Posted by Jason Erdahl on December 15, 2006 at 7:55pm
Thank you, Nikolai, for setting up this group.
My name is Jason Erdahl and I'm Director of Technology at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Like Andy, my paper is a part of the McClatchy Newspaper chain as well.
We recently rolled out our first Drupal site, buzz.mn, a community site for neighborhoods/cities in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.
Given that YourHub.com has built a nice business out of reverse publishing (or "multi-purpose publishing", as we call it here) its online products to print, we're very interested in the discussions here on using Drupal to drive content to our print system, DTI. We've had some success in driving content from vita.mn to its companion print product, but it's not pretty. :-)
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vita.mn
Jason, did you write vita.mn in-house?
vita.mn written in-house
Yes, we wrote vita.mn in-house over a 5 month period. It was created in php.
DTI importing
I'm working on setting up a Drupal installation that will among other things need to import some of our stories from DTI. I've just started looking at the importexportapi module, and am trembling at the task of parsing out DTI's "crappy NITF" (quoting user "yelvington").
By any chance has someone here already got DTI importing figured out?
Glad I found this group, though. Looks like it'll be helpful.