Item nodes.?_format=jsonld to be part of, or not part of, the URIs of Drupal objects. On an out-of-the-box islandora-playbook, this string is stripped, but by default on a fresh install of the jsonld module, it is not.{\n\"@graph\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/node\\/8\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/pcdm.org\\/models#Object\"\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/title\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"lasmomias de uninpahu\",\n\"@language\":\"fa\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/author\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/en\\/user\\/1\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/dateCreated\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"2019-06-04T14:32:05+00:00\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/dateModified\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"2019-06-04T17:02:51+00:00\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#dateTime\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/description\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"mpermmbklmh\",\n\"@language\":\"fa\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/created\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"2015-10-15\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#string\"\n},\n{\n\"@value\":\"2015-10-15\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#date\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/extent\":[\n{\n\"@value\":\"1 item\",\n\"@type\":\"http:\\/\\/www.w3.org\\/2001\\/XMLSchema#string\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/pcdm.org\\/models#memberOf\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/node\\/7\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/type\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/3\"\n}\n],\n\"http:\\/\\/purl.org\\/dc\\/terms\\/subject\":[\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/27\"\n}\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/en\\/user\\/1\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/Person\"\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/node\\/7\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/pcdm.org\\/models#Object\"\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/3\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/Thing\"\n]\n},\n{\n\"@id\":\"http:\\/\\/future.islandora.ca\\/taxonomy\\/term\\/27\",\n\"@type\":[\n\"http:\\/\\/schema.org\\/Thing\"\n]\n}\n]\n}\nIf using the Islandora Starter Site, the RDF mappings are set in the config files with names like rdf.mapping.[...].yml. The starter site config files will override configs set by modules. If you are building a site from scratch (not using the Islandora Starter Site, there are relevant configs in the following folders:
[drupal modules directory]/islandora/modules/islandora_core_feature/config/install/ (media and taxonomy terms)[drupal modules directory]/controlled_access_terms/modules/controlled_access_terms_defaults/config/install/ (the default corporate_body, family, geo_location, person, resource_type and subject vocabularies)[drupal web root]/core/profiles/standard/config/install/ (articles, pages, comments, and tags).Once loaded by modules, configuration .yml files are not live so editing them will not change the existing configuration. However, for modules that are Features, it is possible to re-import the changed configuration files at admin/config/development/features (todo: link to further reading on Features).
Once loaded, RDF mappings can be customized for the needs of a particular site through Drupal's Configuration Synchronization UI at admin/config/development/configuration. They can be exported, modified, and re-imported one-at-a-time by choosing the \"Single Item\" option on the Export/Import tabs. You can also create new RDF mappings (e.g. for a custom content type) and load them through this interface, by copying an existing mapping and changing the appropriate values.
Contributed module for RDF Mappings
A custom module rdfui exists, and is installed-but-not-enabled on boxes provisioned by the islandora-playbook. We don't use it because it is very rudimentary and limited to the schema.org vocabulary. We have an open ticket to develop a UI to support RDF mappings to any ontology. Contributions welcome.
ldp, ebucore, pcdm, are premis are registered in islandora.module using hook_rdf_namespaces(). To register your own namespaces, you will need to create a custom module that implements that hook.Below is an example of an RDF mapping as a .yml (YAML) file. It is the RDF mapping (current at time of writing) of the Repository Item (islandora_object) bundle, provided by the Islandora Starter Site and exportable as rdf.mapping.node.islandora_object.yml).
types specifies the rdf:type of the resource or content model. field_model, a required field of Islandora objects, also gets mapped to rdf:type through an arcane back-end process.fieldMappings specifies fields attached to that bundle and their RDF property mappings. One field can be mapped to more than one RDF property. It is a simple flat list.mapping_type:: There are several mapping types which are provided out of the box. - rel - standing for relationship, expresses a relationship between two resources - property - the default, or if a relationship is not provided, expresses the relationship between a resource and some literal text.
datatype_callback: This is a custom function that transforms the output of the field. There are some provided to us by Drupal and some added by Islandora, such as: - Drupal\\controlled_access_terms\\EDTFConverter::dateIso8601Value which converts dates to ISO format - Drupal\\jsonld\\EntityReferenceConverter::linkFieldPassthrough which converts a referenced entity to the URI on the entity (which is configurable with the link_field argument An example usage of the Drupal\\jsonld\\EntityReferenceConverter::linkFieldPassthrough is as follows:
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Compared to Islandora Legacy
In Islandora Legacy, this sort of technical metadata would have been stored as datastream properties or as additional metadata-specific datastreams. In Islandora, each datastream holds its technical metadata using an associated media entity.
Fedora will store the media's file as a binary resource and use the media's properties as the binary resource's description.
For example, creating a media with a file named test.jpg (in November 2019) will create a Fedora binary resource of the file accessible at /fcrepo/rest/2019-11/test.jpg with the media's fields accessible at /fcrepo/rest/2019-11/test.jpg/fcr:metadata.
Islandora Core Feature and the Islandora Starter Site make use of the media types provided by the Standard Drupal installation (Video, Audio, etc). The file extensions allowed by each media type have been configured at the Drupal level. It is possible to create your own media types, and/or to edit the allowed field types and functionality of the existing media types. However, with Islandora Starter Site, the Image media type only allows .png, .gif, .jpg or .jpeg files. Many large images such as TIFFs (.tiff files) and JP2s (.jp2) must be added in the File media type instead of Image.
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The Create new revision checkbox is selected by default which will prompt Fedora to make a new version of the media's metadata before updating its resource record. A message can be added to the revision which is stored in Drupal but is not currently saved in Fedora.
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First, the remove button removes the file's reference on the media but does not delete the file, which, if in Fedora, will remain in Fedora.
Second, because Drupal does not want users to reuse a file path uploading a file, even with the same name in the same month, Drupal will rename the file for you. This will result in a new binary resource in Fedora, rather than replacing the existing resource, so the file's URI in Fedora will change
Third, the metadata synced from the Media into Fedora at [old Fedora URI]/fcr:metadata will remain in Fedora, but the metadata in the Media will also be synced into Fedora at [new Fedora URI]/fcr:metadata. There will be no way for the metadata in Fedora describing the file at the old Fedora URI to be edited.
Removing Media with Actions
To completely delete a file and its metadata from Fedora and Drupal, run the \"Delete media and file(s) action\" after selecting the Media in the general media list (/admin/content/media). This will cause the paths to the file and its metadata in Fedora to return 404s.
Replacing Media via REST
It is possible to use Islandora's REST interface to replace Media and Files.
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Compared to Islandora Legacy
The direction of the relationship between objects and datastreams is reversed when compared to Islandora 7. Generally speaking, objects are unaware of their datastreams, and it's a Drupal view that lists datastreams for an object.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/media/#media-use","title":"Media use","text":"Islandora media express their intended use with a special \"Media Use\" field, which accepts taxonomy terms from the \"Media Usage\" vocabulary. Because the Media Usage vocabulary is an ordinary Drupal vocabulary, Islandora site administrators can create additional terms, and in turn, these local terms can be used to identify media that have some custom local purpose. However, most of the default set of \"Media Use\" terms are taken from the PCDM Use Extension vocabulary:
Compared to Islandora Legacy
Terms from the Media Usage vocabulary are very similar to DSIDs in Islandora Legacy. The only difference is that a DSID is immutable, but a media's usage can be changed at any time through the media's edit form.
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By default, derivatives are generated from Media with the \"Original Files\" term selected. When an Original File is uploaded, if the node that owns it has an \"Image\" model, image derivatives are created. If it's a \"Video\", then video derivatives are generated, etc...
By default, derivatives are created with a path determined by the current year, current month, the associated resource node' identifier assigned by Drupal, and the type of derivative. For example, a resource node found at node/2 with a service file media generated in October 2019 will have the path \"2019-10/2-Service File.jpg\". Naming conventions can be configured by editing each derivative action's File path settings.
Within a node's media tab, you can see all of its media, including derivatives, listed along with their usage. For example, from the Original File, a lower quality \"Service File\" and a smaller \"Thumbnail Image\" file were generated.
For more information on how to configure derivatives, see the section on Context.
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There are no multi-file media bundles that currently ship with Islandora. The following recipe describes how to set up multi-file media:
A video tutorial explaining how to configure multi-file Media is available under the following URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U6tBvD8oJY
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Service URL on localhost:8000 Identify http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=Identify ListMetadataFormats http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats ListSets http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListSets GetRecord http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:localhost:node-1 ListIdentifiers http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc ListRecords http://localhost:8000/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dcThese services are provided by the OAI-PMH Drupal REST OAI-PMH module Drupal module. The Islandora Starter Site provides some default configuration so that repository content can be harvested. This configuration used to be part of Islandora OAI-PMH, a submodule of Islandora Defaults.
For OAI-PMH functionality, the Islandora Starter Site provides:
/admin/config/services/rest/oai-pmh) to connect this view with the REST OAI-PMH module.The REST OAI-PMH module indexes (caches) set membership, so new Items may not appear immediately in their respective sets. Indexing will happen automatically during cron runs but can be triggered manually at /admin/config/services/rest/oai-pmh/queue.
The OAI-PMH module makes use of one of two modules to provide metadata mappings: the RDF module or the Metatag module. By configuring OAI-PMH to use the RDF module (appears as \"OAI Dublin Core (RDF Mapping)\" and is enabled by default in the Islandora Starter Site), the OAI-PMH module will use the RDF mapping as configured for your content type (the same mapping that is used for Fedora and Blazegraph, e.g. rdf.mapping.node.islandora_object.yml).
However,
Field values not showing up in OAI-DC record?
If you want the value of a field to be emitted in the OAI-DC record, you must assign a Dublin Core predicate for that field in your content type's RDF mapping. If you are wondering why a field is not showing up in the OAI-DC record, the content type's RDF mapping is the first thing to check.
The REST OAI-PMH module does not support metadata formats other than OAI-DC, but it supports some alternate methods of defining mappings to OAI-DC. Consult that module's documentation for more information.
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The Drupal rest_oai_pmh module's DefaultMap plugin provides a basic model to follow for creating a plugin.
Exact implementation of your plugin will depend on your data model. The rest_oai_pmh module by default expects a flat list of fields and field values to output. This means that if your data model uses anything like Typed Relation field types, Paragraphs, or other complex nested entity modeling, you will need to add custom logic to build the values to emit via OAI-PMH for those fields.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/","title":"Metadata in Islandora","text":"Metadata vs Fields in the Starter Site
To learn about the default out-of-the-box metadata fields, see Starter Site Metadata Configuration. This page describes technical details about how metadata is handled as fields in Drupal and provides a deeper understanding of, and tools for modifying, your metadata configuration.
1-minute synopsis: In Islandora, metadata is stored in Drupal, in fields attached to entities (nodes or media). This allows us to interact with metadata (add, edit, remove, display, index in a search engine...) almost entirely using standard Drupal processes. If exporting this metadata to Fedora and/or a triplestore, the values are serialized to RDF using mappings that can be set for each bundle.
Drupal 8 Terminology
In Drupal 8, Fields can be attached to bundles (sometimes called entity sub-types -- e.g. Content types, Media types, Vocabularies) or entities (e.g. Users). For more on Fields, see \"2.3 Content Entities and Fields\" and \"6.3 Adding Basic Fields to a Content Type\" in the Official Drupal Guide.
As described in the resource nodes section, Islandora digital objects are comprised of Drupal nodes for descriptive metadata, Drupal media for technical metadata, and Drupal files for the binary objects. This section describes how Islandora uses and extends Drupal fields to manage descriptive metadata.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#content-types","title":"Content Types","text":"In Drupal, Nodes come in different subtypes called Content Types. These let you define a type of content (\"Article\" and \"Basic Page\" are Drupal defaults and \"Repository Item\" is an Islandora specific example), the set of metadata fields that are attached to that content, and how those fields can be edited and displayed. Each content type is essentially a metadata profile that can be used for a piece of web content, or to describe a digital resource. You can create your own content types for your Islandora project or use a pre-defined one like Repository Item from the Islandora Starter Site. We will go over the metadata specific aspects of Content Types below, but see our tutorial for a fuller walk-through of creating a content type.
Not all content types in your Drupal site need be Islandora Resource Nodes. Making a content type a Resource Node will associate Islandora specific behaviours (such as syncing to Fedora or causing derivatives to be generated) with it. The decision to make a content an Islandora resource node is left to the discretion of the site manager. In Islandora, a \"resource node\" is usually considered a descriptive record for \"a thing\", and is conceptually similar to an \"Islandora Object\" in 7.x, i.e. a \"Fedora Object\" in Fedora 3.x and below. Read more on configuring a content type to be treated as a Resource Node.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#fields","title":"Fields","text":"The administrator will define the fields that are associated with a specific content type . The same fields can be applied to different content type , but the field display and editing configurations are unique to each content type. The names and definitions of these fields are specific to Drupal and do not have to correspond to an outside metadata schema. You will give each field a Label, Machine Name, and a specific Field Type, like Text, Integer, EDTF, or Entity Reference (see below). Specific to the Field Type you will then define the maximum length of the field, the number of values it can contain, and what taxonomies it might link to.
Fields can be added under Administration >> Structure >> Content types >> Your Content Type's Name >> Manage fields (/admin/structure/types/your_type/fields). This tab will list all Fields, their Label, Machine Name, Field Type, and give you the option to make what edits to the definition of that field that you can.
Certain decisions must be made when fields are created, and before any content is added, because they can not be changed later. Field Type can not be changed, so you wouldn't be able to change a text field to a taxonomy field after creation. The field's machine name also can't be changed. The number of values allowed in a field or its maximum length or type of item to reference (in the case of Entity reference fields) can not be changed after content has been added. You can, however, always add new fields to a content type, even after content has been added.
7.x Migration Note: What About My MODS XML?
Even when using the Islandora Starter Site, there is no \"official\" metadata schema in Islandora. Where Islandora 7.x used MODS, and took advantage of its hierarchical/extensible structure, Drupal Fields are a flat structure working with distinct, individual elements. You can base your fields on those in MODS, or any other schema, but that structure is up to you. The Metadata Interest Group has developed a sample MODS-Drupal-RDF mapping, which provides a structure upon which you can build your Drupal fields. It is used by the Repository Item content type in the Islandora Starter Site.
you cannot change the Content Type of a node
Once a node is created, its content type cannot be changed. Just as you are unable to change many aspects of a Field once it has been created, once a node has been created it is now permanently of that content type and the fields associated with it. At that point your only option would be to create a new node of the intended content type, map the field values (programmatically or by copy-paste), and update any media or children that refer to the old node to refer to the new one.
The Islandora Starter Site provides a Repository Item content type that can be used as a structure to build your collection around, or it can be used as a sample to see how fields in content types work. It pre-defines fields, including Alternative Title and Date Issued that could be of use in many digital repositories. The full list of fields and their field types can be seen in the screenshot below.
Titles Aren't Conventionally-Configurable Fields
The field title is built-in to each content type by default, and can be referenced in views, templates, and indexing like other fields, but it cannot be configured like other fields. The only aspect you can change about title is its label. It has a built-in maximum length of 255 characters which cannot be changed. If your content requires longer titles we recommend you create a separate \"long_title\" field to store the full title and reserve the default title field for a display title. There is a contributed module called Node Title Length, which allows an administrator to configure the length of the title field in the core node table. However, this only works on nodes (not media or other entities) and involves meddling in a core Drupal database schema, which makes some people uneasy.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#vocabularies","title":"Vocabularies","text":"See also: MIG Presentation on Taxonomies by Kristina Spurgin, 2021-07-19
In Drupal, Taxonomy Vocabularies (or simply Vocabularies) are also entity subtypes that define a set of fields and their configurations. Whereas instances of content types are called nodes, items in a vocabulary are called taxonomy terms (or simply terms). Traditionally, taxonomy terms are used to classify content in Drupal. For instance, the Article content type includes a field field_tags that can refer to terms in the Tags vocabulary.
There are two ways that users can interact with taxonomies: they can be \"closed,\" e.g. a fixed list to pick from in a dropdown, or \"open,\" e.g. field_tags where users can enter new terms, which are created on the fly. This is not set on the vocabulary itself, but in the configuration of the field (typically on a node). Terms within vocabularies have an ordering, and can have hierarchical structure, but do not need to.
Islandora (through the Islandora Core Feature) creates the 'Islandora Models' vocabulary which includes the terms 'Audio', 'Binary', 'Collection', 'Compound Object', 'Digital Document', 'Image', 'Newspaper', 'Page', 'Paged Content', 'Publication Issue', and 'Video'. Islandora Starter Site provides contexts that cause certain actions (e.g. derivatives to happen, or blocks to appear) based on which term is used.
The Controlled Access Terms module provides additional vocabularies:
Each of these vocabularies has its own set of fields allowing repositories to further describe them. The Repository Item content type has fields that can reference terms in these vocabularies. See 'Entity Reference fields' in the 'Field Types' section below.
The vocabularies provided by default are a starting point, and a repository administrator can create whatever vocabularies are desired.
Large Taxonomy Vocabularies
The Drupal Taxonomy UI is known to break down when your vocabularies get large (e.g. over 20,000 terms). Jonathan Hunt created the CCA Taxonomy Manager module for SFU to solve this problem.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#field-types","title":"Field Types","text":"Fields are where descriptive and administrative metadata about Drupal entities is stored. There are different types of fields including boolean, datetime, entity reference, integer, string, text, and text_with_summary. These field types also have widgets (controlling how data is entered) and formatters (controlling how data is displayed). The Drupal 8 documentation on FieldTypes, FieldWidgets, and FieldFormatters includes a list of the core field types with brief definitions, along with a list of core widgets and formatters. Custom field types can be created to represent data in ways not provided by these core options.
More field types, formatters, and widgets are available in various modules. For example, the controlled_access_terms module provides two additional field types designed specifically for use with Islandora: ETDF, and Typed Relation. These and the Entity Reference field type are described in more detail below, since they are of particular interest for Islandora users.
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Within Islandora, this data type is used by a metadata field in Taxonomy Vocabularies called Authority Sources to capture equivalent representations of terms from external authority sources.
Tip
The term external authority source refers to both controlled vocabularies like Art & Architecture Thesaurus or FAST as well as Name Authority Files like Library of Congress Name Authority File or VIAF.
For instance, if you are creating a term called Red squirrels within the default Taxonomy Vocabulary Subject, you may want to include the URI for Tamiasciurus from the FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) vocabulary. If you configured the field Authority Sources to list FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as an external source authority option, you can select this source and add the associated URI (http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1142424).
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By default, this field is repeatable. To change this, edit the \"Field settings\" and change Allowed numbers of values from \"Unlimited\" to \"Limited\" and enter the number of allowable values. This will apply to every instance of the Authority Sources field across your Taxonomy Vocabularies. You cannot change the repeatability of Authority Sources after data has been entered in the field.
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The Repository Item content type, provided by the Islandora Starter Site, includes several entity reference fields that reference vocabularies defined by the islandora and controlled_access_terms modules.
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Tip
Note that once the type of entity to reference has been defined, and data has been created, it cannot be changed.
Storage settings for entity reference field where you set whether the field will reference content nodes or taxonomy terms:
Reference type settings for entity reference field where you select which vocabularies the autocomplete utility should query when editors are entering data:
Data Consistency
Selecting which vocabularies can be referenced from an entity reference field only affects which vocabularies will be searched when a user types into the autocomplete field in the Drupal form for adding a new item. These settings do not impose constraints on the underlying database, so it is still possible to load references to other vocabularies without being stopped or warned when ingesting data through various migration methods.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#edtf","title":"EDTF","text":"The EDTF field type is defined in the controlled_access_terms module, and designed for recording dates in Extended Date Time Format, which is a format based off of the hyphenated form of ISO 8601 (e.g. 1991-02-03 or 1991-02-03T10:00:00), but also allows expressions of different granularity and uncertainty. The Default EDTF widget has a validator that only allows strings that conform to the EDTF standard. The Default EDTF formatter allows these date strings to be displayed in a variety of human-readable ways, including big- or little-endian, and presenting months as numbers, abbreviations, or spelling month names out in full. Close review of the EDTF Specifications is recommended when configuring this field type.
Endianness
Big-endian = year, month, day. Little-endian = day, month, year. Middle-endian = month, day, year.
Known EDTF Bug
When configuring the EDTF widget for a field in a content type, you can choose to allow date intervals (aka date ranges), but doing this prevents the widget from accepting values that include times. (The EDTF standard states that date intervals cannot contain times, but the field should be able to accept either a valid EDTF range or a valid EDTF datetime, so this is a bug.)
Example of valid inputs in a multivalued EDTF Date field (including the seasonal value 2019-22 as defined in the EDTF specification):
Example of the same EDTF dates displayed using little-endian format:
EDTF field values cannot include textual representations of dates, as shown below in this example of a valid EDTF value ('1943-05') and an invalid value ('May 1943') with the corresponding error message. Use the formatter configurations detailed further below to achieve textual display of dates.
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Configuration options include strictness level of date validation, allowing date intervals and allowing date sets.
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Example of how the EDTF formatter settings can change the display of an EDTF value:
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Solr
The Solr string data type requires the full field value to match the query in order to count as a match. This means that searching for 2014 will not retrieve a record where the recorded date value is 2014-11-02.
EDTF date fields may be configured as sort fields in your search results Views. By default, this results in a simple ordering by the literal EDTF date string.
An EDTF date field with multiple or unlimited number of allowed values may be set as a sort field. In this case, the first occurrence of the field value is used as the sorting value.
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Typed relation name
The parts of a field are called properties, so 'entity reference' and 'relation type' are properties of the Typed Relation field type.
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The list of available relations for this Contributors field is configurable at '/admin/structure/types/manage/islandora_object/fields/node.islandora_object.field_linked_agent'.
Typed relation tradeoffs
Publishers
Until Mar 2024, the Islandora Starter Site included publishers in the Contributors (field_linked_agent) field. The MIG made the decision to make publisher its own text field, in order to make it easier to separate publishers from other contributors, and to prevent clutter in the linked taxonomies. Publishers are often recorded by transcribing what is on the item, rather than formatting the name per Authority rules, so variations on a single name are expected.
Relations are defined in the format key|value, and the key is used in the RDF mapping (see below).
By default, facets can be created for typed relation fields that will facet based on the linked entity alone, not separating references based on the relationship type.
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rest_oai_pmh module's templates/mods.html.twig. For example, that template file includes {{ elements.publisher }} so the label in views needs to be exactly publisher. Save the View.An example of this, in terms of config changes, is visible in the changeset of the Starter Site's 1.6.0 version for the Publisher field. However, pulling such a changeset is unlikely to work smoothly and it is recommended to set these configurations manually.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#getting-metadata-into-fedora-and-a-triple-store","title":"Getting Metadata into Fedora and a Triple-store","text":"Depending on the needs at your institution, you may or may not be using Fedora with your Islandora installation. You also may or may not be hoping to publish your metadata as RDF triples that can be queried in a triplestore. Both of these functionalities are driven by the JSON-LD module (written for Islandora), which provides a JSON-LD serialization of your content nodes, media nodes, as well as your taxonomy terms. This JSON-LD is what gets ingested by Fedora, and is also what is used to add RDF triples to the blazegraph triplestore if you choose to use that service.
The JSON-LD serialization for an entity is available by appending _format=jsonld to the entity's URL. Below is an example JSON-LD document representing the RDF serialization of a Repository item node created in a standard islandora-playbook based vagrant VM:
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To show a small example, the RDF mapping:
title:\n properties:\n - dc:title\nwill map the Repository item's title field to http://purl.org/dc/terms/title. As a result, the node's title value appears like this in the JSON-LD output:
\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/title\":[\n {\n \"@value\":\"New York, New York. A large lobster brought in by the New England fishing boat [Fulton Fish Market]\",\n \"@language\":\"en\"\n }\n],\nTip
To set up prefixes for namespaces and see a list of available predefined namespaces, see the \"RDF Generation\" page.
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Bug
The Drupal RDF module is currently limited in the complexity of graph you can generate. All fields must be mapped directly to either a literal value, or a reference to another content type instance, media type instance, or taxonomy term instance. It is not currently possible to create blank nodes or skolemized nodes for nesting fields under more complex structures.
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For more complex changes, or when the values need to differ for each value, an export-modify-reimport method may be needed. Use a view to export CSV or other structured data (including an identifier such as a node id), modify the values as necessary, then use migrate csv or Workbench to re-import and update the values.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/metadata/#drupal-bundle-configurations","title":"Drupal Bundle Configurations","text":"In Islandora, content models are primarily created using content types (also known as node bundles) and media bundles. Bundles are defined by YAML configuration files. To create new content models, one would create the needed content types and media bundles via UI, then export the yml files related for those bundles using Configuration Synchronization (http://localhost:8000/admin/config/development/configuration) or Features. An understanding about the structure of a bundle and various configuration files used to define it helps in creating and updating it.
Content types and media bundles can be thought of as web forms consisting of fields. Drupal provides widgets to define the behavior of a field and field storage to define how the data is stored in the database. Drupal provides various display modes to show the forms to user when they are editing (Manage form display) or viewing (Manage display).
A content model is packaged as a module for installation. All yml files are put in config/install folder of the module. Note that not all content models would contain media bundles.
The following files define the bundles themselves. It contains some metadata about the bundle and lists its dependencies.
node.type.your_content_type.yml\nmedia_entity.bundle.your_media_bundle.yml\nThe following files define the fields attached to the bundle forms. There must be one config file for each field in your bundle, except for the default drupal fields.
field.field.node.your_content_type.field_name1.yml\nfield.field.node.your_content_type.field_name2.yml\n...\nfield.field.media.your_media_bundle.field_name1.yml\nfield.field.media.your_media_bundle.field_name2.yml\nIf the new bundle contains new fields, then field storage configurations for the newly created fields would be needed as well. Note that if you reused existing fields, storage definitions should not be defined again. Storage config contains information about the number of values allowed for that field (cardinality).
field.storage.node.field_new_name3.yml\nfield.storage.media.field__new_name3.yml\nThere is a configuration file for each combination of bundle / display mode when managing form displays. Usually, form displays will have default and inline modes.
core.entity_form_display.media.your_media_bundle.default.yml\ncore.entity_form_display.media.your_media_bundle.inline.yml\n---\ncore.entity_form_display.node.your_content_type.default.yml\ncore.entity_form_display.node.your_content_type.inline.yml\nThere is a configuration file for each combination of bundle / display mode when managing displays. Usually, displays will have default and teaser modes for content types and default and content modes for media bundles.
core.entity_view_display.media.your_media_bundle.default.yml\ncore.entity_view_display.media.your_media_bundle.content.yml\n---\ncore.entity_view_display.node.your_content_type.default.yml\ncore.entity_view_display.node.your_content_type.teaser.yml\nIn addition, Islandora needs an RDF mapping to express the content in RDF and to sync to fedora. There will be one RDF mapping per bundle.
rdf.mapping.media.your_media_bundle.yml\nrdf.mapping.node.your_content_type.yml\nIslandora enables you to build full-fledged multilingual repositories leveraging the multilingual support provided by Drupal core modules. The multilingual content gets indexed into Fedora repository as well as the Triplestore (Blazegraph), and can be queried using the SPARQL endpoint. In this guide, we will describe the steps needed to set up a basic multilingual Islandora site.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/multilingual/#adding-languages","title":"Adding Languages","text":"From the top menu, go to Configuration >> Regional and language >> Languages. Add a language.
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You can place the language switcher block in different regions of the user interface. You might have to customize the theme to style the language switcher block.
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From the top menu, go to Structure >> Menu. Edit \"Main navigation\" menu. Default home menu item cannot be translated due to this issue. Disable that menu item. Click Add link to create a new menu item. Provide a menu title (i.e. Home) and input <front> for the link field. Save. Right-click on the Operations beside the new menu link and click the Translate button. Translate the menu link title for the language added above and save.
Go back to home. The language switcher will enable you to switch the language/content of the menu and content.
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Go back to home, you should be able to view content in the language selected in the language switcher.
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Each field label needs to be translated through the Drupal GUI (Configuration >> Regional and Language: User interface translation). Alternatively, you can import existing translations, or translations generated with an external translation editor (for example Gtranslator). Go to Interface translation import (Configuration >> Regional and Language: User interface translation >> Import tab). Set the Treat imported strings as custom translations option, select the import file, the target language, and click import. Clear the cache to see the changes. An example second language display is shown below.
Islandora indexes the multilingual metadata values in Fedora as RDF literals using language tags. An example representation is shown below.
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You can query the result and filter the results by a specific language. For example, to get all titles and filter by language, the following query can be used:
PREFIX dcterm: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>\nselect ?s ?o {\n ?s dcterm:title ?o\nFILTER (lang(?o) = 'ta')\n}\nPaged content, such as books, periodicals, photographs with the front and back, etcetera, can use the membership structure provided by Islandora, namely, field_member_of. This involves creating a resource node for the root record (i.e. the entire book or the photograph) and child resource nodes for each sub-component (e.g. \"Page 1\", \"Page 2\", etc., or \"recto\" and \"verso\") with their corresponding media. Each \"child\" resource node contains a reference to their \"parent\" resource node using the field_member_of property.
Child v. Member
Islandora uses the \"child\" and \"member\" descriptor for resource nodes that store a reference to another resource node in the \"Member Of\" field interchangeably. Administrators will more often see the \"member\" terminology more often while front-end users will usually see \"child\" terminology.
Similar to the collection view showing members of a collection, Islandora provides taxonomy terms Paged Content and Page in the Islandora Model vocabulary, that can be used to trigger paged content behaviors. Islandora Starter Site provides a Context for Paged Content resource nodes to trigger displaying a Mirador viewer showing the child resource nodes' service files.
To enable this, use Paged Content for the Islandora Model of the parent resource node and Page for the Islandora Model of the child resource node. After the child resource nodes have \"service file\" media (either generated via the built-in derivative creation or added manually), they will be included in the Mirador paginated viewer displayed on the parent resource node's page. (See the IIIF Documentation for more details on controlling the viewer's behavior.)
However, repository managers can use any method they like, such as a Views-based list of teasers, a gallery, or a slide-show to display child resource nodes.
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Weight values do not need to be sequential, just ordered from smallest to largest. For example, the first child resource node can have a value of 10 and the next could have a value of 20 and they will be ordered accordingly. Should a new child be added with the weight value of 15 it will automatically be sorted after the child with the weight value 10 and before the child with the weight value 20.
Child resource nodes can be reordered using a drag-and-drop interface by clicking on the Re-order Children button on the Children tab of the parent resource node.
Re-ordering children resource nodes on this page and clicking Save will cause each child resource node's weight value to be updated using sequential values.
Why not Drupal's book or weight modules?
Drupal provides the book module in core for creating multi-level ordered content, such as books and manuals. However, this module stores structure and pagination separately from the nodes making serializing these relationships as RDF we can provide to Fedora more difficult than simply using field_member_of with an RDF mapping. Support for the book module may be added in the future.
Drupal also has a weight module that provides a weight field and a drag-and-drop reordering user-interface. However, this module requires users to set a specified range of values which includes their negative corresponding value. E.g. a range setting of '20' will require all children to have a value between '-20' to '20'. This presumes a repository manager can predict how many pages the largest paged content item in their repository will be beforehand. Also, these weight values are serialized into RDF using the Collections Ontology 'index' predicate which assumes positive integer values which cannot be guaranteed using the weight module.
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This method does not create full metadata for the child nodes. It uses the filename as the node title. It also does not accept zip files; individual files must be uploaded. For more methods of bulk uploading content, see Islandora Workbench and Migrate Islandora CSV
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The View tab also provides links to some common actions. Start Indexing Now allows you to start an indexing job for a specified number of items (default is 'all'). You can also specify how many items should be indexed in each batch (default is '50'). The other links allow a repository manager to queue all objects for reindexing, clear the index, or rebuild tracking information.
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Content (types) is the only data source enabled by default. Selecting Taxonomy term will enable searching taxonomies which is recommended if the repository uses taxonomies for subjects or other discovery points. Once the data sources are enabled a configuration box for each of them will appear in a section just below the list of data sources. This allows repository managers to select which content types (or taxonomy vocabularies) will be included in the index. By default, all the content types, and vocabularies if the taxonomy data source is enabled, are indexed.
Defaults
The defaults assume a repository is adding content using the web interface. If a repository manager plans on bulk-loading content they should disable the Index items immediately option in the expandable Index Options box and increase the 'Cron batch size' option.
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To add a field, click the + Add fields button. A shadow-box will appear with a list of the fields available for the index.
Some fields, such as the Body ('body') field provided by Drupal, have multiple properties which can be completely different values or variations on the same value. Click on the plus-sign next to the field to show the properties available to index. In most cases repository managers can ignore the properties list and click the Add button by the field to index the default property ('value'). Only select a different field property if you understand how it will impact user searching. Entity reference fields, such as Tags ('field_tags'), allow you to select fields or their properties from the referenced entity for indexing, such as a referenced taxonomy term's name field.
Once the fields are added they can be configured further on the Fields tab, although the label, machine name, and type usually don't need to be changed. The 'Type' dropdown has several Full-text processing options available, which may be of interest. Each is described in the expandable Data Types box at the bottom of the page. The Boost setting allows repository managers to increase the weight of particular fields when calculating search relevancy.
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"},{"location":"user-documentation/searching/#searching-islandora","title":"Searching Islandora","text":"Searching using Search API in Drupal is done using Drupal Views. The Islandora Starter Site comes with a search page pre-configured (accessible at '/solr-search/content'). To edit the search page, navigate to '/admin/structure/views/view/solr_search_content'.
Repository managers may want to change the URL used to access the page, add it to the site navigation, or add a search box. In the 'Page Settings' box in the middle of the page, click on the existing path to open a shadow-box with an edit field. Change the URL as desired, for example, to 'search' and click Apply. Then, click the No menu link just below it to open the menu settings shadow-box. Selecting 'Normal menu entry' will allow a repository manager to add a menu link text, description, and place it within the site menu tree (the default, <Main navigation> works for most sites). A search box can be added by expanding the Advanced options and changing the Exposed form in block setting and then use the Block Layout interface (found at '/admin/structure/block') to place the block where desired. After making changes to the View's settings, click the Save button to ensure the changes are not lost.
Islandora's Repository Items are displayed in the search results as a fully rendered entity by default. Repository managers can choose which view mode should be used for each search datasource by clicking the Settings link next to the Show: setting under the Format section of the search view configuration page (shown in a red box in the screenshot below). The Teaser and Search result highlighting input are the two most likely options. Alternatively, repository managers can select specific fields to display instead by clicking the Rendered Entity link and changing it to Fields and then choosing which fields will be displayed in the Fields section underneath.
Thumbnails
thumbnails will not immediately be available using the Fields display option without more advanced configurations.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/","title":"Islandora Starter Site Metadata Configuration","text":""},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#introduction","title":"Introduction","text":"As described in Metadata In Islandora, in Islandora metadata is stored in Drupal, in fields attached to entities. Provided by the Islandora Starter Site, the \u201cRepository Item\u201d content type contains a set of default fields to describe the digital objects an Islandora repository might contain. This set of fields is based on MODS fields commonly used in Islandora 7, and is not intended to be \"the standard\" metadata profile, rather, a starting point for institutions designing their own repository.
This page presents the primary descriptive and administrative metadata fields found in the Islandora Starter site. We will define each field and give its basic configuration. Most of these configurations can be customized after installation, and new fields can be added as per the needs of an individual institution. Fields are grouped in standard MODS order.
Further information on the metadata configuration can be found in a Google Spreadsheet Islandora Starter Site Metadata Configuration (Google Sheets) which parallels the information on this page. It goes into further detail about the configurations connected to each field, provides information on taxonomies and mappings, and can be filtered or sorted in a variety of ways. The document, or the spreadsheet above, can be copied and used as a basis for planning your own configuration customizations as you work on your Islandora site.
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This field does not allow creating names of entities on the fly. First create a term in either the person, family, or corporate body taxonomies, then link it here.
Field name changed from \"Linked Agent\" 09/23. Machine Name field_linked_agent Drupal Field Type Typed Relation [link to https://islandora.github.io/documentation/user-documentation/metadata/#typed-relation] Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Corporate Body; Family; Person Create Referenced Entities no Relators Starter Site includes 269 terms from the MARC Relators list. Further terms from the list, or custom terms, can be added in the configuration for this field. Publisher has been removed from this list to encourage use of the Publisher field. CSL Citation Mapping author ; contributor ; editor Facet Creators and Contributors RDF Mapping dcterms:contributor XPath For MODS mods/name/namePart + role/roleTerm > relator
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mods/name[@type=\"family\"]/namePart > \"Family\" taxonomy Alternatives Create custom facets using the \"Typed Relation filtered by type\" Search API processor. This would allow you to separate out, for instance, creator|author|photographer from the other types of relators as a Search API field/facet."},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#type-and-genre","title":"Type and Genre","text":"Type The general nature or genre of the content of the resource. To describe the digital or physical format of the resource, use Form instead. In contrast with Model, which is system-actionable, this field is designed to record the Type purely as a metadata element. Machine Name field_resource_type Drupal Field Type Entity reference [link to https://islandora.github.io/documentation/user-documentation/metadata/#entity-reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable no Taxonomies Resource Types (pre-populated with hierarchical LOC Resource Type Scheme terms) Create Referenced Entities no Facet Resource Type RDF Mapping dcterms:type XPath For MODS mods/typeOfResource, mods/typeOfResource[@collection=yes] Alternatives You may be required to use the Dublin Core types (for compatibility/harvesting); in that case you can replace the current Type vocabulary contents with the desired values. Genre A term or terms that designate a category characterizing a particular style, form, or content, such as artistic, musical, literary composition, etc. Machine Name field_genre Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Genre Create Referenced Entities yes CSL Citation Mapping genre RDF Mapping dcterms:type XPath For MODS mods/genre; mods/subject/genre"},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#origin-information","title":"Origin Information","text":"Place Published Plain text field to describe the place of publication in full or transcribed from an item \\ \\ See also the entity reference field Place Published Country. Machine Name field_place_published Drupal Field Type Text (plain) Required no Maximum Length 255 Repeatable yes CSL Citation Mapping publisher-place RDF Mapping relators:pup XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/place/placeTerm [@type = 'text'] OR [not(@type)] Country of Publication Entity reference field to singularly describe the country (or jurisdiction) of publication. Connected to the unpopulated Country taxonomy by default, which can be used for terms or codes from MARC Code List for Countries or elsewhere. Disabled, by default, on Metadata Display and Metadata Form. Machine Name field_place_published_country Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable no Taxonomies Country Create Referenced Entities no RDF Mapping relators:pup XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/place/placeTerm[@type=\"code\"] Publisher New field added 04/2024. Previously the Contributors/Linked agent field (with a relator value of Publisher) was used for this content. Machine Name field_publisher Drupal Field Type Text (plain) Required no Maximum Length 500 Repeatable yes CSL Citation Mapping publisher RDF Mapping XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/publisher"},{"location":"user-documentation/starter-site-metadata-configuration/#date-fields","title":"Date FieldsDate IssuedDate CreatedDate (Unspecified)Copyright DateDate ValidDate CapturedDate ModifiedEdition StatementMode of IssuanceFrequency","text":"
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Machine Name field_date_valid Drupal Field Type EDTF Required no Maximum Length 128 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping dcterms:valid XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/dateValid The date on which the resource was digitized or a subsequent snapshot was taken. Machine Name field_date_captured Drupal Field Type EDTF Required no Maximum Length 128 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping premis:creation XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/dateCaptured Date on which the original resource being represented in Islandora was changed. Typically modification dates of digital representations of the resource stored in Islandora will be recorded on the relevant Media instead of here. This field is not populated automatically by any Drupal functionality. Machine Name field_date_modified Drupal Field Type EDTF Required no Maximum Length 128 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping dcterms:modified XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/dateModified Information identifying the version of the resource. Machine Name field_edition Drupal Field Type Text (plain) Required no Maximum Length 255 Repeatable yes RDF Mapping rdau:P60329 XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/edition A term that designates how the resource is issued. MODS standards limit the values of this field to monographic, single unit, multipart monograph, continuing, serial, and integrating resource, but there are no such limitations in Islandora and the \u201cIssuance Mode\u201d vocabulary is empty on initial installation. Machine Name field_mode_of_issuance Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Issuance Mode Create Referenced Entities yes RDF Mapping rdau:P60051 XPath For MODS mods/originInfo/issuance The publication frequency, in textual form. Can be based on MARC Frequency terms. 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This field can be used if you are storing composed subject strings rather than component headings/subdivisions in their own fields. Machine Name field_subject_general Drupal Field Type Entity reference Required no Maximum Length 255 (system limit for Taxonomy terms) Repeatable yes Taxonomies Corporate Body; Family; Geographic Location; Person; Subject Create Referenced Entities yes Store New Items In Subject Facet Subject RDF Mapping dcterms:subject XPath For MODS mods/subject Subject (Topical) For use when using separate fields to record topical, geographic, name, and temporal terms. Topical subject terms would be recorded here. 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WEBVTT transcripts, captions, or subtitles may be displayed along with audio and video media. Transcripts must be added to the media entity that will be playing, using a special field type (\"Media track\"). When the media is configured to use the \"Audio with Captions\" and \"Video with Captions\" field formatters, tracks in \"Media track\" fields will be available.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/transcripts/#media-track-field-type","title":"Media track field type","text":"The Islandora module provides a field type, Media Track, that accepts .vtt files. Once a file has been uploaded, additional options relevant to media tracks become available to configure.
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Sandbox
On the public sandbox, or other sites using the Islandora Install Profile Demo, you will first need to make the \"Track\" field visible in the media form, at Structure > Media > Audio|Video > Manage Display.
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Note that if you add the transcript file to the Original File, but you have configured the site to play the Service File, then you will not see the transcript.
Languages
While you can add subtitles in different languages, you may only choose from the site's installed languages.
Types
The five options: captions; subtitles; descriptions; chapters; and metadata come from the HTML standard's <track> element. As per their definitions, captions and subtitles will be displayed as optional text over the video, available through the usual [cc] icon in the viewer controls. Descriptions, chapters, and metadata will not be displayed as they are intended for programmatic use.
If you want to upload large (> 1GB) files, you'll need to tune the following settings in your PHP config (the following assumes Apache and a config file php.ini):
upload_max_filesize \u2013 The maximum allowed upload file size.post_max_size \u2013 The maximum allowed POST data size.max_input_time \u2013 Maximum allowed input time.max_execution_time \u2013 The maximum allowed time the scripts are allowed to run.default_socket_timeout - Default timeout (in seconds) for socket based streams.However, large file transfer over HTTP still has a host of issues once you properly configure your server. Uploads are not resumable and subject to connectivity issues. If you really want to upload large files, you should consider some alternatives such as
If loading large (e.g. range 30-45 GB) files into Fedora, you may need to change the fcrepo.session.timeout property, which defaults to 3 minutes (180,000 ms). Documentation is on the Properties page on the Fedora wiki.
If using FITS, you may need to change the following in /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/fits/WEB-INF/classes/fits-service.properties:
# Maximum allowable size of uploaded file\nmax.upload.file.size.MB=2000\n# Maximum size of HTTP Request object. Must be equal to or larger than the value for max.upload.file.size.MB\nmax.request.size.MB=2000\n# Maximum size of an uploaded file kept in memory. Otherwise temporarily persisted to disk.\nmax.in.memory.file.size.MB=4\nA URL alias is an alternate URL pattern that resolves to a Drupal entity, such as a node, media, taxonomy term, or user. For example, you could set \"/welcome\" as an alias for \"/node/1\". Aliases are part of Drupal Core and can be extended by contrib modules. One such module is Pathauto, which enables automatic alias generation based on patterns, and the patterns may involve \"Tokens\" (such as [node:title]).
This page will attempt to cover the Islandora Starter Site's use of aliases and what we consider to be best practices. A full description of creating and managing aliases is out of scope.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/url-aliases/#best-practices-with-url-aliases","title":"Best practices with URL aliases","text":"While every site may choose to set up their aliases differently, we cannot prescibe a universal setup.
A common \"nice-to-have\" is the presence of the slug /islandora/ in the URL which identifies the content as \"Islandora\".
A potential \"best practice\" is that if your site uses persistent identifiers such as DOIs or Handles, that those identifiers make up part of the URL alias.
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The default Pathauto pattern for Repository Items is /islandora/[node:title] with the pathauto configuration trimming the alias at 100 characters.
Sites migrating from Islandora Legacy may wish for their objects to still be available through their old URLs, with the pattern /islandora/object/[PID].
Options for doing this include:
field_pid with the legacy PID, and using Pathauto to create URL aliases of the pattern /islandora/object/[node:field_pid]. However, you will need to set up something for new objects that don't have Legacy PIDs.field_pid. Drupal 8 supports various web analytics integrations such as Google Analytics and Matomo. For privacy reasons, Islandora integrates Matomo web analytics platforms by default.
The Matomo server is installed here: http://localhost:8000/matomo. The default configurations can be found in http://localhost:8000/admin/config/system/matomo. You can log in to the Matomo server using username admin and password islandora. The dashboard will look like this:
To see page views, login to Matomo and go to Behaviour >> Pages.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/usage-stats/#further-reading","title":"Further Reading","text":"This Using Islandora section is aimed at site administrators and repository managers who need to understand and configure their Islandora repositories. It will go in-depth on how Islandora allows you to use the various features of Drupal to construct and display repository items. For easy readability, we have divided this documentation into five major sections, organized by functionality.
Islandora, like Drupal, provides tools to create a site, but does not force you to conform to any specific site structure, organization, or navigation. There is a hope that we can provide something useful out of the box, while also allowing the full suite of Drupal configuration options. This out-of-the-box configuration is the Islandora Demo module.
As you read this documentation, it is recommended to be familiar with the basics of Drupal, including content types, fields, users, and views. The Official Drupal User Guide and the Community Guide to Drupal are a good place to start.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/user-intro/#modeling-content","title":"Modeling content","text":"In Islandora, we often want to store (and manage, and preserve) sets of metadata with binaries (digital files). Previously in Islandora Legacy, these components were referenced together as a single \"object.\" In Islandora, metadata and their binaries are now represented as multiple interconnected entities.
Metadata is stored in nodes (a.k.a. content).
Binary files are stored in are media, which are wrapper entities to help manage files.
Metadata values can be stored as taxonomy terms, which let you reuse the same value in multiple places.
For users familiar with Islandora Legacy, the relationship between Fedora and Islandora has greatly changed in the current version of Islandora.
Islandora Legacy inherited its object model from Fedora 3.x. In Legacy, Fedora stored all properties and content associated with an object - not only its owner, dc.title, status, PID, and status - but also any content files such as OBJ, DC, MODS, and RELS-EXT. In Islandora Legacy, Fedora acted as the authoritative, primary source for all aspects of an object. Fedora 3.x was not an optional component of an Islandora Legacy repository, instead it served as the primary datastore.
In Islandora, using Fedora is optional. That's right, optional. Drupal, and not Fedora, is the primary source of all aspects of an Islandora object, and, with some variations, Drupal, not Fedora, is the primary datastore in an Islandora repository. If Fedora is present in an Islandora repository, content in it is a tightly synchronized copy of object properties and files managed by Drupal.
Even though Fedora is optional in Islandora, most repositories will use it since it provides its own set of services that are worth taking advantage of, such as:
In Islandora repositories that use Fedora, all properties about Drupal nodes are mirrored in Fedora as RDF properties. But, even if an Islandora instance does not use Fedora, Drupal can provide an object's properties as RDF (again, Drupal is the primary source of data in Islandora). In addition, the Drupal media associated with Islandora objects are persisted to Fedora, although exactly which media is configurable within the Islandora admin interface. Just as Drupal out of the box has a public and private filesystem, Islandora adds a third filesystem to Drupal called, not surprisingly, \"fedora\", and it is to this filesystem that media are persisted. We will provide more information about Fedora's role in an Islandora repository in the metadata and media sections.
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For a similar conceptual approach to Islandora, we present it as a bento box: a very modular platform, in which each piece may be removed and replaced with something different, without disrupting other parts of the stack:
For a true diagram of how the various parts of Islandora interact, please see the full Architecture Diagram.
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Islandora adds an additional default role:
Additional user roles can be created and assigned customized permissions, as described below.
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If you are writing to Fedora, your username must not contain spaces.
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Learn more with this video on how to Add a User.
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See more videos from the Drupal 101 series here.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/users/#further-reading","title":"Further Reading","text":"For more information on managing users in Drupal visit the section Managing User Accounts of Drupal.org.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/versioning/","title":"Versioning","text":"As a user of an Islandora repository, you may be wondering - Is this content being versioned? Could I restore from a previous version if I needed to? Can I see a list of versions for an object? The answer to these questions is two-fold, and largely yes. The architecture of Islandora provides users with a Drupal implementation and a Fedora implementation which are connected in Islandora.
Islandora Software Versioning
Looking for information about versions of Islandora itself? The latest Islandora follows semantic versioning. Previously, Islandora's versions were tied to the version of Drupal and numbered in order of release, such as Islandora 6.x-13.1 or Islandora 7.x-1.13. More information.
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Fedora implements the Memento specification for versioning resources, which is a time-based HTTP framework. Fedora provides documentation as well as an API implementation.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/versioning/#basic-data-flow","title":"Basic Data Flow","text":"Islandora Quick Lessons are a series of short videos demonstrating how to do common tasks in Islandora.
New videos are added to the playlist regularly.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/video-docs/#general-information","title":"General Information","text":"The following recipe details how to connect Islandora with Alexa, using custom Alexa skills and the Drupal Alexa module. The potential applications are broad:
Note
This recipe has not been extensively tested.
"},{"location":"user-documentation/recipes/alexa-search/#ingredients","title":"Ingredients","text":"composer require \"drupal/alexa\"Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create. It can be used to create an easy, adjustable slideshow of images from an Islandora repository. Views Slideshow can be seen in action with Islandora objects on the front page here
+Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create. It can be used to create an easy, adjustable slideshow of images from an Islandora repository.
This module provides a formatter that displays CSV files in the browser.