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- 1. Drupal Show-and-Tell October 2014 Michael Kent | Tincan @TincanPipPip http://tincan.co.uk
- 2. 1. NT Live Press and Marketing 2. Alfresco 3. CMIS 4. Drupal Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014
- 3. NT Live ● 35 productions over 6 seasons ● 1000 venues in 35 countries ● Screened to 1.5m people last year ● Generated £6.7m income last year Demanding marketing needs ● Automation ● Collaboration ● Large file sizes (e.g. 10GB video) ● Large # of files ● All offered via easy, intuitive UI We want to decouple the presentation to the outside world While controlling access to assets to our 1000 venues Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014
- 4. Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014
- 5. Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014
- 6. Drupal Present our CMIS repo in Drupal There are some modules ... https://www.drupal.org/project/cmis https://www.drupal.org/project/cmis_views … then there’s some ‘other’ stuff Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014
- 7. Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014 ● Rules - asset transformation and categorisation ● Alfresco JS API ● Workflow/collaboration ● CIFS for large uploads/AD
- 8. Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014 Guts ● CMIS API module/CMIS phplib ● Alfresco API/SOAP ● Alfresco REST
- 9. Asset meta->CT fields Folder structure and asset type->taxonomy Drupal Show-and-Tell | Oct 2014 CRUD FFMPEG for video conversion
- 10. ● Views and panels, exposed filters ● Views are tailored by asset type ● Asset filtering options by production and asset type
- 11. Thank you. Questions? @TincanPipPip | http://tincan.co.uk
Editor's Notes
- NT Live = National Theatre’s live to cinema broadcast initiative (http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/) Venues need materials for local press and marketing (for themselves and local/ regional marketing agencies) Producing materials aided by some level and form of automation (transformation and tagging), and they need to be collaborated on (so workflow is important) We want to decouple the presentation to the outside world (while controlling access to assets to our 1000 venues)
- Alfresco Open source ECM, provides the services and controls that “manage an enterprise’s content”. Built in Java, Spring framework runs in tomcat, script based extensions Core = content repo, numerous ways of getting to it XML-based content modeling, lots OOTB Commercial and Community versions (we used CE/ community edition) Important key element = can expose the content repo as a fileshare in CIFS, therefore simple way to upload large numbers of assets into Alfresco and on into Drupal
- CMIS Alfresco = nice digital asset manager, doing all sorts of asset processing and provides nice workflow tools for collaboration Need = Method to get at its content, and get that into Drupal for presentation Solution = CMIS, content management interoperability services CMIS provides a standardized set of common services for working with content repositories CMIS is not language-specific It does not dictate how a content repository works It does not seek to incorporate every feature of every content repository Alfresco provides an implementation of CMIS Web service and RESTful bindings, as well as a CMIS client API for use in Alfresco Surf and other environments. Alfresco does CMIS OOTB
- Drupal We want present our lovely CMIS repo in Drupal, so the people can see it. There are some CMIS modules - an API module, and a CMIS views module that build on the API module to allow you to programatically browse a CMIS repo
- Use case: Alfresco Rules - Alfresco rules do all sorts incl inheritance – but where they don’t cover what you need, you can use the alfresco JS API (rules can run JS scripts) e.g. alfresco JS API invoked from rules allows us to create thumbnail renditions, also to read folder structure for assets to set categories and tags. - Asset tagging e.g. rules to parse filenames or parent folder names, assign regions so assets can be filtered. Pre defined categories and free tagging supported - Asset workflow/collaboration – assets can be routed/approved by the team, tasks - Easy for the asset producer e.g fileshare via CIFS, automatic authentication of the user via AD
- Use case - CMIS mapping Assets and their properties map onto Drupal content type instances, and their fields CMIS API module (on top of the CMIS php lib) facilitates using the Alfresco CMIS API Extended it to enable us to pull the full range of meta data and file attachments Sync’ing asset meta and thumbs into Drupal NOT sync’ng the file attachments themselves Make SOAP calls to Alfresco phpLib directly for stuff CMIS doesn’t do (like tagging) Make REST calls to Alfresco for things like thumbnails
- Use case: data model Alfresco folder structure maps to taxonomy e.g. productions and asset type, (so we can build views that show and filter the right assets for each production) Implementing CRUD to keep assets in sync (plus a few other things - e.g. we’re using FFMPEG to transform videos into HTML5 compatible formats) FFMPEG needs to be installed, Alfresco has built in support for it Alfresco rule trigger that conversion based on asset mimetype. we don’t store the videos in Drupal, we just stream them from alfresco
- Drupal presentation layer Views and panels, exposed filters Views are tailored by asset type Asset filtering options by production and asset type
- Drupal: https://www.drupal.org/ Alfresco: http://www.alfresco.com/ CMIS Specification: http://docs.oasis-open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.1/cs01/CMIS-v1.1-cs01.html Drupal CMIS API module https://www.drupal.org/project/cmis