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Submitted by farriss on Wed, 07/09/2008 - 21:26.

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Co-presenters: 
Crell
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Session time: 
08/28/2008 - 09:00 - 08/28/2008 - 10:30
Conference booklet summary and bio
Article for conference booklet: 
Drupal is increasingly making a place for itself among museums around the world. As a strong and flexible framework, Drupal can be a good fit for these sorts of organizations. This session will be a case study about lessons learned from two museum web sites built using Druapl 5: The Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Both sites offered a number of unique challenges, but also the opportunity to share amazing and diverse content.
Bios for conference booklet: 
Tiffany Farriss is the co-owner of Chicago, USA Drupal development firm Palantir and the AIGA Chicago Electronic Media Chair. Working in collaboration with a variety of creative partners, she has managed the development of visually and functionally sophisticated Drupal sites for a variety of high-profile corporate, educational, and institutional clients. Larry Garfield is the Senior Lead of Programming Services at Palantir. He has been developing PHP for nearly a decade and has been actively involved in Drupal since 2005. He currently serves on the Drupal Association Board of Directors and spearheaded the Drupal 7 database overhaul, among other projects. Larry was also a founding organizer of the GoPHP5 effort.

Overview

Drupal is increasingly making a place for itself among museums around the world. As a strong and flexible framework Drupal can be a good fit for these sorts of organizations.

This session will be a case study and lessons learned from two museum web sites Palantir has built using Druapl 5: The Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Both sites offered a number of unique challenges but also the opportunity to share amazing and diverse content.

Agenda

* Bringing Drupal into a large, established web presence
* Designing a modern site that still has a strong artistic feel
* Bridging Drupal to legacy multimedia databases, such as museum collection databases
* Drupal as an application framework
* Existing open source museum tools

Goals

We hope to present both the challenges and rewards of integrating Drupal with large, established systems such as those of museums. We also hope to give some insight into how to bend Drupal farther than you ever thought possible.

Resources

Indianapolis Museum of Art: http://imamuseum.org/
IMA Drupal.org Showcase: http://drupal.org/node/188312
Art Institute of Chicago Collections: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/
AIC Drupal.org Showcase: http://drupal.org/node/279485

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vincent's picture

Full flash frontend for drupal website

Submitted by vincent on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 12:21.

Will this be the place to talk about possible "full flash front-end for Drupal website" ?
We will have a running example to show.

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No Flash

Submitted by Crell on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 17:09.

No, this is more about how to integrate Drupal into an existing data store. We actually used no flash on either of the sites listed aside from flash video wrappers.