CiviNode is a module and API that exposes CiviCRM contacts, groups, and other CiviCRM object types to Drupal as nodes. It's designed to make CiviCRM easier to use and integrate with all of the Drupal tools and techniques you've come to know and love. For example, once you've mirrored a CiviCRM contact into Drupal, you will be able to:
Catagorize it with taxonomies
Attach event or location information
Track what's happening with the contact with a work-flow
Control the way it displays by theming it.
The project will also include:
An "easy-to-use" wrapper API for handling common programming tasks that modules using CiviCRM can use.
Support for CCK: you can add a "contact" or a CiviCRM group to your new content types, with support for formatters.
Support for Views: you can display contact fields (e.g., 'first_name', 'sort_name', 'city', 'phone'), or display a contact using CiviCRM profiles.