Installing Drupal was quite an experience. I have downloaded several image-rendering modules, mostly because I was not sure how they worked, so as a result some are installed without probably being used and duplicating the image.module .
I felt that the taxonomy part needed some additional features. I downloaded and installed the tag cloud block – Cumulus and Taxonomy Breadcrumb. Cumulus provides a user-friendly overview of available terms and the quantity of these terms is also visually presented in an intuitive way.
Taxonomy Breadcrumb, on the hand, provide users with a functional clue about their momentary location and allows them to backtrack within a collection. However, this feature would be much more useful had I had the collection more structured and more deeply nested.
I feel that Drupal is a useful presenting tool, relatively easy to use and to set up. The set up is definitely more difficult, but I think that a Drupal site can be indeed designed in a very user-friendly way both for the user-visitor of the site and for the user-content creator. Who, on the on the hand, does not have to have web design or html skills in order to produce aesthetically appealing and easy to navigate pages.
Drupal, however, is more about access to digital resources, not necessarily suitable for their managing and for tasks required for digital preservation. I can imagine that Drupal can work well in tandem with a DAMS application that would handle the storage and manipulation of various manifestations, and Drupal could enable access to the view manifestations and appropriate descriptive metadata.
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