Drupal is a free and open-source content management framework. It is, like many web platforms, the backbone behind a website, invisible to front-end users but critical to the foundation, organization, and presentation of content. As more scholars and students seek to make their research available online using the power of the web to find newer and richer ways of presenting large data sets they are increasingly reaching the limits of what old platforms can accomplish.
Author Quinn Dombrowski has taught numerous courses in Drupal programming for scholars in the humanities; the techniques...