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DEC 2010

Presentation Title

Drupal for Academics and Research

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Presentation Path

• Today’s need in Academics and Research• How does Drupal Meet this requirement?• Principles of Drupal • Key Drupal Modules• Drupal Distributions For Academics• Drupal 7• Implementation of Collaborative content –

Drupal.org Handbook Pages• Expert Knowledge Groups –

Groups.Drupal.Org• Useful Links

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Today’s need in Academics and Research

• Connect, Interact and Network• Collaborate on Content• Share different medium of content:

Video, Images, Audio or Text• Manage Knowledge and Interest Groups

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How does Drupal Meet this requirement?

• Content Publishing is it’s Key feature

• At the core is Data/ Assets – Multiple data formats and media are supported

• Modules provide various functionalities – Collaborate– Interact– Share– Organizing data to cater to

different contexts• Blocks and menus are output /

navigation elements – allows for personalization of representing information

• User Permissions – roles based access to information and functions

• Template – provides for various layout options – allows for presentation and styles

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Principles of Drupal

• Modular and extensible• Quality coding • Standards-based • Low resource demands• Open source• Ease of use• Collaboration

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Key Drupal Modules

• CCK • Views• Taxonomy• Organic Group• Rating• Commenting• Blogs

• Video• Image • File field• Quiz • Simple News

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Drupal Distributions For Academics

Preconfigured Drupal Installations with a default set of features

• DrupalEd• Open Atrium• Open Scholar

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Drupal 7

• USABILITY• Better media handling• Custom content types in core• WYSIWYG Editor• Better Performance• Better tools to structure/organize

content• Basic Views like module

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Implementation of Collaborative content – Drupal.org Handbook

Pages

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Expert Knowledge Groups – Groups.Drupal.Org

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Useful Links

• http://groups.drupal.org/openscholar • http://groups.drupal.org/drupal

-research-and-academia • http://groups.drupal.org/drupal

-education • Drupal.org Handbook Pages: http://

drupal.org/handbooks

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Thank You!