collaborative digital scholarship projects: the liberal art of drupal
DESCRIPTION
Growing numbers of liberal arts colleges are creating collaborative digital scholarship projects. Defining the roles of faculty, student, and web developer in the semi-hierarchical world of liberal arts colleges—where pedagogical goals must be constantly kept in mind—can be tricky; however, doing so is critical to the long-term success of such projects. Drupal, an open source content management system, enters this space at a crucial moment, allowing a new level of collaboration in the creation and maintenance of sites by web developers, faculty content providers, and all student assistants. Getting the work flow right while keeping the experience rewarding for all concerned is one key to sustainability. In this seminar, members of the team behind the text annotation site Dickinson College Commentaries (faculty director, web developer, and students) discuss the problems, pitfalls, and opportunities of collaborating with Drupal in a liberal arts context.TRANSCRIPT
Collaborative Digital Scholarship Projects: The Liberal Art of Drupal
Chris Francese, Professor of Classical StudiesRyan Burke, Web Developer, Technology Services
Meredith Wilson, class of 2013Dickinson College
NITLE Seminar, December 6, 2012
questions
• How can web development best enhance liberal arts models of humanities education?
• How can instructional technology professionals facilitate faculty/student research collaboration?
• What are the best DH project types and tools for the LAC environment?
dcc.dickinson.edu
Latin and Greek texts for reading, with explanatory notes, vocabulary, and graphic, video and audio elements.
editorial board three commentaries so far
Homer text and commentary around AD 950
Image, text, and ornament:commentary on Vergil, around 1475
Numbered lines and
notes:commentary
on Vergil, 1865
text to the left 3 tabs notes to the right
awesome scholarly front matter
running vocabulary includes all non-common words and occasional images
media tab includes audio, maps, images, video
images and annotations pop out in a colorbox
Google Earth map with pop-up annotations
Our YouTube channel
Core vocabulary lists of the most common Latin and Greek words
Jimmy DerekVocabulary list
editing in Drupal
html source editor in Drupal
questions
• How can web development best enhance liberal arts models of humanities education?
• How can instructional technology professionals facilitate faculty/student research collaboration?
• What are the best DH project types and tools for the LAC environment?
from Mediawiki to Drupal
advantages of Drupal
• Fully featured cms• Organization• Community• Performance and scale
challenges of Drupal
• Many different ways to accomplish the same thing
• Core code and module updates• Need to learn some html
collaboration
• Students• Faculty• Bringing it all together
resources• Modules
– Display Suite, Fields, Fieldgroup, Node Reference, References, Media, File Entity, Media:Youtube, Block Class, Colorbox, Entity, Google Fonts, Libraries, Menu Block, Pathauto, Quicktabs, Soundmanger 2, Token, Google Analytics, Accordion Menu, Wysiwyg
• Theme– Zen (http://drupal.org/project/zen)
• Drupal Distribution Project– Distributions provide site features and functions for a specific type of site
as a single download containing Drupal core, contributed modules, themes, and pre-defined configuration. They make it possible to quickly set up a complex, use-specific site in fewer steps than if installing and configuring elements individually.
– http://drupal.org/project/distributions
questions
• How can web development best enhance liberal arts models of humanities education?
• How can instructional technology professionals facilitate faculty/student research collaboration?
• What are the best DH project types and tools for the LAC environment?