Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Drupal as an open source platform and its relevance to the Librarians

Abstract:

The focus would be to provide an overview and introduction to the key principles of Drupal as an open source platform and its relevance to the Librarians in terms of creating the next level of knowledge sharing and management options.
The main points that I will cover are:
(i) An introduction to Drupal as an Open Source Solution & Content Management System.
   
The role Drupal can play in building a strong, intuitive and user friendly  interfaces
(ii) Drupal's relevance to Librarians and Library management in today’s context of Semantic web.

(iii) Drupal's capabilities in helping Librarians reach out to their community and bring them together.

Drupal will open out the Knowledge repositories and let visitors to interact with it in new and different ways. The Libraries can then leverage the social publishing capabilities of Drupal for commenting, social tagging, personalized collections, mashups and a wide variety of other Web 2.0 features.

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