When I went to the Drupal site to find and download the Directory module, I ended up looking through all of the different modules associated with Taxonomy and I fell in love with Drupal again. Maybe "love" is too strong of a word, but I remembered how amazing Drupal is and how it can do everything and how much fun it is to try to figure out how to do something in Drupal.
Drupal
Vocabulary Index module
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Directory module, Drupal, Taxonomy module, Vocabulary Index module
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Perplexed by Drupal blogs
Last week one of the Roberts Street residents (Macho!) came up with an awesome idea: start a blog on the website for residents to post info and updates about their projects. Of course!
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Shortcomings in Drupal Taxonomy Module
As we’ve written about in detail elsewhere on this blog, we use the Taxonomy module in Drupal for the Subject field. It’s set up so that every time we enter a new subject term the term gets added to a controlled vocabulary that’s stored in Drupal.
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Drupal, Taxonomy module, cataloguing, thesaurus, thesaurus software
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Zine Library Catalogue Final Report
In the spirit of zine-making, Amanda and I intend to reformat and publish our final report for this project as a zine. However, for those who might be following our progress online and also for review by our instructor before we can format, publish and distribute our paper-based report, we’re pre-publishing it electronically to this blog. Enjoy. There’s also a PDF version here.
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Automatic Nodetitles module, Circulation module, Community Tags module, Computed Field module, Content Construction Kit (CCK) module, Drupal, Faceted Search module, Node Go To module, Node Profile module, Taxonomy module, Views module, cataloguing, open source software, system design, system requirements, zine libraries
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Partial success
Circulation functionality is now working in our system. I’m not completely sure of all of the workflows, but the functionality to check items in and out is working.
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Circulation progress
I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough today on the circulation issue.
Our cirulation module needs to hook into the display of Item and Zine records. This was going to require some slightly tricky logic when it came to displaying the statuses of all Items when viewing a Zine record. We would have to build a table in the module’s hook_nodeapi() routines to output html. Ugly.
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Bibliographic Records
Bibliographic records will be handled as custom content types in our system. In our current development system, this consists of a single content type called zine (display name ‘Zine Record’).
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Automatic Nodetitle module, Drupal, Node Go To module, catalogue records, data model, system design
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Searching, Browsing, and Viewing Records
One of the most important functions of the Anchor Archive’s system will be enabling users to find and view zine records. They will be able to do this by searching in different ways or browsing by topic.
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Directory module, Drupal, Faceted Search module, Viewfields module, Views module, searching, system design
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Controlled Vocabularies
There are some fields in the zine record table for which we want to use a controlled vocabulary.
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CCK Taxonomy Fields module, Drupal, Taxonomy module, system design, thesaurus
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Circulation
The ability to manage the loaning of materials is very important to this project. After considering different methods to accomplish such tasks as check-out, check-in, and review of item status, we have decided to proceed by writing a custom Drupal module. This module will be released to anyone with interest when it becomes at least partly functional.
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Tagging and User Comments
The Anchor Archive will allow users to add their own tags and comments to zine records. Tags will provide complementary user-generated subject indexing to zine records. Comments will be primarily used to gather reviews of zines from members.
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Community Tags module, Drupal, Tagadelic module, system design, user tags
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User Management
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Drupal, Profile module, Usernode Module, circulation, system design, user management
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Data Model
Last week Amanda and I made some sketches of the relational data model for the anchor archive system. What follows is a slightly formalised version which I have created with a database modeler.
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Drupal is all about the modules
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Date module, Drupal, Nodetitles module, Profile module, Views module
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Early explorations in Drupal
This week I began exploring Drupal. When I started working on the Anchor Archive project back in September, my friend installed Drupal on his server and added the Content Construction Kit so that I could assess Drupal’s suitability for building a system for the Anchor Archive.
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