Project Description
Building Khazaeen’s Social Archive with Drupal CMS
Utilizing Drupal CMS, Khazaeen developed a robust and scalable social archive to preserve and showcase a wide range of documents and photographs. Key features implemented include:
• Advanced Search: Integrated Apache Solr and Search API for efficient material retrieval.
• Faceted Navigation: Enabled refined filtering with the Facet module for categories like newspapers, magazines, films, and everyday ephemera.
• PDF Viewer: Incorporated a PDF viewer for easy access to digitized documents.
Drupal’s flexible architecture allowed for seamless organization and categorization of archival materials, ensuring comprehensive preservation. The user-friendly interface enhances accessibility, while Drupal’s security features protect sensitive documents. This setup supports Khazaeen’s mission to document daily life in the Arab world, empowering users to explore and contribute to a rich cultural repository.
The Khazaeen website was built by Beyond Designs, a leading web development company in Palestine. Leveraging our expertise in creating advanced search functionalities and intuitive user interfaces, we delivered a high-performance platform that meets Khazaeen’s needs.
About the client
Khazaeen is a voluntary independent initiative, centered in Jerusalem, where it first started out in October of 2016 as a result of the collective effort of our Arab youth from different parts of the world. And that effort had this unified aim of establishing a societal archive that documents the daily life of the Arab world combined with people’s stories through gathering ephemera material. Khazaeen considers different archives that documents different aspects and elements; such types include archival newspapers, magazines, films, photographs, cinema, and broadcasts. Regardless of all of the previously mentioned, Khazaeen also realized that there isn’t an archive that contains and preserves daily occurrences that would document the details of daily life the people have lived in all its intensity. There are thousands of materials and documents that are lost on daily basis without anyone paying any attention to them. We are talking about thousands of posters, publications, brochures, commercial and cultural ads, business cards, wedding invitations … etc.