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Drupal“Collaborative Web Tools for Transportation Libraries”
A case study of a performance management pathfinder
101st Annual SLA ConferenceGTRIC Roundtable
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that run Drupal…
Sites
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White House
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MOBIUS Conference
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The Onion
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• Three different websites
• Unique designs
• Diverse audiences
• With specialized purposes
• The same underlying structure
All Three Different
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Themetools and functions
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• Hundreds of themes
– www.drupal.org/project/themes
• Contained in .zip files
• Premade .css, .php, and .html files
• To edit theme just edit the file
– requires knowing what you edit
• Range of types
Theme files
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• Unzip the downloaded theme
• Upload using ftp client
– get access through I.T. dept
– drag and drop with most tools
• Automatically usable
– often with specialized options
Your Server
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• Themes are free
– usually want to attribute if editing
– creative commons licenses
– good for “on the cheap” projects
• Supportive community
• Can get in touch with developers
• Adheres to programming standards
Open Source
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State Stats
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Look Familiar?
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Creatingsome content for users
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of content?
Types
blogs forums
pages comments
stories and more…
menus
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• Drupal blogs
– posts repeated pages in a list
– allows comments
• Drupal pages
– equivalent of static HTML page
– can edit using WYSIWYG editor
– bread and butter of content
Blogs and Pages
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Look Familiar Again?
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• Drupal comments
– all comments managed internally
– like with blogs but on everything
– can block certain words
• Drupal forums
– specialized “discussion” zone
– utilizes login system built-in
Forums and Comments
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• Drupal stories
– similar to a blog
– more informal and shorter
• Drupal menus
– ties content types together
– links to specific content types on pages
– turns “content” into a “website”
Stories and Menus
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• More complex than just content types
• Content organized into blocks and nodes
• System tells multiple themes how to display content
• Like “the force” and binds together
• Won’t go over for now
Organization
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State Statsextra information
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• Used plug-in to display separate themes on different pages
• Built site exclusively with
– menus
– pages
– forums
• Linked to and created content
Some Applications
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Not the Same