Drupal Next Generation Search-Integrated Content
Front-end, User Experience and Design
This track covers delivering projects focused on the most important audience—the end user. Learn how to leverage Drupal to help you keep abreast of emerging trends in the mobile, componentized Web world. We’ll show you strategies for fostering collaboration between content creators, designers, strategists, and end-users.
Historically, having a free and open source CMS or search engine on your site has generally meant limiting your content management and search capabilities to rigid UI, static content types, simple key word indexes, and muddled results, search leaving you to yearn for the sophistication and polish of the commercial and proprietary solutions. Now, however. the power of the cutting-edge Drupal CMS, Lucene/Solr search platforms, and a wide range of related Drupal modules and extensions, provides the opportunity not only to upgrade your site’s core search content management and search features, but also to transform your content and add new dimensions to your users’ experience by integrating search and content at deeper, powerful levels. This session will look at how Drupal architects, site administrators, and developers can together realize this opportunity by integrating powerful and diverse tools such as natural language processing, semantic search, clustering, recommendation engines, social graphs, and geospatial analysis with their CMS. We will also consider how we can use multiple cores in Apache Solr to precisely tailor search indexing and UI for different Drupal content types.