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OpenScholar - The Solution for Higher Education
The document details a webinar on OpenScholar, a free open-source web application designed for academics to create dynamic websites easily. It includes audio options, introductions of key speakers, an agenda covering features and technical details, and upcoming webinars. The document emphasizes OpenScholar's usability, scalability, and growing features tailored for both school administrators and end users.
OpenScholar - The Solution for Higher Education
- 1. Webinar Audio Options Listen to streaming audio via your computer’s audio – WebEx Audio Broadcast pop-up Unable to listen via your computer’s audio – Request phone access Technical support – US & Canada 866-229-3239 – International support 408-435-7088 International phone access numbers: – http://support.webex.com/
- 2. Introduction Matt Ackley – Distribution Marketing Lead
- 3. OpenScholar - ASolution for Higher Education Matt Ackley Ferdi Almadhi Alex Lindahl Acquia Marketing OpenScholar Project Lead Distribution Evangelist Acquia IQSS, Harvard University Acquia @mbackley @ferdialmadhi @alexlindahl
- 4. Webinar Audio Options Listen to streaming audio via your computer’s audio – WebEx Audio Broadcast pop-up Unable to listen via your computer’s audio – Request phone access Technical support – US & Canada 866-229-3239 – International support 408-435-7088 International phone access numbers: – http://support.webex.com/support/ phone-numbers.html
- 5. Housekeeping Today’s webinaris being recorded. Slides and recording will be posted in next 48 hours at: – http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars Submit questions via Q&A Tab in WebEx, we’ll answer as many as we can – Give it a try & tell us what universities are in attendance
- 6. Twitter Encourageyou to tweet throughout the webinar – #OpenScholar
- 7. Upcoming Webinars ThursdaySeptember 9th – OpenPublish - A Solution for the Publishing Industry Thursday September 30th - Tuning for Success: Performance Intelligence for Enterprise Drupal Register Today - http://acquia.com/webinars
- 8. Following Webinar Don’t close the window – Ask us any question relating to OpenScholar Have a technical question? Have an implementation question? Curious as to the weather in Cambridge? – Launch of the OpenScholar Sandbox Try every feature you see in today’s webinar in the OpenScholar sandbox on Acquia.com – Reserve a Free OpenScholar Deployment Strategy Consultation
- 9. Introduction FerdinandAlimadhi – OpenScholar Project Lead – Harvard University - Institute of Quantitative Social Science Alex Lindahl – Distribution Evangelist – Acquia
- 10. Introduction ‣ Ferdinand Alimadhi • OpenScholar Project Lead • IQSS, Harvard University http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 11. Ferdinand Alimadhi Project lead IQSS, Harvard University @ferdialimadhi http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 12. Agenda ‣ About OpenScholar ‣ Motivation ‣ OpenScholar Features ‣ Technical Details ‣ Demo ‣ What’s next ? http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 13. About ‣ OpenScholar is a free, open source web application, built on top of Drupal ‣ OpenScholar allows users (mainly academics) to create full-featured dynamic web sites on the fly. In seconds http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 14. About ‣ Developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University ‣ Version 2 started on May 2009 ‣ Team • Ferdinand Alimadhi (project lead / developer) • Richard Brandon (Senior web developer) • Joeseph Weiner (Drupal / Web developer) • Shaun Wortis (Senior UI designer / Web developer) http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 15. Motivation ? ‣ High demand for quality academic web sites. ‣ Building dynamic, modern web sites is challenging and expensive. ‣ Need for institutional repositories. ‣ Need for scholarly communication and collaboration. http://openscholar.harvard.edu
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- 29. Why OpenScholar ? ( For school administrators, web developers, decision makers etc.) http://openscholar.harvard.edu
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- 31. Scalable: Host *unlimited* numberof web sites in a single installation
- 32. Built-in aggregated content acrosssites; Faceted search/ browsing across sites.
- 33. Growing number offeatures (plugins) ready to be enabled for your end users.
- 34. Growing number ofhigh quality themes
- 35. Custom domain forany web site. OR ...
- 36. Different web sitesshare a specific custom domain !
- 37. Why OpenScholar ? ( For end users / academics) http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 38. Extremely easy tocreate a / many web site (s). It take seconds !!
- 39. Enable / disableyour site’s features in one click.
- 40. Change the lookand feel of your site in one click.
- 41. Drag and dropinterface for layout management
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- 43. Invite other membersto your site.
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- 45. Built-in faceted browsing/ searching.
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- 47. Create any numberof structured documents (drupal books)
- 48. User friendly interfacefor adding / editing content.
- 49. “Follow” and getinstant updates from your colleagues.
- 50. What is afeature ? ‣ Build your web site one section at a time http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 51. What is afeature ? Enable “publications” features http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 52. What is afeature ? A menu entry http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 53. What is afeature ? Context links A menu entry http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 54. What is afeature ? Widgets Context links A menu entry http://openscholar.harvard.edu
- 55. What is afeature ? Customize “publications” feature http://openscholar.harvard.edu
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- 57. Architecture OpenScholar features OpenScholar themes publications theme 01 theme 02 theme 03 classes blog ... ... OpenScholar Vsite og cck spaces views Drupal http://openscholar.harvard.edu
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- 59. What’s Next ? ‣ OpenScholar for academic departments ‣ Integration with external data sources ‣ Web services support ‣ Integration between different installations ‣ (mini) web sites as features http://openscholar.harvard.edu
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- 61. Introduction AlexLindahl – Distribution Evangelist
- 62. How Acquia EnsuresSuccess…
- 63. OpenScholar as aService Fully Managed: Deploy Today, Build Tomorrow Onsite JumpStart Training 24x7 Support Module + Security Updates New Features Performance Hosting Harvard Issue Escalation
- 64. Bene ts Proceeds to IQSS Team New Feature Deployments Group Funded Sprints Contributions to Drupal Core Issue Escalation to Harvard OpenScholar Best Practices
- 65. Let’s Get Started… Step 1: Free Deployment Consultation Step 2: Package Selection + Proposal Step 3: Jumpstart + Training Step 4: Spread + Scale Support Upgrades Performance Tuning Step 5: Collaborate
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- 67. Stay after Q&Ato: Test Drive OpenScholar. Get any questions answered. Schedule consultation + receive discount voucher
- 68. Questions For moreinformation, visit us at: – http://openscholar.harvard.edu – http://drupal.org/project/openscholar – http://scholar.harvard.edu Try OpenScholar for Free - http://acquia.com/openscholar/access-sandbox Watch Another Demo -http://scholar.harvard.edu Contact us: – sales@acquia.com – 888-9-ACQUIA