Collaborative Digital Scholarship Projects: The Liberal Art of Drupal

Chris Francese, Professor of Classical StudiesRyan Burke, Web Developer, Technology Services

Meredith Wilson, class of 2013Dickinson College

NITLE Seminar, December 6, 2012

questions

• How can web development best enhance liberal arts models of humanities education?

• How can instructional technology professionals facilitate faculty/student research collaboration?

• What are the best DH project types and tools for the LAC environment?

dcc.dickinson.edu

Latin and Greek texts for reading, with explanatory notes, vocabulary, and graphic, video and audio elements.

editorial board three commentaries so far

Homer text and commentary around AD 950

Image, text, and ornament:commentary on Vergil, around 1475

Numbered lines and

notes:commentary

on Vergil, 1865

text to the left 3 tabs notes to the right

awesome scholarly front matter

running vocabulary includes all non-common words and occasional images

media tab includes audio, maps, images, video

images and annotations pop out in a colorbox

Google Earth map with pop-up annotations

Our YouTube channel

Core vocabulary lists of the most common Latin and Greek words

Jimmy DerekVocabulary list

editing in Drupal

html source editor in Drupal

questions

• How can web development best enhance liberal arts models of humanities education?

• How can instructional technology professionals facilitate faculty/student research collaboration?

• What are the best DH project types and tools for the LAC environment?

from Mediawiki to Drupal

advantages of Drupal

• Fully featured cms• Organization• Community• Performance and scale

challenges of Drupal

• Many different ways to accomplish the same thing

• Core code and module updates• Need to learn some html

collaboration

• Students• Faculty• Bringing it all together

resources• Modules

– Display Suite, Fields, Fieldgroup, Node Reference, References, Media, File Entity, Media:Youtube, Block Class, Colorbox, Entity, Google Fonts, Libraries, Menu Block, Pathauto, Quicktabs, Soundmanger 2, Token, Google Analytics, Accordion Menu, Wysiwyg

• Theme– Zen (http://drupal.org/project/zen)

• Drupal Distribution Project– Distributions provide site features and functions for a specific type of site

as a single download containing Drupal core, contributed modules, themes, and pre-defined configuration. They make it possible to quickly set up a complex, use-specific site in fewer steps than if installing and configuring elements individually.

– http://drupal.org/project/distributions

questions

• How can web development best enhance liberal arts models of humanities education?

• How can instructional technology professionals facilitate faculty/student research collaboration?

• What are the best DH project types and tools for the LAC environment?