Drupal enables science teams to collaborate, communicate and manage metadata. Science on Drupal is where scientists, communicators and data managers can come to find out more about Drupal, and developers can help them out. We meet to share knowledge, provide support and collaborate on identifying and architecting shared solutions to common problems for Science on Drupal. Join us to discuss how Drupal and science can work together!
Meetups
- Telecon on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 3-4pm ET on GoToMeeting to learn about Drupal's capabilities, explore new technologies and share case studies
- Office Hours on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at 2-4pm ET on Slack for chat, planning and code sprints to solve problems and add features for the science community
Howtos & Training
Projects
Channels
- Twitter, hashtag #scienceondrupal
- Google+
- YouTube
- Mailing List (archive)
- Slack
About us
The group is chaired by David Bassendine of Blue Dot Lab and Adam Shepherd of the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. We are generously supported by the ESIP Federation.
Latest updates
ESIP Winter 2015: Code Sprint Focus Area
Interested in connecting with scientific oriented group at the DRUPALCon at Bogotá
I am attending Drupalcon Latin America 2015, and am interested in any Science on Drupal activity at the conference.
Is anyone else in this group attending this DrupalCon?
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Webinar: Relaunching GlobalChange.gov
Hi fellow Science on Drupalists,
We are pleased to announce the next ESIP Drupal Working Group webinar for September 24th at 2pm CT.
Presenting is the team from ForumOne (http://forumone.com/) on:
Relaunching GlobalChange.gov
Called by Philip Bump of The Atlantic “one of the best designed, clearest articulations of climate change I've ever seen.”, get the inside story on the design and launch of GlobalChange.gov, the highest-profile Obama administration website of 2014. Built to present a unified compendium of federal climate change research drawn from 13 different agencies, the site also houses the Third National Climate Assessment – the definitive report on how climate change is affecting the United States. Join us to learn from the strategy and development teams that worked with the U.S. Global Change Research Program and their stakeholders for over a year to design, develop, and launch this Drupal 7 site to wide public acclaim.
Read moreConsider Running for the Drupal Association Board
Hey folks,
In case you are interested, I wanted to pass along a link to the Drupal Association Board which talks about what it is and why you should considering running for a seat. I think this is something our group should consider, and I'm interested to hear what you think about it.
https://assoc.drupal.org/blog/holly.ross.drupal/what-association-board-d...
Read more8/27 Telecon on Strategy, Planning, and Vision of Science on Drupal
Hello fellow ESIP Drupalists,
Wow does time fly! It seems like it was just a few weeks ago we were all having dinner in Frisco, CO. Our next telecon is scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th at 2pm CDT where we will be discussing the Strategy, Planning, and Vision of Science on Drupal.
What the heck is that?! Well, this is time for all of us to give feedback about the ESIP Drupal WG, in preparation for next year's budget. So, what worked? What stunk? What direction would you like to see the group go in for 2015?
For instance, at this year's Drupal Summer Lab, we split it into two half days. Did that work for your schedule or do you prefer one day?
We also had the opportunity to send two people to Drupalcon this year. Is that something you would like us to continue (next year is Drupalcon LA - Hollywood).
What's the best way for us to collaborate and share ideas and questions outside of scheduled group activities. ESIP Drupal mailing list, drupal.org group, Google+, Stack Exchange?
Please come join us as we talk through these topics and any others you want to bring up! EVERYONE is welcome as you are the most important voice to making sure the ESIP Drupal WG is successful and meets your needs. Telecon details below.
Read moreISO generation/validation in Drupal
Is anyone generating ISO XML metadata from Drupal? If so, do you have any routines that validate the XML generated? I'm generating ISO 19115-2 and I'm trying to find the best way to validate the XML in Drupal.
Read moreLooking Forward....
I wanted to communicate the ESIP Drupal Working Group telecon schedule for the next couple of months and get your feedback about Nov/Dec telecons. So, here's what we got on deck for upcoming Telecons:
Read moreESIP Drupal Summer Lab 2014 Recap
Thanks to everyone who participated in the ESIP Drupal Summer Lab! We had 19 attendees on Tuesday and 12 more on Friday. Below you'll find links to slides and shared Google notes.
You can stay in touch with the ESIP Drupal Working Group here at this Drupal.org group (https://groups.drupal.org/science-on-drupal) or through any of the following communities:
Email listserv: esip-drupal@lists.esipfed.org (signup: http://www.lists.esipfed.org/mailman/listinfo/esip-drupal)
Twitter: @ScienceOnDrupal
Google+: Science on Drupal Community
YouTube: http://goo.gl/B0t57T
Problem: Ordering scheduled feeds imports
Hi all,
As part of our open problem solving session at the Summer Lab on Tuesday, Rasheed raised an issue they had in regularly executing feeds import in a particular order.
In the session and afterwards, I picked up Bruce's suggestion of using a bash script that executes the imports using drush commands. The script would define the order the imports would be executed, only moving on to the next import if the previous one was successful. It would be fired at regular intervals using crontab, outside Drupal's scheduling queue.
Read moreScience on Drupal Mission Statement
Hi folks, I wanted to revisit the group description for this d.o group in reference to the discussion at the Drupalcon Austin Science on Drupal BoF. If you have any input, I've setup a HackPad where we can collaborate on this text if you are interested.
Here it is: https://hackpad.com/d.o-Science-on-Drupal-Group-Mission-Statement-o5Lhxn...
To use HackPad, all you need is an email address. Please send me a message, [ashepherd @ whoi (dot) edu] if you wish to participate.
Read moreESIP Drupal Summer Lab
The ESIP Drupal Summer Lab is a set of sessions hosted as part of the ESIP Summer Meeting. However, you don't need to be a member of ESIP to participate in the ESIP Drupal Summer Lab!
See the attachment for the full agenda and details.
Registration:
https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1548747&lbrd=1&r...
ESIP Summer Meeting: http://commons.esipfed.org/2014SummerMeeting
Read moreESIP Summer Meeting Drupal Lab Discussion
DESCRIPTION
Calling all Drupalists, web designers, developers, site builders, web geeks and nerds. Its time to start thinking about the ESIP Summer Meeting 2014 and its Drupal Summer Lab! If you haven’t heard the good news already, the theme for the ESIP Summer Meeting is: Linking It Together: Sustainable Software Advancing Science Data and Services. We were made for this, right?! This is such a great opportunity for our group to progress our engagement with the other collaboration areas of ESIP. So, how do we begin to address that?
At this telecon, together, we will discuss ideas for the Drupal Summer Lab: presentations, plenary, discussion topics, code sprints - all revolving around the theme….mostly. Remember, the theme is just a guide, so if you are doing something awesome on the web, need feedback or help with a web project, or just want to present on a web-related idea, the Drupal Summer Lab is the place you want to be. So, come join us, March 26th for the next Drupal Working Group telecon.
FYI: Drupalcon Support Winners will be announced!
Read moreDEIMS, a Drupal profile to serve and manage ecological data.
Presented by Inigo San Gil (LTER Network Office), Jason Tallant (University of Michigan Biological Station), and Dave Reid (Lullabot)
DESCRIPTION
The Drupal Ecological Information Management System (DEIMS) is a Drupal-based grass-roots efforts to create a common open-source, collaborative platform to manage ecological data and information. With DEIMS, we manage all-things scientific information: from data, metadata, catalogs, directories, and produce XML services using common metadata standards, such as ISO, EML and BDP. The original DEIMS started in 2008, based in Drupal 6, with UMBS, a handful of LTER sites, and Oak Ridge National Lab. In March 2013, the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) started working with palantir.net to solidify the early work on DEIMS. This collaboration resulted in a professional profile with a sustainable development platform. DEIMS offers better and more metadata and data services using an adaptive/responsive interface. In this Webex, we will give you an overview of the DEIMS, and cover in some detail the DEIMS Data Explorer feature, which allows Drupal to connect to scientific databases and providing a visual query editor on the data resources described in detail in DEIMS. As an added bonus, you will hear from Dave Reid, who is the main contributor to DEIMS as well as perhaps the most prolific Drupal developer and core maintainer.
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Uncovering Open Atrium 2 webinar
The Next ESIP Drupal Telecon is Wednesday NOV 27, 11am PST
Please join the ESIP Drupal Working Group in welcoming Phase2 presenting a webinar on what is NEW and GREAT about Open Atrium 2:
Uncovering Open Atrium 2
As one of the most popular, open source collaboration platforms powered by Drupal, Open Atrium 2 has powerful capabilities for managing communications, knowledge, and teams. Open Atrium’s flexible framework is built to scale, allowing for a small departmental intranet or multi-site portal and it can change as an organization grows.
Read moreThematic Meta Issue Tracker
Based on the 2013 ESIP Summer Meeting FUNding Friday pitch...
Problem space
It’s difficult for the Science on Drupal community to:
- Find drupal.org issues relevant to science needs (module-based)
- Gauge community needs (weigh issue importance)
- Generate focus on solving topic-specific issues (fix important issues)
Goals
- Flag issues from drupal.org that are important to the science community
- Organize those issues around scientific themes
- For example:
- Semantics
- Data Visualization
- Galvanize and focus community contributions (eg. in code sprints)
ESIP Summer Drupal Lab in Chapel Hill NC
The Details of the meeting are on the ESIP Commons (Event URL)... We will have a set of demonstrations from NASA and NOAA Drupal web developers and a special guest:
Angie Byron (webchick), who will be talking about Drupal 8 and then getting into discussions in the afternoon unconference.
Owen Barton (Drush maintainer) is also speaking on updates to Drush.
We invite all local Drupalistas to join in! The Friday Center at UNC charges us $70 per day per person... so we have to pass along a one day fee ($70) to people who are not registered for the main ESIP meeting.
Read moreInitial NASA ECHO integration demo at Drupacamp Atlanta
Hi everyone,
I ran a session at last week's Drupalcamp Atlanta on "Talking to Web Services" (http://goo.gl/y9eWD), which included an initial "proof of concept" integration with the ECHO service (http://earthdata.nasa.gov/echo). The slides are on slideshare (http://goo.gl/gHdGw) and I'll post up the video when its available (in around a month)
Read moreESIP Drupal Working Group Demo of Earth Data Federated Content Tool
Hello ESIPers... we have a great demo on Wednesday, October 17 at 11am PT, 2pm ET.
Please mark your calendars!
ROSE-MARIE GONZALES from JPL/Raytheon will demo the work they did to build the Earth Data Federated Content Tool in Drupal.
Here is some background:
The Earth Data Federated Content Tool (FCT) supports sharing and re-use of Earth Data content; sharing of Earthdata.nasa.gov content with the DAACs, sharing of DAACs content with Earth Data and sharing of content from DAAC to DAACs.
Science on Drupal session at Badcamp
Looking for input as to what people want to explore at the Badcamp session, Science on Drupal. What is your vision for doing science using Drupal? What successes have you had? What problems do you face? We can build a new platform for Science 2.0 using Drupal and collective passion.
If you will be a Badcamp 2012, you can add your comments to the session: http://2012.badcamp.net/program/sessions/science-drupal
Hope to see you in Berkeley, or to see your comments below. We will do our best to address them.
Read moreVideo of the Making of Energy.gov
Here is the video from the Webex (sorry for any audio issues) about the making of Energy.gov. The ESIP Federation wants to thank Phase2 Technology for sharing this really valuable knowledge, and for contributing this code back to the community.
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