Research and academia

This group is a meeting, discussion and collaboration space for all interested in using Drupal in the academia and research environments. Drupal is an excellent platform for running sites of departments, associations, centers, research projects, conferences, ejournals, or even entire universities.

This group was started following discussions around the excellent Biblio module. However, all topics related to using Drupal in an academic/research environment are welcome, as well as very specific issues related to Biblio development. Relevant discussions may occur in the Drupal in Education, Conference Organizing Distribution, Language Learning Communities or Curriculum and Training groups.

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Personal portfolios in Drupal and interoperability

Is anybody out there using Drupal for building e-portfolios?

I was at a Mahara conference recently and attending a talk about LEAP2A (http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/LEAP2A_specification) a new interoperability spec. Efforts to make it compatible with RDFa are underway and I was wondering if anybody from the Drupal side would be interested in joining in the discussion.

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Drupal For Education

Start: 
2009-05-14 12:30 - 17:30 Europe/London
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Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in education.

The session will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in education:

  • Suitability of Drupal for brochure websites, course management and delivery, community building, and sharing of information
  • Which versions of Drupal to use and the recommended modules based upon your needs
  • Designing and implementing the right architecture to meet scalability and security requirements
  • Commercial, Enterprise Class support and services available for Drupal and associate infrastructure

Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this is a great opportunity to learn more about Drupal deployments, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.

Drupal For education is free, but event registration is required:

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Presenter pool

There is an interesting write-up about remote presentations on the Open Media g.d.o. made by Kevin (kreynen@drupal.org). From their experiences it seems like it should be feasible to make a habit out of remote Drupal presentations.

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Roadmap for making Biblio use CCK nodes

Introduction

Currently Biblio is still using custom node types. As a result it is necessary to build bridge modules to enable integration of functionality that by default already is available to CCK content types. Also since Biblio has developed it's own functionality ecosystem there are a couple of functionalities that currently only exist for Biblio nodes.

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Drupal Dojo education and training track

Now that the Dojo has it's very own 100-seat-capable DimDim account for online learning and collaboration (access info here), there should be all sorts of ways we can leverage the platform (and 1700+ members) to demonstrate the various uses of Drupal in educational settings and collaborate on tools and solutions.

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Sharepoint look-alike theme / skin for education sites

Just wanted to announce the availability of a Sharepoint-clone theme for Drupal, which I imagine could be quite suitable for educational websites et.c. It's available here The page itself is currently using the theme.

The same skin is ported to MediaWiki too, so you can have a completely integrated look-and-feel between Drupal and MediaWiki (+ Sharepoint of course). The MediaWiki counterpart can at the moment be seen here.

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Drupal in Academia Showcase

Let's create a listing of as many possible websites where Drupal is used in the academic and research context:

Associations, groups, theme resources

Ejournals

Departments, centres

Personal websites of academics

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New group page design

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Drupal Classes or Courses at 3rd level/Uni/College, online or face to face?

Does anyone know of academic institutions offering classes or courses which cover Drupal?

Both face to face and/or online?

NB: Not courses using Drupal as a medium, rather: Drupal as the subject matter.

I would love to hear from lecturers who are planning courses, or who have taught Drupal in their courses. I would like to see examples, how they fit in to the existing academic programmes in their institutions, how they promote it, and what the outcomes have been.

Thank you!

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Education and Training: A Drupal Learning Track

[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]

Goals and Objectives

  • Develop an open training and certification program;
  • Create a more effective platform to provide free online training, mentoring, and a showcase for Drupal;
  • Discover and recruit new talent;
  • Help end-users to evaluate a specialist by providing standard "levels of expertise";
  • Reach out to make new audiences aware of Drupal who might not be currently aware;
  • Attract peripheral Drupal types to become more closely involved and active;
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FP7 funding for exchanging people between academia and industry

Start: 
2008-09-22 17:00 - 17:30 Europe/Brussels
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At drupalcon we had the opportunity to merge our BoF. Today we like to go back to the IAPP: exchanging people between academia and industry. We have a skype conference to see if people like to work on an exchange program.

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Training and certifications session@ szeged2008.drupalcon

At drupalcon Szeged their was an interesting suggestion to define RDF for Drupal curriculums. Check the presentation.

Their was the suggestion to write down bullets of what need to be in the curriculum. To me however, their it is not yet enough clarity to start creating bullets. I'm looking forward to a discussion. Whatever your point, let this post be an invitation for a discussion.

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Web Developer | Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Not allowed

We're looking for a developer to design, develop and maintain a suite of communication tools and web services to support interdisciplinary collaboration at the leading edge of science and computing. The developer interacts with the core administrative and technical staff and a range of project teams to provide websites and customized collaboration tools in a dynamic, multi-platform technology environment.

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Experienced Drupal Developer | RAFT

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Allowed

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Coding: Most of your time will be spent developing code. Our application relies heavily on Drupal and its APIs and toolsets. You will be working on a large Drupal multi-site application that uses over 100 modules and has over 100,000 lines of custom code.
  • Technical Decisions: You will be expected to help drive the direction of development for our application and the general technical direction of the company. You will be expected to make and suggest decisions regarding your code and others.
  • Cooperating: We are a team environment, and cooperation and communication are a must. You will be working with other developers, and testers. You will be expected to be well versed with what others are doing and be available to divert your efforts to help others when the need arises.
  • Growing: Last but not least, we expect you to move up. We are a young company with a small workforce. The lines of responsibility are often blurred, and all of our staff are encouraged to try things that may be outside their normal areas of expertise.
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Using Drupal for surveys - looking for advice

Curious about any examples of people using Drupal to implement surveys of user groups on a site. Any experience of using Webform http://drupal.org/project/webform ? It seemed I wanted to be able to represent some of the information in Views, so I didn't want to use Web Form. I even wondered would it be better, going ahead, to use an external service?

So far, I've made a survey involving 25 questions using CCK fields, and 9 field groups which will be a muti-step form- since it's very long on the page. Just wondered if I'm missing any tricks.

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Web application developer | Amherst College

Employment type: 
Full time
Telecommute: 
Not allowed

Come help Amherst College develop a sophisticated web platform for higher ed. Experience with drupal is highly valued but not required. We've spent the last couple of years building on drupal at Amherst and are looking to scale up our efforts. Specific details on the positions are available here on the college's site, and there's a broader description and information about other openings available here.

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Drupal and Education at the Drupalcon'08 in Szeged

I just submitted a session/BoF/panel proposal for DrupalCon in Szeged suggesting ways of helping Drupal make greater inroads in the education sector (including research): http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/sessions/what-does-education-sector-need.... Any feedback is appreciated.

I thought I'd start a thread where we could discuss what else the Drupal in Education/Drupal in Academia and Research crowd can do in Szeged. Please post comments with suggestions/ideas for other sessions, BoFs, or just let each other know who's coming.

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Drupal4Lib BoF (ALA Anaheim)

Start: 
2008-06-29 15:30 - 17:00 America/Los_Angeles

Okay, we'll be meeting for our Drupal4lib BoF on Sun. (6/29, 3:30p-5:00p) -- in the LITA Bloggers Room (till they chase us out).

This will be an informal get-together of people to talk about how they've implemented Drupal or how they'd like to implement Drupal. Whether you're a newbie or pro is fine. Everyone is welcome. I'll see if I can dig up a projector so people can do brief presentations of their projects.

Please leave comments and suggestions.

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Scheduling/Calendar

Hi all,

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FP7 BoF on next Drupalcon?

Start: 
2008-08-27 (All day) - 2008-08-30 (All day) UTC

FP7 is the EU instrument for funding research, see the introduction on wikipedia or go to the primary site You will notice the Drupal development can fit many calls in general but non in particular. The first goal is to figure out if enough people in the community are interested in EU funded Drupal research. I've made a list with some initiatives that looked relevant, but please be free to give your own opinion or to show your interest.

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