State Library of Victoria

Challenge

In early 2009 PreviousNext was engaged by consulting firm Harbinger to provide an evaluation of Drupal as an option for the redevelopment of the State Library of Victoria (SLV) website. This initial work led to Drupal being chosen for SLV and we were commissioned to specify the technical approach for the project.

Solution

PreviousNext provided a customised Drupal training program for the SLV developers on site in Melbourne, and subsequently assisted SLV with the Drupal rollout throughout 2009 and 2010. We also built an advanced search engine which allowed granular searching of content through Apache Solr.

Outcome

By choosing Drupal as a platform and PreviousNext as a project and training consultant, the internal development team at SLV now has a robust, vendor-independent website and the in-house skills to manage and develop it for the long term.