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Copyright James Gerencser, Rafael Alvarado,Malinda Triller, 2009. This work is the
intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires
• Internal (Tracking)– Client profile data (state or nation, purpose, etc.)– Cost tracking for scans, etc.– Monthly reports
• Client-facing (Marketing)– SEO to boost site visibility and interaction
• Aka “Googlability”
– Transparency: a public record of activity
Some Observations
• Normally separate problems:– Public vs. Private functions
• Solution driven by awareness of affordances– Not abstract requirements– Would have fallen between the cracks– Side-effect of web-as-platform
• Not only possible to merge, but synergetic– A lesson In the value of transparency
Technical Requirements
• Simple to build, maintain, and use– No boutique applications!– No shoe-horn applications (e.g. ticket systems)– KISS for all parties—library staff, clients, coders
• Flexible metadata– Evolvable without breaking the data model– Ability to hold public and private fields in the same
record
Also …
• Reportable data• Ability to separate public and private
functions
Enter Drupal
• Blog on steroids– Stories, tags, comments, RSS, etc.– More flexible than WordPress
• Available modules to do the job– Granular authorization (roles and rights)– Sophisticated tagging (taxonomies)– Content Construction Kit (CCK)– CCK Field Permissions Module– PHP nodes
Public and Private Fields
First, adapt a content type
Then create and group fields
PUBLIC
PRIVATE
… add field group to access control
Finally, assign role to field group
WORKFLOW
Results
http://itech.dickinson.edu/archives
• Drupal is flexible and customizable.• Reference stories are discoverable.• Reference stories are searchable.• Reference stories are taggable.• Reference stories are linkable.• Researchers can post comments.• Reference statistics are easily obtainable.
