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Join Acquia, and Harvard’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science as we present Open Scholar, a Drupal solution for higher education. Built by faculty members at Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Open Scholar is a free, pre-configured, and fully customizable solution that enables universities and colleges to deploy turnkey websites for professors, researches and students. In seconds, faculty members can create their own social website to publish research, share blog posts, follow and track projects, and interact with their community. With the click of a button researchers can create collaboration websites to work on projects, attract grant funding and share results in an open environment for peer review. Partnered with Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science, we invite you to register to learn more and how Acquia can help your institution deploy Open Scholar tomorrow. No additional resources needed! Attendees will: * Watch a demonstration of the Open Scholar application * Learn how to speed deployment of microsites for faculty members, projects, and departments * Understand how Open Scholar will help universities reduce costs while giving faculty fully functional social websites * Hear how Acquia’s fully managed solutions for higher education can simplify Open Scholar deployment and management This webinar is intended for higher educational institutions looking for an easier way to deploy social publishing websites that facilitate faculty engagement, promote research, and deploy the next generation of social networking and website publishing on campus.
Transcript of OpenScholar - The Solution for Higher Education
Webinar Audio OptionsListen to streaming audio via your computer’s audio– WebEx Audio Broadcast pop-up
Unable to listen via your computer’s audio– Request phone access
Technical support– US & Canada 866-229-3239– International support
408-435-7088
International phone access numbers: – http://support.webex.com/
Introduction
Matt Ackley– Distribution Marketing Lead
OpenScholar - A Solution for Higher Education
Alex LindahlDistribution Evangelist
Acquia
@alexlindahl
Matt AckleyAcquia MarketingAcquia@mbackley
Ferdi AlmadhiOpenScholar Project Lead
IQSS, Harvard University
@ferdialmadhi
Webinar Audio OptionsListen to streaming audio via your computer’s audio
– WebEx Audio Broadcast pop-up
Unable to listen via your computer’s audio
– Request phone access
Technical support– US & Canada 866-229-3239– International support 408-435-7088
International phone access numbers:
– http://support.webex.com/support/phone-numbers.html
Housekeeping
Today’s webinar is being recorded. Slides and recording will be posted in next 48 hours at:
– http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars
Submit questions via Q&A Tab in WebEx, we’ll answer as many as we can
– Give it a try & tell us what universities are in attendance
Encourage you to tweet throughout the webinar– #OpenScholar
Upcoming Webinars
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Enterprise Drupal
Register Today - http://acquia.com/webinars
Following Webinar
Don’t close the window– Ask us any question relating to OpenScholar
Have a technical question?Have an implementation question?Curious as to the weather in Cambridge?
– Launch of the OpenScholar SandboxTry every feature you see in today’s webinar in the OpenScholar sandbox on Acquia.com
– Reserve a Free OpenScholar Deployment Strategy Consultation
Introduction
Ferdinand Alimadhi– OpenScholar Project Lead– Harvard University - Institute of Quantitative Social
Science
Alex Lindahl– Distribution Evangelist– Acquia
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Introduction
‣ Ferdinand Alimadhi
• OpenScholar Project Lead
• IQSS, Harvard University
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Ferdinand AlimadhiProject leadIQSS, Harvard University@ferdialimadhi
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Agenda‣ About OpenScholar
‣ Motivation
‣ OpenScholar Features
‣ Technical Details
‣ Demo
‣ What’s next ?
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
About
‣ OpenScholar is a free, open source web application, built on top of Drupal
‣ OpenScholar allows users (mainly academics) to create full-featured dynamic web sites on the fly. In seconds
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
About‣ Developed at the Institute for Quantitative
Social Science, Harvard University
‣ Version 2 started on May 2009
‣ Team
• Ferdinand Alimadhi (project lead / developer)
• Richard Brandon (Senior web developer)
• Joeseph Weiner (Drupal / Web developer)
• Shaun Wortis (Senior UI designer / Web developer)
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Motivation ?‣ High demand for quality academic
web sites.
‣ Building dynamic, modern web sites is challenging and expensive.
‣ Need for institutional repositories.
‣ Need for scholarly communication and collaboration.
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Why OpenScholar ?
( For school administrators, web developers, decision makers etc.)
Easy to Install
Scalable: Host *unlimited* number of web sitesin a single installation
Built-in aggregated content across sites;Faceted search/browsing across sites.
Growing number of features (plugins) ready to be enabled for your end users.
Growing number of high quality themes
Custom domain for any web site. OR ...
Different web sites share a specific custom domain !
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Why OpenScholar ?
( For end users / academics)
Extremely easy to create a / many web site (s).It take seconds !!
Enable / disable your site’s features in one click.
Change the look and feel of your site in one click.
Drag and drop interface for layout management
Easy content management.
Invite other members to your site.
Full taxonomy support.
Built-in faceted browsing / searching.
Flexible menus.
Create any number of structured documents (drupal books)
User friendly interface for adding / editing content.
“Follow” and get instant updates from your colleagues.
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
What is a feature ?‣ Build your web site one section at a time
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
What is a feature ?Enable “publications”
features
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What is a feature ?
A menu entry
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What is a feature ?
A menu entry
Context links
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What is a feature ?
A menu entry
Context linksWidgets
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What is a feature ?
Customize “publications” feature
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Customizing a feature
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Architecture
Drupal
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OpenScholar Vsite
spaces
OpenScholar features
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blog . . .
OpenScholar themes
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http://openscholar.harvard.edu
What’s Next ?‣ OpenScholar for academic departments
‣ Integration with external data sources
‣ Web services support
‣ Integration between different installations
‣ (mini) web sites as features
http://openscholar.harvard.edu
Thank You !
Introduction
Alex Lindahl– Distribution Evangelist
How Acquia Ensures Success…
OpenScholar as a Service
Onsite JumpStartTraining24x7 SupportModule + Security UpdatesNew FeaturesPerformance HostingHarvard Issue Escalation
Fully Managed: Deploy Today, Build Tomorrow
Bene!ts
Proceeds to IQSS Team
New Feature Deployments
Group Funded Sprints
Contributions to Drupal
Core Issue Escalation to Harvard
OpenScholar Best Practices
Let’s Get Started…
Step 1: Free Deployment Consultation
Step 2: Package Selection + Proposal
Step 3: Jumpstart + Training
Step 4: Spread + ScaleSupportUpgradesPerformance Tuning
Step 5: Collaborate
One more thing…
Stay after Q&A to:
Test Drive OpenScholar.
Get any questions answered.
Schedule consultation + receive discount voucher
Questions
For more information, visit us at:– http://openscholar.harvard.edu– http://drupal.org/project/openscholar– http://scholar.harvard.edu
Try OpenScholar for Free- http://acquia.com/openscholar/access-sandbox
Watch Another Demo-http://scholar.harvard.edu
Contact us:– [email protected]– 888-9-ACQUIA
