A Kent approach to Drupal Awesomeness

sjy — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:04:34 +0000

Type: Not planned session

The University of Kent has been experimenting with novel ways of removing the affliction of data duplication throughout our web and print publications using Drupal.

We have constructed a series of content factories to create and manage our output in sensible chunks.

This talk aims to show you the answers we came up with in migrating our core website (systems) over to Drupal, and the hurdles we have had to overcome.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Kent's publicity factory

We will take you on a magical journey through code and print using Drupal as our vessel of discovery. Ok, maybe not, but we have been busy working with Drupal to decouple our data from where and how it is presented.

The University of Kent has a history of using Dreamweaver as our main publishing platform for web. We used it for publishing news, the online prospectus, events, pretty much everything. This led us to a situation where we found ourselves with 200,000 pages of content, much of which being duplicated and leading our web editor to the verge of breakdown.

Additional Presenters: Mark Fendley Matthew Bull

DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - Higher Education

A Kent approach to Drupal Awesomeness