Multimedia Websites Using CMS
Choosing the right software
Factors to consider
Security
Support
Security
Documentation
Community 
Learning Curve
Hidden costs
What kind of support does the application have
How many people are working on it
How long has it been around
What organization is spearheading the project
How vulnerable is it to hacking
Is it being regularly patched and updated?
It's easier to learn something if there is a lot of supporting documentation on it.
What kind of community following does the software have?
What does your own profession have to say about it?
By Mia Jaeggli
or how you can free yourself from HTML and other ungainly codes.
University of California, Berkeley
Environmental Design Library
Technical Services Workleader
Omeka
Things to love about Omeka
"It's so easy to use!"
designed specifically for putting multimedia online
customizable look
Growing, evolving, never fixed
designed for libraries, museums and archives
Pachyderm
Drupal
What if?
What if you could use one piece of software to upload media
 and organize them into webpages?
ASK QUESTIONS! A LOT OF THEM.
Have a list of your needs.
Have a plan
Center for History and New Media
They also created Zotero!
The Public Face
Create Themed Exhibits
This particular exhibit was created using many many different tools 
and modules in Drupal. These take a long time to set up and requires 
foundational knowledge about using Drupal. Not to worry though! The
documentation on Drupal is extensive and the published texts are 
extremely helpful for jumping in.
Why consider content management systems?
The old way
The new way
Dynamic software
2.0 technologies
Media friendly
forms instead of manually coding HTML
Server databases to upload images to
Programs that reformat your images for you


The community of coders does the work, 
so you don't have to
But it's not entirely that simple
AND KNOW THAT THINGS WILL NOT ALWAYS GO ACCORDING TO PLAN
Mostly.
http://pachyderm.nmc.org/docs/PachyUserManual.pdf
What if you could take multiple exhibition websites
and put them on one dynamic site?
What if you used little or no web coding to do so?
The  New Media Consortium. (200?). Pachyderm User Manual: Template Workbook. 
Leonard, Anne. (2005). Pachderm 2.0 User Manual. The New Media Consortium.
Designed for museums, 
archives & educators
s
Sole purpose of sharing multimedia collections
Using templates to organize, 
forms to upload, and metadata presets
Presentation based
or exhibit by exhibit. 
FInd and place images into templates
Upload images to Pachyderm
and assign metadata
Title:
Author:
Date Created:
Material:
Format:
Add another page, and another
Pacyderm Account
Leonard, Anne. (2005). Pachderm 2.0 User Manual. The New Media Consortium.
Access your exhibits on Pacyderm
OR, download a .zip
to put on your own server
The Public Face
very different from Pachyderm
and Omeka
What the work
screen looks like
Templates for organizing your content
Worksheets to assist with the process
Woggin
Hoofloo
Fryflog
Peep
Chicken Itza
Flua
SPORE CREATIONS
A few creatures I created before Spore actually came out. Spor
Create controlled taxonomies or folksonomies.
 You could even use Dublin Core as your model. 
Setting up all of the forms, 
taxonomies, aggregators and layouts
takes considerable time and knowledge.
Good thing there are a lot of books on
the subject!
There are hundreds of steps. Unlike Omeka and Pachyderm where the package is already constructed.
As you can see, it takes a lot to create a Drupal site.
But the payoff is more control over the organization
of your site and all of the nifty modules you can play
with. 
Key features
A core package of basic features
The more sophisticated work is done with modules
A giant community of volunteer programmers.
Hundreds of prefabricated themes to choose from.
Customize or create a theme from scratch.
Documentation and lots of it!
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How is Drupal built?
Core software, comprised of PHP and JavaScript
Drupal sits on top of and communicates with a MySQL database
Which resides on your server.
The core of Drupal comes with the very basic components
blog
forums
a feed aggregator for other blogs
basic structural elements for placing menus and sidebars
generic (boring) themes


All the extras come seperately. It's a "batteries not included" scenario.
Research and plan out your idea for your site: you want to create a photo gallery.
Find the right module, or three.
Upload them to your Drupal files on the server. 
Follow the directions for setting it up in Drupal admin. 
Some assembly required.
Scratch that. A lot of assembly required!!!
XHTML + CSS + PHP + Java Script
The Learning Curve
Results may vary from person to person
Lightbox 2
CCK
VIEWS
Taxonomy
Panels 3
ImageCache
View Slideshow
FCKEditor
Chaos Tool Suite
ImageField
FileField
Theme
IMCE
Custom Pagers
Let's take a closer look
Taxonomy
ImageField
ImageCache
CCK
Blocks
Theme
Menu
Custom Pager
Theme
Let's take a closer look
Panels 3
Views
Views Slideshow
CCK
ImageField
ImageCache
Custom Pager
Chaos Tools
Taxonomy
Many modules were used to build this page
All of this 
driven by:
One tidy package with little setup
Items and Media
The Public Face
This is generally the look
of an item page, regardless of
theme.
Behind the scenes
Exhibits
The Public Face
1
2
3
4
Exhibits are heirarchical, starting with the exhibit topic, then sections, then pages.
Pro: it's all set up for you
Con: you can't change the structure
Behind the scenes
1
2
3
4
5
6
BEhind the scenes
Tour of Omeka: the public face and behind the scenes
Behind the scenes
Admin
Omeka
Drupal
What is a content 
management system?
"software package that allows an individual or a community 
of users to easily publish, manage and organize a 
wide variety of content on a website." -- drupal.org
Item Page
Exhibit Page
Nifty gadgets!
Omeka & Pachyderm
October 30, 2009
http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/interactive_features/3
Institute for Museum and Library Services
New Media Consortium
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tools to assist with the creation process
http://web.nmc.org/pachy/ProjectRowHouses/Round27/
http://projectrowhouses.org/
The form for uploading and describing images
The Views Module
+ Panels 3 and Views
Slideshow modules 
are all being used in 
these screens.
Taxonomies can be used to define which images are shown on the exhibits page 
and in the thumbnail grid.
Show only images in category Sculpture Portfolio
Use them to aggregate and organize content in meaningful ways
A taxonomy was used to tell Drupal to
find and show only these images 
Behind the scenes
Behind the scenes
Drupal
Pachyderm
Omeka
Tour of Pachyderm: the public face and behind the scenes
Tour of Drupal: the public face and behind the scenes
Other Cool Sites Using
Drupal
Ann Arbor Architecture: http://www.aadl.org/gallery/buildings
Ann Arbor Police Department Online History Exhibit: http://aapd.aadl.org/
Ann Arbor District Library: aadl.org
Stanford University
Art & Architecture Library, Exhibitions: 
http://lib.stanford.edu/node/108/art-exhibitions
?
Amherst College: www.amherst.edu
Mead Art Museum:  https://www.amherst.edu/museums/mead
+ any other of the library or musuem pages
Cool examples of Pachyderm
The Dignity of Work: A Teacher's Guide:
 http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/pachyderm/DignityofWorkTeacher/
Texas Skies: A Teacher's Guide: 
http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/pachyderm/TexasSkiesTeacher/
& many, many more: http://pachyderm.nmc.org/category/showcase/
The New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970:
http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/bma/interact/NYGW/ 
http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/pachyderm/TexasSkiesTeacher/
Server upgrades
Staff time to install, customize and setup
What's the learning curve like? Remember, this is another hidden cost.
http://pachyderm.nmc.org/resources/
The Dashboard
Managing Plugins
Managing Themes
Managing Users
www.ced.berkeley.edu/cedarchives/exhibitions
This presentation will walk you through a
few of the steps in choosing a content management
system and will showcase three different web 
publishing applications: Omeka, Pachderm, and Drupal