Integrating Drupal & Fedora

Integrating Drupal & Fedora a RADical approach Don Gourley 9/6/2009 - Fedora UK&I User Group, Dublin, Ireland

Digital Humanities Observatory
Part of the Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) consortium to develop an all-island inter-institutional research infrastructure for the humanities
Defining, promoting and implementing best practices for…
Digitisation
Archival
Curation
Discovery
Presentation
In particular, best practices for long-term data management
Fedora digital repository

Defining, promoting and implementing best practices
Needs of HSIS partners vary widely
Projects focus on the immediate research problem
Best practices also take a longer view of data management
Predictive specify  design  build approach will not work
Need an agile, adaptive approach

Demonstration repository
Build an exemplar repository for storing, managing, discovering and delivering digital humanities resources
Support demonstrator projects with specific services that each requires
Provide a platform for experimenting and demonstrating new ways to link, analyse and visualise humanities data
Identify useful repository services to generalise for other projects, and specify the metadata and content model profiles to which digital objects must conform in order to be used with the generalised services

Use case demonstrator approach
Need rapid application development (RAD) tools
Need flexible ways to access and display e-resources targeted at multiple skill levels
Need to apply software engineering methods to ensure generality & re-use (e.g. abstraction, frameworks)

Drupal
Content management “framework”
Thousands of contributed modules provide content management functionality
PHP  low programmer-skill entry barrier
Widely available hosting solutions

Islandora
The original Drupal Fedora module
Lots of features:
XSLT-driven collection views
API-A & API-M SOAP interface
Authentication using Drupal user / role tables
Policy definition & enforcement
Image manipulation
Virtual research environment
Not a rapid application development environment
Not mapped to Drupal content data model

Drupal architecture

Drupal “content model”

Doegen use case content models

Content model mapping

fedora_rest module: database tables

fedora_rest module: architecture

fedora_rest module: view

fedora_rest module: search

doegen_wf module: architecture Rapid application development!

Drupal workflow module E-mail editor E-mail author E-mail editor E-mail author Invoke validator function Update DS (TBD)

doegen_wf module: workspace

doegen_wf module: view

doegen_wf module: search

Next steps
Implement API-M
Borrow Islandora authentication?
Link to GSearch?
More use cases!
More testing!
Collaborate with “solution communities”?
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