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I am going to develop a journal system which has paper submission and review actions with evalution forms,something like OJS system. I want to use drupal for it but I am not sure if it is a good choice.
Does Drupal have ability to create such applications ?
It is a very generic question. To answer some part:
Drupal can be customized and used for a lot of projects, thanks to the powerful community and module developers.
Let me give a glimpse of possibilities, you can find the rest:
Each paper can be a content type. Each user can have specific roles and permissions (eg. publisher, editor, reviewer etc) who are allowed to do specifically what you allow them to do. They can apply for higher roles as well.
Each review process can be captured and maintained using workflow module. There are plenty of tutorials for that.
List of articles can be shown with various properties and filters using views. They can be shown in various regions of a theme you select or make of your own (or customize).
The community can be built using forums.
In short there are thousands of possible ways you can make this. But one note from personal experience: sometimes you will find extremely tough things to be done in simple ways, while simple things will take time. This is mostly because like all systems, it takes a bit of time to get used to with the drupal api.
Best of luck!
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Recently, I am working on my course project, the topic is the creation of a new hybrid software process model by integrating Scrum and Team Software Process (TSP). Integration of these two models will be based on the SEMAT Essence Kernel Framework.
I am wondering:
Which steps should be followed for this integration (like
determination of the roles and artifacts in these two models)?
What should be the criteria to decide on good sides?
Thanks in advance!
The best way I think I can answer this question is by quoting the agile manifesto.
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
Agile is about people, teamwork and craftsmanship. It's about involving the customer closely to figure out what really is needed - and delivering that, in small increments of working software. Agile is inspect and adapt, based on experimental delivery and the feedback and evidence that comes from that.
Trust yourself. Work closely together and you can do this. The best learning often comes from doing. :)
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I am writing a research on a service ranking algorithm, and I want to prove its performance and accuracy by running it on a public data. let's say apple store data, google play, expedia etc. Can I parse their data from HTML and use it in my research? or I would be performing illegal act (web scraping)?
And should i mention explicitly in my research that the data is used only for scientific reasons?
I've read about webscraping and the controversies about its illegality, but i did not find any article about if it's used for scientific purposes only.
Thanks in advance
There is nothing inherently illegal about web-scraping a site.
However, I would suggest that you pay attention to the particular site's "Terms of Use" to see if it is something which they expressly forbid. For example, the Expedia Terms of Use here http://www.expedia.ie/p/support/termsofuse outline:
you may not visit or make available the website or any part of the web
pages of the website by automatic means, such as by using crawlers or
shop bots to systematically retrieve or copy information or connect
the content of the website functionally to another website via links
*That being said, as long as you don't exert an unreasonable load on the site, or republish their content as your own, I don't expect you will run into any problems.
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On a multi-lingual community with almost only user-generated content, is there a commonly used way to treat flagged content (profanity, racism, general illegal stuff etc)?
As there will be a lot non-english content, the only way to handle the flagging itself is crowdsourcing by the community itself and somehow automaticly hide/delete the flagged stuff at a threshold. But what method could be used to stop abuse? e.g. "I don't like him, lets all report this and get it deleted"
FIrst of all, it depends on your content.
But in general, I would start by hide/delete the flagged stuff at a threshold.
When the community grows I would add crowdsourcing and create a balance from both.
I would also do a general scan on all posts to search for keywords which might lead or contain bad content.
Also, you will need to create some tolerance as some posts might contain a reference to illegal stuff but intended for god reasons.
ex: dont take drugs
If the community builds well, I would mostly rely on it.
Another option you might consider is to allow your users to "hide" other users, i.e. not see the content of hidden users.
This allows people to "remove" other users that they don't feel contribute to the community.
You could also allow users to report bad posts, and allow a human to decide whether or not to hide or delete the post. You would have to have community rules for this to be effective.
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There are a couple of online services that offer PSD to XHTML/CSS. Which one do you recommend? How should I choose one?
First, I recommend using someone in your own network of people first. If you know someone with this skill who is open to freelancing, offer the project to them. Talk to local schools with web design/development classes and ask if they keep a list of freelance students. Build up your business relationships with people close to you.
If that doesn't work, choose one online the way you would choose anything. Research. Look at their portfolios. Go to one of the sites they did and "view source" in your browser to look at their code. Ask a web developer friend if she thinks it's well done. Look at more than one example and make sure they have consistent quality. Try to find out how long they've been around. (Do a whois search and find out how long the site has been registered, for one). Look at the person's resume if they offer it, or ask for a resume and any references they may have. You might even try to contact one of their clients and ask how their experience was with them.
In the end, when you've balanced price and your research, you have to take a leap of faith, but with your research, you probably will choose well.
You might want to consider learning how to do it yourself. I find that even with a complex design, I usually spend 90% of my time making the design in Photoshop and only 10% converting that to HTML+CSS. It's really worth getting to know HTML and CSS inside-out so you can complete the process.
Some clue here
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You can get help from this site
http://www.psdtohtmlreviews.com/
And I think this one is mostly recommended
http://designshack.co.uk/articles/reviews/psd-to-html-by-psd2html
But first of all consider answer of #josh
And here are links of some good tutorials of PSD 2 HTML conversion http://www.bestpsdtohtml.com/20-best-psd-to-xhtml-css-tutorials/
You can learn yourself
If you have to convert for once you may look at http://csswithcolour.com/
and if you have requirements for many projects or future projects then
http://htmlbutcher.com/ looks to be a good tool.
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We're after a replacement for a DotNetNuke installation with a DynamicForms module by DataSprings.
Currently the problems are mainly performance related, but the fact that DynamicForms uses Postbacks on ASP.Net all the time renders it also highly susceptible to slow server response time.
We're after a Drupal module which would allow us to present the CMS user with a control panel where they could:
- create new surveys
- assign a target group for the surveys
- manage the questions:
- checkbox/radiobutton/combobox/open questions
- variations of the above - e.g. a combobox with a text field when "other" was chosen
- the support for data lists, e.g. "what state do you live in" with values stored in the database and managed separately.
- conditional questions (show/hide) further questions when a certain option is chosen
- grouping questions (hiding sets of questions at a time)
- scrapbook function (storing frequent questions and being able to easily copy them into the new poll)
- exporting the poll data along with selected attributes from the user profile
As you can see the requirements are huge, and we're looking for an Open Source alternative to the current solution, which would allow us to extend the module if necessary.
Drupal would be the platform of choice, but we're flexible in that respect.
I'd appreciate your suggestions of alternatives.
There is a similar discussion going on at Drupal.org. IMHO, Drupal just isn't perfect for complex surveys. Limesurvey is much better when it comes to different types of questions, conditional blocks, reusable question types etc. However in Limesurvey 1, the admin interface is awkward and theming/templating system is not great. Limesurvey 2 looks very promising, but it's in beta.
Your best choice should be a new drupal module integrating the LimeSurvey software :
http://drupal.org/project/limesurvey_sync
Have a look at Webform