Science on Drupal

The source code and installation instructions for a fairly robust example of a Drupal based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) has been posted on GitHub at https://github.com/MyLabBook/mylabbook. An associated community site has also been updated at https://mylabbook.org with a video describing the installation, documentation, screenshots and other background material. Plans are to continue to improve this platform and continue to utilize the robust capabilities of Drupal to provide a low cost and capable ELN that matches or exceeds the capabilities of many commercial ELN packages.

The major challenge when using Drupal for publishing data from sensor measurements is how to adopt its data model which is content based to information that consists of many fields collected over prolonged periods of time. I'm interested if anyone in this group has implemented or is aware of solutions where several millions of records with tens to hundreds of fields are imported and visualized or exported to common formats using integration with third party technologies. I have implemented such a solution and I would like to share knowledge with others.

Save the date!

Drupal Camp Asheville 2018 is happening July 13-15, 2018.

Drupal Science Summit

The Drupal Science Summit is a one-day event for anyone using Drupal to communicate science who is looking to connect with other science users.

Visit https://www.drupalasheville.com for more information as it becomes available.

Hi everyone,

We're working to set our direction for 2017 and beyond - to ensure we're well aligned to help with your day-to-day needs and plans for the future, please do fill out our short survey at:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XBPDWSD

It's very brief and would be helpful to understand the landscape of how Drupal is used, focus areas of relevance to you, and whether our mission should target a niche rather than a single technology - along with any other thoughts or suggestions you have.

Thanks! David

Hi everyone,

We'll be meeting today at 3pm ET to continue discussing direction and focus for 2017 - see connection details below. Here are some of the questions and ideas we've been grappling with, but we're open to any new ideas or comments too!

Please post your thoughts, or any other comments you have, to our brief survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XBPDWSD - either ahead of or after the meeting.

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Hi Science Drupalists,

We're holding an open strategy and visioneering meeting tomorrow Wednesday, February 22nd @3pm ET.

Join us with your reflections on 2016 and your inspiration for where the group should be headed in 2017. Any feedback, thoughts or ideas are welcome - please do come along and chip in anything you feel would be useful, no matter how small or crazily ambitious! We're here to listen.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Best wishes - David

Telecon Details

Date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
Time: 3pm EST, 12 noon PST

As a follow-up to the DKAN presentation at the ESIP Winter Meeting, we will be hosting Aaron Couch, the original engineering mastermind behind DKAN to answer technical questions about DKAN.

In case you missed the ESIP Winter Meeting session on DKAN, you can catch the presentation by Andrew Hoppin & Sid Burgess below. During the session, shared notes were taken in a Google doc, and a few unanswered questions were captured. You can find that document which will be a starting point for our discussion with Aaron, here: http://goo.gl/jvSLuH

Hi Science Drupalists,

Join us for our DKAN Data Portal rundown presented by NuCivic founder Andrew Hoppin - this Friday 1/13 at 9am ET, either online or at the ESIP Winter Meeting in Forest Glen.

DKAN is an open data portal built in Drupal. DKAN is designed to be feature-compatible with CKAN, the Open Data portal built by the Open Knowledge Foundation. With DKAN, you can:

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Hi Science Drupalists,

Tomorrow is our scheduled date for Office Hours but we won't be holding an officially hosted session tomorrow - because of parallel commitments during the ESIP Winter Meeting. However please feel free to check in and post questions on Slack at any time and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!

If you aren't familiar with ESIP, it's our key supporter and an awesome community of Earth science organizations which meets twice a year - see http://esipfed.org for more information.

Hi Science Drupalists,

Join us for Office Hours tomorrow!

Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?

Find us on https://scienceondrupal.slack.com tomorrow Wednesday 12/14 @2pm ET. To sign up, go to https://slackinvite.me/to/scienceondrupal or email davidATbluedotlab.org or ashepherdATwhoi.edu.

See you there! David

Hi Science Drupalists,

We'll be meeting tomorrow Wednesday, November 23rd @3pm ET to chat Drupal for Science! If you've got an idea, project or problem to solve, come join us to talk about Drupal.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Adam

Telecon Details

Date: Wednesday November 23rd
Time: 3:00 pm EST, noon PST
GoToMeeting URL: https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/948993637 (test your system at http://support.citrixonline.com/en_US/meeting/all_files/G2M050001)
Phone dial-in: +1 (646) 749-3122 then access code 948-993-637

ESIP Drupal Working Group

Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?

Drop in for Science on Drupal Office Hours on https://scienceondrupal.slack.com tomorrow @2pm ET. To sign up, go to https://slackinvite.me/to/scienceondrupal or email davidATbluedotlab.org or ashepherdATwhoi.edu.

Hi Science Drupalists,

We'll be meeting tomorrow Wednesday, October 26th @3pm ET to recap on learnings and ideas from last weekend's Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADCamp). You're also welcome to bring your own topics for discussion to the table, as we'll have some spare time.

Look forward to seeing you there! David

Telecon Details

Date: Wednesday October 26th
Time: 3:00 pm EST, noon PST
GoToMeeting URL: https://www.gotomeeting.com/join/948993637 (test your system at http://support.citrixonline.com/en_US/meeting/all_files/G2M050001)

Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?

Drop in for Science on Drupal Office Hours on https://scienceondrupal.slack.com today @2pm ET. To sign up, go to https://slackinvite.me/to/scienceondrupal or email davidATbluedotlab.org or ashepherdATwhoi.edu.

Paid resources

• https://drupalize.me - 1 recommendation
• http://buildamodule.com - 2 recommendations
• https://www.ostraining.com/classes/drupal - not tried by anyone
• https://www.lynda.com/Drupal-7-tutorials/essential-training/73655-2.html - not tried by anyone

Free resources

Drupal 8

• Drupal.org documentation
• Drupal 8 User Guide

Drupal 7

Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?

Drop in for Science on Drupal Office Hours on https://scienceondrupal.slack.com today @2pm ET. To sign up, go to https://slackinvite.me/to/scienceondrupal or email davidATbluedotlab.org or ashepherdATwhoi.edu.

Hi Science Drupalists,

Join us for our next webinar on indexing Drupal documents in ElasticSearch next Wednesday, September 28th at 3-4pm ET, presented by David Bassendine of BlueDotLab (this webinar was rescheduled from the original date of August 24th).

Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?

Drop in for Science on Drupal Office Hours on https://scienceondrupal.slack.com on Wednesday 8/17 @2-4pm ET. Note that, due to an unavoidable commitment, we are running on the third Wednesday of the month, but will return to the usual second Wednesday in September.

Hi Science Drupalistas,

We're really excited for our Science on Drupal sessions this afternoon at the ESIP Summer Meeting, from 2-5:30pm, and look forward to meeting many of you there once again!

Do you have an idea, use case or problem using Drupal for Science? Want to pitch in building shared solutions to common science problems on the web? Find out more about using Drupal? Or just chat with like-minded folks?

Join us for our annual DrupalCon BoF, or online at Office Hours, to discuss how Drupal and science can work together!

• Drupalcon BoF @2:15pm CT - join Adam in room 288, more at https://events.drupal.org/neworleans2016/bofs/science-drupal