Join Acquia, and Harvard’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science as we present Open Scholar, a Drupal solution for higher education.
Built by faculty members at Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Open Scholar is a free, pre-configured, and fully customizable solution that enables universities and colleges to deploy turnkey websites for professors, researches and students. In seconds, faculty members can create their own social website to publish research, share blog posts, follow and track projects, and interact with their community. With the click of a button researchers can create collaboration websites to work on projects, attract grant funding and share results in an open environment for peer review.
Partnered with Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science, we invite you to register to learn more and how Acquia can help your institution deploy Open Scholar tomorrow. No additional resources needed!
Attendees will:
* Watch a demonstration of the Open Scholar application
* Learn how to speed deployment of microsites for faculty members, projects, and departments
* Understand how Open Scholar will help universities reduce costs while giving faculty fully functional social websites
* Hear how Acquia’s fully managed solutions for higher education can simplify Open Scholar deployment and management
This webinar is intended for higher educational institutions looking for an easier way to deploy social publishing websites that facilitate faculty engagement, promote research, and deploy the next generation of social networking and website publishing on campus.
1. Webinar Audio Options
Listen to streaming audio via
your computer’s audio
– WebEx Audio Broadcast pop-up
Unable to listen via your
computer’s audio
– Request phone access
Technical support
– US & Canada 866-229-3239
– International support
408-435-7088
International phone access
numbers:
– http://support.webex.com/
2. Introduction
Matt Ackley
– Distribution Marketing Lead
3. OpenScholar - A Solution for
Higher Education
Matt Ackley Ferdi Almadhi Alex Lindahl
Acquia Marketing OpenScholar Project Lead Distribution Evangelist
Acquia IQSS, Harvard University Acquia
@mbackley @ferdialmadhi @alexlindahl
4. Webinar Audio Options
Listen to streaming audio via
your computer’s audio
– WebEx Audio Broadcast pop-up
Unable to listen via your
computer’s audio
– Request phone access
Technical support
– US & Canada 866-229-3239
– International support 408-435-7088
International phone access
numbers:
– http://support.webex.com/support/
phone-numbers.html
5. Housekeeping
Today’s webinar is being recorded. Slides and
recording will be posted in next 48 hours at:
– http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars
Submit questions via Q&A Tab in WebEx, we’ll
answer as many as we can
– Give it a try & tell us what universities are in attendance
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Thursday September 9th
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Thursday September 30th
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Register Today - http://acquia.com/webinars
8. Following Webinar
Don’t close the window
– Ask us any question relating to OpenScholar
Have a technical question?
Have an implementation question?
Curious as to the weather in Cambridge?
– Launch of the OpenScholar Sandbox
Try every feature you see in today’s webinar in the OpenScholar
sandbox on Acquia.com
– Reserve a Free OpenScholar Deployment Strategy
Consultation
9. Introduction
Ferdinand Alimadhi
– OpenScholar Project Lead
– Harvard University - Institute of Quantitative Social
Science
Alex Lindahl
– Distribution Evangelist
– Acquia
10. Introduction
‣ Ferdinand Alimadhi
• OpenScholar Project Lead
• IQSS, Harvard University
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
11. Ferdinand Alimadhi
Project lead
IQSS, Harvard University
@ferdialimadhi
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
12. Agenda
‣ About OpenScholar
‣ Motivation
‣ OpenScholar Features
‣ Technical Details
‣ Demo
‣ What’s next ?
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
13. About
‣ OpenScholar is a free, open source web
application, built on top of Drupal
‣ OpenScholar allows users (mainly
academics) to create full-featured dynamic
web sites on the fly. In seconds
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
14. About
‣ Developed at the Institute for Quantitative
Social Science, Harvard University
‣ Version 2 started on May 2009
‣ Team
• Ferdinand Alimadhi (project lead / developer)
• Richard Brandon (Senior web developer)
• Joeseph Weiner (Drupal / Web developer)
• Shaun Wortis (Senior UI designer / Web developer)
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
15. Motivation ?
‣ High demand for quality academic
web sites.
‣ Building dynamic, modern web sites is
challenging and expensive.
‣ Need for institutional repositories.
‣ Need for scholarly communication
and collaboration.
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
59. What’s Next ?
‣ OpenScholar for academic departments
‣ Integration with external data sources
‣ Web services support
‣ Integration between different installations
‣ (mini) web sites as features
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
63. OpenScholar as a Service
Fully Managed: Deploy Today, Build Tomorrow
Onsite JumpStart
Training
24x7 Support
Module + Security Updates
New Features
Performance Hosting
Harvard Issue Escalation
64. Bene ts
Proceeds to IQSS Team
New Feature Deployments
Group Funded Sprints
Contributions to Drupal
Core Issue Escalation to Harvard
OpenScholar Best Practices