Drupal Information Architectures – 50 ways to structure your content

Drupal never was the perfect fit for hierarchically structured organizational websites.
Be it universities, public authorities, museums or NGOs – their CMS-based websites started about ten years ago, reproducing internal organizational structures, growing organically since then.

Now they are desperate to cut through the jungle and re-emerge with a modern information architecture and content strategy.
The new structures have to support poly-hierarchies, interconnected contents and a user centered, responsive and adaptive design.

Home advantage for Drupal – take Core's Taxonomy, Views, Entities and Fields, extend them with some nice contrib modules - and we will come up with some pretty amazing architectural solutions.

In this session, Jutta Horstmann (Data in Transit GmbH) will provide insights into common architectural problems of large, content-heavy, organizational websites (“Information Architecture Anti-Patterns”) and how to solve them with Drupal means.
As always, there's more than one way to do it, so she will introduce you to several different approaches including their pros and cons, illustrated by real-world examples (referencing some of Data in Transit's projects like the German Federal Nature Conservation Agency, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University, Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig).