[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] ***SPAM*** Drupal support update

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Drupal also has the ability to build hierarchical navigational structures,
taxonomies, and table of contents.

I'm not anti-wiki, but having used both a wiki (and yes, even Twiki for a
short while) and Drupal, I don't see that a wiki is the only answer. There
are also other document management choices out there which are even more
tailored to document management than either a wiki or Drupal (knowledgeTree,
epiware, opendocman and kbpublisher, come to mind) . As long as it generates
a RSS, it can be pulled into a Drupal website and embedded into individual
pages. A user never even needs to know that the content is being pulled from
a different source. ;-)

Out of the box, a wiki might be a better choice, but then there is the
question of migration and crosswalkability content. I know when my library
tried to move from Twiki to MediaWiki (which is what drives Wikipedia), we
ended up copying and pasting all of the content in. Possibly a problem on
the systems side, but no fun for those involved.

So, I'm not necessarily voting for Drupal, but I'm willing to consider how
it could be use with DocBook.  ;-)

All, I'm attaching just some very brief thoughts and map on a sample  EG
page "Drupalized". With Drupal, there are many ways of pulling together
content and information. As Roma's library does, a site can be a hybrid with
Drupal driving the site and another software driving the documentation
storage.

There are a few advantages to 1 product. Overall site migration and
maintenance are generally easier (one product) and one product = 1 login.
However, that is not to say that bridges can't be created between Drupal and
other software to facilitate the one login. Drupal does do some things well,
but its image gallery module is woefully lacking compared to other
opensource products (Gallery, Coppermine, etc.).  So, Drupal may or may not
be robust enough.

Anyhow, I'm just looked at the EG site with the Drupal mindset (for now).
;-)

Robin


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Roma Matott <rmatott at pls-net.org> wrote:

> I came into this in the middle, so I might have misunderstood the plans to
> use Drupal.  I see why using Drupal for the website makes sense, but I have
> to confess I don't understand why you would want it instead of a wiki for
> the documentation storehouse.
>
> At my organization, we examined using Drupal for both our website and our
> documentation storage/retrieval system.  We determined that wikis really
> have better power to index, tag, breadcrumb, and all the other mechanisms
> needed to organize and find large quantities of information.  We are using
> Drupal for our website (launching it sometime in the next month or so), but
> we selected Twiki for documentation.
>
> We are not using DocBook, so perhaps that is the difference?
>
> Roma
> Pioneer Library System
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>
> Hi all, I've been thinking about Drupal and its functionality, especially
> the various modules, but that is about it on my end.
> There are lots of great (and not so great) modules in Drupal... and of
> course, I have my favorites, too. I can look at
> EG-ils.org with an eye towards Drupalizing, and see which modules might
> work best... at least it would be a start. ;-)
> Robin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Karen Schneider < kgs at esilibrary.com >
> wrote:
>
>
> > Has anyone else had any further thoughts along the DocBook/Drupal or
> > Drupalized EG-ils.org lines? If so, please feel free to post or email
> > me directly. I will try and get a community facing wiki page together
> > next week with my thoughts and whatever else you all send my way.
> >
>
> Just that I too surfaced around 9 .a.m. today from several weeks on
> the road, more or less, and think this is a great direction to pursue!
> Let us know what we can do to help... Paul Weiss and I are talking
> later today.
>
> I too need to wrap my head around style manuals and whatnot!
>
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