Tag Archives: Drupal

Content Management for the Library

del.icio.us Tags: drupal,libraries,tools At MPOW we’re hoping to migrate the library’s static HTML web site to the Drupal CMS. We’ve been using Drupal successfully for a year and a half for an offsite affiliate project and for a SEPA grant-funded project.  We have access to develop the current site using .NET when we want, but we [...]
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Upgrades

I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.6 to 2.8. All in all, that took less than 5 minutes. DSpace upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.5.2? 2+ weeks and it’s she’s still not entirely stable. The new dashboard in WP is very nice. I’m using the QuickPress feature to write this post. Way too easy! I also just signed up [...]
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Autotagging the OPAC

There are lots of Drupal-based OPACs in the wild these days. Pasteur from Tecnologico de Monterrey is particulary cool because it uses a module that auto-applies LCC terms based on the item’s LCC number.  The terms are derived from HILCC, Hierarchical Interface to the Library of Congress Classification. ApacheSolr provides search and faceting. Better still, HILCC is [...]
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Drupal Projects That Tickle My Fancy

Thanks to Planet Drupal, I came across code.developmentseed.org today. They’re pushing out some great projects with a fury. The one I’m most excited about is Aegir. Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you [...]
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Drupal: Display a taxonomy as a faceted list in a panel

I need a way to display taxonomy terms as a filtered menu/list within a panel. Ideally, I’d use Faceted Search but it doesn’t seem to hook into Panels and take advantage of the context.  I can’t send it a Term ID as an argument and have it automatically filter other vocabularies accordingly.  Here are the [...]
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