Posted by mobcdi on March 2, 2011 at 3:20pm
Hi again,
Do any Irish drupalers know of an install profile that would create a repository or catalogue site for audio, text, images and video files plus other file formats to be added later. I'm looking for something that would or could also use the creative commons module and possibly be even drupal 7 based to take advantage of the improvements like RDFa that comes with it.
I'm after something that sits between "just a list of files" and a full dspace repository but any leads would be very welcome
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Drupal Media Repository
Like mobcdi, "I'm after something that sits between "just a list of files" and a full dspace repository",
We want to provide an interface where media (PPT, PDF, MP3, text/HTML), categorized using the taxonomy module, can be searched and retrieved by Category and/or specific taxonomy term. Are there no add-on modules that can do this? Any advice from experienced Drupal users/developers would be welcome.
TIA,
Bob
Media module
Have you given Media module a spin?
http://drupal.org/project/media
It stores each item of media as a separate entity, so you can extend them with taxonomy, list them with views etc
Media Module
Yes, I've downloaded and installed it. Now I'm wondering what to do next. If I go to the module and select Media help index, I get a link to a general Drupal page which I've already visited. Where do I find a 'Next Steps' guide to uploading media, organizing them, and providing access to them using this module?
TIA for any guidance you can provide.
Rgds,
Bob
Add media
You can add media at admin/content/media
After that, its going to depend on your use case,
but integration with the wysiwyg module is already working.
drupal.org/project/media_gallery lets you build galleries from these items.
The easiest to get started is
The easiest to get started is to create a content type and add a CCK field of type "media". Once this is done, you will be able to create a node whereby you will be able to add a file, an URl and/or an existing file from the website's library.
Hope this helps,
T
Drupal Media Repository
Thanks alanburke and Tafa for your responses. I am now aware of the Media Module's admin/content/media, and see how to add media. However, some of the media I want to upload approach 20MB each in size (MP3s). I have amended upload_max_filesize and post_max_size in php.ini to 20MB as advised, but still encounter an 8MB limit when using admin/content/media/add file. .htaccess had no lines referencing these parameters, so I left it alone.
Posts to the forum on this topic suggest that (in Drupal 6), the max. size also needs to be set at Administer » Site configuration » File uploads, However, in Drupal 7, I cannot find this parameter. Can you help?
TIA,
Bob
In D7, you can adjust the
In D7, you can adjust the size of your file when you add new cck field type "File" to your content type. So, for instance, you create a cck field called music using the File type. Once saved, you will be taken to another modal page where you will be able to specify the upload size.
Hope that helps.
t
Drupal Media Repository
After the helpful responses of alanburke and Tafa, I am on my way to setting up my media repository using the Media Module, creating Content types before attempting to upload media, and assign to existing Content Types.
I am creating a new Content Type - Event - and creating the fields required. When I try to create a field Start_Date, I am not offered a 'Date' field type (my required format yyyymmdd). Which datatype should I choose? Or how do I enable the offering of a Date/Time datatype?
TIA,
Bob
Drupal Media Repository
To answer my own question, I have now discovered, downloaded and installed the date-time-field module. So no worries (yet) :-)
Drupal Media Repository
For the benefit of those who so generously helped with advice on my initial enquiry, I now have a working Media Repository with the functionality I wanted.
Thanks!
Regards,
Bob