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By Mediacurrent, Pantheon on
The teams at History Factory and Mediacurrent created a solution to capture real-time history of the COVID-19 pandemic for future crisis responses.
About History Factory
History Factory is a pioneering agency dedicated to helping organizations across the globe leverage their heritage to drive brand, marketing, communications and culture initiatives.
“The Mediacurrent team was extremely knowledgeable, communicative, quick to respond to arising issues and worked tirelessly to make our vision a reality.”
Sam Grabel, History Factory Marketing Manager
Mediacurrent also had to find a working solution to the COVID-19 Corporate Memory Project’s content collecting and organizing challenge. Mediacurrent’s developers quickly identified the best approach to model this content so that corporate contributors to the site could provide assets of all types
Why Drupal was chosen:
- Open source - Sharing the same ethos as Drupal, the History Factory’s project mission is to be a “free and collaborative resource”
- Speed to launch - Ready-made tools for rapid development, like Mediacurrent’s Rain install profile, brought History Factory’s Drupal project to light in under 30 days
Describe the project (goals, requirements and outcome):
History Factory needed a technological solution that could help organizations document and preserve their history in how they responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. It had a plan to crowdsource content related to how industries and corporations were responding to the pandemic, so they needed a way to do several tasks:
- Receive and manage submissions
- Hold submissions in a repository
- Republish feature after archival team review
When History Factory learned about the Collective Directory, a distribution that combines the Rain distribution with a custom starter theme and additional features specific for museums and historical archives, it came to Mediacurrent to see if a custom solution on the Rain distribution would work for creating the COVID-19 Corporate Memory Project.
Results
3 Weeks to build entire site from kick off to launch
+75%Reduced time to launch with Rain install profile
Setup In Less than 24 Hours
Mediacurrent’s ongoing partnership with Pantheon provided the means necessary to quickly deploy the site on a reliable platform that would allow for further expansion when needed. Development servers were ready with continuous integration to move the project along in less than a day.
Technical specifications
Drupal version:
Drupal 8.x
Key modules/theme/distribution used:
Why these modules/theme/distribution were chosen:
Rapid Drupal Development with Rain
Rain offers an array of content features, including ready-to-use content types and paragraphs. Each paragraph is integrated with our base theme and style guide. This was a big driver in speeding up the overall development of the site while providing a flexible interface for History Factory editors to create content.
The Search API suite of modules is a fantastic way to configure site searches. The Rain distribution pre configures this simple site search out of the box
Organizations involved:
Sectors:
Community
