Schedule

Designing an Easy-to-Configure Template for Online Scholarly Journals

Date: Saturday, July 16, 2016
Time: 1:30 - 1:45 pm (EDT) (UTC-04:00)
Location: Auditorium
Format: Lightning Talk

Session description

We work for the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) where we partner with a number of scholarly journals published out of Columbia University to produce the journal's online component. This lightning talk will share the work we’ve done to customize WordPress using in-house themes and plugins to allow the setup and editing of our scholarly journal websites to be much easier and efficient.

The combination of setting up a multisite for our journal sites and the customizations we’ve made for both administrators and project partners have reduced the need for a developer to be involved in site set up, and have allowed us to better address partner needs when it comes to the addition of journal content to the web.

Presenters

Kerri O’Connell

Headshot of Kerri O’Connell
Project Manager, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University
http://cdrs.columbia.edu

Kerri O’Connell is a project manager at the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), Columbia University Library/Information Services. She has a MSLIS from Pratt Institute, which she received in 2013. She has been employed at CDRS since she graduated from Pratt, working primarily with the journals publication program.

Sessions

  • Lightning Talk: Designing an Easy-to-Configure Template for Online Scholarly Journals

Megan O'Neill

Web Developer, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University
http://cdrs.columbia.edu

Megan O'Neill is a software engineer that works primarily with Ruby on Rails, and WordPress applications. She has been programming since 2014, after completing General Assembly's Web Development Immersive. She works for the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University, where she deals with the intersection of code and scholarly content.

Sessions

  • Lightning Talk: Designing an Easy-to-Configure Template for Online Scholarly Journals

Session video

With our apologies, due to circumstances outside our control, all sessions from Saturday afternoon in the auditorium are grouped together into one video. We are trying to get this sorted out.

In the meantime, skip to minute 00:28 in this video to view this session.