Posted by mcrittenden on October 8, 2012 at 6:28pm
Drupal Connect (the company I work for) recently released and open sourced Trekk, a Drupal distribution for Universities. It supports content sharing (courses, faculty, news, etc.) to sub-sites as well as easy HTML migration from legacy sites.
If this sounds like something you're interested in, check out this demo video of the legacy site migration features, or check out the source on GitHub.
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I'd just add that if you are
I'd just add that if you are looking to migrate a site, checkout the demo video--it's 4 minutes, no fluff :)
Of course it's not a perfect fit for every situation, but it saved us a substantial amount of time on our projects for Stanford University and Stevens Institute of Technology. The basic premise is to parse a CSV of URLs and scrape specific content via CSS selectors. In my experience, it's a lot easier than migrating from a database.
As an added bonus, when importing into Drupal, the content is sanitized and images are added as media. (Files/images are tokenized during the scrape and relative links are standardized).
Oh, and it uses Migrate, so there's built-in support for updates.
Lastly, the whole process is dynamic, so if you can install the dependencies, you basically just need to create a CSV of URLs w/ meta data for each content type. There's a pretty detailed write-up/how-to in the new Linux Journal (free) -- http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/drupal-special-edition -- if you want to get into the nitty-gritty.
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