hello
I'm preparing a budget for our editorial board. I would love to have a Drupal module built on Views that let me draw on fields from our OJS installation. I know that Views can pull data from other DBs now...but putting it together is (ahem) a bit challenging for folks with no real coding skills and a minimal feel for the sort of thinking required for working directly with sql. I can imagine no circumstance under which I would like to have drupal push information to the OJS database.
The site is here
http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org (which also needs a cleanup)
on the front page there is a teaser from the editor's introduction for the most recent volume that is pulled from the journal. There would be clickthroughs for the table of contents (in the OJS or Drupal) and for the full text of the intro (in Drupal).
In an ideal world I would be able to easily build custom views from the OJS database so that I could easily create custom pages in Drupal...and this would become a maintained module in the Drupal ecology.
this one has been out there hunting for a builder for a while...
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Interested ...
In finding out how far you get with this. My group will be investigating opportunities for OJS-Drupal integration this summer, although I suspect that we would be interested in more features than just Views integration (OJS workflow, document handling, word-to-pdf conversion, editorial process archive). And there are of course a thousand-and-one things in the Drupalverse that we'd like to see together with this package: Subversion, Annotate, etc. etc.
Are there any funds to support your interest? If so I might be able to identify some to augment this project, assuming my stakeholders want to go that route.
Does the Drupal install share
Does the Drupal install share the same database as the OJS install? If so then creating Views queries that access the OJS would be relatively easy. Having to go to a different database introduces an element of difficulty.
Same DB could solve the Views issue, but ...
Unfortunately, we would be interested in way more than just Views integration. OJS has pretty great version control and metadata functionality that we wont see in Drupal until 7.x ... and OJS might always do it a little better, who knows. For me the OJS killer-app is the MS Word to PDF magic, and how the workflow and version control (files are automatically named and renamed as they pass through the review and submission process) work together. We also need something that takes gunky MS-Word HTML/XML and transforms it into clean nodes. I will be looking at opportunities and feasibility for a Drupal-OJS bridge module this summer. Anyone up for that?
spending a bit..
I'm spending a bit of money this summer to hire a student of mine to build a module that can call from an OJS database into a block in Drupal. I would rather keep the databases separate. Cleaner that way. Any recommendations on how best to set things up? The module will, of course, be contributed.
are there any result of
are there any result of drupal-ojs integration ?