OpenScholar case-study at Merritt College, Oakland - Drupal, OpenScholar, Aegir, Apache Solr etc

Niccolo, that's a great presentation! We should probably talk. It looks like you have some questions that we can answer and some good ideas that we want to hear more about.
I especially like the "Speculation" slide -:)

Ferdi

Niccolo, is there a recording of this I can download and watch? I'm quite curious to watch your presentation, I'm sure it's great :P

Hey ho Niccolo!

Great to see you hammering and tonging at the open edges....

What I seem to be missing is the discussion on how this deploys in the "real" world...

I'm surveying OS suitability for a typical edu ecosystem, setting up the web presence for a new Institute. They will have Projects, People, Publications, and Partners (simplistically). And:

• Research Management Dept: is in charge of all "projects", and want their UID inserted into any reference to Projects (so there's a foreign DB to deal with)

• Human Resources: create authoritative records for all staff and students, and want their list to match anything that is published by the Institute

• The Library is in charge of citations and repository management. So if I get our scholars to create their own references in OS+Bilblio (that's a very good thing) then we have a sync/integration issue with the "closed" OS implementation and its file system viz the Library's repository system (that's an unknown thing).

• Partners are up for grabs, but I notice there is no in-built content type for this in OS...ie, a collaborating institution or agency gets its own page which can be node-reffed across the site for consistent reference in multiple projects.

So this all sort of boils down to the questions:

1: how nicely does OS play in relation to backend/legacy systems,
2: what are the options for api-driven data exchange, and
3: how amenable is OS to extensions to its content-type architecture

And BTW: it's all on thhe boil here in Oz...when are you going to demand a price on carbon? We need you man!