Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011:
Responding to Change

Parallel Sessions B6: Doing Drupal: quick start deployments via distributions

Title:

B6: Doing Drupal: quick start deployments via distributions

Session Tag:

#B6

Time:

Wednesday 27th July 2011 at 11:00 - 12:30

Facilitator:

Thom Bunting, UKOLN.

Room:

Palmer G.09 (PC Lab Ground Floor)

Abstract:

With its extensive range of contributed modules, Drupal is a highly adaptable content management system. From huge mass-media publishing gateways such as economist.com and open data repositories such as data.gov.uk to a broad range of university websites and countless blog, community-building, and social networking projects, Drupal has proven itself capable of supporting diverse business and user requirements.

Recently some useful Drupal distributions have pre-packaged leading-edge modules to facilitate creation of highly advanced, customisable websites. These distributions harness the power of Drupal's extensible modular framework, with the ease of 'famous 5 minute installation'.

In this computer-lab-based session, participants review and explore newly released Drupal distributions, with focus on a distribution providing automated content and data aggregation, tagging, mapping, and trend visualisation. Learning objectives include: understanding how Drupal distributions can simplify CMS set-up and deployment; appraising use cases; evaluating institutional benefits and challenges.

Materials

Please note that the presentation is available on the Slideshare repository and embedded below.