Drupal for digital humanities project (portal)
Hello,
I am looking at the possible technical solutions for the creation of a scholarly website/ portal to be created at my institute that consists of a collection of links to other websites. Each bookmark in this collection has a description and multiple tags and a user should be able to both browse the collection or do a search in which mutliple tags can be combined. At the moment we are using a del.icio.us account to collect and tag bookmarks. We would also need RSS feeds for new content that ideally can be generated on the basis of a tag (or multiple tags). Finally, ideally users could leave comments on the site.
I know that a Delicious module exists for Drupal but have no idea of it can be customised for this purpose. Or perhaps it would be better to opt for a different approach?
Any suggestions are very welcome,
Thanks and with best regards,
Gerben Zaagsma
Its not clear what you are
Its not clear what you are looking for - are you wanting to somehow leverage the existing Delicious data (or keep using Delicious and have Drupal pull that data periodically?).
If its to be an "all in drupal" fresh start then what you describe sounds pretty strait forward - taxonomy has an RSS feed for each term (a tag). You could use the Views module to generate RSS feeds of multiple terms or leverage Drupals native taxonomy system and build multiple term feeds (just a matter of creating links to URLs such as these) mysite.com/taxonomy/term/39+40/feed, where each number is the term "ID".
Taxonomy terms can be entered "Free tag" style like Delicious - this is done when you create or edit a node.
Comments are part of the Drupal core modules and are highly configurable (with regards to who can comment, comment moderation etc).
What you describe as a "bookmark" would in drupal be a "node", which is "tagged" with taxonomy terms. You can create your own custom "node type" with Drupal to include the exact fields you need in each of your bookmark nodes.
"Browse" functionality could come be way of the Taxonomy Context module or Taxonomy Menu and the search feature you describe is built into Drupal (the advanced search feature).
Hope that helps some!
Hello jmburnz, This is
Hello jmburnz,
This is certainly helpful, thanks! I have meanwhile spent several days testing a stack installation of Drupal and it is clear we will adopt the "all in Drupal" approach. My idea was initially to see if we can pull the data from a Delicious account as we use that to collect our base set of bookmarks (it works very fast).
I have found and tested some modules for taxonomy and searching and it is precisely what we are looking for. And you have just answered the last open question I had, how to do the RSS feeds, especially combining multiple tags in a feed.
Thanks again,
Gerben
meet like-minds
if you didn't already, check out the drupal groups... there you can meet like minds of people working on similar projects to achieve similar ends. You can see where others have outlined plans for projects very similar to yours and recommended the needed modules. Search/Read the existing posts, i think you'll find a few things there to help!
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education (very active community)
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-research-and-academia (maybe not as active, but might be up your alley)
TIP: you can use your @drupal.org login to login at Drupal Groups.
Best of luck to you :)