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Publishing + Media

Publishing Media

Drupal has been well utilized with publishers and the media industry for years, but often hidden under the hood. With Drupal 8, the Publishing and Media industry has reached a new level. Many publishers launched projects on Drupal 8 and dedicated distributions focusing on publishing when they became available. This track brings publishing / media people together, to share interests and ideas, to listen and learn, to discuss challenges and develop solutions, in the collaborative environment that Drupal has to offer.

Though Drupal has been a well utilized platform for publishers for years, it has not been emphasized for this purpose, but positioned more as a technology, recognized by technicians.

But this has changed with Drupal 8. Since Burda’s Thunder distribution, the NP8 distribution of the Swiss association Media Commons, Springer Ringier’s large headless Drupal project and Le Temps huge Drupal web site (with 4.2 Million page views p. month), Drupal 8 has reached a new level of recognition within the publishing industry.

There is momentum in people’s understanding that OpenSource can change a whole industry. A chance that publishers think about cooperation, when it comes to technology, instead of having big players like Google, Facebook, Twitter, ebay, etc. shape the landscape of technology for publishing and advertising. Open Source is a chance to progress publishing and advertising technology in publishers’ interest and to join forces in a global scale.

Links to blogs with more elaborate details and context on some of our publishing + media sessions:
Drupal Europe Blog: Publishing + Media Special Focus
Digital Assets Management in multi-channel publishing environments

Drupal Europe Blog: Publishing + Media Special Focus
How Publiq is using blockchain to tackle urgent challenges for publishers

Thunder Blog: Thunder @Drupal Europe
Meet Thunder at DrupalEurope in Darmstadt

Register for our Publishing + Media get-together evening

24Kitchen, the no. 1 platform for food lovers

Talk
Industry track
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Baris
Wanschers
Managing Director
LimoenGroen
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B.Sc
Imre
Gmelig Meijling
Commercial Director
LimoenGroen
Drupal.nl

With FOX News Network and The Persgroep Netherlands backing this european TV format, working on 24Kitchen was a feast. As one of the most popular platforms on food, cooking and lifestyle, an entirely new online experience allows for quick access to thousands of healthy recipes, cooking inspiration and cross media selling.

3.02 hassium

A next generation UI for Paragraphs

BoF
Industry track

This BoF is a call to all speakers, maintainers, developers to unite the efforts and build together a next generation UI for Paragraphs.

Let's start discussing with what's available and what could be a solution that fits Core direction. Maybe one day in Core as well?

2.05 palladium

Add open source to your DNA – how Burda built the Drupal 8 distribution for professional publishing

Talk
Industry track
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Kai
Riecke
CTO
Burda Magazine Holding

Contributing to open source technology is no stranger to members of the Drupal community. But for a traditional company, the concept is quite unusual. That's why it was quite a bang when Hubert Burda Media decided to take this path with its Drupal 8 distribution Thunder.

3.02 hassium

Blockchain Distributed Media - A Future for good publishing

Talk
Industry track
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Gagik
Yeghiazarian
CEO, Co-Founder
PUBLIQ Foundation

PUBLIQ Foundation is a non-profit, distributed media platform, that offers a new publishing and rewards model. The wealth generated is transparent and fully redistributed to the participants depending of their reputation and/or involvements.

3.03 germanium

Building high-performance Thunder sites

Talk
Industry track
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Wolfgang
Ziegler
CEO / CTO
drunomics GmbH

The goal of our latest Thunder-based publishing project was to launch high performant, successful sites with decent test coverage. In this session we'll discuss the initial architecturial considerations (decoupling?) and share the experiences gained while working on the project.

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

Connecting media solutions beyond Drupal

Talk
Industry track
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Miro
Dietiker
Founder
MD Systems
Kampaweb

We want to look at existing third party solutions and how you can benefit from their seamless integration into Drupal media.

An overview of Digital Asset Management systems, embedding, Content Delivery Networks and external storage.

3.03 germanium

Content Syndication, Staging and Synchronization in Drupal

Talk
Industry track
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Thiemo
Müller
CTO
 

From universities with a large number of sites to enterprise content providers that are used to professional publishing workflows similar to AEM or Sitecore, content publishing in Drupal becomes increasingly important with the expanding possibilities of content creation itself.

Materials

2.07 aurum

Contentpool - Centrally editing distributed content!

Talk
Industry track
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Oliver
Berndt
Founder, Senior PM
media-c Digital Solutions e.U.
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Wolfgang
Ziegler
CEO / CTO
drunomics GmbH

Today, a typical organization and publishing houses runs dozen of websites. Besides the desire of quickly spinning up and launching new sites, the need of re-using content quickly comes up. This is where our contentpool Drupal distribution comes in!

3.03 germanium

Data visualisation

Talk
Industry track
Daniel
Wehner
Senior engineer
THE world universities insights

A strong content model enables to present the data not just as a website. Beside serving your content onto different devises you can also present the data in a different way. One more and more important one is data visualisation you'll learn about

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

Drupal in multichannel publishing environments

Talk
Industry track
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Ole Olsen
Ole
Olsen
CEO
Digital Collections Content Systems GmbH
Bitte wählen

DC is vendor and developer of DAM systems mainly for the classic publishing industry. We like to introduce how Drupal and Thunder are integrated as part of a multichannel publishing strategy at these customers. 

Materials

2.07 aurum

Enrich your Paragraphs workflow with features you didn’t know about

Talk
Industry track
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Milos
Bovan
Drupal developer
MD Systems

Paragraphs module is one of the most used Drupal 8 contrib modules when it comes to content creation. The module offers many powerful, but not well known features that can significantly boost content creation experience.

In this presentation I am going to answer some of the most frequently asked How-To questions when working with Paragraphs

Materials

3.03 germanium

Fields, Bricks, Paragraphs, etc... What's the next? Media Driven Content Architecture.

Talk
Industry track
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Vasyl
Yaremchuk
Drupal Practice Lead
Speed&Function

We are looking for the best way to organize our content on a Drupal site. Now we commonly set Paragraph field instead native body field to get featured landing pages. Paragraphs have extremely flexible interface, and powerful customization abilities, but they aren't reusable.

3.03 germanium

Front-end page composition with Geysir

Talk
Industry track
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Jan
Lemmens
ECM Consultant
AMPLEXOR

One of the biggest complaints often heard among Drupal authors and editors, is the lack of an easy-to-use interface. In this session, we present the current state of Geysir, a contributed module we conceived with one single goal in mind: provide a great way for non-technical end-users to manage content in Drupal.

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

Handy modules when building and maintaining your site

Talk
Industry track
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Stew
West
Web developer
Amazee Labs
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Fran
Garcia-Linares
Web developer
Amazee Labs

We'll show a series of modules that could be really handy when building sites with Drupal and when you're maintaining them. Most of them are from a site building point of view. The "way of the clicker".

3.03 germanium

How the biggest trade fair in sports became a leading digital publisher

Talk
Industry track
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Peter
Bilz-Wohlgemuth
Chief Operating Officer
The Digitale GmbH
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Stefan
Borchert
CEO
undpaul
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Lucio Waßill
Lucio
Waßill
Senior Drupal Developer
undpaul

We had 6 months to migrate a high traffic news portal from a Java based enterprise CMS to a new platform. ISPO wanted to turn from a trade fair to a leading digital publisher. We will show how it was done starting from the evaluation phase to the successful launch - our client will be there to share how they experienced the process and how Drupal improved their daily work compared to the previously used Java-based enterprise CMS.

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

Improving the Editor Experience: Paragraphs FTW

Talk
Industry track
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Stew
West
Web developer
Amazee Labs

Over the last two years, we've recently moved to organizations from Drupal 6 and Wordpress to Drupal 8. In this migration we were asked to make the editors life much easier and give them option to create diverse content layouts when adding content.

3.03 germanium
Expertise topics

Integration of an editorial calendar with Drupal / Thunder

Talk
Industry track
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Matthias
Kretschmer
CEO & Founder
Desk-Net GmbH

Drupal handles your content. Desk-Net manages your editorial department. Together they are a match made in heaven. 

This session details how we have deeply integrated our editorial calendar software Desk-Net with Drupal. Plan stories in Desk-Net and move them over to Drupal. Or publish breaking news in Drupal and see how the story lists in Desk-Net are updated in near real-time.

3.03 germanium

Landing pages and designing connected content

Talk
Industry track
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Richard
Jones
CTO
Inviqa

Drupal has for many years been one of the strongest options for designing structured content. This has been becoming Increasingly important with the growing demand for decoupled or headless systems that can support a variety of content consumers.

2.03 vanadium

mylife.de - looking back over the past two years

Talk
Industry track
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Leon
Kerker
Projektmanagement
UEBERBIT
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Frank Meyerer
Frank
Meyerer
Head of Project Management
UEBERBIT

Mylife is the health portal of BurdaLife, the business division in the National media brand of Hubert Burda Media which has the most reach. Our project team took care of both the SEO concept as well as the conception and design development of the platform. We also carried out the technical implementation by using thunder.

3.02 hassium
Expertise topics

There should be a better /admin/content! Improve your content management with Content Planner.

Talk
Industry track
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Lukas
Fischer
CEO / Digital Strategist
NETNODE AG

We think, there should be a better /admin/content. As Dries mentioned in the Viennas keynote: "People (editors) spend their whole day, working with Drupal". Todays out of the box content management experience for editors can be better. We show how you can make Drupal a content editors favourite tool! We propose a whole new way of thinking about /admin/content.

3.03 germanium

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