The LIS 2600 lecture for this week discussed the content Management system, Drupal. It is a back-end system that be used to manage all sorts of internet activity such as blogs, discussion threads, Wikis, files sharing and RSS feeds. Since it is open source software there have been many modulars written to extend the capabilities of the Drupal core.
What I found most interesting was how a few organizations were using Drupal to wrap around library content using SOPACS. A social library environment is created for users who have an account on the library system. This allows the user to participate in library associated activities beyond the usual search of the catalog or the reservation of a book online.
Drupal gives the administrator the ability to create a site suited to the focus of his/her particular project.
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