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Drupal at EMBL-EBI
Joseph Rossetto - Web developer
Web development Team
jros@ebi.ac.uk
www.ebi.ac.uk
What is EMBL-EBI?
• Part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• International, non-profit research institute
• Europe’s hub for biological data services and research
EMBL-EBI’s mission
• Provide freely available data and bioinformatics services
• Perform research in bioinformatics
• Provide advanced training
• Help disseminate technologies to industry
Drupal
What is Drupal?
• Content Management
System
• Free
• Open source
www.drupal.org
Why Drupal?
www.economist.comwww.whitehouse.govwww.greenpeace.org.uk/
• High performance
• SEO friendly
• Big community
• Framework
• User management
• Presentation // Content
The Drupal layers
Drupal EBI technology
EBI and Drupal
Drupal EBI websites in figures
28 Drupal 6
5 Drupal 7
_____________
33 Drupal sites
What are we doing already with Drupal?EBI branded websites
What are we doing already with Drupal?EBI non branded websites
What does Drupal do for us?
Data distribution
• Datasets
• Studies
• Catalogues
www.ebi.ac.uk/ega
www.ebi.ac.uk/dgva
European Genome-phenome archive
Database of genomic variants archive
What does Drupal do for us?
Data distribution
• Datasets
• Studies
• Catalogues
www.ebi.ac.uk/ega
www.ebi.ac.uk/dgva
Data distribution
• Search inventory engine
• Query Bilder Interface
• Return (cached) objects multi formats
www.pombase.org
What does Drupal do for us?
www.microme.eu
www.1000genomes.org
What does Drupal do for us?
Display information
• Publications
• Announcements
What does Drupal do for us?
Documentation
• Alfresco DMS
• Download area
www.biomedbridges.eu
www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/docs
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/online
What does Drupal do for us?
Community portal
• Membership
• Training events
• Blogs
www.biotnet.org
www.ebi.ac.uk/training
www.biomedbridges.eu
What does Drupal do for us?
Project management
• Work packages
• Deliverables
• Partners
www.biomedbridges.eu
What does Drupal do for us?
Drupal as a Service
The new EBI website
What is the story?
Evolution
Transition from old site to Drupal
Transition from old site to Drupal
• Make things look better
• Help users find what they
want
• Enable discovery
• Offer a consistent
experience
• Transition phase
Challenges
• Assets
• Content strategy
• Development
• Technology
• Template
• User management
• UX design & testing
• WYSIWYG
People
UX designers
Outreach
Web team Web admins
Developers
Target usersContent authors
Team leaders
Guidance for Design
Lot of meetings
Collaboration
Web guidelines
Styleguide
Web guidelines
committee
UX
The new EBI website in action
Changes
• Static HTML
• No users
• Dreamweaver
• Open roles
• Web server
• Scattered assets
• Local/live
deployment
CMS
Group-based CM
WYSIWYG
Editorial workflow
LAMP + VM
Repository
Dev/stage/prod
environments
Content & Content types
Content & Content types
Create Group
Create Group
Content & Content types
Create Group
Create Group
More content types…
More content types
Publications
Biblio Module:
• Import PubMed, Bibtex…
• Tied up to people/groups.
• Link to www.europepmc.org
Content feeds
< >
XML as Data vector
Content feeds
Contrib: Views Xml
Backend
Custom: Staff Feeds
Contrib: Views data export
Drupal to Drupal
Runtime
Cron job
http://www…
/file/system/…
Content feeds
XML
External MySQL
www.ebi.ac.uk/
dgva
www.ebi.ac.uk/ega
Non Drupal to Drupal
Organize content and group workflow
• Organic Group
• Workflow, OG workflow
• Revisioning, Rules
The Template
• Grid based
• HTML 5
• CSS 3
• Custom made Icon fonts
What’s next?
• Improve the content authors’ experience
• WYSIWYG
• Testing Drupal 8
• Responsive theme
• Respond to feedback
Questions?
Thank you
Slides athttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/2914319/Drupal-at-EMBL-
EBI_GMOD.pptx
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2914319/Drupal-at-EMBL-EBI_GMOD.pdf
Sketchnote athttps://dl.dropbox.com/u/2914319/Drupal-at-EMBL-EBI-
sketchnotes-JosephRossetto.pdf
AknowledgmetsAt EBI
• Brendan Vaughan, Peter Walter, Thomas Laurent, Jenny Cham, Francis Rowland, Liang Shen, Rodrigo Lopez (head of Web Production team), the Webstyle Guidelines Committee members.
Sketchnotes by Francis Rowland
Slides of the content organization by Liang Shen
Images by
• Tkgd2007 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
• RRZEicons (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
• Bobarino [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons
• By The people from the Tango! project (The Tango! Desktop Project) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
• http://saa.dyndns.org/stewart [GFDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
• By nattu [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
• By Berdea (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
• Dries Buytaert for the Drupal logo
Stay in touch!
jros@ebi.ac.uk
www.ebi.ac.uk/
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news
Twitter: @emblebi
Weibo: emblebi
Facebook: EMBLEBI
YouTube: EMBLMedia
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