Solution components

In the workshop we'll look at (at least) three different components of an overall solution. Here's an initial list, with some notes on existing solutions that may be relevant. How could each of these be adapted or extended to serve as part of a full-featured inter-site solution?

Distributed authentication and shared user accounts

• FOAF module
• Drupal module's authentication for external sites

Enable sites to discover and register with each other.

• The core Drupal module enables sites to register with a central server. Although used initially for maintaining a directory of Drupal sites, this functionality could be used to allow groups of sites to register with each other.

Collectively manage content and taxonomies among different sites

• SIOC module
• node import/export has an XML encoding for node data
• blogapi
• ditto for taxonomy import for taxonomies