Research and academia

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.

Below is a list of self-described Members of the Drupal in Education group. If you want to be included, please subscribe to this group and then EDIT this page and add yourself.

This list is sorted alphabetically by FIRST name (because you're more likely to know people by first than last name). As a guideline, each entry should include some or all of: Name, Company, location, related expertise/projects/sites, what you're seeking in this group, interesting factoid about you. Be creative.

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.

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.

Hi all,

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.

We are seeking a developer to assist us with creating a new or re-purposing an existing dynamic research repository that can capture various case studies, articles, websites and other semantic information from a multi- member research team. Our focus is green building and sustainability to which we use this research content to populate our online learning portal, develop curriculum and increase our consulting knowledge.

Some of the repository attributes would include:

1. Drupal based or Drupal friendly alternative (MySQL)

After Boston and the introduction of Long term Drupal, the semantic web has been getting a lot of attention. Kristof suggest expert meeting for semantic web in a recent post. I like the idea much, although I would not restricted it to semantic web (but as every one will be interested in it, it will be the focal point any way). I think a list of short goals (Drupal7 or Drupal8) versus long term goals are needed. The long term goals will require more than two years and experiments may get organized more collaborative than has been the case in the past.

Currently I'm taking up contact with the FP7 contact points to see if we can setup expert meetings. If you check the FP7 site, you'll notice it can fit many of the pillars in general but non in particular. Some creativity will be needed according to the contact point. ... To be continued

Greetings!

By day I'm the Webmaster at a mid to large size public school system here in the USA (Frederick County Public Schools, MD). I'm curious to know how many of you out there in Drupal-land are implementing Drupal sites in the public education sector. Some specific questions:

1) Do you support it (server-wise) in house or do you host outside/off campus?

2) Do you host on VPS/dedicated or shared? Linux or Windows?

3) Do you run multi-site configurations?

4) How long have you been running Drupal sites?

EDUCAUSE is seeking qualified candidates for two full-time positions located in either its Boulder, Colorado or Washington D.C. offices. Candidates will be part of a fun, creative team that is responsible for creating web applications atop the Drupal Content Management System.

We recently created a community learning space for a web analytics class at BYU. We directed students to create individual blogs on commercial blogging platforms such as blogspot, wordpress, and elsewhere. We are then using FeedAPI to aggregate the student blogs and comments (see list of student feeds) into the community site.

I just submitted a proposal for a Drupal in Education Birds of a Feather session.

If you are attending the DrupalCon, come on over and read through the proposals, rate the existing proposals, and/or write one of your own.

If you would like to attend the BoF, I have started a list of possible topics to cover in the session description. As I say in the description, given Drupal's flexibility and the differing needs of people working within education, there will be plenty to talk about.

This semester I've been involved in a research project at BYU studying the effects of using web2.0 tools powered by Drupal in the classroom (See http://isyscore.byu.edu/drupal). Now that our first semester with our pilot site is coming to a close, we're moving into the data gathering / analysis phase of research. To aid our research I've written a tool which let's an research easily categorize content created on a Drupal site.

I just sent out the following announcement to various library-related email lists:

Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce a new ListServ for librarians called 'DRUPAL4LIB'.

As the name implies, 'DRUPAL4LIB' is for those interested in Drupal, a popular open-source CMS, as it relates to libraries and librarians.

The idea is to have a forum to exchange ideas and advice, share experiences, and maybe even collaborate on a couple of projects that highlight the use of Drupal in a library context.

The ever helpful Cary Gordon has kindly agreed to serve as "moderator" along with your's truly.

SUBSCRIBE

Send the command 'SUBSCRIBE DRUPAL4LIB First_name Last_name' in the body of an email to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UIC.EDU.

Alternatively you can subscribe by selecting 'Join or Leave the DRUPAL4LIB List' from the DRUPAL4LIB Archives Page:
http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html

Everyone is welcome, whether beginner or pro!

LEO

Position: Site administrator for Academic Site at Stanford using DRUPAL.

The Renaissance Body Project at Stanford University is looking for a web manager to help manage, expand and improve an existing website using Drupal.

This release features both security and maintenance upgrades.

For new users, this is the best version to download and install. The download tarball contains a directory named "Instructions" that contains some instructions on getting started. For additional help, and/or to get involved with the DrupalEd community, submit issues to the issue queue or join the DrupalEd group.

Download DrupalEd here

Hi all, I'm new to Drupal and this group. I wanted to use Drupal to keep
track of my research. (Drupal has such a steep learning curve!) I posted my
originally question in the general forum and was pointed here.

I've just installed biblio. I'm wondering how I can list all the entries
grouped by categories. It seems taxonomy_dhtml almost does the job. But it
doesn't show the content of the biblio until I click into it.

Besides, what other modules would you recommend? I'm thinking of using
Project Mgmt or TaskList to keep track of ideas and todo items. Any other
suggestions?

Okay, this one is so far off it's almost crazy to talk about, but since they just posted it, I thought I might as well put out the word -- at least for people in the Chicagoland area interested in Drupal.

Drupal of course is a popular open-source content management system. I'll be giving an introduction to it at the offices of the Metropolitan Library System in Chicago on Friday, 2/29, 1:30-4:30. (Yes, leap year day!)

Hi,

I have recently secured a one year secondment to the post of e-learning facilitator within my institution and have dug out some old elearning content i developed in my own CMS a number of years ago. I have converted these to work in Drupal and would like feedback on them, maybe with a view to releasing the modules into the community if they prove useful.

All users of DrupalEd should should know about a security upgrade to Drupal core. As this is a security upgrade, people with sites in production are advised to upgrade immediately.

The announcement, with upgrade directions, can be read here.

The new version of DrupalEd with all security patches applied can be downloaded here.

From the longer post on the wiki page:

The DrupalEd project is now live on Drupal.org -- we are now ready to use the issue queue to centralize discussion on the different install profiles. In starting to discuss the profiles, I suggest we use the following format, as we will need to answer these questions as we build the various profiles.

The DrupalEd project is now live on Drupal.org -- we are now ready to use the issue queue to centralize discussion on the different install profiles. In starting to discuss the profiles, I suggest we use the following format, as we will need to answer these questions as we build the various profiles.

I just launched a new site for my research group using Drupal. I just use use custom node types with the necessary fields for journal entries. I also have set up a editorial system for our research descriptions so that the professor can give things the okay before they post (using workflow module). I'm pretty pleased with the result so far.

Setup a monografie library

Setup the workflow

Hi, everyone. I am constructing a journal website.
My plan is build this site mainly by e-publish module, since my site is base on Drupal 5.0 but E-journals module have yet support it.

E-publish is not easy at setting.
Especially the navigation bar on the bottom of every articles, sometimes it display, sometime doesn't.
My intuition about this problem is that, it maybe the content types I choose to be "top story".
It seems only the "story" type will make the navigation bar display.
I don't know if this is correct.

Anyone who has this experience please give me some hints, thanks.

DrupalEd is now available for download --

The full announcement is available here --

http://autism.healingthresholds.com is a site we built for an organization that aims to bring scholarly writing and research to people affected by autism. Abstracts are presented at an 8th grade reading level. A glossary of terms helps members understand the jargon. A community-driven wiki provides an alternative to the formal research.

Modules we are using include biblio, glossary, cck and views.

Roger Lopez
Digett

Hi, everyone:

(My English is not very well, it may has some mistakes in my grammar.)

I am constructing a online journal website. We hope that we could put all full text of articles on the internet.

But it seems the length of every articles are too long to be read. I am looking for some modules to solve this problem. Does anyone know how to separate single long node into pages? Please give me some suggestions.

Thanks a lot!

TKY

Check it out here: http://drupaled.alphabetademo.org

The site can function as a blogging platform, a podcasting platform, a wiki, an informal learning space, a course management space, and/or as a replacement for an organizational intranet. Within the site, users can create working groups or communities of practice. The site also supports social bookmarking. The homepage of the site gives a more complete overview of the functionality.

I've just come across the fantastic software for social bookmarking for academics Connotea (see http://www.connotea.org) and started thinking about the many great projects out there which we could either learn from or integrate into Drupal. Of course, there are some obvious candidates such as Moodle, Elgg, Gallery2 that we all know about. But what about services such as Shelfari or LibraryThing? So I thought I'd start a thread where we could talk about what others are doing and how we can benefit from their hard work.

Hello all,

I understand this is the place where we can discuss drupal and academia issues, which modules to use for different tasks etc... but I don't know if this is the place where we should ask questions on how to use the modules, or how to solve problems with the modules? I was about to post a question here on the biblio.module but then though the forums where the right place for such questions: http://drupal.org/node/125455

I am using biblio.module on a test site here:
http://www.huizache.org/drupal-4.7.6/biblio

salud
huizache

hi,

is there any open software to make and view online presentations?

i would like to organize an online paper presentation event with drupal...

enky

hi all,

i want this functionality for a conference website:

users can submit papers, emails are sent to the users to confirm that their paper been received
all the submitted papers will have a link to the conference event page
conference event node shows a list of submitted paper titles
submitted papers are only viewable by the Judge role members only
judges evaluate the papers

how to implement these?

thanks,
enky

Hello,

i just understood cvs and uploaded the first official version of the conference module for drupal 4.7. This is an improved version of the developement snapshot 4.7.x-1.x and it includes the whole functionality to organise an academic conference in drupal:

• post papers
• review papers
• make a decision concerning a paper

Please see changelog.txt for further informations.

Let's make a list of modules that are useful for academic and research sites. Maybe we can slowly accumulate info on how they can be used.

Modules specific to the academic world

• Biblio (where all this started)
• OAI-PMH (for exposing the biblio nodes as metadata; http://drupal.org/project/oai2)
• eJournal
• Conference
• Table of contents (nice for dealing with long, structured documents)

Biblio needs better documentation and Wikis seem to be ideal for working on manuals. Anything that gets created here can then be moved over to the http://drupal.org/node/111016. I copied what is there now here:

Overview

The biblio module allows you to create and maintain bibliographic lists of publications. The full (HTML) text of the publication can be included is so desired. Other files such as PDF or Word documents can be attached using the upload module.

Hello everyone, I thought it would be best to start with an overview of all the different academic and research sites where Drupal is either being used or is about to be used. Please, indicate in your post which modules you found essential to provide functionality specific to the academic/research needs of your site.

Note: If you have more than one site, please, add it into separate comments.