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Building Library Web Site Using Drupal. Samrat Guha Roy Sr. Library Information Assistant MCA, MLIS, UGC NET (Qualified) Central Library, IIT Kharagpur. Objectives. Building the Library Web Site Designing Library Web Site Introduction to Drupal Features of Drupal
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Building Library Web Site Using Drupal Samrat Guha Roy Sr. Library Information Assistant MCA, MLIS, UGC NET (Qualified) Central Library, IIT Kharagpur
Objectives • Building the Library Web Site • Designing Library Web Site • Introduction to Drupal • Features of Drupal • Content Management Using Drupal • Contents for Library Web Site • Sample Web Sites • Drupal Theme • User Management Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Introduction to Drupal • Open Source software • Using Drupal an individual or a community of users can easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on their website. • Drupal was created in 2000 by a Belgian student: Dries Buytaert. • It is publicly released in 2002 Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Features of Drupal e-mails e-journals web pages e-books video course RSS poll Userlogins search news blogs Database Drupal Engine Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Features of Drupal • Content Management Systems • Collaborative authoring environments • Blogs • Podcasting • Picture galleries • User login is present • Like admin login for site maintenance Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Features of Drupal • Peer-to-peer networking • Newsletters • Forums • Feedback • File uploads and downloads • Comments • RSS Feeds Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Search Content API’s Theme Content Management Drupal Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Content Management Using Drupal Create Web Page IndexingContent PublishWebContent CMSEngine Links, URL, Database Updating Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Module API Installed Library Sections Ask Librarian Library FAQ Repository Content Management System -- Drupal Engine Library Contacts User Profiles E-Resource Blogs Theme API and other details are inserted Contents for Library Web Site Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Drupal Themes Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Web Site : http://drupal.org/node/258 Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Library Automation Software e.g. Libsys (3rd party) Library Web Server Drupal Database Static Web Pages and Other Links • Drupal and API Modules • Biblio • OAI-PMH • MARC • Z39.50 Mail Server Libsys DB Apache Web Server HTTPD DSpace IDR • Search Engines • DSpace Search • Drupal Site Search • Web OPAC Search Out side World i.e. Client BrowserInternet / Intranet Digital Repository Database IIT Kgp LAN Library Architecture and Drupal Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Library Architecture and Drupal Typical academic library system architecture is having four major servers • Library Automation Server • Library web server – Drupal • Digital Repository Server – DSpace • Mail Server Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Drupal System Requirement • Hardware • Server • Client • Software • Operating System – Windows / Linux • Database – MySQL • Web server – Apache • Drupal binary Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
UserBrowser UserBrowser UserBrowser Layer 1 Apache Web Server [Middleware] Web Server / PHP Engine LibrarycontentXML Layer 2 Drupal Engine Theme Subsystem Module subsystem Layer 3 Data Storage i.e. database engine Drupal Layers Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
Drupal Layers • Layer 1: This layer is the client interface i.e. the browser using which the user browses the site. • Layer 2: This layer is the middleware where the drupal application engine. • Module subsystem • Theme subsystem • Layer 3: This layer is the data store where the all contents are stored. Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur
samrat@library.iitkgp.ernet.in Thank You Samrat Guha Roy, IIT Kharagpur