Posts by theme: Remote data

Posted 07 Dec 2009
Playing Nicely With Others
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George DeMet
Founder and CEO
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Last week, several hundred people joined a few of us at Palantir for Playing Nicely With Others: Integrating Drupal with Third-Party Data, a webinar hosted by our friends and partners at Acquia. This hour-long presentation focused on different approaches and strategies for migrating and integrating data from third-party systems into Drupal, along with a few examples from some projects that we’ve worked on.

Many of our clients, such as colleges and universities, publications, and museums and cultural institutions, need their Web sites to work seamlessly with information from other systems, such as course listings, subscribers, and collections.  We’re also often asked to migrate large amounts of content from legacy content management platforms or static HTML.   One of the reasons we like working with Drupal is that its flexibility makes these kinds of migrations and integrations easy to accomplish.

You can view the full webinar at Acquia’s Web site, and copies of our slides from the presentation are posted in PDF format here.

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Posted 21 Apr 2009
Remote Data in Drupal: Museums and the Web 2009
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Larry Garfield
Senior Architect and Consultant
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At Palantir, we frequently work with museums and universities that need to integrate large legacy data systems.

In the case of museums that's usually a Collections Management System and/or a Digital Asset Management system (DAM) of some kind, holding information on thousands or hundreds of thousands of works in the museum's collection. In the case of a university, that's usually course information and availability coming from a registrar system. As a result, we've gotten a disturbing amount of experience integrating with oddball 3rd party systems. At last week's Museums and the Web 2009 conference in Indianapolis, Tiffany Farriss and I ran a workshop on remote data strategies based on the work we've done on several different museum sites. Of course, as a pre-conference workshop attendance wasn't that big (even though we did fill the room), so for those who weren't at the conference we decided to put the information up online. The slides themselves aren't that useful, but consider this the novelization of the presentation.

For those playing our home game, there's sample code provided at the end. It uses Amazon as a remote data source, and requires just the base amazon.module.

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