NISEnet

While at the Science Museum of Minnesota, I was the main developer on the NISEnet. This website supports a project that unites over 200 science centers across the United States around nanoscience education. My role was to develop the catalog. This catalog allows science educators to share how-to information about running public programs and building exhibits about nanoscience.

The web development team was located at several science institutions. The main themer has been Courtney Miller, drupal themer/developer extraordinaire. The designer/information archtitect are located in Amsterdam.

Some things I did as part of this project

• coordinated and performed the Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 upgrade
• developed 'nodezipper' - a module that collects files & files in nodereferenced nodes into a zip folder (and I would very much like to contribute this module to drupal)
• worked with a lot of crazy nodereferences, lots of fields and multi-part forms. The programs are pretty complex and have a lot of information as well as associated files
• the files in the system needed to be reused among a variety of program & exhibits, so I enforced a system that all files added to the system would get associated with appropriate metadata
• configured and maintained the Media Temple server for the project

Here are some screenshots of the Nanodays Reports and the NISE homepage.