Presentations
Upcoming
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CNI Spring Membership Meeting - Building a digital collections infrastructure with Drupal (April 2010)
This session will cover the proof of concept to production of the digital collections infrastructure that was created with Drupal by the digital initiatives team at McMaster University Library. In addition, the session will cover the current initiatives that are under way with the project, such as linked data support (RDF), KML support and time permitting, a demonstration of the backend of the site and front end of the site.
Past
- Drupal: Content Management and Community for Your Library (with Ilana Kingsley, Harish Nayak, Dave Mitchell, and Debra Riley-Huff), Access (2008)[audio]
- Digital Commons Institutional Repository (with Barbara McDonald), LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE (2008)
- Life in the Digital Trenches (with Carl Spadoni) OLA SuperConference 2009
- Drupal4Lib - BOAF - Drupal & Digital Collections w/Karen Coombs
- Digital Odyssey 2009 - OMG! You Don't Need CONTENTdm!
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OLA SuperConference 2010 - Using Open Source Software to Build Digital Collections (February 2010)
Description: This will be a 40-45 minute talk on the benefits of using open source technology in building digital collections with 15-20 minute demonstration. The rest of the time will be left for questions & discussion.
Benefits: 1) Explain the benefits of Open Source technology over proprietary software. 2) Show the collaborative benefits of using Open Source software with digital collections.






























