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Jenn Coast from the University of Texas at Austin joined us on wed. March 5th for our MoonshineU Drupal Meetup at SXSWedu.
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Drupal at UT AustinMarch 2015
Jenn Coast, Web Strategist
Information Technology Services
104/11/2023
#utweb
What is Drupal
• Easy to extend and customize
• Efficient multisite management system
• Robust and highly scalable infrastructure
• Connections to disparate technologies
• Simplifies IT management support
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• Open-source Content Management System (CMS)
• Web application development framework
• Launched in 2001• Large community base • Extensive community
contributed modules
Drupal Can Do Anything at UT!
• Web applications and websites • Multi-site management for shared libraries
and easier site management • Business process workflow and approval • Personalized content • Import and export RSS feeds• Connect data from multiple systems• Cook dinner and wash the dishes04/11/2023
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DRUPAL COMMUNITY
Drupal Community Resources
• Drupal.org
• Drupal in Higher Education Group
• UT Drupal Users Group
• Austin Drupal Users Group
• DrupalCon Austin
– June 4-6, 2014
– Annual Drupal Conference
• Drupal Education Summit, June 2, 2014
– UT Austin Drupal Users Group coordinating and hosting
– … just need to confirm space! 04/11/2023 5
DRUPAL SITES AT UT AUSTIN
Choosing Drupal for UT Austin
• Solutions Analysis
– Conducted as part of 2010 redesign
– Evaluated 7 CMSs
• High-level Requirements in 2010
– Content Management System
– Serve only www core pages, integrate with existing
infrastructure
– Capable of extensive roles, permissions, authentication04/11/2023
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Why Drupal for UT Austin
• Met nearly all high-level requirements, either through core
functionality or available contributed modules
• Open source + community
• Third-party consulting, training, and development support
services available
• Wide adoption throughout the higher-education community
• Extensive in-house experience with underlying technologies
(PHP, MySQL)
• 2010 Refresh Project Blog Posts: http://blogs.utexas.edu/refresh/category/cms/ 04/11/2023
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UT Website Drupal Details
• Drupal 6 - Built and managed by ITS, launched 2010
• Cache/push model to compensate for infrastructure limitations
– 800 unique sites within www.utexas.edu but only one in the ITS-managed doc root Drupal
– Restricted ability to serve Drupal live
– Resolution will be implemented with new UT Web infrastructure and wicked reverse proxy rewrites
• Roles and permissions based on taxonomy allows granular and scalable permissions
• Upgrading to Drupal 7 with Digital Experience Project, in progress
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DRUPAL SERVICES PROGRAM
UT Drupal Services Vision
• Drupal 7 Distribution & Feature Server – Summer 2014 – ITS maintained core, contributed modules, UT-branded theme – UT community contributed features and modules– UT community oversight group for decisions, roadmap
• UT CMS 2.0: Drupal for Home and Core – Fall 2014 – Responsive redesign as part of Digital Experience Program – Prototypes by Springbox, ITS implements– Release for summer content entry and fall launch
• Managed Drupal Environment – Winter 2015– Build out Springbox templates– Create self-service website tool and standards site – Extent and location of “managed” to be determined
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Portfolio of Digital Experience Projects
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utexas Responsive Design
Homepage
Primary Navigation
pages
Audience Navigation
pages
Administrative Unit pages
Brand Identity and Toolkit
Infrastructure and Site Services
Drupal 7 Environment
Managed Drupal
Self-service Site Tool
Templates
APIs
Central Web Tools
Emergency
Analytics
Search
QA
Short Link Service
Web Apps
Calendar
Offices and Directory
Maps
News
Social Media Directory
Experts Guide
Native Mobile Apps and M Dot
iPhone app
Android app
m.utexas.edu
Internal Utilities
Student Online Experience
Bus Schedule
Parking
Jobs
Off-campus Emergency Websitehttp://emergency.utexas.edu
Responsive design:
Why Drupal for OEW Website
• Expanded capabilities for the off-campus
emergency.utexas.edu website, which will respond to
www.utexas.edu during an on-campus major IT
outage
• Provided multiple roles and tools for Campus Safety
& Security (CS&S) personnel to update the off-
campus site via the Web
• Enabled key personnel across campus with fewer
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OEW Website Drupal Details
• Drupal 7 - Built and managed by ITS with external hosting
• Acceleration and optimization to handle emergency traffic
• Responsive distribution (customized) provides mobile-friendly forms for emergency updates via smartphones and tablets
• Complies with 5-year records retention requirements for campus emergency information – Automatic revisions – All content archived, not deleted, for 5 years
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University Policy Office (UPO)http://www.policies.utexas.edu/ (includes policy creation workflow/approval system)
Why Drupal for UPO Website
• Content Management System !
– No more HTML for policies
• Selected CMS embraced and supported by UT
– Built by Four Kitchens
– Managed and maintained by ITS Web and Contract Services
• Business Process Workflow Capabilities
– No more email routing for approvals
– No more paper copies for editing 04/11/2023
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UPO Website Drupal Details
• Drupal 7 • Extensive business process workflow and
approval process – Highly customized modules – Numerous contributed modules– http://
www.policies.utexas.edu/content/policy-flowchart
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UT Libraries and Repositories
• Islandora: a Drupal front-end to the digital repository system Fedora Commons
• Solution for storing collections of digital objects and building tools for librarians to manage them and display them to users.
• UT Libraries building a cataloging/repository tool for the Fine Arts Visual Resource Collection
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More Drupal at UT
• Be a Longhorn
• Moody College of Communication
• The Meadows Center
• College of Fine Arts
• Texas Performing Arts Center
• Engineering Faculty Sites using Harvard’s OpenScholar Drupal Framework, e.g., :
– http://faculty.engr.utexas.edu/dunn/
– http://faculty.engr.utexas.edu/bakolas/
– http://faculty.engr.utexas.edu/bahadur/
• See more at https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/drupal/Drupal+Sites+at+UT (EID protected) 04/11/2023 22
DRUPAL IN HIGHER ED
Duke Universityhttp://www.duke.edu/
Responsive design:
DukeHealth.orghttp://www.dukehealth.org/
Norwich University Onlinehttp://online.norwich.edu/
University of Wisconsin-Madisonhttp://www.wisc.edu/ (Shown: http://www.wisc.edu/student-life/)
Cal State Monterey Bay – a Drupal campus since 2008
CSUMB used Drupal to construct:– catalog– schedule– portal– content management system– ecommerce– accessible content systems– student-services customer relationship management– placements– student online voting– service learning placement system– IT wikipedia of applications, services, and servers
• From http://it.csumb.edu/drupal-csumb
Cal State Monterey BayDrupalCon 2012 Presentation
• OPEN ATRIUM DOT EDU: OPEN ATRIUM AS A CAMPUS INTRANET
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLa6vMHdhro (56:45)
• Portal Demo starts at 14:40• Applicants Demo at 28:03• Student Experience Demo at 29:07
More Drupal in Higher Ed
• Brown University • Portland State University• Seattle Film Institute • Stanford University • University of California, Berkley • University of New York at Buffalo• University of Oregon • Washington University in St. Louis • YaleSites @ Yale University, e.g., http://news.yale.edu/
• See more at https://groups.drupal.org/higher-education04/11/2023 31
DRUPAL IN THE WORLD
Virtual Lab School (Online Learning)https://www.virtuallabschool.org/
(Shown online learning lesson: https://www.virtuallabschool.org/management/safety/lesson-2?module=436)
More Drupal in the World
• The Economist
• Bravo TV
• Amnesty International
• FedEx Newsroom
• The Grammys: Grammy.com & Grammy.org
• Texas State Historical Association & The Handbook of Texas
• PGA
• One can usually tell if a site is built with Drupal by viewing the page source and searching for “/sites/all/…”, a standard construct of the Drupal CMS
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