Largest Virtual Library on Drupal 8 - A Government of India initiative

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p.sunthar
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National Virtual Library India or NVLI incubated at IITB is an initiative from Ministry of Culture India with a vision to create a centralized knowledge hub. It is part of one of the largest digitization projects by the Government of India.

The NVLI will have a central hub which will allow users to search for various kinds of resources including scholarly articles, research papers, journals, books, videos and any other form of digitized asset. These resources will be  pulled from various universities/ colleges/ government and private libraries who would like to host their content on NVLI.

The Users of the Project could be anyone starting from Students, Researchers, Travellers, Archelogiests, Movie makers etc..

The Project will use Drupal, VUFind and Solr to build an interactive interface to the users. The project will leverage Drupal’s content management, agile development responsive design, integration capabilities.

This Project is a unique showcase for Drupal considering it is one of the largest implementation by the Government of India. The Project uses a consortium of Drupal companies working Collaboratively using tools like slack, JIRA and agile development methodologies. The Consortium model helps bring Collaboration and Competition to the Project as a whole. Drupal’s coding standards, community working culture has helped in arriving at this very unique model. Also all work done on this Project will be in the public domain even while the project is getting implemented.

Session Highlights:

  • Defining needs of a Nation wide Virtual Library
  • Consortium Model of Working
  • Architecture of the Project
  • Role of Drupal 8
  • Best Practices and Standardizations followed (Dublin core, Annotation,....
  • Key challenges faced and the solutions
  • Contributing to Drupal 8 - Modules/patches

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Session Track

Business

Experience Level

Advanced

Drupal Version