Presentation on the adoption of Drupal at the UCLA Library for it's main CMS and for Digital Library Projects running Islandora

1. GLADcamp 2014
Using Drupal at the UCLA
LIbrary

2. Who am I?
Chris Cabrera Thompson
ccthompson - drupal.org
uclachris - G+
@ccthompson - Twitter
ccthompson32 - github
ccthompson@library.ucla.edu
member of UCLA Library, Digital Initiatives and
Information Technology, web site administrator

3. UCLA Library Drupal (Overview)
● Migrated UCLA Library websites to Drupal 7
in 2012
● Attended Drupalcons: 2011-13
● Attended LA Drupalcamp 2012, Badcamp
2013
● Train/consult UCLA Library content authors
and editors on Drupal site
● Focus on Frontend Development/Site
building, developed several Drupal Modules

4. UCLA Library, Drupal 6 and 7 sites
in need of content moderation
● UCLA Library
o Main site: (Webforms, Workbench, Fusion…)
o CLICC site (Themekey)
● UCLA Digital Library (Islandora)
o LA Times, Tahrir Square (restricted)
● Collecting Los Angeles
● LA Aquaduct
● Frontera
● CLICC Library Services Portal
● EMEL (Sinai Palimpsests) MingGazetteers ...et als

5. Case Study: Workbench, Web
Forms, GIT Workflow, Features
Library Web site and workflow - a case study of
a Drupal project addressing a specific
requirement: content workflow Process for
using GIT with partners
● Access, Moderation, Media, Email
● Webforms
● Fusion, ZEN, Omega, Themekey

6. Typical UCLA Library Workflow
Process

7. Demo
GIT workflow for new development and working
with consultants
● pull master from github
● setup local dev environment
● branch based on JIRA work request
● push to master
● pull request and merge

8. Currently working on ...
● UCLA Drupal List: http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/drupal
● ALA-LITA, Drupal4Lib, chair 2011-13
(Library specific, but a good source)
● Drupal 7 Module Development Bootcamp
● UCLA Drupal meetups (starts and stalls)
o UCLA Library, Nov 23, 2013, Video migration sprint
to support local Drupal groups, more info at
● New Library Web site

9. Contact information
Chris Cabrera Thompson
ccthompson - drupal.org
uclachris - G+
@ccthompson - Twitter
ccthompson@library.ucla.edu
member of UCLA Library, Digital Initiatives and
Information Technology since 2007, web site
administrator

10. UCLA Digital Library and DrupalHow
Drupal fits into Digital Archiving
Kristian Allen
Developer - UCLA Digital Library
Google: kristian.j.allen
Github: kjallen
UCLA: kallen2@library.ucla.edu

11. UCLA Digital Library Snapshot
● 250 Digital Collections
● 1.8MM+ Digital Asset Files
● 20MM+ Metadata database records
● 35TB+ Disk storage

12. Growing Pains
● Current systemLocally Developed:
Java EE / Struts 1.02
Oracle Database, Search and Persistence frameworks
JBoss on Windows
● ChallengesDomain specific knowledge needed for
development
Proprietary software limits leverage of the community
Bolting on partial solutions can become problematic

13. The Community to the Rescue
● Blacklight / HydraRuby / Rails
● IslandoraPHP / Drupal
● Common PlatformsApache Solr for search
and discovery
Fedora Commons for repository and storage

14. Demo: LA Aqueduct Exhibit
● Collection of materials showcasing the
opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct
● Drupal 7 site
- Assets stored in Fedora repository
- Utilizes openseadragon for JP2k content
- Search API and Solr for keyword browse
- http://digital.library.ucla.edu/aqueduct/

15. Resources
Islandora
http://islandora.ca/
Islandora VM
http://islandora.ca/downloads
Fedora Commons Repository Software
http://www.fedora-commons.org