collections

How have folks used Drupal to deliver collections objects online? We recently redesigned our website with Drupal, but our Online Collections program is a custom PHP application. http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/

It was a better choice at the time, primarily because of the category structure, and the import processing from our collections database. It seems something like this would be better suited for a PHP application framework (and in fact, I was 50% done rewriting this program in CakePHP) than Drupal...

Lets get some definite ideas about biblio collections.. a way to create personalized bibliographic information.

Biblio Collections

Biblio is a drupal module which stores scholarly publication information. Biblio provides css (cascading stylesheets) for popular citation formats (e.g., APA, IEEE, etc.).

Biblio requires each citation be assigned a content type (e.g., journal article, book, etc.)

Biblio Collections would provide the ability to conveniently group publications. This document serves as the specifications of HOW biblio collections will be implemented.
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What modules would I use to build a website that ...

1. has 100s of photos that can only be added and modified by an admin [i.e. not the majority of users]
2. allows users to find and group photos into their own custom made collections
3. leave and come back to view their own collections as well as collections made my others
4. edit their own collections
5. then share their collections with others

Thanks,

Rex Kilian
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University