Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?
Drop in for our second Science on Drupal Office Hours on https://scienceondrupal.slack.com next Wednesday 9th March @3-5pm ET. To sign up, send us your Slack email - by emailing davidATbluedotlab.org or ashepherdATwhoi.edu or pinging us on IRC #drupal-science or ESIP's Slack #Drupal channel.
Up this week: we'll be having a hangout to review use cases for the DOIs on Drupal project, then map out an overall architecture for development. We'll also following up on existing projects and issues being tracked on our Trello board. Bring along your ideas and problems and we'll take a look!
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Office Hours recap - mapping out DOIs for Drupal architecture
Hey everyone,
This time around we started out with a hangout to break the ice - which worked out really well, it was great to regroup with Janine (UCAR) fresh back from Chile, Adam (WHOI) and meet Robert from VT. This looks like a format which will work well.
We kicked off brainstorming architectural approaches to a set of use cases allowing Drupal entities to be easily citable using DOIs - ranging from displaying a citation in different formats based on a set of metadata fields, to pulling citation metadata from a DOI service, and even minting new DOIs on the fly. Lead by Janine Aquino of UCAR, these use cases were harvested and collaboratively developed from a set of institutions last year.
We've come up with an architecture outline that will be developed under separately funded projects for UCAR and WHOI - but thanks to collaborative effort to share use cases, will now be able to meet the needs of all the institutions which took part, and the wider Drupal community. A great example of collaboration leading to software sustainability!
The architecture docs are available for review and comment at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_tTqIsfdjb3Ua18BoveGZ7v56jcAGdkUNR7u... and https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18ttOaY4jpDVIkwS1FiRuKmH-Iy0i_cja.... Let us know what you think!
For background on the DOIs for Drupal project in general, see the project page at https://groups.drupal.org/node/471838
See you next month! David