Introduction to Drupal for Libraries An Webinar
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Introduction to
Drupal for LibrariesAn Webinar
Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS
druplicon
Some content & graphics courtesy of Isriya Paireepairit
August 28, 200912 pm-1 pm
Infopeople webinars are supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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Agenda
• What is Drupal?
• What can you do with Drupal?
• Examples
• Practical realities
• Live demo
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{Dutch} druppel
pronounces Drupal {English}
means drop {English}
What does “Drupal” mean?
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What is Drupal?
•Content management system (CMS)•Open source (GPL)•Mostly/entirely W3C compliant•Extremely extensible
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What’s behind Drupal?
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Award-winning CMS
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CMS vs. development framework
• Drupal is both!
• Provides the building blocks for complex web sites and dynamic web apps
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System requirements
• Apache/IIS
• PHP
• MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Patience!
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What can you do with it?
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Drupal structure
Contributions
Modules
Core (optional)
Core (required)
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Core functionality
• Block - box display
• Filter - input format
• Node - content
• System - admin, theming, ...
• User
• Watchdog - logging
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Core (optional)
•Blog•Comments•Forum•Menu•Locale•Path
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Contributed modules
• CCK
• Views
• Poormans’ Cron
• FCKeditor/TinyMCE
• Mollom
• Image
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Modules just for libraries
• Not a ton, but some robust ones
• Some work with specific ILSs
• Most are designed to work with specific products/protocols
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Contributed themes
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Examples
• Non-library installations
• Library installations
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(london.lib.oh.us)
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Pros of Drupal
• Free• Dynamic
• Re-theming capability
• Granular level of customization
• Huge community
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Cons of Drupal
• Knowledge required, documentation iffy
• Third-party pieces can be problematic
• Upgrading is challenging
• Initial setup
• “Free as in free kittens”
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The “Drupal Cliff”
Drupal
You
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The Drupal Skill Scale
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Migrating your current site
• Compare functionality to version
• Automated conversion is possible (sort of)
• WYSIWYG editor
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Demo time!
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The Drupal Songhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ-s3DRZJKY