1. Basics of Drupal for Researchers
Quinn Dombrowski, Research IT

2. Who am I and why am I here? research-it.berkeley.edu
digitalhumanities.berkeley.edu

3. Thank you
Digital Humanities
Summer Institute
dhsi.org

4. Do you need Drupal? … or WordPress? … or Omeka? … or MediaWiki?
… or custom programming?
… or any of the many web-based or installable tools for digital research?

5. WordPress, Omeka, MediaWiki

6. Custom programming

7. Drupal

8. When Drupal is most useful
Presentation and organization of curated research collections
Especially with collaborators
Directories
Community building

9. Drupal is a generic tool
Supported by a huge developer community, mostly not affiliated with universities
“Scholarly” use of Drupal comes down to the selection and configuration of modules and content types
Growing community of projects that use it at Berkeley and elsewhere

10. What this workshop will cover
Today:
Technical overview of Drupal
Setting up a new Drupal site
Installing & enabling modules
Key concepts for Drupal sites
Intro to data modeling

11. What this workshop will cover
Next week:
Further discussion of data modeling
Building content types
Adding content
Blocks
Themes

12. What this workshop will cover
Final week:
Views
Menus
Users / roles
Image styles
Slideshows, maps, timelines, etc. as needed

13. Hosting: Pantheon Free for anyone to develop a site
$20/month for a basic site with few visitors
$75/month for more server resources
vs. < $10/month for inexpensive external shared hosting, capable of running multiple sites
Centrally-provided hosting options are under discussion

14. Technical overview of Drupal
Drupal core
Modules
Theme
Database

15. Drupal components Content type Node Taxonomy (vocabulary, term) Views
Block
Menu
Users
Roles

16. Example sites...

17. Bulgarian dialectology

18. Preparing a print edition

20. Line entry

21. Word metadata

22. Text display w/ linguistic metadata

23. Readable text display

24. Lexicon

25. Grammatical categories

26. Linguistic traits

27. Thematic content

29. Founders on the Founders

33. Installing modules Administration menu Backup and migrate CTools
Pathauto
Token
Views

34. Modules for building content types
Date
Fieldgroup
Link
References
Hundreds of others

35. Data modeling considerations
Data or metadata?
Data becomes content types, metadata becomes fields (including taxonomy fields)
Taxonomy or content type?
Merging similar content types?
Drupal-based considerations
Hiding/displaying author/date information
Comments
URL patterns (Pathauto)
Permissions