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DEC 2010
Presentation Title
Drupal for Academics and Research
Unimity Solutions.3, 5th Floor, "Kasi Arcade" 116, Thyagaraya Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 600017 India, Phone: (91- 44) 43923800
www.unimity.com
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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!