Discussion Forum

tool: Drupal

Purpose: 

A web-based Content Management System that is commonly used as a back-end system for resources of many different types and size, including blogs, web portals, discussion sites and web sites. The standard 'core' release of Drupal offers functionality such as user account administration, permissions system, RSS feed support, and customisable page layout. Plug-ins and other extensions may be developed or adopted to provide new functionality.

Features: 
  • Content management (polls, templating, threaded comments, version control)
  • Blogging (blogger API support, content syndication, permalinks)
A&H use case 1 description: 
The JainPedia project use Drupal to index and deliver text and images associated with Jain manuscripts and objects held in the UK.
A&H use case 2 description: 
arts-humanities.net use Drupal to store information on projects, methods, events and tools in the arts and humanities.
Publisher: 
Dries Buytaert
Creator: 
Dries Buytaert and contributors
Data publishing and dissemination: 
General website development
Specifications: 
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
lifecycleStage: 
structuring
publishing
Tags: 
Discussion Forum
Content Management System
blog
Content management framework
web portal
Platform: 
Any system that supports PHP and a RDBMS
IIS
Lighttpd
Apache
Licence: 
GNU General Public License
Software/programming languages used: 
Drupal
By garethknight at Tue, 19/01/2010 - 16:00