Moving Beyond Penguins to Drupal -- Status

Overview

Taxonomies

Content Types & Fields

Linking Components

Views

Page Creation

Issues

Keywords - Need to determine if/how to get Drupal to use the keywords field from a content page to put a <meta> keyword tag in the <head> tag
Conversion - Determine process for converting issues, departments, and articles programmatically.
Breadcrumbs - How to do breadcrumbs with static paths?
Pretty URLs - Want to use URLs exactly as they exist today in the beyond penguins site (ex. http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/information.php?topic=stories), as opposed to, Drupal's polar/node/# form of URLs (ex. http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/polar/node/4).

The following gives a broad overview of completed and remaining work.

A theme was created for Beyond Penguins from the Zen theme, which is a basic theme designed to be extended for customized interfaces.
Home page is successfully implemented using the new theme (except for use of Issues TOC View).
Anticipated content types have been defined and created in Drupal.
Flat files of Taxonomies were created for importing taxonomies into Drupal. The import of all taxonomies is complete. The only exception is the taxonomy used for meta keywords.
Create static pages by hand. (7 pages) -- Language Conversion still needs some work. It would make 8 static pages.

Create a sample page of each remaining content type.
Create views that are used by various pages
Explore the possibility of export from fedora/fez and import into Drupal of repeating pages/content (primarily pages of each issue and images)

Documentation for complex themes is limited which makes implementation of complex themes challenging.
There are quite a few unknowns with regard to the import/export process and its feasibility as an approach.