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Academic Websites in Plone
This document discusses various tools and add-ons available for building academic websites in Plone. It covers features like theming, custom content types, subsites, fundraising integration, calendaring, laboratory information management, online exhibits, and two venerable add-ons - Faculty/Staff Directory and CMF Bibliography AT. The Faculty/Staff Directory allows creating personnel directories tailored for educational institutions. CMF Bibliography AT provides tools for creating and managing bibliographic references. Both add-ons are widely used but also have limitations that newer alternatives may address.
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- 1. Academic Websites in Plone SallyKleinfeldt Plone Symposium Midwest 5 June 2013
- 2. Why Plone? Fundamentals • Secure •Accessible (Section 508) • Scalable (users, pages) • User friendly editing • Flexible, granular permission system (global and local roles) • LDAP/Active Directory integration
- 3. Why Plone? Theming • Givethe site a custom look and feel • Plone 4.3: TTW Diazo theming • HTML/CSS development only • No Python required
- 4. Why Plone? Custom Types •Give the site custom behavior • Plone 4.3: TTW Dexterity content types • Add plone.app.workflowmanager for business process automation • Also uwosh.northstar, uwosh.pfg.d2c
- 5. Why Plone? Subsites • Managemany sites (departments, schools) together • Lineage (collective.lineage) - see Notre Dame presentation tomorrow • Also ftw.subsite, or a lightweight site customization
- 6. Why Plone? Fundraising, CRM •Salesforce.com integration suite • collective.salesforce.fundraising - see Nonprofit Fundraising presentation tomorrow • Work is beginning on a new message queue based Salesforce integration - come to the BOF!
- 7. Why Plone? Calendaring • Lotsof calendaring tools are available • Built in events, calendar • Solegma.fullcalendar • uwosh.timeslot • SignupSheet
- 8. Why Plone? LIMS • LaboratoryInformation Management System • Roles and workflows tailored for labs • Bika LIMS
- 9. Why Plone? Online Exhibits •Multi-section exhibits from Plone content • collective.exhibit
- 10. Why Plone? 2 VenerableAdd-ons • Faculty/Staff Directory • CMF Bibliography AT
- 11. Faculty/Staff Directory • Personneldirectories tailored for educational institutions • Integrates with Plone users and groups (Membrane) • Created in 2007, current version 3.1.3 • Widely used, actively maintained
- 12. Faculty/Staff Directory • Tightlycoupled to an academic organizational model • Classification (Staff/Faculty/Student) • Department • Committee • All are AT content types
- 13. Faculty/Staff Directory • Honedfor use in educational institutions • Inflexible, difficult to adapt to other membership situations • People cannot have different roles within a group (committee chair, member)
- 14. Faculty/Staff Directory • Workis beginning on a new membership add-on, provisional name Roster • Keeps membership separate from committee, department, etc. objects • Captures metadata about the user’s membership in a group • David Glick can tell you more!
- 15. Faculty/Staff Directory • Whatis the future of FSD? • Feature complete for the niche it occupies • Tweaks, bug fixes - yes • Dexterity rewrite? not likely...
- 16. CMF Bibliography AT •Create and manage bibliographic references • Provides 16 different types of references as AT content types • Schema follows BibTeX - LaTeX’s reference management system • Supports numerous import and export formats and easy to add new ones
- 17. CMF Bibliography AT •Widely used, invaluable on academic sites • Created in 2005, current version 1.1.2 • Has not changed in 2 years • Big, complicated code base - includes a CMF layer
- 18. CMF Bibliography AT •Cautionary notes when importing large numbers of references: • Many keywords (tags) will make editing impossible due to bug in keyword widget • Many references in one bibliography folder will clobber the nav portlet - hide them from nav
- 19. CMF Bibliography AT •What is the future of CMFBibliography? • Feature complete for the niche it occupies • Tweaks, bug fixes - yes • Dexterity rewrite? not likely... • If the CMF layer is removed, many academic sites will be prevented from upgrading...
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