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Drupal 8 Add Custom Content type
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TL:DR Customizing content types including ‘complex’ objects like Oral Histories, plus bonus accessibility options built in.

Drupal 8 allows for the content types to be added quickly through the admin console. Acceptable file formats, microservice behavior and ontology can all be assigned through the creation of a custom content type.

  1. Supports deposit and organization of existing objects into “compound” objects through Drupal’s contributed module Webforms. The manner in which Islandora 8 processes all repository objects is similar to Islandora 7 ingesting a binary cmodel object with a Full MODS form. Examples of “compound” objects are objects from the Postcards from the Great Smoky Mountains & Virginia P. Moore Scrap Book collections.
  2. Supports the deposit and presentation of PDF objects. PDFs with written text can be utilized to provide searching capabilities on the content of a book or document. Ghostscript can be used on text based PDFs. Images require an OCR utility like Tesseract to extract text. This is built into the default Islandora configuration.
  3. Supports the deposit and presentation of audio objects. Most of the functionality specific to audio is carried out by Drupal modules. Audio transcript editing/display, playback, and thumbnail generation of the audio’s waveform are all Drupal core and contributed features.
  4. Supports the deposit and presentation of video objects. Most of the functionality specific to video is carried out by Drupal modules. Video transcript editing/display, thumbnail generation and playback are all Drupal core and contributed features. An Islandora 8 code submission is pending approval for transcripts (Manimjs_drupal, 2020) and an oral history step by step instruction as proof of concept is available (Shaw, 2019).
  5. Supports the deposit and presentation of oral history objects. The only discernible difference between audio/video objects and oral history objects is the presence of transcripts. Transcripts are already part of the audio/video features indicating this is completely covered as well.