Community Academic Profiles (CAP) is a system developed by Stanford as a way of consolidating faculty information into a single location. Beyond basic personal profiles, the system also collects information about publications, research and academic interests, presenting a rich and comprehensive view of the academic community and their pursuits.
In early 2014, a Drupal module was released for integrating with CAP. This module offers schools at Stanford a robust and efficient way to present content about faculty in their websites, and also to keep that information up-to-date using CAP's RESTful API. Beyond simple imports of single faculty members, the module is capable of maintaining information about an entire school, and also integrates with workgroups and SUNet IDs to provide meaningful collections of content.
This session focuses on the practical use of the CAP module. Participants will learn how to work with faculty profiles, and how to carry out the following advanced topics:
- How to select profiles for import
- How profiles are kept in sync over time
- How to control the appearance of profiles using drag-and-drop tools in Drupal's administrative interface
- How to create faculty listings
- How to create lists of publications and research
This session will be conducted by Michael Haggerty, one of the lead developers of the CAP module for Drupal.
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