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"We describe the system architecture and template design of "Scratchpads", a data-publishing framework for groups of people to create their own social networks supporting natural history science. Scratchpads cater to the particular needs of individual research communities through a common database and system architecture. This is flexible and scalable enough to support multiple networks, each with its own choice of features, visual design, and constituent data. Our data model supports web services on standardised data elements that might be used by related initiatives such as GBIF and the Encyclopedia of Life. A Scratchpad allows users to organise data around user-defined or imported ontologies, including biological classifications. Automated semantic annotation and indexing is applied to all content, allowing users to navigate intuitively and curate diverse biological data, including content drawn from third party resources. A system of archiving citable pages allows stable referencing with unique identifiers and provides credit to contributors through normal citation processes." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

modules mentioned: leftandright http://drupal.org/project... biblio http://drupal.org/project... cck http://drupal.org/project/cck og http://drupal.org/project/og image http://drupal.org/project... imagex http://drupal.org/project... creativecommons_lite http://drupal.org/project... simplenews http://drupal.org/project... wysiwyg... more... - Mike Chelen

pretty slick - Jean-Claude Bradley

"With this article I want to explain how you can plan and build a Social Networking Website using Drupal. The intent of the post is to provide useful tips and informations to understand the issues behind the building of a working on-line community." - Mitchell McKenna from Bookmarklet

"With the launch of Managing News we have released Feeds, the intended successor of FeedAPI. Feeds is a next generation import and aggregation API that applies lessons learned from three years of intensive work with aggregation in Drupal. This is one of the outcomes of our work on Managing News that we are most excited about. We'd like to again thank the Knight Foundation for their vision to support the improvement of fundamental aggregation tools for Drupal, which helped create Feeds. In this post I'd like to explain the reasons for building a new aggregation and import API, the design goals for it, and what this is going to mean for FeedAPI." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

new feeds project page: http://drupal.org/project... - Mike Chelen

FeedAPI is one of the best ways to get data imported to Drupal on an automatic & ongoing basis, if the new Feeds project can make this module even more powerful it will be exciting to see :) - Mike Chelen

I´d say it depends on whether you'll be doing a lot (or any) customization to speak of, as far as module hacking is concerned. If you only need a few additional modules + templating, it wouldn't be too bad to share a multi-site setup I'd guess, plus you wouldn't have to do maintenance yourself (security updates etc.). - 'Mummi' Thorisson

At the same time I started this thread, I sent an email off to the XC folks asking about their project a multi-site setup. They were kind enough to take the time to reply, and they said that for this particular project they didn't recommend it. - mita

"The Creative Commons module allows users to select and assign a Creative Commons license to a node and any attached content. Additionally, the site admin can select a license to assign to the entire site." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

the user interface is intuitive, and the results can be displayed in machine-readable format like RSS - Mike Chelen

apache+php+mysql+hotsauce=openatrium - Maxamad

"Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own conversations. It comes with six features - a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all." - Maxamad

"But you're not limited to just those features. Open Atrium is completely customizable. If you want a feature that's not on that list, you can add it yourself. Read the documentation, specifically the How to Build a Feature section, to find out how to do it." - Maxamad

Chris try this: http://groups.drupal.org/node... - Ben Nash

it's a shame this isn't still around - http://drupal.org/node/26938 - chrisofspades

some of the patches look promising - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

my workaround was to map the imported date to the node creation date - Mike Chelen

"AddThis now has potential privacy implications as, due to their acquisition by ClearSpring, a ClearSpring Flash Tracking Object is now embedded with *ALL* AddThis widgets. It is important to make users aware of this as they are exposing their users to possible privacy issues now by using AddThis." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

it still caused an ugly white bar at the top of the page, even with flashblock enabled - Mike Chelen

From Dries Buytaert: "Big, exciting news! The flag ship website of the U.S. government, Whitehouse.gov, just relaunched on Drupal. This is a big day for Drupal, and for Open Source in government, and something all of us in the community should be very proud of. First of all, I think Drupal is a perfect match for President Barack Obama's push for an open and transparent government -- Drupal provides a great mix of traditional web content management features and social features that enable open communication and participation. This combination is what we refer to as social publishing and is why so many people use Drupal. Furthermore, I think Drupal is a great fit in terms of President Barack Obama's desire to reduce cost and to act quickly. Drupal's flexibility and modularity enables organizations to build sites quickly at lower cost than most other systems. In other words, Drupal is a great match for the U.S. government." - Mark Trapp from Bookmarklet

Also notable that they're using Apache Solr for search and RDFa throughout the site. - Mark Trapp

which RDFa types are in use? thanks for the info! - Mike Chelen

Öz! Öz! Özgürlük! - Orkut Murat Yılmaz

Çağdaş, amacına göre değişir. Kişisel veya küçük-orta ölçekli business siteler için WP fazlasıyla ideal... Ama çoklu kullanıcı ve istenilen her yöne çekilebilecek kapsamlı bir CMS arıyorsan Drupal harika bir sistem. - Fatih Taşkıran from iPhone

"A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze — you won't notice a thing. The online-savvy administration on Saturday switched to open-source code for http://www.whitehouse.gov — meaning the programming language is written in public view, available for public use and able for people to edit." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"Yet the system — known as Drupal — alone won't make it more secure on its own, cautioned Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology. "The platform that they're moving to is just something to hang other things on," he said. "They need to keep up-to-date with the latest security patches." - imabonehead

Love the website. So awesome! - Zachary TG

CCK node types available at http://github.com/mchelen... and CSV format data at http://github.com/mchelen... . - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

Mike - in the next couple of weeks we will add all the 'missing' usage data (pre-July 05 and 1st 200 PLoS ONE articles). I will ping you when we have it in an excel sheet. - Peter Binfield

"Using Faceted Search on a site, works great thanks. I have set up the search to display using a view, however I would like to be able to expose the same faceted search environment as an RSS feed. I've tried a number of different things but nothing seems to work, is this possible?" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

views without faceted search seems to be the best alternative for now - Mike Chelen

"For the past 10+ years, many people have been building catalogs of metadata for geospatial resources, such as GIS digital data, hardcopy maps and documentation, web mapping services, etc… Geospatial metadata have traditionally been created in XML-based formats, such as FGDC (for US) and ISO compatible, and cataloged by numerous systems, some FOSS and some commercial, such as Isite, ESRI’s GIS Portal Toolkit, Intergraph’s GeoConnect, GeoNetwork Open Source (a favorite of mine) and several others. In fact, there is an entire industry of metadata professionals, and an increasingly amount of them learning or using GIS. In my opinion, searching for geospatial resources, or for anything really, has changed recently, due to a combination of technological advances, community-driven initiatives and tech culture, and how people need to find information. Metadata catalogs, with full or partially compliant metadata, are things of the past. It’s hard to keep the metadata current, even harder to... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"OAuth uses specific terminology to represent the developer and the entity that provisions authorization. In this case, both are drupal with OAuth module installed. The application or site that requires access to User data Is known as the Consumer, whereas drupal website where data is stored is known as the Service Provider." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

forking is alright if the changes can be merged later on, though if any project gets abandoned by the maintainer it can make development less consistent - Mike Chelen

"Moodle Quick API for RESTful integration with other web applications, e.g. Drupal" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Do you want your Drupal module to create a new content type using the power and flexibility of CCK, perhaps including the built-in integration with Views? Here's one way using Drupal 6." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing temporal information. This Drupal module is an integration for a JavaScript timeline widget developed by the SIMILE project. It works in a similar way as Google Maps but for time-based events. The SIMILE Timeline (and Ajax) libraries can be used from the SIMILE server or can be downloaded and installed into your (local) Drupal installation. This module provides a style plugin for the Views module that represents date information of nodes on a horizontal timeline display. It makes use of the Date module (if present) as source for temporal information defined on cck date fields of nodes." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"This module is a helper module for a customized Firefox plugin that displays Drupal debugging and SQL query information (thanks to integration with devel module) to the Firebug window." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"FeedAPI Data is a FeedAPI processor plugin for storing feed items. You can use it as alternative to the default processor FeedAPI Node. It uses Data module for storing feed items, and Feed Element Mapper 2 for freely configuring which feed elements to store as what field type." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

wonder if this helps when importing data sets? been getting timeouts from feedapi and had to switch to node import - Mike Chelen

"The latest releases of Drupal from http://drupal.org. Existing Ubuntu packages are used as the basis for these packages, with the new release files replacing older files." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

yeah core taxonomy is pretty flexible, there is a http://drupal.org/project... module if something even more complex is needed - Mike Chelen

my excitement was premature. What I wanted to do was have a single term live in two separate vocabularies. That's not possible. I may need to merge three of my vocabularies. Unfortunately much of the site display depends on automated display of terms and merging stuff would wonk the whole thing, and we don't have extra money to spend on retooling at this point. - Laura Norvig

"We've created a pre-built AMI that makes it easy to get started with Drupal on EC2. Just start it up and you're ready to go. And it works with any version of Drupal you'd like." - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

"RPX is a tool and service from JanRain that helps you effortlessly add single sign-on from providers like AOL, Google, Yahoo! and even Facebook. For more information visit the RPX website. http://rpxnow.com" - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet