Bringing NZ history into the future
Time: Wednesday 20th March 13:45-14:15
Room: Main Ballroom
Track: Drupal Development
Catalyst is engaged by NZ Ministry for Culture & Heritage to help update nzhistory.govt.nz and teara.govt.nz from Drupal 7 to Drupal 10. The sites incorporate an encyclopedia of NZ, Dictionary of NZ Biography, datasets of Treaty signatories and Suffragist signatures, soldiers, memorials, and more.
This presentation describes the extensive migration effort, covering aspects such as:
* refactoring the data model to be more semantic and aligned with external standards
* migration logic to map to new data models, synthesize media references, etc.
* incorporation of numerous unmanaged files to be Drupal media
* introduction of custom media types for remote audio, panoramas, and other interactives
* adoption of IIIF for tiled image zooming
* parsing of HTML to build media instances and replace inline iframes
* reducing the extent of custom code.
This presentation describes the extensive migration effort, covering aspects such as:
* refactoring the data model to be more semantic and aligned with external standards
* migration logic to map to new data models, synthesize media references, etc.
* incorporation of numerous unmanaged files to be Drupal media
* introduction of custom media types for remote audio, panoramas, and other interactives
* adoption of IIIF for tiled image zooming
* parsing of HTML to build media instances and replace inline iframes
* reducing the extent of custom code.
Speakers
Jonathan Hunt
Jonathan is a senior web developer with a long running interest in open and linked data with particular engagement with GLAMR topics and challenges. Jonathan has been involved in multiple Drupal-based digital preservation and digital cultural heritage projects including University of Canterbury QuakeStudies Archive, canterburystories.nz, Archives Central, Simon Fraser University, and more.
Additional speakersDavid Turton
David is Technical Lead at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage with responsibility for the Ministry's various websites including Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, NZHistory, Vietnam War and 28 Maori Battalion to name a few. With 15+ years of experience working with Drupal, he is excited about the future of the Ministry's websites and the opportunity to continue to improve customer access to NZ's historical information.
David is Technical Lead at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage with responsibility for the Ministry's various websites including Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, NZHistory, Vietnam War and 28 Maori Battalion to name a few. With 15+ years of experience working with Drupal, he is excited about the future of the Ministry's websites and the opportunity to continue to improve customer access to NZ's historical information.