Drupal: Content Management and Community for your Library a panel presentation Ilana Kingsley, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library [email_address] Dave Mitchell, London Public Library [email_address] Harish Nayak, Univ. of Rochester Libraries, River Campus [email_address] Debra Riley-Huff, University of Mississippi [email_address] Nick Ruest, McMaster University Mills Memorial Library ruestn@mcmaster.ca

a panel presentation

Ilana Kingsley, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library [email_address]

Dave Mitchell, London Public Library [email_address]

Harish Nayak, Univ. of Rochester Libraries, River Campus [email_address]

Debra Riley-Huff, University of Mississippi [email_address]

Nick Ruest, McMaster University Mills Memorial Library ruestn@mcmaster.ca

Project Introductions Ilana Kingsley – Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks http://uaflibrary.us/moviebrowser/ http://library.uaf.edu

Ilana Kingsley – Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks

http://uaflibrary.us/moviebrowser/

http://library.uaf.edu

Project Introductions Debra Riley-Huff – Univ. of Mississippi http://www.olemiss.edu/libraries

Debra Riley-Huff – Univ. of Mississippi

http://www.olemiss.edu/libraries

Project Introductions Harish Nayak – Univ. of Rochester, River Campus Libraries (RCL)

Harish Nayak – Univ. of Rochester, River Campus Libraries (RCL)

Current Alpha

Project Introductions Dave Mitchell - London Public Library http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca

Dave Mitchell - London Public Library

http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca

Project Introductions Nick Ruest - McMaster University http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca

Nick Ruest - McMaster University

http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca

http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca

Process

UAF: Why Drupal? Easy to use (will need to set up a mysql database and have php running) Don’t really need to know programming Lot’s of user support

Easy to use (will need to set up a mysql database and have php running)

Don’t really need to know programming

Lot’s of user support

UAF Process CMS Selection Drupal Installation Content Analysis to create Drupal Content Types Content Type creation via CCK Create Roles (used for access control) Enter users and associate users with Roles Move content from static Web site to Drupal Install Drupal modules as needed Training for Content Providers

CMS Selection

Drupal Installation

Content Analysis to create Drupal Content Types

Content Type creation via CCK

Create Roles (used for access control)

Enter users and associate users with Roles

Move content from static Web site to Drupal

Install Drupal modules as needed

Training for Content Providers

UAF: Content Types

Content Types

UAF: Roles

RCL Website Redesign Process

RCL Website Redesign Process

RCL Website Redesign Process

Theming

Unmodified Garland

Zen Theme Features Well documented php and css files. Layout Print Subthemes Lots of easy-to-access classes and ids for CSS developers. Mindful CSS class names Different page item colors for non-logged-in users Larger header section on the front page Unique background color on a given content type.

Well documented php and css files.

Layout

Print

Subthemes

Lots of easy-to-access classes and ids for CSS developers.

Mindful CSS class names

Different page item colors for non-logged-in users

Larger header section on the front page

Unique background color on a given content type.

Zen Theme Sub-Themes Override the Zen defaults with your own CSS

Sub-Themes

Override the Zen defaults with your own CSS

User Customization in Drupal Create a personalized page that contains content from throughout the site. Users can add RSS/Atom feeds from external web sites to their MySite pages. Fully integrates with most Drupal content Drag, drop and sort content on user custom personal layout.

Create a personalized page that contains content from throughout the site.

Users can add RSS/Atom feeds from external web sites to their MySite pages.

Fully integrates with most Drupal content

Drag, drop and sort content on user custom personal layout.

Unmodified Zen Classic

Unmodified Garland

MySite with Zen Classic

Collapsed News section

Simple Searchbox

Must Have Modules

Must Have Modules CCK Views Devel Webforms TinyMCE Profile jquery update advanced cache

CCK

Views

Devel

Webforms

TinyMCE

Profile

jquery update

advanced cache

Customization

Live

Taxonomy Theme - 'Adult' Website

Taxonomy Theme - Kids Website

Taxonomy Theme - Teens Website

Taxonomy Driven Navigation

Taxonomy Driven Navigation

Taxonomy Driven Navigation

OAI-PMH & CCK OAI for Bibliographic Module Modified Mysql queries Passes OAI testing 100% _GET & _POST Tokens List records from Set

OAI for Bibliographic Module

Modified Mysql queries

Passes OAI testing 100%

_GET & _POST

Tokens

List records from Set

OAI-PMH & CCK Harvested by: OAIster University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Knowledge Ontario

Harvested by:

OAIster

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Knowledge Ontario

Rename Titles Automatic Node Titles Module Problem if nodes already had titles or changed automatic node title script Script essentially opens a node then saves it.

Automatic Node Titles Module

Problem if nodes already had titles or changed automatic node title script

Script essentially opens a node then saves it.

Clear Cache Mysql query to truncate selected cache tables. Used in development

Mysql query to truncate selected cache tables.

Used in development

Delete Orphans Mysql query to delete records from all connected tables. Tied in with Category & Container Used in development

Mysql query to delete records from all connected tables.

Tied in with Category & Container

Used in development

Timeline Modified version of Timeline Module Regular expressions for dates Scripts to control scale and population of the bands Popup box modified to open node Modified to work with current MIT SIMILE Timeline Changed JSON output to work with dates

Modified version of Timeline Module

Regular expressions for dates

Scripts to control scale and population of the bands

Popup box modified to open node

Modified to work with current MIT SIMILE Timeline

Changed JSON output to work with dates

Timeline

Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned Figure out Content Types and User Roles ahead of time. Realize the modules/themes you use now may not work with the next version of Drupal.

Figure out Content Types and User Roles ahead of time.

Realize the modules/themes you use now may not work with the next version of Drupal.

Takeaways Zen Theme saves time of web designers by trade MySite / Panels can make page customization very possible Drupal saves time that you ought to invest in…

Zen Theme saves time of web designers by trade

MySite / Panels can make page customization very possible

Drupal saves time that you ought to invest in…

Social Features Bookbag Tagging & Tag Cloud Curate it! Commenting, and comment voting Popular Items Contact form

Bookbag

Tagging & Tag Cloud

Curate it!

Commenting, and comment voting

Popular Items

Contact form

Questions? Ilana Kingsley, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library [email_address] Dave Mitchell, London Public Library [email_address] Harish Nayak, Univ. of Rochester Libraries, River Campus hnayak@library.rochester.edu Debra Riley-Huff, University of Mississippi [email_address] Nick Ruest, McMaster University Mills Memorial Library ruestn@mcmaster.ca