Integrating DSpace with Drupal: The CCAFS story
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The document outlines the integration of a Drupal 7 website with a DSpace repository for the CGIAR Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCAFS). Key features include automatic updates of publications, a unified user experience, and enhanced SEO and social sharing capabilities. The integration utilized a custom proxy to fetch and transform XML data from DSpace, ensuring efficient publication management without the need for complete re-imports.
Integrating DSpace with Drupal: The CCAFS story
- 1. Integrating DSpace with Drupal The CCAFS story Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 2. WHERE WE STARTED • A Drupal 6 website to be revamped and ported to Drupal 7 • A DSpace repository with all the CCAFS publications archive • Need to seamlessly integrate the two systems W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
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- 4. WHERE WE ARE • Drupal 7 website with publications automatically updated from DSpace repository • Seamless navigation W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 5. WHERE WE ARE W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 6. KEY FEATURES • Publications are Drupal nodes ✓ Searchable ✓ Taggable and browsable with taxonomy ✓ Accessible using Views • Unified user experience • Complete control on markup and layout • Responsive interface • Better SEO • Social sharing W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
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- 8. HOW WE DID IT - 1 • DSpace REST API development has been stopped in 2011 • Open source alternatives are not stable and not suitable for production use W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 9. HOW WE DID IT - 2 • DSpace exposes all pages content as XML • This page http://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33836 is also available as XML here http://cgspace.cgiar.org/metadata/handle/10568/33836/mets.xml • Similarly you can access XML representations of publication listings, for example by collections W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 10. HOW WE DID IT - 3 • We wrote a custom proxy that takes an XML listing and fetches all data from single publications URLs, merging the results in a single XML • We then feed Drupal with that XML, using Feeds + Feeds XPath parser + Feeds tamper modules W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 11. HOW WE DID IT - 4 • The importer takes data fields from DSpace and applies transformations that allow to automatically tag publications with Themes and Regions taxonomies • The import process only affects new or updated publications, and doesn’t require a complete re-import in every run W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13
- 12. Questions W W W . M A C A R O N I B R O S . C O M Wednesday, October 30, 13