Part of my job here at King’s is to develop ICT Guides into a sustainable community resource. The present version of ICT Guides is built on a MySql database with a JSTL (Java) interface.
The new community component of ICT Guides will (initially) be built on a Joomla (or Drupal) CMS (partly because it has excellent community building functions…though the add-on ‘Community Builder’ and also the Joomlaboard forum software). Overall Drupal is probably better for our needs in the long run, as it supports complex taxonomies, but this is a little way off as yet. We hope to use the taxonomy that we have developed in ICT Guides to feed into the communty site. And perhaps we could migrate the entire ICT Guides site over to Drupal at a later date and customise Drupal for our needs (Link: ICT Guides: Community)
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