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

Project Introductions Ilana Kingsley – Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks

Project Introductions Debra Riley-Huff – Univ. of Mississippi –

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

Current Alpha

Project Introductions Dave Mitchell - London Public Library –

Project Introductions Nick Ruest - McMaster University – –

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

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

UAF: Content Types

Content Types

UAF: Roles

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 –This can allow CSS developers to do things like have a different color for a given page item for non-logged-in users, have a larger header section on the front page, or put a different background color on a given node type.

Zen Theme 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.

Unmodified Zen Classic

Unmodified Garland

MySite with Zen Classic

Collapsed News section

Simple Searchbox

Must Have Modules

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

OAI-PMH & CCK 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

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.

Clear Cache 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

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

Timeline

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.

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…

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Questions? Ilana Kingsley, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library Dave Mitchell, London Public Library Harish Nayak, Univ. of Rochester Libraries, River Campus Debra Riley-Huff, University of Mississippi Nick Ruest, McMaster University Mills Memorial Library