With its extensive range of contributed modules, Drupal is a highly adaptable content management system. From huge mass-media publishing gateways such as economist.com and open data repositories such as data.gov.uk to a broad range of university websites and countless blog, community-building, and social networking projects, Drupal has proven itself capable of supporting diverse business and user requirements. Recently some useful Drupal distributions have pre-packaged leading-edge modules to facilitate creation of highly advanced, customisable websites. These distributions harness the power of Drupal's extensible modular framework, with the ease of 'famous 5 minute installation'. In this computer-lab-based session, participants review and explore newly released Drupal distributions, with focus on a distribution providing automated content and data aggregation, tagging, mapping, and trend visualisation. Learning objectives include: understanding how Drupal distributions can simplify CMS set-up and deployment; appraising use cases; evaluating institutional benefits and challenges.

1. UKOLN is supported by: Doing Drupal: Quick Start Deployments via Distributions Thom Bunting, Web Manager IWMW 2011, University of Reading 27 July 2011

20. Wrap-up discussion Photo source: www.flickr.com/photos/stevendepolo/

22. Contact details Dr. Thom Bunting UKOLN University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY Email: [email_address] Tel: +44 (0)1225 386 066

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