Organigram's in Drupal

kvantomme — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:22:07 -0500

Big organizations often have complex organigrams. In this demo movie I show how Drupal's taxonomy system could be used to organize content in a hierarchical structure that follows the organigram of a research institute.

Besides of the taxonomy module we used hierachical select, NAT, block visibility code and a bit of views argument handling code to create a dynamic system that shows content relevant content all through the different branches of the website.

This is a demo movie, it's meant to show end-users some of the functionality that is available in Drupal. If you want a tutorial tell us in a comment.

Druplet - a knowledge management system for Drupal built in Drupal

kvantomme — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:19:38 -0500

Most people when they encounter a problem during development or use of Drupal do a Google search on the topic and end up, after some sifting and speed-reading, with a couple of text snippets that together form an answer. The purpose of this project is to make it easy to build a record of these snippet trails and to share them with the community.

This videocast is a demo movie and not a tutorial, so it's in the first place meant for end-users rather than for developers. If you want a tutorial tell us in a comment.

The lean product literature database

kvantomme — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:33:44 -0500

In this videocast I explore how a lean product literature database could be implemented in Drupal. The presentation should be relevant for you if you are interested in implementing a knowledge management system for your organization. If you are interested in actually seeing it work, check out our druplet videocast.

This is a demo movie, it's meant to show end-users some of the functionality that is available in Drupal. If you want a tutorial tell us in a comment.

biotech webdevelopment

kvantomme — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:28:22 -0500

Building a website for your biotech company might seem a daunting task, especially the first time you do it. That is why we created this whitepaper, to give you an introduction into some of the basic concepts of webdesign and how they are applied in the biotech industry.
If you are wondering what kind of information you should provide, or how you should present it, what technologies you can use and what the benefits are of a Content Management System (CMS), you should read this paper.
The biotech specific data in this whitepaper is based on a comparative research of 500 corporate biotech websites that Wim Liekens, a student from KHM Belgium conducted in collaboration with Pronovix. He compared the corporate sites of the 100 biggest biotechnology companies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biotechnology_companies) and 400 random websites of smaller biotech companies.

Whitepapers

kvantomme — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:22:27 -0500

With the rise of the internet whitepapers have become a popular marketing tool for organizations. This paper is a collection of snippets from different whitepaper expert sites. It summarizes the basic concepts and gives a collection of references where the reader can learn more on the topic.

This paper was created by Wim Liekens, a student from KHM Belgium during his traineeship at Pronovix.

Mdurance

kvantomme — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:28 -0500

A demo movie on the brochure site we developed for Mdurance a Budapest company that does physiological testing for athletes.

Pronovix brochure

kvantomme — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:54:58 -0500

This is our company brochure. It contains the description of a use case for Drupal for high tech SME's, consultants, associations and technology transfer offices.

manna-photography.de

kvantomme — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:14:28 -0500

A demo on a photo website we developed for manna communications.

avicorbiotech.com

kvantomme — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:19:11 -0500

A demo movie on a website we developed for Avicor, a drug discovery services company from Szeged, Hungary.

Pharma-Bio-Med

kvantomme — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:31:37 -0500

From 2-5 November I attended Pharma-Bio-Med, a conference & exposition for pharma, bio & medical information professionals that took place in Dubrovnik this year. It was a great experience and in the last weeks I was working on some of the concepts I took away from the conference, I made some quick demo movies and posted them on our new company website:

-After the presentation of the 2nd break-out sessions, Dr. Ian Sinclair mentioned that it was strange that we are still having PLD's (product literature databases) and that he believed that they are orthogonal with the lean/just in time methodology. After some further consideration I believe there is great value in Dr. Sinclair's observation, so I worked out a flowchart of how a just in time product literature database could work. I recorded a screencast and posted it on our website.

-Related to the above point I put together a proof of concept for a knowledge management system that generates semantically defined vocabularies. I'm opening it up as a beta release for a knowledge management system for the Drupal community (so that we can also use it with my colleagues). There is still some work with it, but it demonstrates how easy it could be to capture a lot of the value that currently get's lost when you are doing research on online resources. The demo movie is available here.

It was really striking for me how apparently most pharma companies have implemented Microsoft Sharepoint servers and how all the people I talked with were frustrated by the limitations and this system... Together with my colleagues we'll be doing some research on how we can build internal application sites that can integrate with these existing systems (e.g. systems that have a better user interface and that are easy to validate).

During the conference I mentioned a number of free and open source solutions, as a reference I'm adding the links here below:

Freemind: an open source mindmapping software.
Gopubmed: an application site with interesting semantically defined metadata for Pubmed articles.
Opencalais: an application site from Thomson, that has a free service that can generate semantic metadata (e.g. identify entities) for your content, a bit like a semantic auto-tagging service.
The Drupal Calais module: a module that makes it easy to use the calais webservice on Drupal.
Jing: a free utility from TechSmith, the makers of Camtasia studio, that makes it really easy to make 5 minute flash movies.
Drupal and libraries: a link to a post on drupal.org about the subject.
Libraries that use Drupal: a link to a site dedicated to the use of Drupal in libaries.