Drupal for Libraries
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Presentation on Drupal for Libraries given at the Metropolitan Library System in Chicago on 2/29/2007.
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Drupal for Libraries
- 1. Leo Klein on Drupal for Libraries Talk Given at the Metropolitan Library System (Chicago) Feb. 29, 2008 Created by Leo Klein, ChicagoLibrarian.com
- 2. Hey, Wait a Minute!
- 3. Why Content Management? In the Beginning: Everything Done by Hand Early Database-Driven Sites: Home-made, DIY Current CMS Potpourri: Many Choices (Good, Bad & Ugly*) ______ * http://www.opensourcecms.com
- 4. Why Drupal? (Druplicon)
- 5. Libraries That Use Drupal Florida State Univ. Uminn Bio-Med. Library Hoover Public Library (AL) Wendt Library (U. Wisc.)
- 6. Origin of Drupal
- 7. Early Drupal User Group Meetup
- 8. Drupal Born – 2001* Originally developed by Dries Buytaert and fellow students at the University of Antwerp 2001 – Initial Release of Drupal 2004 – Drupal taken up by Dean Campaign 2005 to now: High Profile Conversions (Onion.com, Observer.com, Amnesty International) From " Community Plumbing " to " Roll-Your-Own Push Button CMS " _________ * More Info: http://drupal.org/node/769 http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1398641189
- 9. Drupal.org
- 10. Resources from Drupal.org Software Documentation Bug Reports, Feature Requests, etc. News Forums Groups
- 11. Joys & Sorrows of Open Source It’s Free It’s Open It’s Innovative (sometimes) It’s "Scratch Your Own Itch” It’s Frustrating It's Fun
- 12. Types of Users
- 13. Requirements SW-HW*: Server running either Apache or IIS PHP (Scripting Language) MySQL or PostgreSQL Human: Person comfortable installing the above three “ Some assembly required” ______ * http://drupal.org/requirements
- 14. Drupal in 3 Parts
- 15. Drupal Core What You Get 'Out of the Box' Essential Features (Node, Block, Taxonomy, Theme Engine, Comments, RSS) 'Legacy' Features (Story, Forum, Blog)
- 16.
- 17. Contributed Modules "Building Blocks" of Drupal Hundreds to Choose from Most Essential Modules: Content Construction Kit Views ImageCache Organic Groups
- 18. Life & Death of a Drupal Module Modules are built for a specific purpose and for a specific release of Drupal How to Tell if a Module is Alive and Kicking -- or in the 'Deadpool': Recent updates? Recent Support Questions/Issues? Attitude of Maintainers (Helpful or Not)?
- 19. Themes Amor Azul Imagination NewsFlash SEO Position
- 20. Drupal Roadmap Drupal 6.0 (Feb. 2008) Improvements: Installation Theming Internationalization Drupal 7.0 (Feb. 2009?) Incorporation of CCK & Views into Core
- 21. Drupal as a Community Open Source encourages - and requires – an open, responsive Social Organization Great team of Developers (some local in Illinois) Learn the terrain & benefit from It
- 22. Other Helpful Sites Drupal.org Main Drupal Site Lullabot Wonderful source for podcasts and other high quality information on Drupal - http://www.lullabot.com Mastering Drupal Number of good screencasts - http://www.masteringdrupal.com/ Dries Buytaert's Blog Personal Blog of Drupal's Founder - http://buytaert.net
- 23. Library-Related Resources DRUPAL4LIB – Listserv http://drupal4lib.org Drupal Group http://groups.drupal.org/libraries Drupalib http://drupalib.interoperating.info/ Local Chicago User Group (General) http://groups.drupal.org/chicago
- 24. Leo Klein’s Drupal Tips Try "Sandboxes" at OpenSourceCMS.com Experiment locally Follow the forums at Drupal.org Join a Drupal Group (http://groups.drupal.org) Check out the competition Ultimately: Bend the CMS to your needs (& not the other way around)
- 25. Happy Drupaling! Leo Robert Klein leo 'at' leoklein 'dot' com msn/aim/ghoo/yhoo: 'leorobertklein' www.ChicagoLibrarian.com
Editor's Notes
- Hi and welcome. I'm happy to see you all hear and happy to be able to talk about our subject, Drupal. My name is Leo Klein. I'm Web Coordinator for the Office of Admissions and Records at UIC – at least I will be starting next month. Currently I'm in the School of Ed. Prior to this, I was Web Coordinator at the libraries of Baruch College, CUNY and NYU. I have an MLS from Queens College, CUNY and a Masters in Digital Media from the Interactive Telecommunications Program. I'm wanted in four states for theft, abduction – you name it.... Let's do a round-robin to see who we have here. How do you like that title? Nice, Huh? When I was first thinking of putting together this presentation, I thought, what am I going to name the thing. 'Drupal for Libraries' -- sounds okay. You get the drift: "Drupal" - "Libraries". But it seemed kind of uninspired. "Ebert on Cinema, Stravinsky on Music, Einstein on Relativity, Klein on Drupal"